Here's how you've helped create a kinder world for all animals this year.
This year has seen a record low in the number of sheep exported by sea from Australia and Australian hens confined to battery cages. These declines are not just numbers, they are individual animals spared some of the very worst suffering — thanks to you.
This year we expanded our work to help animals suffering inside secretive toxicity testing laboratories, by helping accelerate the shift towards a future where science protects people without harming animals.
Our work in this space began with the world premiere of Sentient at the Sundance Film Festival, featuring world-first vision provided by Animals Australia shining a light on one of the least visible and most disturbing uses of animals.
Sentient was made possible through Growing Kindness, a new initiative created by Animals Australia to support projects that create the cultural conditions in which lasting change for animals becomes possible.
Through our global arm, Animals International, we launched TOXICITY.inc, bringing together animal protection organisations across eight countries to accelerate the transition to animal-free science.
Our exposé generated international media coverage and was screened in the European Parliament before the very politicians and regulators with the power to change animal testing policy, and set precedents far beyond Europe’s borders.
Too often, Australian wildlife are treated as resources, nuisances, or ‘collateral damage’ of human activity. We’re pushing for kinder responses in times of crisis and challenging the laws, policies and industries that fail them every day in between.
This year, we were determined to see native animals better prioritised after disasters. In collaboration with our friends at Vets for Compassion we officially deployed our Veterinary Emergency Team (VET) to alleviate the suffering of native animals burnt, stranded, starving and needing help across major firegrounds in Victoria.
When taxpayer-funded logging agency Forestry Corporation NSW set its sights on Glenbog State Forest — a rare cloud forest with over 1,100 wombat burrows and more than 130 greater glider dens — over 14,000 supporters called on the NSW Government to halt its destruction. With the bulldozing delayed but still planned, our work continues with great urgency.
On behalf of hens, we launched a haunting, memorable radio ad that revealed a surprising fact: cage eggs are often hidden in everyday food products, and these hidden eggs help keep hens caged for life. So far, our campaign has empowered thousands to explore egg-free food to help give hens a life worth living.
When we first began investigating the fate of Australian sheep more than 20 years ago, over 6 million sheep were exported live. This year, just one vessel left carrying 13,282 sheep. Though one sheep suffering is one too many, this once vast, chaotic trade has been reduced to a fraction of what it was, with its legislated end firmly in sight.
But our work isn’t over. This year, our investigators returned to an Australian Government-approved slaughterhouse in Jordan, where a new wall had been built to prevent filming. It didn’t stop us. We again witnessed sheep being killed while fully conscious — a reminder of why we must keep monitoring this trade until its final days.
This year, we continued working on our landmark legal challenge of the suffocating of pigs inside gas chambers. Since proceedings began in 2023, more than 10 million pigs have endured this painful death in Australian slaughterhouses. So, alongside our legal work, we ensured pigs remained part of the national conversation and opened hearts nationwide to a kinder possibility for them.
Thanks to our generous donors, our work is not bound by borders. Our Global Grants helped strengthen a global movement for kindness, and our Emergency Grants Program provided lifesaving support to some of the bravest animal advocates working to help animals abroad.
We continue to provide support for Gaza’s only official animal welfare organisation, Sulala Animal Rescue. Their work started long before the current war, and has continued throughout, providing animals with critical rescue, veterinary care, food and shelter.
As the attacks on Beirut and other areas of Lebanon escalated, the brave Animals Lebanon team continued to respond to calls to help animals stranded and homeless, all while having a shelter full of rescued animals. We were able to help with the cost of veterinary care, transport crates, bedding, and food.
We were honoured to support the release of hundreds of grey-headed flying foxes who were rescued from catastrophic heat events by caring volunteers. We also provided emergency funding to twelve wildlife shelters and farmed animal sanctuaries directly impacted by bushfires in Victoria, and a wildlife sanctuary impacted by flooding in New South Wales.
Animals Australia receives no government funding — every dollar that fuels our campaigns and investigations for comes from compassionate individuals like you who share our vision of a kinder world for animals.
Animals Australia receives no government funding – every dollar that fuels our campaigns, investigations, legal work, and research comes from our compassionate donors who share our vision of a kinder world for all.
Animals Australia is independently audited every year to ensure transparency and accountability of the generous donations we receive that are channelled into our campaigns, research, investigations, critical fundraising efforts, and the operational costs required to carry them out on behalf of animals.
Animal Protection Programs
40% Advocacy, Investigations & Lobbying
17% Farmed Animal Protection
24% Emergency Grants & International Animal Protection
15% Transforming Food Systems
4% Australian Wildlife Protection
Income
46% Bequests
31% Monthly Giving and Membership
18% Donations – Campaign specific
4% Investment Income
1% Merchandise Sales
0% Non Government Grants & Other Income
Expense
73% Animal Protection Programs
17% Finance, Governance & Management
9% Fundraising
1% Occupancy & Running Costs
We receive no government funding; everything in this report was made possible by supporters like you. Together, we’ve challenged injustices, protected animals in disasters, and exposed hidden suffering. But our work isn’t done. Will you give today to help create a kinder future animals deserve?
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