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Care. Connect. Change. Stop Live Exports represents the majority of Australians who think live animal export is cruel and needs to end.

We want to see the live animal export trade replaced with a progressive and ethical alternative that looks after producers and their farm animals too. If you would like to make a difference, there are many ways you can get involved. We will let you know what you can do via this page, or you can subscribe to our e-newsletter on our website. RULES FOR POSTING/COMMENTING ON THIS PAGE:

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09/09/2026

7 days left to sign ‼️

WA animals can still be loaded for live export in extreme heat.

That is why our petition is asking WA Parliament to make 35°C the legal line.

The reforms we are calling for are practical:

🧡 No loading of farmed animals when temperatures reach 35°C or higher
🧡 Clean drinking water until loading
🧡 Shade for animals waiting at port
🧡 No unnecessary delays in transport or unloading
🧡 Feed and bedding throughout transport and after loading

These are basic protections. They should already exist.

Summer is coming. We cannot wait until the next hot day, the next truck queue, or the next distressed animal at port before this becomes law.

WA residents: please sign before 15 September. Then check your email and confirm your signature so it counts.

35°C is the line. Make it law.
https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament/LCePetitions.nsf/($All)/F2A80351F8CB0DAB48258DBD00271951?opendocument

Note: The WA petition is open to WA residents and closes on 15 September 2026. Stop Live Exports has already submitted our Australia-wide federal petition and is awaiting a further response.

04/09/2026

This is a significant step for Live Exports Globally 🌏🐄

The International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) has agreed to update its ESG Watch List entry on livestock transport to reference the findings of the new 2026 Global Livestock Fleet Report.

That follows a submission from the Global Stop Live Exports Network, a coalition of 38 animal welfare organisations, calling for much greater scrutiny of the risks involved in underwriting livestock carriers.

And the numbers are hard to ignore.

🚢 The report examined 159 livestock vessels.
⚠️ 84% were not originally built to carry livestock.
⚠️ Converted livestock carriers have an average age of 45 years, with 51 vessels at least 50 years old.
⚠️ Almost half of the fleet operates under flags appearing on the Paris MoU blacklist.
⚠️ Livestock carriers recorded a 15.1% detention rate in 2024

This campaign is not only about the suffering endured by animals at sea. It is also about asking serious questions of the systems that keep this trade operating.

Who insures these ageing vessels?

Are the risks being properly assessed?

And should insurers be comfortable underwriting a trade with this kind of documented maritime risk profile?

Our President, Lisa Baker, made the point clearly: this submission asked insurers to examine the evidence and consider whether current underwriting, due diligence and reputational risk frameworks genuinely reflect the risks associated with these ships.

IUMI has now agreed to update its livestock transport entry and meet with representatives of the Global Stop Live Exports Network to discuss the findings.

The more scrutiny this trade faces, from governments, regulators, ports, insurers and the public, the harder it becomes to pretend that live export is simply business as usual.

🧡 And this is what your support helps make possible.

Your donations allow us to research, investigate, build international partnerships, put evidence in front of decision-makers and keep pressure on the industries that enable live export.

This is the work happening behind the scenes, and this is what we are achieving together.

Thank you for helping us keep pushing for change.

👉 Read the article: https://www.freightnews.co.za/article/iumi-to-update-livestock-transport-risk-entry

📸 freightnews.co.za

03/09/2026

Another live export loading is underway in Broome today.

The Gudali Express is being loaded,with trucks transporting cattle towards the port for another live export voyage.

Today it’s around 28°C in Broome. ☀️

That might not sound extreme for the Kimberley. But our concern is what happens as temperatures climb - particularly when cattle are transported, held and loaded in places where there may be little or no protection from the heat.

We saw this ourselves during the last Broome loading. And as we head towards the hotter months, days above 35°C, and even 40°C, are not unusual.

We’re asking the WA Government to put a clear, enforceable protection in place.

🌡️ Our Heat Stress Petition has just 12 DAYS LEFT.

We’re calling for a legally enforceable 35°C heat limit to protect animals being transported for live export.

Animals shouldn’t have to suffer through extreme heat simply because they are destined for export.

If you haven’t signed yet, now is the time. ✍️🧡

👉 Sign the petition: https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament/LCePetitions.nsf/petitions/26-0009

And please share it. We have just 12 days to make as much noise as we can.

26/08/2026

🐾 Happy International Dog Day!

Today is all about celebrating the dogs who bring so much into our lives.

The loyal ones. The cheeky ones. The couch hogs, beach runners, shadow-followers and always-happy-to-see-you types.

They’re family, companions and characters in their own right, and today they deserve a little extra love. ❤️

Caring for them also comes with responsibility. On hot days, we make sure they have water, shade and somewhere cool to rest. We change our plans when the heat becomes too much.

Cows, sheep and goats have a different place in our lives, but they rely on people to make those same basic decisions about their welfare.

For animals being transported for live export, there is no option to find a cooler spot or wait until the temperature drops. Those decisions are made for them.

In WA, there is still no enforceable 35°C limit on live export loading.

We think there should be.

Different roles in our lives. The same responsibility to care.

So give your dog an extra pat today. 🐶❤️

And if you’re in WA, you can also help make extreme heat protections stronger for other animals in our care.

35°C is the line. Make it law
https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament/LCePetitions.nsf/($All)/F2A80351F8CB0DAB48258DBD00271951?opendocument

📸 Pixabay

20/08/2026

🚨 JAWAN HAS LEFT FREMANTLE, BOUND FOR THE RED SEA 🚨

While most of Fremantle was asleep, the livestock ship Jawan left port just after midnight, carrying Australian animals towards Aqaba, Jordan, with its reported arrival date being 7 September.

To get there, Jawan is expected to travel through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and Red Sea, one of the world's most dangerous shipping corridors right now.

