We know a lot of you have signed a petition or written to your MP in response to the cruel live export trade. We know that many of you want to do more. We also know that government responds to numbers. In particular, MPs respond to numbers within their electorate. We have already had over 179,000 people join the chain. Imagine what we could achieve if all of those people just got 5 more people to take action! So we … Continued
We just wanted to give our blog readers an insight into something new that’s coming up very shortly! WSPA will soon be launching a brand new interactive community where you can not only join the ever-growing chain of people who oppose live exports, but also take part in two new and meaningful actions. We will be extending an invitation to you shortly to get involved. If you haven’t already signed up through our website, make sure you send your email … Continued
As you may have seen from all our facebook activity, we are very excited to announce that 77,837 people got involved in the recent Stand Up for Animals campaign and signed a little orange person voicing their opposition towards live animal exports! In addition, eight MPs and Senators visited their local The Body Shop store to sign up and reiterate that Australia needs to move towards the alternatives to live animal export. From all of us at WSPA and the … Continued
We are really pleased that a number of Federal and State MP’s and Senators have taken time out of their busy schedule’s to visit their local Body Shop to find out more about the WSPA live export campaign. One aim of this partnership is to put serious pressure on the government to make positive changes for animals and move towards the alternatives to live export and it seems the message is starting to get through! The Body Shop staff spoke … Continued
At the end of the first week of our Stand Up for Animals Campaign, we are very excited to say it has gone extremely well with 30,091 little orange people signed! The Body Shop staff and customers have been enthusiastically getting behind the campaign and not only signing the petition but taking photos with our big orange people (see photos below!) This campaign is very important as many people think that the live export issue has been solved – but … Continued
With only three days to go until the Olympics, we have created a new world record on Australian soil World record in Australia To launch the biggest stage yet of our Humane Chain campaign, we gathered hundreds of Australians in Martin Place in Sydney this morning, who helped us break the World Record for the most people to ever stand up, simultaneously with their arms linked. The previous Guinness World Record was 45 people. The record attempt was attended by … Continued
We are very excited to announce our ‘Stand Up for Animals’ launch event which will be the beginning of a number of activities we have planned to tell the government that the issue of live exports has not gone away and neither have we! On July 24, we will be launching one of our biggest ever Humane Chain campaigns where we hope to smash a Guinness World Record for the most people ever to stand up with their arms linked. … Continued
