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SYDNEY, 24 June 2025: Latest research has found Australia’s great white shark population is much smaller than expected, increasing their vulnerability to further population threats. The population genetic study—funded and supported by the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Shark Management Program and Deakin University—used DNA sequence data from more than 600 Australian great … Continued
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The Australian Alliance for Animals has today joined members of the global Open Wing Alliance in calling for faster action on ending battery cages as the world’s biggest investigation into the cruelty of cage egg production is released. Undercover footage obtained from over 37 countries – including Australia – lays bare the ongoing, systemic suffering … Continued
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The final long weekend of Victoria’s 2025 recreational duck shooting season ended last Monday, June 9, as it started, extremely quiet with very few shooters. It highlighted the shocking misuse of public funds which are used to prop up recreational duck shooting seasons for duck shooters who make up just 0.2 percent of Victoria’s population, the Coalition Against … Continued
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Chair of the Australian Koala Foundation (AKF), Deborah Tabart OAM will today address the 32nd International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB 2025) in Brisbane, calling on the newly appointed Environment Minister, Senator the Hon Murray Watt, to urgently implement a Koala Protection Act, or accept responsibility for the demise of the species. Today welcoming the 16th Environment … Continued
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As Pride celebrations sweep across the world this month, many pet parents are looking forward to bringing their pups along to dog-friendly festivities. But before you clip on their lead and head out the door, it’s important to ensure your furry friend is truly ready to join the party in a way that keeps them … Continued
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A migrating humpback whale is entangled in a shark net off Greenmount Beach at Coolangatta, Gold Coast, marking the first entanglement of the whale migration season. The trauma this whale is experiencing is on the Crisafulli Government’s head for ignoring scientific advice to remove shark nets for the winter. Even if freed from the net, there … Continued
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Welcome to the charmingly funny and perfectly peculiar world of Aussie animal parents, and their amazing offspring. Peculiar Parents introduces young readers to 60 Australian native animals, focusing on all things family, including their courting practices, gestation periods, births and the raising of their young. Discover the weird, the wonderful, the adorable—and even the downright … Continued
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Is the UK government regulator of all things to do with vets, the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS)**, protecting and thus facilitating widespread animal cruelty and consumer fraud? At least 260 registered vets appear to agree with me that it is. Please allow me to explain. As a basic tenet of civil society, we … Continued
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Vets for Climate Action expresses its deep disappointment and concern over Minister Murray Watt’s provisional approval of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project extension, a decision that risks locking Australia into decades of climate pollution at a time when immediate action is needed to safeguard our environment, animals, communities, and future. The decision to provisionally … Continued
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SYDNEY 25 MAY 2025: The Queensland Crisafulli government’s ‘new’ Shark Control Program—that will amp up the slaughter of sharks—looks like it was written in the 1900’s and flies in the face of conservation science while doing nothing to improve swimmer safety. The news was revealed today in a Courier Mail exclusive with animal … Continued
