…only one lonely action alert found its way into my inbox today.)

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Via the Natural Resources Defense Council:

Speak out to save Canada’s old-growth forests!

The Manitoba government still has not honored its pledge to permanently protect the Poplar-Nanowin Rivers traditional lands in our Heart of the Boreal Forest BioGem.

Your urgent action is needed to ensure that Manitoba makes good on its repeated promises. Mounting proposals for clearcut logging, roadbuilding and industrial hydropower development loom over this irreplaceable habitat for threatened woodland caribou, moose and millions of songbirds.

Previous alert (dated 11/21/06) here.

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From: DawnWatch – news [at] dawnwatch.com
Date: Feb 27, 2007 8:52 PM
Subject: DawnWatch: NFL star kills girlfriend’s dog 2/27/07

The Tuesday, February 27, New York Times has an article by Judy Battista, in the sports section (D4) headed, “Latest Mess For N.F.L.: The Death Of a Dog.”

It tells that Jonathan Babineaux, a defensive tackle who just finished his second season with the Atlanta Falcons, killed his girlfriend’s dog:

“A dog belonging to Babineaux’s live-in girlfriend died last week, and Babineaux was charged with felony animal cruelty. The dog, Kilo, was a 1 1/2-year-old pit bull mix” and “the police have said the dog died of blunt force trauma to the head.”

We read:

“Babineaux and his girlfriend, Blair Anderson, argued last Sunday, and Anderson was at the movies when Babineaux called to tell her she should come home to check on the dog, according to the police.

“When she got there, the dog was in ’severe physical distress,’ the police said. Kilo vomited blood in the car as Anderson drove to the Animal Emergency Center in Lawrenceville, Ga. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. Doctors called the police.

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UPDATE, 3/9/07, via HSUS:

Pet lovers across the nation came together last month to make Spay Day USA 2007 a great success! Look at what we were able to accomplish:

1. More than 300 spay/neuter events were held throughout February, most offering low cost or donated services to pets in need and feral cats.

2. To date, 28 percent of event organizers have reported a total of 9,050 animals having received spay or neuter services this year at Spay Day USA events nationwide. (Visit SpayDayUSA.org the week of March 19 for final results!)

3. Individuals and teams raised more than $89,000 to contribute to community events and to The Humane Society of the United States’ Rural Area Veterinary Services (RAVS) program – enough money to spay or neuter nearly 1,200 animals!

4. Nearly 100 community groups organized public outreach and fundraising events, from educational displays at public libraries featuring information on spay and neuter, to vegetarian “spay-ghetti” dinners, reaching more than half a million members of the public and raising at least $94,000 for spay/neuter.

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Here’s the TOC from the 2/27/07 issue of The Sierra Club’s Currents.

You can read the whole newsletter online – just click here!

Sierra Club Currents – Wall Street Buys in to Clean Energy Future
Volume VI, #53
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

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Quote of Note:

“If you really want to reduce the amount of oil that you consume, you have to reduce the amount of gasoline you use.”

- President Bush on a road trip to push energy initiatives he announced last month in his State of the Union address

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(1) Texas: Wall Street Buys in to Clean Energy Future

(2) Children’s Health: Global Warming Fever

(3) Take Action: And the Oscar Goes to… Solving Global Warming!

(4) Take Action:Protect Workers’ Rights!

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Via Greenpeace:

Polar Bears on Thin Ice

Global warming is melting the Arctic sea ice at an alarming rate, taking with it the vital habitat of polar bears and other wildlife. The last two years were the worst ever recorded for sea ice loss. If current trends continue, the Arctic will be ice free in summer by 2040, depriving polar bears of the hunting and denning grounds they need to survive. In response to a successful lawsuit by Greenpeace and others, the Bush Administration decided last December to recommend polar bears for protection under the Endangered Species Act. Yet the Administration also signaled it would do nothing to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that drive global warming. Without such reductions, global warming will continue and the polar bear – and many other species – will disappear.

The Bush Administration has asked for public input on whether and how to protect the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act. Let them know you support the polar bear, and demand the curbs on greenhouse gas emissions necessary to ensure its survival.

Take Action >> Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that the polar bear needs endangered species protection NOW!

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From: Kinship Circle – info [at] kinshipcircle.org
Date: Feb 26, 2007 7:03 PM
Subject: LETTER/ Ask Palmer Chiropractic To Heal, Not Harm

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2/26/07 — Ask Palmer Chiropractic To Heal, Not Harm
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SOURCE OF INFORMATION:
Palmer: Please Have a Backbone to Stop Animal Tests

www.peta.org/feat/palmer/wycd.html

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From: DawnWatch – news [at] dawnwatch.com
Date: Feb 26, 2007 6:38 PM
Subject: DawnWatch: IHT says Australian govt will change law to fight activists — plus Coetzee op-ed 2/26/07

In the US we have seen animal enterprise lobbies persuade lawmakers to rewrite law in order to punish animal rights activists, most notably with the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which includes language that threatens peaceful and legitimate forms of protest such as effective boycotts.

This week we see similarly troubling news from Australia. The International Herald Tribune website, February 26, includes an article headed, “Australia to help sheep farmers sue over wool boycotts.”

It opens:

“The government plans to change federal law to help sheep farmers sue for damages over an animal rights group’s peaceful campaign to prevent the sale of Australian wool, a government minister said Monday.

“People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, are lobbying clothing chains and fashion houses to stop using Australian wool because they claim the sheep are subjected to cruelty.

“The U.S.-based group is opposed to mulesing — the slicing away without anesthetic of folds of skin from a merino sheep’s rump to prevent maggot infestations.

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