FORTY YEARS AGO, I stood with a few other students in a busy Oxford Street, London handing out leaflets protesting the use of battery cages to hold hens. Most of those who took the leaflets did not know that their eggs came from hens kept in cages so small that even one bird – the [...]

The owner of two camels shot in early January north of Mildura says they were domesticated pack animals, trained to facilitate ecological surveys in remote areas of Australia. The shooting has shed light on the group’s work, which is helping to charter inaccessible areas across the country’s interior. Andrew Harper is the managing director of [...]

Animal welfare groups are calling on the Australian Government to stop the export of greyhounds to Macau.Hundreds of Australian-bred greyhounds are sent to the Chinese special administrative region each year and are usually euthanised after about three years of competition. It is the only part of China where greyhound racing is legal. Animals Asia director [...]