Animals
Over-fishing
After last night’s expose on the ABC about over-fishing of tuna – and recent documentaries such as The End of......
Race to save the orangutan
Clear-felling has started in the only Sumatran orangutan rehabilitation park in Indonesia. With only 6 300 orangutans left, and 1......
Roos Shot to Make Way for Bathurst 1000
One-hundred-and-forty kangaroos have been shot on Bathurst’s Mount Panorama, a move authorised by the Bathurst Regional Council. The cull of......
Illegal Slaughter of Wombats
The Wombat Awareness Organisation says farmers are illegally slaughtering the animals in the Murraylands in South Australia. They say the......
RSPCA slam jockeys over whipping law
Jockeys have been taking industrial action across Victoria as the Australian Racing Board refused to back down over new rules......
Does Australia know more about whaling in Japan than the Japanese?
Japan and anti-whaling – two things you don’t usually associate with each other. But The Wire found an exception… a......
Seaside Cove the Centre of Conflict
The West Australian town of Broome has been making news this week with the premier of a documentary called The......
Race to the death for jumps horses
Over twenty race horses have died in the last two years in Victoria and South Australia, in jumps racing, a......
NSW report on animals killed for research
A report from the NSW Government’s Animal Research Review Panel has shown that almost 9,000 animals are killed for research......
A devil of a cancer – how the study of a national icon lead to new research on animal cancer
Destruction of natural habitats isn’t the only threat to Australia’s native animals. Cancer has emerged as a new and very......