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Live export ships exposed
World-first footage: animals are suffering and being cooked alive on live export ships. Help shut down this illegal cruelty.
25 January 2022
Credit: Jo-Anne McArthur
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Live export isn't 'business' — it's cruelty
Every year, Romania sends thousands of animals on gruelling journeys to the Middle East's 'Festival of Sacrifice', where the streets run red with blood...
11 January 2022
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End Live Export - No animal should die like this
For the millions of animals who have fallen victim to this callous industry, and the countless more who are at risk of sharing their fate — urge the Australian Government to spare animals from the cruelty of live export.
24 December 2021
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Does the Labor Party stand against this cruelty?
Sickening live export footage shows 'history repeating', and that animals desperately need the independent protection the ALP previously pledged to support.
23 December 2021
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Ground-breaking music campaign launched to 'Save Miorița' – and spare all Romanian sheep from live export
Animals International is calling on Europe's largest exporter of live animals to ban the trade – through the re-creation of a beloved Romanian folk song.
17 December 2021
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Millions of Australian sheep have been spared live export since 2002
Over nearly two decades, together we've helped protect millions of animals from the horrors of live export.
1 December 2021
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Shocking cruelty inside Aus Govt approved slaughterhouse
Urge Labor to keep their promise to end live sheep export, and call for an end to cruel practices from a slaughterhouse approved by the Australian Government’s live export scheme.
30 July 2021
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10 years after a 'Four Corners' live export exposé changed everything, we honour Tommy... and you.
Animals Australia's Director of Strategy, Lyn White AM, has recorded this special video message to reflect on this historic milestone for animals -- and where we go together from here.
30 May 2021
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This is the cruel reality of live animal export
A live animal is not a sack of potatoes. He breathes. He thinks. He can suffer. But to the live animal export trade, his suffering is just a cost of doing business.
1 February 2021
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Petition to end live export cruelty
Please help us protect animals—including cattle, sheep and goats—from the cruelty of live export by signing this petition to the Prime Minister of Australia.
30 November 2020
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People power stops new live export business in its tracks
A plan to begin exporting live animals from Namibia to Kuwait has been quashed thanks to a united, global effort drawing attention to the suffering caused by the trade.
10 September 2020
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Two live export ships have capsized at sea in the past year, destroying animal and human lives
A live export ship carrying 5,867 dairy cows from New Zealand has capsized in the East China sea. Tragically, all of the animals and 41 crew members are presumed to have drowned.
4 September 2020
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The long hard road to ending live export and why we are determined to do it
We know that this campaign can sometimes feel like two steps forward, one step back -- but we're in this for the long haul, and we remain firmly committed to ending this trade for good, for the animals.
31 August 2020
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World Health Organisation disease specialist warns live animal export must stop
World Health Organisation epidemiologist Professor Mary-Louise McLaws has warned of the danger of live animal exports, saying it poses the risk of a "ghastly" disease outbreak.
27 August 2020
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VICTORY: South Africa's High Court puts hold on sheep exports!
A live exporter sailed to South Africa with the intention of shipping 70,000 animals into the dangerous Northern summer. But the NSPCA were waiting for them.
10 June 2020
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ABC Four Corners: 'A Bloody Business' live export exposé
On May 30, 2011, a groundbreaking program revealed the truth about live export — and the suffering of a young Australian steer broke hearts around the world.
4 June 2020
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Remembering Tommy
Live exporters want the world to forget Tommy. We never will.
4 June 2020
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Live export: From shipwreck survivors -- to some serious progress worldwide
Keep scrolling for the latest updates in our work to free animals from the horror of live export, in Australia and beyond.
17 March 2020
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Survivors of capsized live export ship find sanctuary
When it comes to live export, it's not often we get to hear a good news story... here's one of them.
13 February 2020
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There's new footage of animals suffering on live export ships, but you can't see it. Here's why.
It seems the government department responsible for policing the live export industry has refused to release footage of on board conditions... because they're worried it will make the industry look bad.
3 September 2019
