Humane World for Animals Australia is welcoming the NSW Government’s announcement last week that applying pain relief will be mandatory when mulesing lambs (or live lamb cutting), but says Australia remains a global outlier on addressing sheep welfare and must take further action by ending live lamb cutting altogether. Amendments...
Agriculture is essential to produce food and fibre. Extensive livestock grazing occurs across Australia, often in areas where dingoes live. Within these shared landscapes tensions can occur between grazing communities and predatory wildlife such as dingoes. One concern for graziers is how to keep livestock safe in an economically and environmentally viable way. To mitigate losses, many local dingo management plans aim to reduce or exterminate dingoes, yet this has detrimental ecological and social costs and can be counterproductive as a mitigation measure.
This guide aims to increase producers’ skills, knowledge and confidence to adopt tools and practices that are part of a wider movement towards sustainable and high welfare animal agriculture.
