After hearing reports that dogs were being beaten and flame torched alive in Northern Sulawesi, Rupert Imhoff, a research officer at the Bob Irwin Wildlife and Conservation Foundation, flew to northern Sulawesi to see first hand what was happening. What he found and subsequently documented is horrific. Dogs being pulled from cramped cages, clubbed on the…
The Humane Society of the United States recently defeated efforts by the Australian government to repeal a decades-old ban, set to resume in January, on the trade in kangaroo skins and meat. This came after an outpouring of public and media concern about the last minute efforts to promote the sale of kangaroo…
The External Review Special Committee established by the City of Knox to consider the fate of the dog Izzy has decided, after a hearing in August of her owner’s applications, to release Izzy to RSPCA SA. Such a course was contended in the alternative by Izzy’s owner at the August hearing, where she was represented by…
Panel Founder and director Graeme McEwen appeared late Monday afternoon 14 September 2015 in Canberra at a hearing of the Senate Rural Affairs Committee convened to consider Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon’s Bill to establish a national statutory authority with animal welfare functions to act as a spur and a counterpoint to the federal department of agriculture.…
Further to our post of 28 June 2015, at approximately midday on 25 August 2015, Diesel moved into his new home on an 80 acre farm. On the day of his rehoming he was last seen by a City of West Torrens Council officer happily sitting in the passenger seat of an old farm…