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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Tess McClure in Auckland

New Zealand bans live animal exports from April 2023

Large ship on calm sea
The Gulf Livestock 1, which sank near Japan in 2020, killing more than 40 people. New Zealand will end live export from April 2023. Photograph: Graham Flett/AP

New Zealand will ban live animal exports from next April, two years after storms sank a livestock ship, killing 41 crew members and 6,000 cattle.

The death of two New Zealanders among the crew of the Gulf Livestock 1, which sank in a September 2020 typhoon, helped galvanise the movement to ban exports of live sheep and cattle.

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