Animal welfare

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• Animal welfare laws: anger as Barnaby Joyce plans to exempt Saudi Arabia

  12 Sep 2014: RSPCA says legal dispensation could mark ‘slippery slope back to the horrors we saw in Indonesian abattoirs in 2011’

• Badger cull: tranquil nights, uneasy vigil and a change of police tactics

  11 Sep 2014: Patrick Barkham: There is little activity, no gunfire or marksmen in sight, but is the silence of the countryside misleading?

• Animal welfare groups criticise Brisbane Lions' plan to parade a lion on field

  11 Sep 2014: AFL chief Gillon McLachlan says it’s ‘pushing the envelope’ but animal protection advocates call it inappropriate and dangerous

• Was a dead lion really found in a freezer in West Sussex?

  10 Sep 2014: There are reports today of a lion carcass in a restaurant deep freeze near Chichester. Can this really be true? Mark Tran attempts to find out
  

• Retired circus elephant kills carer

  10 Sep 2014: James Laurita accidentally crushed to death by one of two animals at facility he set up to house them, say police in Maine

• Badger cull protesters save trapped animal as second phase starts

  9 Sep 2014: Activists claim victory as renewed government bid to fight bovine TB sparks anger with critics blasting it as cruel and ineffective

• Almost 5,000 dogs killed in Chinese anti-rabies campaign

  7 Sep 2014:

  Dogs killed in Baoshan in south-western Yunnan province after five human deaths from rabies

• Hapless huskies, dumped dalmatians: let’s stop treating pets as disposable

  5 Sep 2014: Patrick Barkham: With Game of Thrones and Twilight blamed for record numbers of abandoned huskies, film and TV have a lot to answer for

• How to raise animals collectively

  5 Sep 2014: Rearing animals together means sharing the work (although it also means sharing the sausages) - here are useful tips from the Pig Society

• Boozy zoo parties are a throwback to Victorian mad menageries

  4 Sep 2014: Philip Hoare: The late openings at London Zoo must stop. History shows that people, animals and alcohol don’t mix

• Shepherding Britain’s wool industry towards more ethical pastures

  Guardian Professional, 4 Sep 2014: Eco-fashion designer Isobel Davis calls for more stringent animal welfare standards, but the British Wool Marketing board say they’re too extreme

• Camel races planned for Munich's Theresienwiese meet resistance

  3 Sep 2014: Six Gulf states want to host race meeting in area where Oktoberfest is held during five-day event called 1,001 Nights
  

• The elephant who cried: Raju's story on way to big screen

  3 Sep 2014:

  Former tennis star Vijay Amritraj and Hollywood producer Larry Brezner team up to make film about the elephant freed from chains after 50 years of abuse

• Stop Zoo Lates parties, Peta, RSPCA and animal charities tell London zoo

  3 Sep 2014: ‘Wild night out’ fundraisers put animal safety and welfare at risk, campaigners warn
  

• Melbourne towing firm fined $80,000 over row in which sheep fell on to cars

  3 Sep 2014: Driver forced rival tow-truck driver to unhook from a truck loaded with sheep dangling over a freeway

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