As 2011 is drawing to an end, at WSPA we’re taking a moment to reflect back on what was quite a momentous year for animal welfare – particularly on the issue of live animal export. This is part one of some of the highlights, achievements, and milestones from our campaign over the past year. Building on our campaigning work in 2010 and early 2011, WSPA worked with Federal Labor MP Janelle Saffin to introduce a Private Members Motion to end … Continued
Students from 8 Universities across Australia have spent the last 5 weeks campaigning to end live animal export. They’ve made use of social media, handed out postcards, held stalls on their campus, run special events, and more in order to raise awareness of the issue and generate action from their fellow students by having them write letters to their MPs. And now we’re pleased to announce the winner of WSPA’s Humane Campus Challenge is: Southern Cross University! A special congratulations … Continued
The WSPA offices have been overwhelmed with calls, emails and comments this week from supporters expressing their outrage and sadness over the footage collected by Animals Australia shown on Monday night’s Four Corners program, and with good reason. We’ve also been blown away by the number of supporters who are eager to take action to end live animal exports. If you’ve already written a letter to your MP, you can find more ways to multiply your impact on our website. … Continued
On Monday I attended a market stall at Australian National University, where passionate students Chris and Sarah from the school’s Youth Vegetarian Association braved the cold and rain to hand out postcards and encourage classmates to join the Humane Chain as part of WSPA’s Humane Campus Challenge. An ANU student joins the Humane Chain online. I also attended a stall on Friday at University of Sydney where students from the school’s Animal Welfare Society were set up outside Manning Bar. … Continued
It’s been an exciting few weeks for the Humane Campus Challenge and we’re thrilled to see so many students getting involved to help end live animal exports. The competition is neck and neck! Southern Cross University and University of Sydney are currently TIED for first place! VS. But Deakin is not far behind and we’ve seen some increased numbers from Adelaide and Monash as well. And we’ve just recently had a new entrant into the challenge: Macquarie University! Will they … Continued
This afternoon I had the pleasure of speaking at University of Sydney along with Campaign Manager Jessica Borg. We met with a group of students, many studying to become veterinarians, about live exports. The talk was part of our Humane Campus Challenge, wherein 7 universities around Australia are competing to collect as many letters to Parliament and raise as much awareness about cruel live exports as possible. Here’s a photo from our talk. To demonstrate some of the conditions our … Continued
We’re now one week in to WSPA’s Humane Campus Challenge. Seven universities across Australia are battling it out to see who can generate the most actions towards ending live export. The break-out leader so far is Deakin University, followed closely by University of Sydney and Southern Cross. But we’re just 1 week in, so it’s really anybody’s game. To help raise some awareness about the competition, WSPA Campaigners Jessica Borg and Sharon Troy will be speaking about live exports at … Continued
University of Sydney is one of 6 Australian universities signed up so far to take part in the Humane Campus Challenge. They’ll be raising awareness of the cruelty of the live export trade by competing against students from the University of Adelaide, Southern Cross University, Australian National University, Monash University, and University of Wollongong to see which campus can collect the most letters to their Members of Parliament urging for an to the trade. Sy Woon (pictured at far right) … Continued
Nearly 85,000 Australians have joined the Humane Chain, calling for the government to end the cruel live sheep export trade. Can you help us reach 100,000? Throughout the month of May WSPA is holding a Humane Campus Challenge The challenge is for Australian universities to generate as many letters to Members of Parliament as possible urging them to end live exports. And yes, there are prizes! The university that collects the most letters during the month of May will be … Continued
