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"Protect The Ban On Live Export" - New Zealand Leading The World On Ban Live Exports International Awareness Day
Wednesday, 14 June 2023, 11:13 am | SAFE For Animals
Animal rights organisation SAFE is calling on National and ACT to walk back their policy to restart live animal exports by sea ahead of the election. SAFE is drawing a line in the sand today, which marks Ban Live Exports International Awareness Day, ... More >>
Greyhound Handler Facing Several Charges For Animal Abuse
Tuesday, 13 June 2023, 5:19 pm | SAFE For Animals
A licensed greyhound handler - already charged earlier this year after a greyhound tested positive for methamphetamine - now faces several charges relating to animal abuse, including throwing a greyhound into a swabbing kennel, causing them to hit ... More >>
Controversial Wongan Hills Feedlot Development Cancelled
Tuesday, 6 June 2023, 2:27 pm | SAFE For Animals
SAFE has been notified today that the resource consent application to build four composting barns/feedlots in Kaituna Valley has been withdrawn. The feedlots would have confined 2,200 cows permanently indoors. The controversial proposal faced substantial ... More >>
"Animals Deserve Respect" - National Animal Rights Day This Sunday
Thursday, 1 June 2023, 9:22 am | SAFE For Animals
This Sunday, 4 June, Wellington and Christchurch will join over 300 cities worldwide in observing the National Animal Rights Day. The events remember the billions of animals who lose their lives each year due to human actions, and acknowledge the ... More >>
Racing Integrity Board Reports Makes The Case For Greyhound Racing Closure
Tuesday, 23 May 2023, 3:53 pm | SAFE For Animals
The Racing Integrity Board’s (RIB) damning reports, released today by Racing Minister Kieran McAnulty, show the greyhound racing industry can’t continue. Two reports, delivered to the Minister in December 2022 and March 2023, highlight increasing injury ... More >>
Duck Shooting Season Is Bad News For All Birds
Friday, 5 May 2023, 10:04 am | SAFE For Animals
The duck shooting season, which begins on Saturday 6 May this year, means countless birds, including natives like pūkeko, kakīānau (black swan), pūtangitangi (paradise shelduck), pārera (grey duck) and kuruwhengi (Australasian shoveler duck), will ... More >>
New Zealand Makes History By Becoming The First Country To Ban Live Export By Sea
Friday, 28 April 2023, 9:50 am | SAFE For Animals
Live export by sea will be finally banned this weekend, on 30 April 2023. The milestone will be marked with celebratory events across the country. The decision was backed by Kiwis with over 30,000 people signing SAFE's petition and over 57,000 emails sent ... More >>
Canterbury Farmer Gets Slap On The Wrist After More Than 600 Calves Starve To Death
Thursday, 27 April 2023, 10:00 am | SAFE For Animals
Animal rights organization SAFE is renewing its calls for a Commissioner for Animals, following the pitiful sentence for a Canterbury farmer whose animals suffered under their watch. Lisa-Jane Claire Miller was sentenced to seven months of home detention ... More >>
"This Feels Like Betrayal" - Greyhound Racing Industry Decision Kicked Down The Road Until After The Election
Thursday, 20 April 2023, 11:35 am | SAFE For Animals
Newsroom has reported this morning that a decision on whether greyhound racing will be banned won’t be made until after the election. In 2020, the Government gave the greyhound racing industry 18 months to make improvements or risk closure. Racing ... More >>
Hunting Competition Must Cancel The Cat Hunting Category
Tuesday, 18 April 2023, 12:31 pm | SAFE For Animals
Animal rights organisation SAFE is calling on competition organisers to cancel the "most feral cats hunted" category of their annual fundraiser for Rotherham School and Community Pool. Stuff reported this morning that a sponsor has pulled ... More >>
Online Retailers Are Selling Illegal Glue Traps Into Aotearoa
Thursday, 6 April 2023, 11:58 am | SAFE For Animals
SAFE is alarmed that glue traps to catch rodents are making their way into Aotearoa despite being illegal. This week, Kogan.com, which operates online marketplaces including Dick Smith and Matt Blatt, pulled illegal glue traps from its websites after being ... More >>
Fire Leading To Mass Chicken Death Reveals Gaping Flaws In Aotearoa’s Animal Welfare System
Tuesday, 7 February 2023, 10:04 am | SAFE For Animals
An early morning fire at an egg-laying farm in Orini, Waikato yesterday has claimed the lives of at least 50,000 hens. The farm is operated by New Zealand’s largest egg producer Zeagold, the country’s biggest egg producer, whose eggs are sold under ... More >>
Three Deaths In Three Days Prompts Renewed Calls For An End To Rodeo
Friday, 13 January 2023, 9:19 am | SAFE For Animals
The deaths of three animals in rodeo events, mere weeks into the current season, has prompted renewed demands from SAFE for the Government to urgently ban rodeo. Information recently obtained by animal rights organisation SAFE reveals two bulls ... More >>
‘Catastrophic Injuries’ Suffered On Auckland Racetrack Result In Another Greyhound Death
Thursday, 12 January 2023, 9:52 am | SAFE For Animals
Animal rights organisation SAFE is ringing in the new year with an urgent call for the Government to ban greyhound racing, after yet another dog suffered injuries severe enough to result in her death. The greyhound, Megan’s Munch, sustained four broken ... More >>
Heat Stress-related Deaths Prompt Urgent Calls For Improved Government Oversight
Thursday, 8 December 2022, 9:28 am | SAFE For Animals
SAFE is urgently renewing calls for a Commissioner for Animals, following the Ministry for Primary Industries’ investigation into heat stress-related deaths of several pigs on a livestock truck earlier this year. The deaths occurred aboard a livestock ... More >>
"It’s Got To Stop": Greyhound Euthanised After Suffering Broken Back
Tuesday, 6 December 2022, 9:28 am | SAFE For Animals
Animal rights organisation SAFE is renewing calls for the Government to ban greyhound racing after yet another greyhound has lost their life due to horrific injuries sustained on the track. The greyhound, How’s the Luck, suffered a broken back and dislocated ... More >>
Damning Greyhound Racing Report Highlights Doubts The Industry Should Continue
Tuesday, 29 November 2022, 10:58 am | SAFE For Animals
In response to a petition from the Greyhound Protection League calling for a ban on greyhound racing in New Zealand, the Select Committee has released a damning report outlining doubts as to whether the industry retains the social licence required to ... More >>
Renewed Calls To Ban Greyhound Racing After Horror Weekend On Tracks
Monday, 7 November 2022, 6:14 pm | SAFE For Animals
Animal rights organisation SAFE is renewing calls for the Government to end greyhound racing after yet another horror weekend on the tracks. Sunday alone saw nine injuries and four broken bones in Auckland. In one race, a lure break-down caused multiple ... More >>
MPI Response To Skinny Cows "Unacceptable"
Wednesday, 12 October 2022, 6:01 am | SAFE For Animals
SAFE is urgently renewing calls for a Commissioner for Animals, following MPI’s lacklustre response to images of thin to emaciated cows , taken on two separate farms in recent weeks. SAFE received images via its 0800 EXPOSE programme , which showed ... More >>
New Data Reveals Failure Of The International Live Export Trade To Protect New Zealand’s Animals
Thursday, 22 September 2022, 5:29 pm | SAFE For Animals
Information obtained through Official Information Act requests has revealed that as many as ten times more animals could be dying shortly after live export voyages compared with during the journey. SAFE CEO Debra Ashton said the information was ... More >>
