General

What is the donkey skin trade and why is it inhumane?

The donkey skin trade has rapidly expanded over the last few years due to a huge demand for a traditional Chinese medicine known as ‘ejiao’, which is a combination of herbs and gelatin from donkey skin.

What are the animal welfare issues with catching feral buffalo?

Water buffalo (Bubula bubalis) are large (450–1,180kg) wallowing herbivores that were introduced to Australia around the mid-1800s, for work and for their meat and hides. First introduced to Melville Island and Cobourg Peninsula in the Northern Territory, wild herds were seen from 1843.