Research shows that Australia’s great white sharks are highly related to each other and may consist of fewer than 500 breeding animals.   SYDNEY, 24 June 2025: Latest research has found Australia’s great white shark population is much smaller than expected, increasing their vulnerability to further population threats.  The population...
SYDNEY 25 MAY 2025: The Queensland Crisafulli government’s ‘new’ Shark Control Program—that will amp up the slaughter of sharks—looks like it was written in the 1900’s and flies in the face of conservation science while doing nothing to improve swimmer safety.  The news was revealed today in a Courier Mail...
Parliamentary inquiry into the management of blue gum plantations and koalas. Humane World for Animals is relieved to report that the koala shooting in Victoria’s Budj Bim National Park has stopped, with helicopters grounded last Friday, 25 April. Following fires in the area known to be home to a large...
Aerial shooting of koalas in Victoria’s Budj Bim National Park Humane World for Animals is deeply concerned about reports that several hundred koalas have been shot from helicopters in Budj Bim National Park, parts of which were heavily impacted by bushfires beginning seven weeks ago on March 10. Following the...
The Australia Labor Party, Greens, Animal Justice Party, several minor parties and independents have committed to banning imports of hunting trophies of bears, giraffes, zebras, baboons, hippos and other species at the coming federal election. SYDNEY (15 April 2025)—The upcoming federal election could mark the end of trophy hunting imports...
SYDNEY (29 March 2025)—NSW Government scientists have issued a damning condemnation of the state’s shark nets, stating that they could find ‘no evidence’ that shark nets decrease fatalities. The Response to the Shark Meshing (Bather Protection) Program 2023/2024 Annual Performance Report, was released late on Friday by the NSW Government’s...
A news report today stating shark net alternatives are not up to the task, has gotten the ire of conservation groups SYDNEY (24 March 2025)—A Daily Telegraph article, airing concerns over the removal of shark nets, is exactly the type of misinformation threatening our marine life and the safety of...
Shark nets in NSW will be removed on 31 March. They may never go back in – and it could make us safer. SYDNEY: 19 March 2025—Debate over the removal of shark nets is rightly a public safety issue, but questions are now being asked about whether the nets may...
Coastal councils have spoken, and they want an end to shark nets. SYDNEY (26 February 2025)—Randwick Council, has, Tuesday night, voted no to the continued use of shark nets, meaning none of the eight councils with shark nets have supported their continued use.  The NSW Government has consulted with...
Australia takes a step forward on animal welfare Humane World for Animals Australia has welcomed the National Animal Welfare Statement signed by federal, state and territory governments and released on Friday 13 December. Through the Statement, governments are committing to a shared vision where Australia achieves good animal welfare...
Politicians should stop using endangered Maugean skate as a political football  12 December 2024 The beleaguered Maugean skate is on the precipice of extinction but, instead of focusing on how to save it, it has become a political football when the future of an entire species hangs in the balance,...
Shark culling counter ‘reset’ to keep new Queensland Government accountable for all marine wildlife deaths 12 December 2024 Humane World for Animals Australia and Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) have today released a new ‘shark culling counter’ to keep the new Queensland Government publicly accountable for the number of marine...
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