Animal Abuse

Animal Cruelty Law-Private Member’s Bill

Two Liberal colleagues are in a dog fight over two different bills aimed at cracking down on animal cruelty. Senator John Bryden has authored a private member’s bill that would dramatically stiffen penalties for those who abuse animals. But MP Mark Holland is urging his Liberal colleagues to defeat Bryden’s “placebo” bill, arguing that it’s meaningless to impose stiffer fines and jail terms without simultaneously closing loopholes that allow animal abusers to escape conviction. [Read more...]

Animals As Entertainment

Screen Actors Guild: DUMP American Humane!

American Humane, authorized by the Screen Actors Guild to protect animals in film and television productions, signed off on a cruel wild horse race scene in the filming of Fox Films’ Flicka in which a horse was brutally killed. They justified their approval of the scene by stating that it wasn’t abuse if it wasn’t illegal! When American Humane learned that the Los Angeles Daily News was set to break the story that this was the second horse to die at the hands of Fox in the remake of My Friend Flicka, American Humane actually sent out a press release in the middle of the night to beat the story to the wire services, absolving Fox of any wrongdoing! The animals involved in film, the public, and the members of the Screen Actors Guild deserve better than to have American Humane acting as a public relations arm of the studios! [Read more...]

CDW Company – STOP Advertising Using Great Apes!

This petition is to STOP the use of chimps (or any great apes) in television commercials. These primates have 98% OUR DNA. They are our brothers and should not be held captive for human gain or profit. [Read more...]

End Greyhound Racing – the ”Sport” That Kills

Sadly, greyhound racing is not a “sport” about fast dogs, but a state-sanctioned form of gambling ruled by profit. It is inherently cruel to a gentle and ancient breed of dog once favored by nobility. When greyhounds do not run profitably, they are of little use to the racing business. Approximately 20,000+ greyhounds are killed each year in the United States alone. Despite racing industry propaganda, the majority of unwanted greyhounds are not placed as pets – there are simply not enough homes for them all. [Read more...]

Animals As Game

The illegal hunting of migratory birds on Zakynthos, Greece

Annually thousands of migrating birds are shot on the Greek island of Zakynthos, for no more than sport! They use the island as a resting stop-over on their long journey North/South and visa versa. Hunters lie in wait for them, and slaughter them indisciminantly. Even endangered species. This practise has to be stopped. Please help us to stop this illegal practise NOW. [Read more...]

Please Stop Countless Hours of Hunting & Torture of Wildlife

Bears, bobcats, coyotes, foxes, raccoons & rabbits are put in 60 acre plus enclosures (15 for rabbits) to be hounded by up to 18 dogs 16 hours a day, every day of their lives until they are insane or dead. Bear cubs & bobcats are kept in small cages for 72 hours so that they can be taken to enclosures to be suspended just above dogs lunging at them – again 16 hours a day every day of their lives. People pay to do this – families go together. Also the “hunters” have devised a rolling cage & want to put all of these species into it to be attacked directly by the dogs. [Read more...]

Animals As Pets

Tortoise Importation Ban (Pet Trade) – End Their Misery

An estimated 10 million tortoises were shipped into the UK for the pet trade between 1890 and 1984 before the initial ban was introduced. This trade is back! … and tortoises are being imported in substantial numbers. However, DEFRA are failing to prevent this illegal trade and are in fact licensing it. These tortoises go through untold misery and often arrive here with chronic worm infestations and dehydrated, which far too often contributes to their early demise. The Tortoise Protection Group (TPG) is campaigning for a ban on the importation of tortoises for the pet trade. Please help us keep tortoises in their natural environment by signing this petition. [Read more...]

STOP THE DEAD END SHELTER

The following citizens of Austin and/or Travis County, Texas, are dissatisfied that our city shelter kills more than 50% of the homeless dogs and cats it shelters each year. Because we believe having an animal shelter that is centrally located and highly accessible is integral to reducing the shelter’s already high kill rate, we oppose the City’s plan to close the downtown shelter and replace it with one at 601 Airport Boulevard near East 7th and 183. We petition the City to either keep the animal shelter at Town Lake or replace it with another shelter at a highly visible central location. [Read more...]

Stop puppy mills!

My name is Jessica Rodriguez and I am very into the animal rights.
I would like you to help me to stop the most cruel way to make money: Puppy Mills, legal in many states of USA and Canada where the only thing that matters is reproduce them to sell them later to the pet stores, without giving them the right conditions and medical care to live. [Read more...]

