Animals in the Wild
Results 11-20 of 35, sorted by relevance
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Feeding Wild Birds
SPCA advocates for people to engage in activities that respect wild bird welfare, including their health, and the health of their environments.
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Feral Cats
SPCA acknowledges that feral cats are considered a pest under New Zealand law and recognises the need to act on ecological and conservation concerns where predation is likely to be a serious problem. Our organisation opposes methods of killing feral cats which do not result in a humane death.
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Feral Horses
SPCA advocates for wild horse advisory and management groups to use fertility control as a tool to reduce the need for mustering, rehoming, euthanasia, or slaughter.
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Fireworks
SPCA advocates for a ban on the private sale and use of fireworks in New Zealand due to the distress and harm they cause to animals. SPCA advocates that fireworks, pyrotechnics and gas-fired explosions should never be permitted to be used at events involving animals due to the distress they cause animals.
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Fishing and Harvesting of Fish and Aquatic Invertebrates
SPCA advocates for the humane treatment of wild fish and aquatic invertebrates and for avoiding fishing practices that have the potential to cause unnecessary pain, injury or suffering.
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Fur Trapping
SPCA is against trapping of wild animals for their fur.
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Hunting or Killing Wild Animals for Food
SPCA advocates that the hunting or killing of wild animals for food must only be done in ways that minimise negative impacts on animal welfare.
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Hunting with Dogs
SPCA advocates animals should only be hunted with methods that minimise the negative welfare impacts.
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Killing and Harming of Wild Animals to Protect Fish Farms (Aquaculture)
SPCA opposes the killing or intentional harming of wild predators, such as seals or seabirds, to protect fish farms. SPCA is concerned with the use of deterrent and exclusion devices, where the welfare impacts on wild animals are poorly understood.
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Leg-hold Traps
SPCA advocates that only trapping methods that minimise the negative welfare harms caused to targeted and non-targeted animals be used for trapping.
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