Sentences with phrase «of animals exported»

For more than a decade, our investigators have worked to bring to light the systemic abuse of animals exported live overseas.

However, through our investigations into the treatment of animals exported overseas, Animals Australia has helped raise awareness about animal welfare and improve conditions for animals abroad as well.

Recognised internationally for strategic public awareness campaigning, our investigations and those of our partner organisations have exposed the extreme abuse of animals exported from Australia, Europe and South America, galvanising caring people from right around the world to speak out for animals and demand an end to the global live export trade.

Over the past seven years, Animals Australia has conducted investigations into the treatment of animals exported live to the Middle East.

The number of animals exported live out of Australia is set to increase as Australia prepares to enter into a A$ 1 billion trade agreement with China.

«Of the millions of animals exported under ESCAS there have been 22 identified incidents of non-compliance where the animal welfare outcome was either adverse or unknown.

Not exact matches

Developer Racebook Capital is touting the ARK as the «world's only privately owned animal terminal and USDA - approved, full - service, 24 - hour, airport quarantine facility for import and export of horses, pets, birds and livestock,» according to CNN.

In contrast, herd re-stocking, following the easing of drought conditions in many areas, is expected to weigh on meat and live animal exports in the near term.

These include an inspection requirement for meat, dairy and seafood product processing plants that export to Brazil; accompaniment of products of plant origin with an Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service / Plant Protection and Quarantine phytosanitary certificate; and set requirements for pest risk.

According to figures quoted in the report — recorded up to November last year - Australia exported eight million head of livestock to 18 countries in 1139 consignments, with only 22 incidents of animal welfare concern, since ESCAS's introduction.

THE government's long - awaited review of the Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS) has been released today, and according to federal Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce, it indicates Australia is «a clear world leader in the welfare of exported live animals».

He said it also showed that in nine of Australia's 18 live export markets there were no incidents that impacted animal welfare.

Mr Joyce said since the Coalition government came to office in September 2013 the value of live animal exports has amounted to $ 1.4 billion and «is continuing to break new ground».

In the other nine markets, according to the report, the incidents involved an estimated 0.002 to 1.58 pc of the animals Australia exported to those markets.

According to chairman of ALEC Simon Crean, in just two years of full ESCAS application the Australian livestock export trade has made huge inroads into improving animal welfare outcomes and placed the trade on a stronger footing to support its ongoing vital economic and job - sustaining role in regional Australia.

Nothing less than a complete ban on live animal export will appease the Australian public, but the industry now know that the days of lawlessness and secrecy that have been the lifeblood of the live trade, are over.

MacTiernan said she warned exporters about the possibility of animal cruelty charges in 2017 following the release of a mortality investigation into another Emanuel Exports consignment, saying she would feel «morally and legally obliged to investigate».

Animals Australia live export investigators have uncovered animal welfare atrocities during this year's Festival of Sacrifice.

MacTiernan said she had encouraged farmers to focus on boosting the boxed meat trade to key live export markets in the Middle East and North Africa in light of the «risk» posed by high profile animal welfare violations.

As a result of Animals Australia's investigation in Indonesia last year, new government regulations are now in place that have forced the live export industry to transform itself — adhering to new rules that will make exporting live animals more expensive, more difficult and importantly, more heavily scrutAnimals Australia's investigation in Indonesia last year, new government regulations are now in place that have forced the live export industry to transform itself — adhering to new rules that will make exporting live animals more expensive, more difficult and importantly, more heavily scrutanimals more expensive, more difficult and importantly, more heavily scrutinised.

In early October 2012, a shipload of cattle left Australia for Mauritius — notoriously the roughest of all journeys for exported animals.

It is at the receiving end of the export process that accusations of flimsy pens, overcrowding or the loading of animals that were not fit for the voyage can be found.

At the other end of the journey, the exported animals came back into view.

But while these glimpses inside a transport ship are new, the practice of live animal export is as old as the European colonisation of Australia.

A recent episode of 60 Minutes has captured public attention and the political agenda by airing dramatic video footage from Animals Australia, showing the fate of Australian animals in the live exportAnimals Australia, showing the fate of Australian animals in the live exportanimals in the live export trade.

Because of you, fewer animals are subjected to the horrors of live export today.

