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Anti-rodeo protesters will gather at the Warkworth Rodeo on New Year’s Day for the ninth year in a row.
Animal advocacy organisation Direct Animal Action (DAA) is coordinating the protest and expects up to 100 people to attend. Spokesperson Apollo Taito says the group will be encouraging people not to attend the rodeo.
“We’ve been protesting at the Warkworth Rodeo, and other rodeos across the country, for approaching a decade now,” Taito says. “Enough is enough.
“We’ve asked the Rodney Local Board not to approve the event permit for the rodeo this year.
“There is so much opposition to rodeo these days; it’s a really bad look for the local board and Auckland Council to have it happening on council land.
“Every year, young calves, bulls and horses are bullied and abused by so-called cowboys, all for the entertainment of a minority. There’s no place for rodeo in modern Aotearoa New Zealand.”
The Warkworth Rodeo protest will happen at the entrance to the Warkworth Showgrounds on Monday, January 1, starting at 11am.
The Rodney Local Board granted the event permit on November 16.
