SAFE - Latest News [Page 22]
Activist Caged 26-Hours Against Elephant Cruelty
Thursday, 13 November 2003, 1:36 pm | SAFE
From noon tomorrow, animal rights campaigners will imprison one of their own inside a tiny wooden cage for 26 hours. The caged protest coincides with the closure of public submissions against circuses with exotic animals and is in protest at the ... More >>
Circus protest pitches for circus cruelty ban
Tuesday, 4 November 2003, 2:46 pm | SAFE
Circus-goers will be encouraged to sign submissions against circus cruelty addressed to the Minister of Agriculture instead of purchasing tickets to the circus tonight in Waiuku, south of Auckland. Expecting an antagonistic response from circus staff, ... More >>
Circus performances & Guy Fawke's endanger lives
Monday, 3 November 2003, 10:48 am | SAFE
The national animal advocacy organisation SAFE has taken its concerns to the police and served notices to the Waiuku township community in an effort to prevent a circus with exotic animals from performing during Guy Fawke's. More >>
Activists prepare to 'lock horns' at rodeo
Tuesday, 28 October 2003, 6:44 am | SAFE
Anti-rodeo campaigners will roll into Methven township this morning escorted by 'Bucky', SAFE's 6-metre long wayward free-ranging road 'bull' to help stage an emphatic protest against animal brutality. The dressed up uni-mog will join of animal rights campaigners ... More >>
Call to boycott rodeo brutality
Friday, 24 October 2003, 10:34 pm | SAFE
Dozens of animal rights campaigners expect to 'lock horns' with rodeo organisers in an attempt to deliver an emphatic message to those arriving at the Methven rodeo on Sunday. Campaigners will urge rodeo-goers to not support such a brutal form of ... More >>
Human Performers Campaign To End Animal Circus
Monday, 13 October 2003, 9:33 am | SAFE
SAFE (Save Animals From Exploitation) and The Body Shop are launching today, a campaign to end exotic animal circuses in New Zealand. SAFE have been campaigning successfully against animal circuses for over a decade, and were responsible for the relocation ... More >>
Campaign Launch to End Animal Circuses
Friday, 10 October 2003, 2:47 pm | SAFE
Media Event: Human circus performers and other circus fanfare will be part of the launch of a nation-wide campaign to End Animal Circuses in NZ. More >>
Escalation of protest activity imminent
Thursday, 21 August 2003, 12:13 am | SAFE
Anti-vivisection campaigners say they are appalled at the levels of cruelty inside New Zealand animal research laboratories. Last year 15,817 animals were subjected to Œsevere suffering¹ in experiments in New Zealand, according to MAF statistics. More >>
Veil of Secrecy on Live Animal Experiments Lifted
Monday, 18 August 2003, 4:07 pm | SAFE
The first ever comprehensive report into vivisection in New Zealand has been released. The Report, 'Lifting the Veil of Secrecy' was produced by the National Anti Vivisection Campaign (NAVC), Save Animals From Exploitation (SAFE), Animal Rights Legal Advocacy ... More >>
Protestors to Spit the Dummy
Monday, 18 August 2003, 10:19 am | SAFE
The first major demonstration of an intensive campaign is to be launched at Midday today (Monday 20). A lively and colorful protest highlighting the secrecy of vivisection in New Zealand will be targeting the pro-vivisection ANZCCART conference. The protest ... More >>
Activists set to make waves!
Friday, 15 August 2003, 9:48 am | SAFE
Hundreds of determined activists are descending on Christchurch in preparation for one of New Zealand's biggest demonstrations for the rights of animals, between the 18 and 22 August. More >>
Unprecedented campaign against vivisection
Thursday, 14 August 2003, 9:35 am | SAFE
An unprecedented campaign against vivisection is now taking place in New Zealand, consolidated over the period of 18-22 August. More >>
Activists dump dead rabbits at Procter & Gamble HQ
Monday, 26 May 2003, 1:03 pm | SAFE
Employee's of one of the world's worst animal testers will be challenged upon arriving at work from 7.30am this morning, by anti-animal testing activists from the national animal rights group SAFE. Employees of Procter & Gamble's New Zealand headquarters ... More >>
Global Campaign to Boycott Procter & Gamble
Friday, 23 May 2003, 11:48 am | SAFE
On Saturday 24 May 2003, over one hundred protests will be staged around the world urging consumers to boycott products such as Oil of Olay, Clairol, Pert, Pantene and Iams pet food until the manufacturer, Procter & Gamble, ceases testing its ... More >>
Illegal footage shows chicken cruelty
Thursday, 31 October 2002, 8:58 am | SAFE
At 8.30pm tonight SAFE will launch a strategic public projection campaign using illegally obtained video footage from inside broiler chicken sheds to expose the suffering. More >>
Animal Welfare Committee Accused Of Incompetence
Thursday, 10 October 2002, 4:09 pm | SAFE
National animal rights organisation SAFE today accuses the government- appointed National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) and the Minister of Agriculture, Hon Jim Sutton, of incompetence and of causing needless continuation of animal suffering. ... More >>
Tegel challenged over animal welfare
Wednesday, 29 August 2001, 7:54 pm | SAFE
Wednesday 29 August 2001. SAFE (Save Animals From Exploitation) issued a double challenge to poultry industry giant Tegel today in the wake of their announcement that they will no longer feed their chickens genetically modified feed. More >>
SAFE Rejects Royal Commission Report
Wednesday, 1 August 2001, 10:01 am | SAFE
SAFE (Save Animals From Exploitation) has rejected the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification's Report as a rubber stamp for further exploitation of animals by the GE industry and as a document that fails to consider the right of animals to be GE-free. More >>
Campaigner Calls For Minister Of Animal Welfare
Tuesday, 5 June 2001, 3:43 pm | SAFE
Gary Reese, the departing Co-Director and Campaign Director for SAFE (Save Animals From Exploitation), is leaving New Zealand with mixed feelings about the state of animal welfare in this country. Mr Reese, who will be taking up a new role with Compassion ... More >>
SAFE's Very Special Puppets Stolen
Thursday, 31 May 2001, 2:10 pm | SAFE
Wednesday 30 May 2001. Thieves have robbed the SAFE (Save Animals From Exploitation) 'Shooting Star' Puppet Show of some of it's star performers. The Puppets, which are used in the show to teach children the value of compassion, were stolen from a van ... More >>