RSPCA Policy F6 Transportation of wild animals
Note: Wild animals are animals (native or introduced) living and/or reproducing in the wild on land or in water.
| 6.1 | Wild animals must only be transported when essential for welfare or conservation reasons (as part of a government-supervised management program). Special consideration must be given to the welfare of wild animals during trapping, mustering, assembly, loading, and transport as they are unused to handling, confinement, or transport. |
| 6.2 | The RSPCA is opposed to the transport of wild animals for slaughter because of the inevitable suffering, unnecessary stress, and poor welfare outcomes associated with the transportation of wild animals. |
| 6.3 | Where wild animals are selected for killing under a government-supervised management program, they must be humanely killed in situ rather than transported to another destination to then be killed. |
| 6.4 | Wild animals must only be transported from the wild for the purposes of relocation, rehabilitation, or rehoming under a government-supervised management program and only if their welfare can be safeguarded. |
| 6.5 | Where wild animals selected for relocation or rehoming under a government-supervised management program are determined to be unsuitable for relocation or rehoming due to health or welfare reasons, they must be humanely killed in situ. |
RSPCA policies reflect the best available evidence to direct and guide RSPCA and others, to promote and achieve good animal welfare outcomes.
Reference to ‘the RSPCA’ or ‘RSPCA’ in this document means RSPCA Australia and each of the RSPCA Australia member Societies.
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