LIVE-ANIMAL exporters would be forced to track every beast to the point of slaughter in every export market to ensure humane treatment, if recommendations in a top-level probe are adopted by the federal government. In a dramatic shift likely to upset some major trading partners and threaten exports to the Middle East, the review by [...]

The Catalonia region of Spain bade farewell to bullfighting on Sunday with a corrida in Barcelona’s Monumental bullring featuring José Tomás, probably the country’s most popular matador. After putting to death their respective bulls in front of a sell-out crowd in the 20,000-seat arena, Mr Tomás, along with another bullfighter Serafín Marín, were carried shoulder [...]

A HILLARYS man is due to appear in court on Tuesday charged with animal cruelty after his dog was allegedly found lying in its own urine with maggot-infested sores. Stan Kelly, 59, has been accused by the RSPCA of being cruel to an animal and allowing it to suffer harm that could have been alleviated [...]

Animals rights activists are renewing calls to ban the live sheep trade, with claims that hundreds of animals have died on a ship docked at the Fremantle Port in Western Australia. Earlier today protesters held up signs labelling live exports as cruel, immoral and un-Australian. The 50,000 sheep from South Australia were loaded onto a [...]

A RENEGADE cow has tried to dodge its fate by jumping ship – literally.  The local Brahman beast escaped from the races on board a ship run by live exporters Wellard Group on Friday night, Darwin Port Corporation corporate services manager Melissa Reiter told the Sunday Territorian. It ran back down the pier toward the [...]