Animal rights and conservation

The Five Freedoms of animals, caring for pets, the SPCA, and conserving wildlife. Read one part at a time and tap “I know this”. Then test yourself in the quiz.

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The Five Freedoms

Freedom from hunger and thirst
Freedom from discomfort
Freedom from pain, injury and disease
Freedom to express natural behaviour
Freedom from fear and distress

The owner is responsible for a pet: clean water, food and shelter every day. A collar with a name tag helps a lost dog get home. Sterilisation is an operation so an animal cannot have young.

Care for animals: food, water, shelter and love.

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Conservation

Conservation: protecting nature for the future. A habitat is where an animal naturally lives.
When a habitat is destroyed, the animal loses its food and shelter and may die out.
Don’t feed wild animals in a park: they forget how to find their own food.
The SPCA protects animals and investigates cruelty. You help by caring for pets well and reporting cruelty.
Cruelty to animals: not giving an animal food, water or shelter; hitting or kicking it; keeping it chained or locked up in the hot sun; dumping (abandoning) a pet; making animals fight; hunting or trapping animals illegally.
Places of safety for animals: the SPCA and other animal shelters, a vet or animal hospital, and wildlife rehabilitation centres and sanctuaries. National parks and nature reserves keep wild animals safe in their natural habitat.

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Remember this: your summary

Animal rights: animals deserve good treatment; there are five freedoms.
Animal cruelty is a crime: report it to the SPCA or the police.
A vet is a doctor for animals: diagnosis, surgery and vaccinations.
Poaching is the illegal hunting of animals and can wipe out a whole species.
An endangered species is at risk of dying out; national parks conserve animals and their habitats.

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Memory trick

Five freedoms = five fingers: food, comfort, health, natural behaviour, no fear.

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