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[Link] Bottles, cans, batteries: octopuses found using litter on seabed

Read: 8/3/2022 www.theguardian.com

Whether it’s mimicking venomous creatures, or shooting jets of water at aquarium light switches to turn them off, octopuses are nothing if not resourceful.

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[Link] ‘Just never going to be OK’: report finds luxury brands falling behind on animal welfare

Read: 6/12/2021 www.theguardian.com

Despite recent commitments from the luxury fashion industry to reduce its environmental footprint, a report has revealed luxury fashion brands are among the worst in the industry for animal welfare, driven by their continued use of fur and exotic animal skins.

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[Link] NSW laws criminalising secret recordings of animal cruelty ‘too great a burden on speech’, high court hears

Read: 26/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Laws criminalising the use of secretly recorded vision of animal cruelty and abuse are posing “too great a burden on speech”, animal rights activists have told the high court.

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