A global coalition of 36 animal welfare groups, including Stop Live Exports SA, is urging the UN’s maritime body to act after a series of deadly live export ship disasters. The ageing, unsafe fleet is costing human and animal lives – and we are demanding binding international safety and welfare rules.
South Africans have spoken. Of 17,536 submissions on the government’s draft live export regulations, 95% called for a complete ban, saying the trade is ‘inherently cruel and impossible to fix’. Stop Live Export SA urges the government to act on the results and prohibit live export by sea.
Stop Live Export South Africa and Compassion in World Farming urge public to respond do the SA government’s draft regulations to continue exporting live animals by sea.
Stop Live Export SA is calling on the public to respond to draft regulations by the South African government on the live export of animals by sea.
