Every year in NZ, thousands of animals are used for teaching; in 2022 alone, over 35,000 were used for teaching. Our goal isn’t to get this down to zero – it’s to eliminate all cases that cause harm to animals!

ANIMAL USED FOR TEACHING IN NZ

The graph below shows the number of animals that have been used for teaching in NZ from 2016 - 2022.

ANIMALS KILLED FOR TEACHING IN NZ

The NZ Government only tracks how many animals are killed per institution. There is no way to obtain the number of animals killed for teaching at an institution that uses animals for other purposes, too.

In short, we do not know exactly how many animals are killed who are used for teaching.

The best we can do is provide an overview of how many animals were used by institutions exclusively for teaching purposes and how many of those were killed via the table below. Therefore, these numbers are the certain minimum of animals killed who were used for teaching in NZ.