ADOPT STRAY DOGS – NOT TO WAIT FOR MASS KILLING.

ALL INDIA CONGRESS PARTY – AICC ( I ) IS THE LARGEST POLITICAL GROUP IN THE COUNTRY WITH LARGE NO’s OF WORKERS, IF EVERY WORKER OF THE PARTY ADOPT ONE STRAY CATTLE OR A DOG THEN NO NEED OF MASS KILLING. PLEASE COME FORWARD & APPEAL……… WE NEEDS YOUR HELP NOW. [Read more...]

Miscellaneous

Go Orange for Animals!

The ASPCA is the oldest humane organization in the Western Hemisphere, and we’re more dedicated than ever to our work preventing animal cruelty and finding homes for millions of animals all across the country. But we couldn’t do it without the support of compassionate citizens like you, so please join us on April 10–our birthday!–in celebration of ASPCA Day. [Read more...]

Wildlife Conservation & Environmental Issues

Save Cook Inlet Beluga Whales from Extinction

The Cook Inlet once teemed with up to 1300 beluga whales — a genetically distinct population of these white whales. But sadly, their numbers have dropped to around 300 — and they could vanish forever within our lifetime unless we act now! Federal officials will decide soon whether to list the Cook Inlet belugas as an endangered species. But they need to hear from you. [Read more...]

S.O.L.A.R.–Solar Opportunity and Local Access Rights

Current net metering and Solar Energy System laws are not supportive in all states. Varied laws regarding the installation and use of Solar Power by homeowners make it difficult, as well as expensive, to help reduce our need for foreign oil. Reduce carbon output and help combat global warming. Please show your support for uniform, across the board, nationwide net metering laws. Every American has the right to own a solar energy system, this bill will empower more Americans to make the switch to clean, renewable Solar energy. [Read more...]

VETO House Bill 610/Senate Bill 256 – Clearcutting of Trees for Billboards

This petition seeks to block Georgia House Bill 610/Senate Bill 256 which would allow clearcutting of trees on land surrounding advertising billboards. Advertisers and their lobbyists proffered this bill as it would permit clearing of up to 11 acres of vegetation around EACH billboard in Georgia, causing the loss of thousands of acreage of trees, bushes, and shrubs throughout the state. [Read more...]

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Animal Abuse

Thank CA Senator for Her Efforts to Protect Domestic Violence Victims and Their Pets

We as a nation learned after the disaster of Hurricane Katrina that people seeking protection need to be able to protect their pets, too. Senator Sheila Kuehl understands how important the human–animal bond is, and has drafted critical legislation in California to include pets in domestic violence protection orders. This legislation is an important step in preventing abusers from using pets to threaten their victims. The ASPCA applauds Senator Kuehl’s foresight in introducing this bill; if passed, California will join the states of Maine, Vermont and New York in leading the charge against domestic violence. Let Senator Kuehl know you appreciate her efforts to protect victims of domestic violence and the animals they love – sign our petition to say thank you! [Read more...]

Expel Animal Torturer from Cornell University

Cornell University is among the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in the USA and the world. Alumni of this institution are world leaders in their fields, very productive citiizens and generally good people. Unfortunately, a person who does not fit this profile has slipped through the cracks and been allowed to attend CU, this person is Alexander Atkind. Mr. Atkind was left to care for the pet of an acquaintance. The puppy chewed a wire that belonged to Mr. Atkind, so in return, Mr. Atkind severely beat the dog, leaving a gaping laceration through which the animals skull could be seen. This, however, was not enough for Mr. Atkind. He then proceeded to pour laundry detergent and bleach over the injured puppy, causing permanent eye damage as well as chemical burns to the face, groin, paws and back of the animal. The animal suffered bloody stools from having ingested the bleach trying to clean its wounds. [Read more...]

5 Dogs Found Dead on Their Chains

5 dogs were found dead on chains in a Georgia town. The alleged owner – Deputy Sheriff Morgan claims they weren’t his dogs and the sheriff’s dept refuses to respond to any phone calls made on the matter. I urge you please to sign this petition and show that whether a policeman or civilian- ALL are under the SAME LAWS. [Read more...]

DOG ROTS IN BACKYARD, PROSECUTE OWNERS

Reportedly tied to a fence post and denied food, water, and shelter for more than a month at a residence allegedly occupied by Eric Miller of Ross Street in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, a dog finally died on March 4, 2007, according to our complainants. Graphic photos of the grisly scene can be viewed here. While PETA asked the authorities to open a criminal investigation into this dog’s alleged prolonged suffering and death, it appears that they have failed to do so. Other than a phone call from Spavinaw’s chief of police to the alleged abusers—during which, he tells us, the suspects spewed myriad excuses—we know of no actions that have been taken to ensure at least a small measure of justice for this dog. [Read more...]

