Animals As Entertainment

Inadequate Zoological Park, Parque de las Ciencias, Bayamon, Puerto Rico

Primates, big cats, raccoons, wolf-hybrid, deers, hippopotamus, and other animals are being kept in primordial cement slab habitats within a facility that has failed to meet even the most minimum of standards of animal care imposed by the Animal Welfare Act. [Read more...]

Animals As Food

Smithfield Food’s brutality to pigs and environment must stop!

Smithfield’s pigs live by the hundreds or thousands in warehouse-like barns, in rows of wall-to-wall pens. Sows are artificially inseminated and fed and delivered of their piglets in cages so small they cannot turn around. Forty fully grown 250-pound male hogs often occupy a pen the size of a tiny apartment. They trample each other to death. There is no sunlight, straw, fresh air or earth. The floors are slatted to allow excrement to fall into a catchment pit under the pens, but many things besides excrement can wind up in the pits: afterbirths, piglets accidentally crushed by their mothers, old batteries, broken bottles of insecticide, antibiotic syringes, stillborn pigs — anything small enough to fit through the foot-wide pipes that drain the pits. The pipes remain closed until enough sewage accumulates in the pits to create good expulsion pressure; then the pipes are opened and everything bursts out into a large holding pond. [Read more...]

Animals As Game

Ban Trophy Hunting in South Africa

Trophy hunting is deemed a ‘sport’. Killing exquisite animals is fun. Taking a life that these hunters have no right to take. They are destroying beauty and a gene pool that our wildlife cannot afford to lose. How dare these hunters, safari hunting operators and land owners think that our wildlife is theirs to destroy. Our wildlife heritage belongs to us all and is something we borrow from our children. [Read more...]

Animals As Research Subjects

Call for Compassionate Science

We ask that the University of Washington & the Washington National Primate Research Center actively pursue alternatives to animal research by spending equal amounts of money on non-animal research methods as they do on animal experimentation methods (for every $1 on animal research, they spend $1 on non-animal alternatives or developing non-animal alternatives). [Read more...]

Wildlife Conservation & Environmental Issues

Support H.R. 39, the Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act

Representatives Ed Markey (D-MA) and Jim Ramstad (R-MN) introduced the Wilderness Bill on the first day of Congress 2007 to secure bill number H.R. 39 (the original number of the Alakska Lands Act). This Wilderness Bill would grant permanent protection for the Coastal Plain of America’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by designating it as protected Wilderness. The final bill will be officially unveiled at the March 20, Climate Change Action Day in Washington D.C. [Read more...]

Save the Threatened San Pedro of Vice (Piura) Mangroves !!!

The San Pedro of Vice Mangroves (Piura) are located at the most Pacific austral place in their total distribution. The Olympic Company tries to explore and to operate gas and petroleum in the zone of manglares of San Pedro de Vice (Piura). In this mangrove is possible find more than 100 species of birds, seven of them are endemical of Peru, three species of birds are near threatened criteria by the IUCN Red list, and two are in endangered criteria included the Peruvian Plantcuter. [Read more...]

Protect the Giant Sequoias From Logging

Giant Sequoia National Monument is home to more than half the giant sequoias in existence and also provides essential habitat for the California spotted owl, Pacific fisher and other plants and animals. But despite being rebuked by the federal courts, the Bush Administration is refusing to back off its plan to log this irreplaceable ancient forest. And more than half of the remaining groves – located in Giant Sequoia National Monument – are in jeopardy. [Read more...]

Preserve the Well-Being and Integrity of the Bristol Bay Watershed in Alaska

Rep. Bryce Edgmon Introduces Bill to Protect Wild Salmon in Bristol Bay; Senate majority leader Gary Stevens Introduces the Jay Hammond State Game Refuge Bill – Representative Bryce Edgmon (D-Dillingham) has introduced a bill that extends conservation and protection of wild salmon in the Bristol Bay drainage area. “Passage of HB134 will help protect the watersheds of the five major river systems that flow into Bristol Bay, home of the world’s largest red salmon run, ” Edgmon said. [Read more...]

Plastic Reduction Petition

Plastic is ubiquitous and non-biodegradable. Plastic is made from nonrenewable petroleum and it’s production creates toxic chemicals and greenhouse gasses. Plastic litter threatens water quality and wildlife, often being mistaken for food by marine animals. We can personally reduce plastic bag use by bringing reusable bags to the store. As a nation, we can provide incentive for people to bring their own bags by implementing a plastic bag tax. In 2002, Ireland implemented such a tax and cut their country’s plastic bag use by 90%. [Read more...]

President’s Climate Commitment at Brevard College

We, the undersigned faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends of Brevard College hereby call on Brevard College to take immediate steps towards the mitigation of global climate change. [Read more...]

Emmert, get on the Presidents Climate Commitment

We, these signed University of Washington students and faculty urge the honorable President Mark Emmert of the University of Washington to immediately sign onto the Presidents Climate Commitment as stated by the signatories of the American Universities and Colleges. We urge the President to make our university a charter signatory to the commitment and take immediate, tangible steps on campus to address and curb climate change now. [Read more...]

Rising to the Challenge: Making Cornell Climate Neutral

Recently, Cornell declared its intentions to make our campus climate neutral. The student community has voiced its overwhelming support for this initiative: More than 4,700 students signed a petition in support of a climate-neutral Cornell. In addition, the Student Assembly (SA) has passed a resolution that has placed a referendum on the spring ballot asking undergraduates if they are in favor of a $5 per semester student activity fee to fund the purchase and development of renewable energy for campus. Just as the undergraduate community is working to evaluate and provide students the means to reduce their impact on the Cornell community, the graduate students should do the same. [Read more...]

Miscellaneous

PLEASE HELP THE TALANCA FAMILY GET ON EXTREME HOME MAKEOVER

PLEASE SUPPORT THE TALANCA FAMILY WITH YOUR SIGNATURES AND COMMENTS TO HELP THEM GET A NEW LIFE. AND TO AFFORD THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE SAVING CANINE THROW-AWAYS. IF IT WERE NOT FOR THIS FAMILY MANY DOGS WOULD NOT BE IN LOVING HOMES TODAY! THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH SO MUCH AND YET STILL FIND THE TIME TO HELP DOGS IN NEED IN THE FORM OF SHELTER, LOVE, REHABILITATION, AND ADOPTION. IN ADDITION TO SAVING DOGS, THE TALANCA’S ARE RAISING 4 BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN. [Read more...]

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