{"id":89597,"date":"2020-08-28T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T07:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=89597"},"modified":"2020-08-28T15:28:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T07:28:34","slug":"south-african-court-allows-sheep-exports-to-middle-east-rejects-cruelty-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=89597","title":{"rendered":"South African court allows sheep exports to Middle East, rejects cruelty concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2017_1-4-Baby-animals-of-Eskisehir-Zoo20180104_2_27909589_29470621.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;zoom=1&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sheep and lambs on 4 January 2018 [Ali Atmaca\/Anadolu Agency]\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CAPE TOWN, Aug 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A South African court ruled that a Kuwaiti firm could ship thousands of sheep to the Middle East, dealing a blow to animal welfare activists seeking to ban such exports on concerns that extreme heat could kill the animals en route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the high court case, South Africa\u2019s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) sought an interim injunction to prevent Kuwaiti livestock exporter Al Mawashi from sailing a vessel loaded with sheep out of South Africa\u2019s East London port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In papers filed with the court, the NSPCA said cramped spaces and extreme heat had led to some animals being \u201ccooked alive\u201d on similar voyages across the Equator during the summer months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court ruled that Al Mawashi could transport up to 56,000 sheep on the vessel \u201cto destinations in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It gave no reason for dismissing the NSPCA\u2019s concern but ordered the government to ensure the transport of sheep and loading onto the vessel was in compliance with World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are currently planning to load the ship, and we look forward to finally opening the next procurement window,\u201d said Ilyaas Ally, managing director of Al Mawashi South Africa, in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lawyer for the NSPCA, which has been campaigning against Al Mawashi and its parent company, Livestock Transport and Trading Company (LTTC), since late last year, said it was considering whether to appeal the judgement. \u201cWe are obviously not overjoyed by it,\u201d Dominique Lloyd said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group wants to block all such exports during the summer season until the government introduces new regulations on how live animals are transported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s court hearing was part of a larger push by the NSPCA for an outright ban on the exportation of animals by sea from South Africa anywhere north of the equator. That case is expected to be heard within 12 months. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN, Aug 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A South African court ruled that a Kuwaiti firm could ship thousands of sheep to the Middle East, dealing a blow to animal welfare activists seeking to ban such exports on concerns that extreme heat could kill the animals en route. In the high court case, South Africa\u2019s National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":89599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}