These are just some of the last terrifying moments suffered by animals sold into the Australian live export trade.

The number of Australian animals exported has declined sharply over the past five years, in large part thanks to the relentless actions of caring Australians.

Labor said the abattoir suspension also highlighted the need to restore Labor's independent Inspector General of Animal Welfare and Live Animal Exports, a position abolished by Mr Joyce.

Mr Joyce has previously described ESCAS as making Australia «a clear world leader in the welfare of exported live animals» due to statistics that showed from a performance report that 8,035,633 livestock were exported with just 12,958 animals — or 0.16 pc — experiencing a potentially adverse animal welfare outcome.

A statement from the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources - the live export industry's «independent regulator» - said Animals Australia provided new information, including video footage, on April 9 this year, alleging ESCAS breaches in Qatar.

One idea being debated among rural groups is that of an Inspector General for the Welfare of Exported Animals.

«The minister is engaging with the Opposition to increase sanctions and penalties for exporters who do the wrong thing and is exploring options to hold directors of exporting companies personally accountable for mistreatment of animals.»

Nonetheless, live sales of cattle and sheep are a small slice of Australian meat exports, in part because it is easier to slaughter animals in Australia rather than ship them alive to Asia and the Middle East.

«We are calling on the government and all authorities to stop the export of animals in the Australian winter months heading into vicious summer heat,» an advertisement for the protest said, on Facebook.

Live exports should be banned, and every slaughterhouse should have C.C.T.V. camera's, countless examples of beating animals with sticks, punching, kicking etc have come to light, isn't it enough that these creatures have endured «factory farming» and cruel transportation.

He said the treatment of animals being exported was for the Australian government to manage and regulate.

Every year hundreds of millions of animals from around the world are exported live for slaughter.

The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (AFIC) is appalled by the treatment of Australian animals in the Middle East and equally appalled that the Australian live export industry is trying to convince the Australian public that the region requires live animals, when in fact they can be slaughtered in compliance with Islamic laws in Australia.

Tragically Australia's willingness to export animals to the region continues to reinforce local beliefs that their treatment of animals is acceptable.

But whether they are from Australia, South America or Europe, while any animal continues to be exposed to all the known risks of live export — and with most still enduring fully conscious slaughter in importing countries — Animals Australia's investigations into this trade will continue.

Neither the government nor the live export industry was willing to take this obvious measure to reduce suffering, even though both admitted that religious festivals such as the Eid al Adha (or «Festival of Sacrifice») where large numbers of animals are sold to individual buyers presented the greatest risks to Australian animals.

It is currently playing out in the live animal export sector, where the demise of local processing opened the door for a live export sector, which in turn through its simple business model has compromised livestock welfare and alienated many consumers, reduced employment in Top End towns which once had abattoirs, and added risk to cattle business profitability by providing only one market outlet.

In early 2004 and again in 2006 Animals Australia investigators visited Kuwait and brought the brutal treatment of sheep and cattle in Kuwait at the Shuwaikh abattoir and the Al Rai livestock market to the attention of the Federal government and live export industry.

Evidence of routine abuse clearly shows that the live export industry's attempts to improve animal welfare in destination countries is not working.

The protest follows another example of animal cruelty in Australia's export markets was broadcast on Tuesday's edition of the ABC's 7.30 Report.

Animals Australia chief investigator Lyn White, whose expose of conditions in some Indonesian slaughterhouses forced the Gillard government temporarily to suspend live exports in 2011, said watching the footage was «the worst kind of deja vu».

Animals Australia has also lodged complaints with the Department of Agriculture based on two subsequent investigations in Jordan (in October 2013 and January 2014)-- with evidence presented of ongoing breaches of ESCAS involving the cruel handling and slaughter of Australian sheep outside the supply chain in Jordan — and implicating the same live export company.

In June 2013, Animals Australia investigators documented evidence showing widespread breaches of Australian live export regulations by the exporter Livestock Shipping Services (LSS) in Jordan, with Australian sheep being illegally sold and slaughtered outside of approved supply chains in 26 different locations.

will be presenting a petition to end live export during a joint press conference with Animals Australia, RSPCA Australia and the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) in Canberra on Tuesday 31st May 2011 to demand that the Gillard Government immediately halts live export to Indonesia and commits to a phase out of the live animal export trade.