"If a man aspires toward a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals."

Leo Tolstoy

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
:: ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUPS IN NEW ZEALAND


SAFE

SAFE

SAFE (Save Animals From Exploitation) is a not-for-profit organisation advocating for animals. Founded in 1932, SAFE is now the second largest animal welfare organisation in New Zealand.

www.safe.org.nz

 

NAVC

The National Anti Vivisection Campaign

Contact Mark Eden at nzarinfo@gmail.com

 

Open Rescue

Open Rescue

The Open Rescue Collective's aims are to openly rescue animals from places of abuse, to expose hidden suffering and to consistently provide irrefutable evidence why factory farming should be banned.

www.openrescue.org/




Meat Free Media

Meat Free Media is a fledgling non profit, voluntarily run organisation promoting the issues of animal rights through the use of creative and informative media.

www.meatfreemedia.com/

 

Auckland Animal Rights Collective

Auckland Animal Rights Collective started in June 2008 following the breakup of Auckland Animal Action. It is presently campaigning against fur in Auckland fashion stores and is launching an anti-foi gras campaign.

http://aucklandanimalrightscollective.blogspot.com/

Animal Liberation Aotearoa

ALA aim to educate people about the plight of animals in New Zealand through investigations, workshops, film screenings and farm tours. ALA are also actively involved in animal rescue and rehoming.

www.animalliberationaotearoa.org.nz

 

Animal Rights Legal Advocacy Network

ARLAN is New Zealand’s premier animal law organisation. Made up of more than 100 legal professionals from around the country, ARLAN works to promote and protect the interests of those who cannot speak for themselves. ARLAN campaigns and launches legal actions aimed to improve the law relating to animals and win them the legal protections they deserve.

www.arlan.org.nz/

 

Liberate Magazine Editorial Collective

The collective edits the bi-annual animal rights magazine, Liberate. Liberate is a magazine written by and for the animal liberation movement in Aotearoa. It aims to encourage discussion amongst the movement about animal abuse issues, strategies, tactics and goals.

http://liberatemagazine.wordpress.com/

 

Wellington Animal Rights Network

PO Box 6387 Wellington 6141

 

Campaign Against Factory Farming

A website to inform about the cruelty involved with intensive farming.

www.caff.org.nz

Save the Beagles Campaign

The National Anti-Vivisection Campaign and SAFE are working together to stop Valley Animal Research Centre (VARC, which is a contract animal testing company which keeps over a hundred beagles for experiments.

www.varc.org.nz

www.banbeagleexperiments.org.nz/

 


NZ Vegetarian Society

www.vegetarian.org.nz

 


Christchurch Vegetarian Centre

www.vegetarianchristchurch.org.nz/