Heather Bryant

Assistant HOD English - Whangarei Girls’ High School

“Thank you for the set of Issue 3 Animals on Show which I have just received on behalf of the English Department at our school.It is an excellent resource and will be ideal for a top Year 10 class that I teach.It fits ideally into an extension programme where we can look at current issues and attitudes. It will also be useful for reading transactional texts at Level 2 English and for Social Studies units. This is an excellent publication – well set out and relevant and well-researched resources. Brilliant.”

Jeffrey Masson

Best-selling Author on the emotional lives of animals

“There is a growing movement in America, in Europe and now in New Zealand to think about our relationship to animals more carefully than we have in the past. The collective values of our Western society are changing rapidly; ecological sustainability is important for the maintenance of human life on our vulnerable planet. The ways we treat animals play a major role in this emerging ethic. Similarly, when we think about equity today we are more inclined than ever to consider the wider community of sentient beings, that is, all other animals, and not just the human animal. We are all embedded in social, cultural and environmental webs that are rapidly expanding; no longer can we simply look to our own personal good without considering that of all other beings who inhabit our planet.”

Joanne Wilson

Palmerston North Girls’ High School

“Thank you so much for putting together resources that would have been almost impossible for me to collate without spending hundreds of hours I don't have in my current position as a classroom teacher. Everything was user friendly! The lesson plans, the great quality of the reprints, the wonderful collection of images and stories on the DVD all helped immensely. I am so grateful to you and your sponsors. This unit was the most enjoyable of the year.”

Wendy Moffitt

Teacher in Charge of Junior English - Hamilton Boys' High School

“As a high school English teacher and SAFE member, I was absolutely delighted to receive a copy of the first "Animals and Us" resource on battery hen farming. The quality of the resource is outstanding and has provided us with a lot of material and information on this issue. One of the key themes in our junior English programme at Hamilton Boys' High School is "Amazing Animals" which is intended to foster compassionate attitudes towards our fellow Earthlings and raise student awareness of issues that affect both humans and animals, so it is great to receive such quality resources. Thank you very much for your efforts, and we will continue to fight the good fight in schools! Please keep the great material coming, we definitely appreciate it and are using it in our classrooms. Many thanks.”

Marc Bekoff

Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado

“As long as our society continues to keep others species confined for human entertainment, we need to understand better the effects on animals of depriving them of the company of their own kind, of crowding them in confined spaces and of removing them from the rich interactions of their natural environment. We need to ask what animals experience when we replace the challenges and excitement of their daily lives in the wild with the stifling, human-designed routines of day after day in a cage or tank. We also need to think about what we’re doing when we take our kids to seen animals confined in enclosures, or performing on stages, and tell them that this is what an elephant is like, this is how a lion behaves, this is how we preserve and respect nature. I'm delighted to recommend this resource is an excellent introduction to the wealth of new material that addresses these questions.”