Lisa Ryan
Involved with animal ‘rights’, for several decades, Lisa’s experience across animal species is impressive, often including the inter-connecting issues of environment and people.
Lisa’s role with Animal Liberation combines her extensive project management, dispute resolution, policy and communications background to manage successful grass roots campaigns through targeted strategy, planning and collaboration.
Using her knowledge of government and political systems and the animal rights movement, Lisa navigates these arenas to power campaigns whilst holding decision-makers to account through government submissions, parliamentary questions, budget estimates hearings , media and direct-action campaigning.
https://www.al.org.au/nsw-pound-shelter-reform/
Pound & Shelter Reform ‘Reforming a broken system’
Being killed in a pound or shelter is still the leading cause of death for companion animals in Australia. What’s more, if they’re old, young, unweaned, unwell, suffer a disability, or even timid, their chances of being killed increase substantially, with most not making it out alive.
Pounds and shelters are either fully funded by the public or rely on public donations. In spite of this, most are not held to account for their lack of compliance and there is low transparency. They kill thousands of adoptable animals and contribute to extensive animal suffering and misery. Our totally inadequate animal welfare laws fail to protect vulnerable impounded animals and the public.
Despite the availability of many evidence-based and life-saving programs designed to stop the killing and suffering, our pound and shelter system continues to actively support and enable the killing of impounded animals under a waste disposal model. There are workable solutions and it’s time to hold the animal welfare authorities and government regulators to account.
