Captive Wild Animals and the Stupid People Who Keep Them

Posted on March 2, 2009 by nothoney

This morning I’ve run across two stories that highlight that human apes do not learn from their mistakes, especially when it comes to wildlife. The first comes from Erik Marcus’ excellent blog at vegan.com about the return of Montecore, the tiger who attacked Roy of Siegfried and Roy. It seems these two jackasses brought the [...]

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America’s Shame in Canada’s Dirty Tar Sands

Posted on January 2, 2009 by nothoney

Fellow blogger “Tipping Point” recently posted more information about the tar sands oil project in Alberta, Canada. What’s that you say? Tar sands? What about clean energy? Tar sands is an environmentally destructive and insanely expensive method of extracting bitumen, then processed into synthetic crude oil. According to the Washington Post: Tar sands oil is [...]

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Gimme Shelter: A Short Film About the Horrors in Congo

Posted on December 18, 2008 by nothoney

Ben Affleck and Mick Jagger have teamed to create a short film that highlights some of the horrors of life in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It seems to me that Darfur gets all the news and that’s not right because about 5 million people have died in conflicts in Congo in the past few [...]

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Leakey: Legalizing Bushmeat Will Not Solve Food Crisis

Posted on September 19, 2008 by nothoney

A while back I wrote that Wildlife Poaching Will Be the Death of Us All. Now Dr. Richard Leakey, founder of Wildlife Direct speaks out about a proposal by the Centre of International Forestry Research to legalize killing wildlife for bushmeat. Poor people aren’t getting any benefit from bushmeat. They hunt the non-human animals and [...]

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Documentary Calls for End of Chimpanzee Abuse for Entertainment

Posted on September 2, 2008 by nothoney

Patti Ragan, the head of the Center for Great Apes in Wauchula, Florida, sent a notice about a new documentary featuring Anjelica Huston and focusing on chimpanzees in entertainment. Here’s the LA Times story, written by Rachel Abramowitz: TICKETED: “Speed Racer” earned an “unacceptable” rating from the American Humane Assn. for chimpanzee abuse. The documentary [...]

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Spain Parliamentary Committee Votes for Rights for Apes

Posted on July 18, 2008 by nothoney

Yesterday DawnWatch sent out an extremely interesting alert about the Spanish Parliament’s environment committee passing a resolution granting limited rights to great apes. The Great Apes, if you’re not aware, include orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and humans. We share 98.7 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees and bonobos. I truly hope the Spanish Parliament’s resolution [...]

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