Animals As Clothing

End the Seal Hunt by Using Your Buying Power!

Seal hunting is an off-season activity for Canada’s east coast commercial fishermen. Only a small fraction of their incomes come from selling seal skins to the fur industry. The majority of their income is made through seafood products such as snow crab, cod, scallops and shrimp. This financial connection between the commercial fishing industry and the seal hunt means that people all over the world have the power to end the hunt by choosing not to buy seafood products from the hunters. [Read more...]

Stop the killing of seals in Canada

This year, by late March, the Canadian seal killers armed with clubs and rifles will go again to the nursery floes of the harp and hood seal, to massacre them in the largest mass slaughter of marine mammals on this planet! In 2003 alone, 350,000 seals where killed in this brutal way and this year and in 2005, each year they will kill 350,000 more to make a total of over a MILLION seals killed within 3 years. Please sign this petition and send it to everyone who cares for the animals in the world to stop this extremely cruel slaughter of innocent seals in Canada. [Read more...]

Animals As Food

Dolphin Massacre in Japan

We are outraged by the annual brutal slaughter of dolphins and whales that takes place in Japan . The images of bloody red water clearly show the world that Japan has little respect for the state of the world’s oceans and for the conservation of the marine resources it claims to support. Many scientific studies show that the oceans are in decline. We must take whatever actions are necessary to stop their over-exploitation and to protect the creatures that live in them. These dolphins do not belong to Japan. The status of the species of dolphins and whales that you kill are either endangered, threatened, or unknown. It is an unthinkable waste that they will likely end up as a meat product or deceptively sold as whale meat, polluted with toxic levels of mercury and cadmium, killing people that eat it. It is tragic and unacceptable that the remaining dolphins that are not killed will end up destined for death in an aquarium, water park, or “swim with dolphins” program. [Read more...]

Animals As Pets

Petition to Require Pet Food Companies to be Held Accountable for Damages

WE, THE UNDERSIGNED: Request than the U.S. Congress enact legislation to require pet food manufacturers and the companies that market those pet food brands to be held financially liable for any medical costs related to or contributing to the illness and/or death of a pet that can be reasonably attributed to the food consumed by the pet. And that all pet foods include the name of the manufacturer, not just the brand under which it is sold. [Read more...]

Save more than 500 cats in Barcelona (Spain)

More than 500 cats live on land where the construction of the high speed train tracks between Madrid and Barcelona will soon begin. They live there because they have been abandoned by their owners. The cats suffer from cold, hunger and mistreatment, and the City Council of Barcelona hasn’t done anything to resolve this problem. Many cats have been killed in the course of earlier public projects in Barcelona, and we want to avoid another massacre. However, the City council of Barcelona has ignored our petition and the local media sarcastically claim that the cats live happily along this route and that are other, more important things for the local council to discuss. [Read more...]

Stop Puppy Mills

This petition has been started to put an end to puppy mills abusing operations. It has also been started to put an end to pet stores that sell dogs bought from puppy mills and puppy brokers. I want to thank all of you wonderful people in advance for caring and truly making a difference. There are too many people turning their backs on this issue. [Read more...]

Help Us Keep the Meriden Humane Society Open!

The Meriden Humane Society is located in Meriden, CT between the towns of New Haven and Hartford, CT. This no-kill shelter has been instrumental in saving hundreds of animals since its inception. The shelter is now in danger of ceasing to exist due to the overwhelming numbers of animals abandoned at their door and not enough donations to take care of them all. This petition is aimed at the media to express how important a place like the Meriden Humane Society is in any community to save the most homeless pets possible. [Read more...]

Wildlife Conservation & Environmental Issues

Keep Wolves Protected in the Northern Rockies

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to remove gray wolves from the endangered species list in the Northern Rockies, and the public comment period ends May 9! If these critical protections are eliminated, the recently recovered gray wolf population in this area will be at the mercy of state governments that are determined to resume widespread wolf killing. [Read more...]

