Yesterday, I got this action alert from Animals Asia. Please send a letter to help save those 79 moon bears. Two years ago, the Vietnamese Government promised to rescue and transfer into our care 80 endangered moon bears being held illegally on farms in northern Vietnam. So far, we’ve received only one. This is despite [...]
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UPDATE According to Ecorazzi: About 5:30 a.m. yesterday, fisherman from the small coastal town — made infamous as the backdrop for the new dolphin documentary The Cove — drove about 50 pilot whales and 100 bottlenose dolphins towards the shore. Instead of funneling the dolphins into the deadly cove for a blood bath, it appears [...]
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Thanks to Amy, here’s a link to the Ringling elephant trial transcripts online: http://www.bornfreeusa.org/a1a6f_updates.php The hearing for the second part of the closing arguments has been postponed to September 16. Doesn’t look like we’ll get a decision any time this summer. s.
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“Because my concept of democracy as the right to live widens beyond Homo sapiens, and because I knew a young orangutan when I was young, the death of his whole life-form will seem such a particularly genocidal tragedy to me–like that of chimps, the great whales, elephants, and other megafauna I’ve been privileged to encounter [...]
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Sarah Palin just gave her two weeks notice as governor of Alaska and says she will not seek re-election, according to blogger AK Muckraker and CNN. It’s hard to speculate what she’s really up to, as she’s still considered a Republican frontrunner for president in 2012, but here’s hoping the next governor believes that conserving [...]
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Karen Dawn sent out a DawnWatch Alert about an LA Times story from June 18 that describes the trade in illegal wildlife parts that flourishes here in the U.S. According to Wildlife Alliance, the U.S. is the second largest importer in the world of illegal wildlife and wildlife parts, behind China. Doesn’t that make you [...]
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Fantastic post by co-blogger Kestrel. It is abundantly clear that people and governments are not reacting appropriately to the catastrophic consequences of climate change. In North America, Obama’s administration appears to be bowing to pressure and backtracking on climate action while Canada remains a moral renegade obstructing climate talks so it can continue to wallow [...]
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Yesterday, the White House released a detailed scientific report forecasting devastating impacts of global warming in the United States if we don’t take dramatic steps now to cut our global warming emissions. The report, titled Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, breaks down climate change effects by region. Here’s the information provided by [...]
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That’s right, vegans. If you’re going ga-ga over the new vegan cheeses such as Teese and others, you’re just as guilty of animal cruelty as if you were eating blocks of dairy cow cheese. Not to mention the negative effects on human health … Vegan cheeses are mostly oil, which makes them just as bad [...]
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