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Each year thousands of outdoor farm animals suffer terribly from heat pain without access to adequate or NO shade or shelter in paddocks, holding pens, feedlots and saleyards throughout Australia and countries around the world.
Let’s stop this needless suffering!
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News and Updates from Animals Need Shade
Animals Need Shade on ABC Radio Australia
Animals Need Shade were recently interviewed by ABC Radio Australia on our activities lobbying for mandatory shade for the welfare and protection of all animals. Listen to the interview belowTake Action How can you help?Join the thousands of voices around the world...
Queenslanders urge government to enforce mandatory shade and shelter for farm animals
Animal advocates have lodged a petition in the Queensland Parliament, urging a change in the law to protect heat-stressed livestock, as temperatures in the state get ready to rise during summer. Australia is in the midst of a climate crisis. Record temperatures have...