MV Bahijah re-export application rejected but uncertainty remains over fate of animals
Australian Alliance for Animals Media Release
The Australian Alliance for Animals has today welcomed the decision of the Department of Agriculture to reject an application to re-export approximately 15,000 sheep and cattle stranded on board the MV Bahijah since 5 January.
However, uncertainty remains over the fate of the animals with the Alliance holding concerns the exporter will apply for another re-export application.
In its statement advising of the decision, the Department of Agriculture confirmed that it was unable to be satisfied that the importing country requirements had been met, or that the transport arrangements were appropriate to ensure the health and welfare of the animals. But the statement goes on to say that the Department “stands ready to assess any future application submitted by the exporter.”
Alliance for Animals Policy Director Dr Jed Goodfellow said “the Department has absolutely made the right call with this decision, but we hold serious concerns the exporter will now make a fresh application to re-export these animals.
“We call on the exporter to do the right thing and abort the consignment.
“These animals have been through enough – over a month of standing and lying in their own waste and enduring oppressive heat and humidity at high stocking densities.
“The exporter must now bring their ordeal to an end by immediately unloading the animals here in Australia.
“If the exporter fails to do this, the Department of Agriculture should utilise all regulatory powers at its disposal to compel the exporter to unload the animals,
“This debacle is just the latest depressing episode in the long and tragic story that is Australia’s live sheep export trade. The government’s promised phase out cannot come soon enough.”
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Return to home pageOff to Israel, apparently.
Funny they never told us where it was going earlier. I think also we should not feed mass-murderers.
Lambchop, maybe not.
Why is Australia feeding IDF troops who are conducting STATE SPONSORED GENOCIDE AGAINST INDIGENOUS PALESTINIANS?
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Time for the pollies to get out from under the Canberra Bubble and discover that Australian voters are very underwhelmed by the American Armaments industry profiting enormously at the expense of over 26,000 mainly Palestinian women & children.
One hopes so, Canguro. I’d hate to think we were aiding and abetting ethnic cleansing on the scale we have seen.
If the ship goes to Saudi or such places, it really lessens it all hardly a bit.
Such a cruel practice.
Canguro, Will have to sleep on it.
In a slight way you wonder as to compensation, given the circumstances, I know it is hard to feel much for the ship owners, but I wonder, given the weird events.
An error in the article. Still doesn’t tell us where it was going beyond, if heading for the Red Sea.
But the article seems right in the respect that a much longer trip could have been gruesome.
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I’m starting to wonder if any of the exported livestock end up being used to restock farms?
Compared to processing animals here and exporting frozen product it seems like a lot of wasted time & money.
MV BAHIJAH (IMO: 9360788) is an Israeli owned Livestock Carrier, sailing under a flag of convenience of the Marshall Islands where ship registry and standards are easier to meet and don’t necessarily meet acceptable international standards.
Everything about this business is crooked.
Ahhhh, Terence Mills, you are a kindly fellow.
It hit me a while ago, why so much furtiveness over it.
Now we know.