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easyVegan Link Sanctuary, 04-26-08

April 26th, 2008 11:21 am by Kelly

OK, so the weather isn’t quite as nice as I’d hoped…no landfill reclamation today. Here be your links.

Action Alerts

American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA): Federal: Protect Nonhuman Primates–Support the Captive Primate Safety Act
The Captive Primate Safety Act would bar interstate commerce of nonhuman primates for the pet trade, including monkeys, apes, marmosets and lemurs. This vital legislation would protect the public and captive primates from the dangers that result when these exotic animals are sold as pets.

Audubon: 200,000 Acres of Mississippi River Wetlands at Risk [Yazoo Pumps project]
The Army Corps of Engineers wants to spend $220 million of your tax dollars on a project that could drain and damage up to 200,000 acres of wetlands in the heart of the Mississippi River flyway—an area that contains some of the richest natural resources in the nation.

Audubon: Stop Federal Government from Building Misguided and Damaging Border Wall
Join thousands of Audubon supporters across the country in the fight to protect the fragile environment along the U.S./Mexico border, including the Sabal Palm Audubon Center & Sanctuary.

Born Free USA/Animal Protection Institute (API): Help Us Hold Zoos Accountable
With our Zoo Check Campaign, you can help us track abuses and substandard conditions suffered by animals in zoos, aquariums, circuses, or other places that exhibits animals.

Born Free USA/Animal Protection Institute (API): Colorado Residents: Tell Colorado Wildlife Commission Prairie Dogs Aren’t Pop Cans
Sign the petition to end prairie dog shooting in Colorado

DawnWatch: Celebs and pet stores on Page Six, and Grizzly trainer death in much media 4/25/08
Before I report on the huge animal news this week, the killing a trainer by a grizzly bear, I will note a smaller and more trashy bit of news, which, however, touches on the important issue of pet store purchases.

Environmental Defense: Take Action to Make Public Health a Priority
The Centers for Disease Control have acknowledged that global warming will contribute to serious health problems in the future. Now, help make public health preparedness a top priority!

National Wildlife Federation (NWF): Send Your Senators a Handwritten Letter Asking them to Vote for the Climate Security Act
With a Climate Security Act vote on the horizon in June in the U.S. Senate, now is the time to go the extra mile and mail your senators a message supporting this important wildlife conservation bill. [Note: If you don’t believe the Climate Security goes far enough, you can also send your Senators a letter asking them to amend it to fall in line with the Principles for Global Warming Legislation; more here.]

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Help Stop the Namibian Seal Slaughter
Last year, the world looked on in horror as the Namibian government permitted the slaughter of 86,000 Cape fur seals.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Tell Jack in the Box to Stop the Monkey Business
Please urge Jack in the Box to stop airing this commercial immediately and follow the lead of Subaru, which recently enacted a policy to ban the use of great apes in all future advertising campaigns. Remind the company that there is no reason to use live apes as actors when animation, blue screen, computer-generated imagery (CGI), and other highly advanced technologies can produce realistic substitutes.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Demand That Charges Be Filed Against Apparent Puppy Fighters!
PETA caseworkers couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw videos posted on MySpace depicting several young men who were apparently forcing puppies to fight. The videos show several pit bull puppies who were fighting each other. The puppies repeatedly attempt to “back off” from the fight—as is their instinct—but the young men continually bring the puppies face-to-face, shaking and jostling the animals to enrage them.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Urgent: Speak Out for Animals Still With Apparent Washington State Hoarder!
For three years, concerned residents of Colville, Washington, reportedly did their best to provide a menagerie of animals—at Cindy Nixon’s 2341-B Bodie Mountain Rd. residence—with the sustenance they needed to survive, including food and water. Unwilling to continue witnessing the apparent neglect of Nixon’s two horses, two dogs, 23 cats, and at least a dozen rabbits, these kind and caring people called PETA. They say that over the years, Stevens County officials have failed to take any serious action in this case.

Public Citizen: Stop the Colombia FTA - Take Action Now!
The Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) replicates almost exactly all of the harmful provisions we fought so hard in our opposition to the Peru FTA last fall. And now we have a direct link between Colombia’s murderous right-wing paramilitaries and the government.

The Wilderness Society: Urge Congress to Protect Wyoming Range
The Wyoming Range is one of those rare places where people of every background can agree on one thing – it’s too special to drill. That’s why Congress is considering a bill to protect the Wyoming Range from oil and gas drilling. Please tell the Forest Service to cancel and withdraw all of the 44,700 acres of contested leases along the eastern flank of the Wyoming Range.

World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA): Protest against the suffering of Spanish bulls
A public protest met the start of Catalonia’s bullfighting season, which signals the slaughter of over a hundred bulls each year. Anti-bullfighting organizations took to the Barcelona streets in April to campaign against cruelty. Will you sign up to support them?

Campaign Updates, Press Releases, etc.

Audubon: Application for Audubon’s Population and Environment Advocacy Training and Lobby Day, June 1 - 3, 2008
Please join Audubon, the Sierra Club, and the Izaak Walton League of America for a Population and Environment advocacy training and lobby day in Washington, DC.

Born Free USA/Animal Protection Institute (API): H&M Joins the International Fur Free Retailer Program
Swedish clothing company H&M is the newest retailer to join the international Fur Free Retailer Program.

Project R&R: Chimpanzees suffer PTSD like humans
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) afflicts chimpanzees from laboratories in the same way as it does human trauma survivors, according to a paper published this week in vol. 9(1) of the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation.

Carnivals

Vegetarian Blog Carnival, April 23rd ed.

Carnival of the Green #124

Newsletters

American Rivers: The Current, April 2008
Endangered Rivers Also Threatened by Global Warming & more

American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA): eNews Alert, April 25, 2008
Ask the Pet Behaviorist/Pit Bull Contest Winner

The Animals Voice eNewsletter, April 24, 2008
FEATURE — ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION

Best Friends Animals Society: eNews, April 25, 2008
Help! I couldn’t stop clicking.

Best Friends Animals Society: eNews, April 24, 2008
Take a break from Spring cleaning with these weekend events!

Center for Biological Diversity: Endangered Earth Online: No. 406, April 24, 2008
Legal Victory Gives Cutthroat Trout Second Chance & more

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Weekly eNews, April 24, 2008
PETA E-News: PETA Offers $1 Million Reward for New Meat

Petitions