Southern Cross University Wins the Humane Campus Challenge!

Students from 8 Universities across Australia have spent the last 5 weeks campaigning to end live animal export. They've made use of social media, handed out postcards, held stalls on their campus, run special events, and more in order to raise awareness of the issue and generate action from their fellow students by having them write letters to their MPs.

And now we're pleased to announce the winner of WSPA's Humane Campus Challenge is:

Southern Cross University!

A special congratulations goes to Anna Ludvik, who led the team's efforts, along with fellow members of SCU's Animal Law Club, Emily Williams and Emily Ryan.

Northern Rivers Echo announced SCU as the winner today. Click to enlarge.

University of Sydney came in not far behind in 2nd place, with Monash and Deakin following in 3rd and 4th place. We set a goal of 100 letters collected by each university group, and our top 4 groups surpassed that number easily - some by leaps and bounds! All of the groups involved made a tremendous effort.

Though the Humane Campus Challenge is over, we're still heavily campaigning on this issue, as are many of our students groups. SCU plans to use their prize money to continue to fight until live exports are banned for good.

If you've already written a letter to your MP and to Julia Gillard but are looking for more ways to raise awareness and help end live exports, you can meet your MP, hand out postcards, and get active in your community. Write to us at humanechain@wspa.org.au for more ways to get involved.