Freedom of Species

Hunting is a key threat to wild animal populations around the world. For the Love of Wildlife wants to reduce Australians impact on the trade of african animals by making it illegal to import and trade their body parts in Australia. We discuss their success in getting a ban on the importantion and sale of lion body parts from canned hunting in Australia and their work to help elephants and rhinos.

We chat with Graeme Linsell, a Melbourne-based volunteer wildlife rescuer & carer. He talks us through what's involved in this critically important role, some of the basic principles, & how we can get trained so that we too can help save lives. Wildlife Rescuers Incorporated (northern & north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne) https://www.facebook.com/WildlifeRescuersInc/ http://wildliferescuers.org.au/training/ Wildlife Victoria (statewide) https://www.facebook.com/wildlifevictoria/ https://www.wildlifevictoria.org.au/get-involved/wildlife-victoria-training Use an online search engine to find wildlife rescue training in your area.

We discuss language and animals and how by design, language acts as a weapon against animals perpetuating speciesism through demeaning terms like ‘you cow’ or by laundering terms that hide cruelty, for example, a 'processing plant' instead of a slaughterhouse. We also have categories of language to label species as belonging or not belonging - for example, native, pest or feral - and a species can switch catgegory depending on our human agenda for the landscape.  Speciesism means the assumption of human superiority leading to the exploitation of animals. Addressing this language can be a powerful form of activism. Our guests are Alex Vince from Animal Liberation NSW and Alana Bacon, Melbourne-based animal activist & Animal Justice Party member.For more work on language and animals by Alex Vince from Animal Liberation NSW, see his talks below: (& stay tuned for his most recent at the 2018 Animal Activist Forum!)The Pest Epiphet: https://archive.org/details/AlexVinceAnimal Activicts Forum (scroll to bottom:) http://www.activistsforum.com/resources/Joan Dunayer links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFiRc2Jixtchttps://www.amazon.com/Animal-Equality-Liberation-Joan-Dunayer/dp/0970647557

We are joined by a local campaigner from the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses, Elio Celotto, to discuss the inherent issues with horse racing and what we can do about it.  In Australia, we are days away from the Melbourne Cup, a 3200 m race where horses are often pushed to physical exhaustion or injury by being forced to race.You can find out more about the campaign at the website - https://www.horseracingkills.com/ and check out upcoming events at their Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/coalitionfortheprotectionofracehorses/.

This show features the talk ‘Veganwashing Israel’s Dirty Laundry? Animal Politics and Nationalism in Palestine-Israel’ by scholar-activist Esther Alloun. You can find more of Esther’s work at the following link: https://uow.academia.edu/EstherAlloun Esther’s talk is from the conference ‘Animal Nationalisms: Multispecies cultural politics, race, and nation (un)building narratives’, organised by the Deakin Critical Animal Studies Network. For more information about this group, check out: http://www.deakin.edu.au/adi/our-research/research-networks/deakin-critical-animal-studies-network

We're in the studio talking with Doug Leith, president of Melbourne Save Animals In Laboratories (MSAIL), about vivisection (animal experimentation) in Australia, as well as how and why it fails to meet its claimed objectives of improved human health outcomes.  Doug also talks about the work of MSAIL.  MSAIL  https://www.facebook.com/MelbourneSaveAnimalsInLaboratories/

We chat with Ingrid Marker about how large bodied dogs, in particular hunting dogs trained to kill pigs, are lethal to the cassowary population who are already up against it with their disappearing habitat, roads, and fragmented landscapes.Mentioned in podcast & for more information: https://www.facebook.com/cassowarykeystoneconservation/Friends of the Earth FNQ:https://www.facebook.com/FriendsoftheEarthFNQ/?eid=ARCb4vsVEy2zw6TrMYE9e...Australian Panel of Experts in Environmental Law/APEEL: http://apeel.org.auBirdlife Australia: http://birdlife.org.au

We speak with two activists from Melbourne, Trevor and Bess, about consistent anti-oppression. They unpack what it means and why it's important.You can find out more about Consistent Anti-oppression here.

We speak with Dr Annett Finger, Dr Nikki Kowalczyk, and Port Phillip Baykeeper Neil Blake about the colony of Little Penguins that live on a Melbourne breakwater in Port Phillip Bay.  They talk about the circumstances that make this colony unique & about the important research conducted by Earthcare St Kilda.  We'll also hear how a recent industrial fire in Melbourne's western suburbs may pose serious risks to the health of Port Phillip Bay & the penguin colony.Earthcare St Kilda  http://earthcarestkilda.org.au/Photo of Annett with feathered friend.

This show features a talk on the debate in the animal advocacy movement around “single issue campaigns” that focus on one particular product or form of animal exploitation, examples include anti-fur campaigns and advocating against the dog meat trade. This talk ‘Veganism, Colonialism and Single Issue Campaigns’ is by the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) Oceania collective and you can listen to the whole talk, including audiences’ contributions that weren’t featured on the show, here: https://archive.org/details/SingleIssue This talk was recorded at the 2017 ICAS Oceania Conference ‘Forging Alliances and Intersections’ in Melbourne. You can listen to other talks from this conference here: https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22ICAS+Oceania+2017%22 For more information on ICAS, including links to connect with ICAS on Facebook and to sign up for email updates, see the ICAS website: http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/icas-oceania/