This isn’t some theoretical risk, this is a real, escalating danger that we are genuinely alarmed by, and we cannot understand why DAFF would allow Australian animals to be sent into a conflict zone of this nature, particularly when this appears to contradict the approach taken in a similar Red Sea security situation in January 2024, where DAFF itself confirmed the MV Bahijah was diverted away from the region due to deteriorating conditions (https://www.agriculture.gov.au/about/news/mv-bahijah-live-updates).

Now, in 2026 on 11 August, a commercial cargo ship was attacked in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Four crew members were killed. Two rescuers were also killed in a subsequent strike.

Houthi attacks have intensified along Yemen's Red Sea coast, commercial shipping remains disrupted, and Jordan itself has recently condemned an attack on a Saudi vessel in the Red Sea as a threat to international maritime navigation.

Yet Australian animals have now been sent towards this conflict zone ⁉️

This is the same Red Sea security situation that previously caused livestock vessels to divert and forced Australian authorities to consider contingency options.

So we have some questions for the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry:

~What security risk assessment was undertaken before this shipment was approved?

~What happens if the security situation deteriorates before Jawan reaches Bab el-Mandeb?

~Is there an agreed diversion route?

~Are alternative ports approved and ready to receive the animals?

~How much additional fodder, water and veterinary capacity is available if the voyage is significantly extended?

~At what point would DAFF require the vessel to divert?

Australian animals should not become collateral damage in an escalating regional conflict. We will be watching this shipment closely and requesting urgent clarification from DAFF.

Photo: Baco Baco

18/08/2026

Happening now ❤️‍🩹

Jawan shipment, Fremantle Port.

Photo: Baco Baco

17/08/2026

After an unusually quiet few months, livestock ships are appearing around WA ports again.

FREMANTLE

For almost four months, Fremantle has seen no livestock ships.

That quiet period ended today with the arrival of the Jawan 🇵🇦.

Jawan is currently in Fremantle, although it hasn’t moved onto the livestock berth because a bulk carrier is still there unloading.

For long-time port watchers, Jawan is a familiar name.

The vessel is a sister ship of the Gulf Livestock 1, which sank in 2020 with thousands of cattle and 43 crew on board, only two of whom survived.

Jawan itself experienced serious stability problems after loading cattle at Portland in December 2018. After unsuccessful attempts to depart, the cattle were unloaded and the vessel later travelled to Singapore for stability rectification works.

BROOME

Meanwhile, there’s plenty happening further north.

⚓️ One livestock vessel is already in Broome Port.
⚓️ A second is sitting at anchor just outside Broome Port.
🚢 The Nine Eagle is also on its way, currently travelling from Indonesia towards Broome.

After months of relative quiet in Fremantle, this sudden concentration of livestock vessel movements across WA is something our port watchers will be keeping a very close eye on.

👀 If you’re near Fremantle or Broome and see livestock vessel activity, keep watching, documenting and sharing.

Port watching makes this trade visible. We won’t look away.

06/08/2026

Good news for animals, and a reminder of what sustained public pressure can achieve.

Brittany Ferries has confirmed it will end the transport of live farmed animals, including unweaned calves, between Ireland and France by September 2026. The company had only resumed the trade in March 2025, after staying out of it for three decades.

More than 100,000 emails were sent to the company, two petitions gathered over 100,000 signatures, and nine organisations across Ireland, France and the UK kept the issue in front of the public and the board for more than a year. Stena Line left the same route last year. Irish Ferries is now the only operator still carrying these animals, and the pressure has shifted squarely onto them.

We recognise this pattern. Change in the live export trade has never arrived in a single moment. It comes from steady, patient advocacy by people who refuse to look away, and it is the same effort that secured Australia's legislated end to live sheep export by sea on 1 May 2028.

That end date is not yet the end of the story. There is still a WA petition open until 15 September, and every signature strengthens the case that Australians want this trade behind us.

Please add your name, and share it with someone who hasn't yet.
https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament/LCePetitions.nsf/($All)/F2A80351F8CB0DAB48258DBD00271951?opendocument

01/08/2026

📢 UPDATE: IUMI has responded to our coalition's letter on livestock carrier risk

After our 38-member Global Stop Live Exports Network wrote to the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) about the 2026 Global Livestock Fleet Report, we've received a reply.

The good news: IUMI acknowledges the risks in this trade and its reputational implications. Livestock transport is already on their ESG Watch List, which they'll now update to reflect our report's findings, and they've agreed to meet virtually with their members to discuss the data.

The disappointing part: IUMI declined to develop sector-specific underwriting standards, citing competition law restrictions on influencing members' underwriting decisions.

We welcome IUMI's engagement and look forward to the discussion ahead.

This is about maritime risk, not the ethics of live export — and we're glad the conversation is moving forward. 🚢

31/07/2026

Stop Live Exports has joined 37 other animal welfare and protection organisations from across Europe, Australia, South Africa and Latin America in writing to the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI), raising concerns about the maritime risk profile of the global livestock carrier fleet.

The letter draws on the 2026 Global Livestock Fleet Report , an independent analysis of 159 vessels involved in live animal transport worldwide. It finds that livestock carriers are, on average, 45 years old, that 84% were never purpose-built for the cruel trade, and that the fleet has recorded the highest detention rate of any vessel category tracked by Port State Control for six consecutive years running.

The letter isn't a call on the ethics of live export. It's a request for IUMI and its members to examine whether current underwriting standards, due diligence practices and premium structures reflect the documented risk, covering everything from structural failure and fire to environmental liability and reputational exposure.

We'll share IUMI's response as we have it.

https://stopliveexports.org/global-animal-welfare-coalition-presses-marine-insurers-on-live-export-vessel-risk/

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