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Where does your Christmas ham come from?

03 December 2018

More than 85% of Australians choose to eat meat, and for many ham is a big part of their Christmas. However, some of the hams on Australian supermarket shelves come from countries that don’t raise pigs right.

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Animals in farming

Pangolins: The most poached mammal in the world

03 December 2018

Pangolins have earned the reputation as one of the most illegally trafficked mammal. There are eight species of pangolin, four in Asia and four in Africa.

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Animals in the wild

Pangolin poaching: the brutal reality

03 December 2018

Video footage shows the horrifying moment a terrified pangolin is killed for its scales in Assam, India. Pangolin scales are sold on the black market for traditional Asian medicine

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Animals in the wild

Vaccinating against rabies in four African countries

02 December 2018

We're working to create better lives for dogs in communities across Africa.

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Animals in communities

Five quick questions with animal lover Catherine Gray

01 December 2018

Catherine Gray has been moving the world to protect animals for many years. Earlier this year, she decided to visit our partner bear sanctuary in Romania to see our work first-hand. We sat down with Catherine to get to know her a little better.

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Animals in the wild

Spring cleaning Aussie beaches

30 November 2018

What better time than spring to spruce up some of our much-loved beaches? Thanks to our keen volunteers, we’ve been busy collecting rubbish to protect our sea animals.

Helping animals in devastated Sulawesi

30 November 2018

Earlier this year, a large earthquake struck Sulawesi, Indonesia, triggering a tsunami. We were the first animal welfare organisation on the ground to provide much needed aid to pets and farm animals.

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Animals in disasters

Tesco, Lidl and Nestlé join fight against fishing gear left in our oceans

22 November 2018

We've moved supermarkets Tesco and Lidl, and the world’s biggest food company Nestlé, to tackle 'ghost gear'. The companies are joining our Global Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI) to fight against this colossal threat to marine life

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Sea change campaign

World Responsible Tourism award winners

07 November 2018

We’ve been crowned winners of the WTM World Responsible Tourism awards for our Wildlife. Not Entertainers global campaign to end wildlife used for cruel tourist entertainment.

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Animals in the wild

Travel associations are ignoring animal cruelty at wildlife attractions

07 November 2018

A shockingly high number of the world’s travel trade associations are lagging in providing animal welfare guidelines to travel companies, our new research reveals. The majority doing nothing to prevent wildlife cruelty in tourism

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Animals in the wild

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