All animals deserve to live their lives free from exploitation and abuse. Through direct action campaigning we will confront and disrupt the practices that cause animals to suffer.
Direct Animal Action is an ally to every living creature, and a voice for the voiceless. We do not discriminate against anyone.
Direct Animal Action (DAA) has filmed covert footage at a Mainland Poultry egg farm on McKerrow Road, Waianakarua in the South Island. The footage shows a new type of egg production system called multi-tiered aviary. “Direct Animal Action are extremely concerned about the introduction of multi-tiered aviaries to New Zealand,” says Deirdre Sims, spokesperson for…
Mr Phil Latham Navis Capital Australia Pty Ltd Level 8, 56 Pitt Street Sydney NSW 2000 AUSTRALIA Tel: 61 2 8024 7800 Email: platham@naviscapital.com Dear Phil, Recently your private equity firm, Navis Capital, bought 75% of Mainland Poultry, New Zealand’s biggest egg producer. We understand that Mainland Poultry are now attempting to establish large colony and…
Direct Animal Action have begun a David vs Goliath battle against New Zealand’s biggest egg producer, Mainland Poultry. In September, an Official Information Act request to Waikato District Council revealed that Mainland Poultry have plans to build a mega factory farm that would confine 800,000 egg laying hens to colony cages and a new type of multi-tiered system…
New Zealand’s biggest egg producer, Mainland Poultry, want to build a massive industrial chicken egg laying farm at 64 Old Road, Orini in the Waikato. “If Mainland Poultry get their way, their mega factory farm will imprison 800,000 hens. Almost all of these hens will be kept in cruel colony cages,” says Direct Animal Action…
We’ve started a petition calling on Waikato District Council to decline an application from Mainland Poultry to build a mega factory farm. New Zealand’s biggest egg producer, Mainland Poultry, want to build a massive industrial chicken egg laying farm at 64 Old Road, Orini in the Waikato Region. If Mainland Poultry get their way, they’ll…
On the 1st of December 2016 we hosted a fundraising event for Paws Awhile Animal Sanctuary. The exhibition titled ‘Animals – Seeing the Sentient Being’ celebrated animal sentience and the artists involved expressed this in many beautiful and creative ways. The event was held as Allpress Studio in Freemans Bay and featured works from over…
October marks Direct Animal Action’s one year anniversary. It’s been a busy and exciting first year and we couldn’t have done it without everyone’s support. The community has grown significantly since our first meeting, one year on we find ourselves surrounded by a wonderful group of caring and passionate people doing all they can for…
This morning we led a public protest outside the Rydges Hotel in Auckland, where Greyhound Racing New Zealand’s AGM and awards ceremony was being held. We invited protesters to bring along their canine companions and demonstrate with us as part of a nationwide day of action to ban greyhound racing. We had an excellent turnout,…
Thank you to everyone who made it to last night’s pub quiz. The event was a huge success – we raised almost $2,000 and we counted more than 100 of you there in support! A HUGE …
This morning in Auckland animal rights activists and locals from the community of Patumahoe held a large protest outside the Environment Court. Around 70 people held placards …
Craddock Farms’ case to build a massive colony cage egg farm in Patumahoe will be heard in the Environment Court on 30th November. This follows a limited-notification hearing held by Auckland City Council almost a year ago where the companies proposal was declined.
Today a funeral will be held outside business man Wally Yovich’s downtown office. The Grim Reaper will join a group of protesters in black mourning clothes to call on Yovich to pull funding for a proposed new colony cage egg factory farm.
This Sunday around 30 animal activists from the Stop Craddock Farms campaign will stage a protest at Craddock Farms, a cage egg producer in Pukekohe. Craddock Farms want to build New Zealand’s biggest caged hen factory farm in Patumahoe. Auckland City Council declined their application earlier this year but Craddock Farms are appealing in the…
Campaign group Stop Craddock Farms and Direct Animal Action congratulate the Auckland City Council for declining consent for cage egg producer Craddock Farms to build a mega caged hen farm in Patumahoe, South Auckland.
Spokesperson Deirdre Sims says, “The proposed caged hen facility would have been the biggest of its kind in our country, confining 310,000 hens to cruel cages that contravene the Animal Welfare Act,”