Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) stated that changes are needed to US animal export to address the gross violations of international animal welfare code occurring on shipments of farm ...

Australia looks set to resume exporting live sheep to Iran, after Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce this week flagged the end of a 40-year ban following Iran’s Islamic revolution. Flanked by the ...

PRETORIA, South Africa, August 8, 2025 (ENS) – The controversial debate on whether the live-animal export trade can ever be humane – or should be banned altogether – has been reopened by the ...

Conservation and wildlife law experts call for immediate halt to capture and export of wild elephants from vulnerable desert-adapted population. Washington, DC—Conservationists and wildlife trade ...

Michael Gove has been accused of backpedalling on a plan to ban the export of live animals from the UK after Brexit. The Environment Secretary “sparked anger” yesterday after he signalled that the ...

The regulations appear to represent a major tightening of oversight in a sector long criticised for exposing sheep, cattle and goats to prolonged suffering on the high seas. The rules are so stringent ...

Dr Katherine Clift has been appointed Australia’s new Inspector-General of Animal Welfare and Live Animal Exports for five years with her term commencing on September 30, 2024. The appointment comes ...

Live animal exports are once again under the spotlight following a hard-hitting Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Agriculture that took place on November 18. During the two-hour session requested ...

ST. LOUIS – To hear the saying “that’ll happen when pigs fly” usually mean it’ll never happen. However, pigs flew for the first time out of St. Louis Lambert International Airport Thursday morning.

Brazil has banned the export of live cattle from all its ports. Reuters reports that federal judge Djalma Gomes’s ruling states: "Animals are not things. They are sentient living beings, that is, ...

The port has handled 1,821 twenty-foot container equivalent units (TEUs) and 213 tonnes of conventional cargo. State agencies are fast-tracking plans to establish a livestock berth on 20 acres at the ...