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Live sheep export breached Animal Welfare Act, claim campaigners
23 August 2007
Animal welfare activists claim there's been a breach of Tasmania's Animal Welfare Act.
The claim follows news that more than 1,600 sheep out of 71,000 which left Tasmania for the Middle East last year died from malnutrition and disease on the voyage.
The figure is in an Australian Quarantine Inspection Service report released after a Freedom Of Information request by Animals Australia.
Jennifer Beer from Against Animal Cruelty Tasmania says the deaths are a breach of the state's Animal Welfare Act.
"Which states a person must not do any act or to do any duty which causes or is likely to cause unreasonable and unjustifiable pain or suffering of animals.
"Now, knowing that Tasmanian sheep are not as strong as mainland sheep and do not travel well, it is wrong to send them, you know, live export," said Ms Beer