Delisting Of Wolves In Oregon

There has not been a Confirmed wolf pack in the state of Oregon in over 50 years. So in December of 2005 the Oregon Fish And Wildlife department wrote a management plan which stated wolves would be allowed to cross from Idaho into Oregon, and they would not be removed. Recently on January 29th 2007 it was announced that the Rocky Mountain wolf would be taken off the Endangered Species List. Populations in Idaho and Wyoming had recovered very well so it was logical for them to be removed. However, when the Rocky Mountain wolf was delisted in those states, unfortunately it included Northeastern Oregon. We believe it is wrong for the wolf to not be protected in Oregon, especially when there are no confirmed packs even in the state. Please sign the petition to push the Department Of Fish And Wildlife to relist the wolf in Oregon so they’ll have a fighting chance. [Read more...]

Save our native bushland

It is truly heartbreaking all the bush that is destroyed to make more and more houses here in Perth. Shouldn’t we preserve as much of our precious bushland as we possibly can? I hope that the Western Australian State Government will attempt to find a solution before it’s too late. Our future depends on what we do now! [Read more...]

Step It Up Maine!

Representatives from the Colleges and Universities of Maine have written this joint-statement to be presented to Governor John Baldacci encouraging him to commit the state of Maine to an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050 in order to combat anthropogenic climate change. [Read more...]

Step It Up Maine! Reduce Carbon Emissions 80% by 2050

Encourage Governor Baldacci to ‘Step It Up!’ by committing to reducing Maine’s carbon emissions 80% by 2050 in order to combat global warming. The statement below was written by representatives from the Colleges and Universities of Maine. Our goal is to present the Governor with this signed statement at our ‘Step It Up Maine!’ event in Augusta on April 14. Visit www.stepitup2007.org for more information. [Read more...]

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Animal Abuse

Prosecute animal torturer

A 23-year-old Cornell student from the Boston area, taking care of another person’s dog for a night, was charged with beating it and pouring bleach on it, leaving it with diminished eyesight for life, the Ithaca Police Department said. Alexander H. Atkind, 23, of 710 Stewart Ave., Apt. 8 and of Lexington, Mass., was charged with “overdriving, torturing and injuring animals” in violation of a section of the state Agriculture and Markets law. The offense is a misdemeanor. He was released with a ticket to appear in Ithaca City Court on Wednesday, March 21. [Read more...]

Animals As Entertainment

Urge Secretary Rice to Stop Panama’s Capture of Wild Dolphins

This petition is to urge the U.S. Department of State to put pressure on President Martin Torrijos of the Republic of Panama to reconsider legislating or allowing the capture of wild dolphins in the waters of Panama, particularly Dolphin Bay, for aquaria. [Read more...]

Free Pregolja! Give her sanctuary

We call upon the Kaliningrad city officials and the Kaliningrad zoo to make the ethical decision to send Pregolja to The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. Pregolja is living in a small, inadequate concrete yard and has lived there all alone for several years. These conditions are physically and psycologically damaging to an elephant’s health. Pregolja deserves a more humane existance. At the 2,700-acre sanctuary she will have company of other female Asian elephants in a large natural-habitat where she can freely roam in peace and happiness. [Read more...]

Animals As Pests

Help Stop The Bounty The State Has On Wolves!

This bounty that the state is putting out is not right. I feel that wolves are in indangered and should be protected by the law. [Read more...]

Animals As Pets

Poison Pet Food (Menu Foods)

Companion animals, possibly hundreds of thousands, even millions are dying from being poisoned by cheap fillers they should not be eating anyway. No one knows the cause yet, but suspicion is wheat gluten to pesticides. Either way this is a time to act, stand up to the poisons we are feeding our cats and dogs. This is a wake up call. [Read more...]

California Healthy Pets Act: AB 1634

On February 23, 2007, California Assembly Member Lloyd E. Levine introduced the California Healthy Pets Act, or AB1634. This important bill comes at a time when pet overpopulation and backyard breeding trends are burdening animal shelters with overwhelming numbers of homeless pets. Addressing the problem of over breeding through the mass euthanasia of adoptable animals is not an acceptable means of controlling the population. This bill would reduce euthanasia rates by mandating all breed mandatory spay and neuter of pets with exceptions for registered animals, service and law enforcement animals, and those with medical concerns. You can read the bill and more about it at cahealthypets.com/index.htm, where the body of this petition originated. [Read more...]

Animals As Research Subjects

PET FOOD RECALL!! MENU FOODS MAY BE TESTING ANIMALS WITH THEIR TAINTED PET FOOD

Menu Foods may be testing/killing animals to determine the cause of illness and death associated with their recalled pet food. We would like Menu Foods to be honest and forthcoming about whether they are testing/killing animals as part of their investigation into the cause of the tainted pet food. If so, we would like Menu Foods to discontinue all animal testing in this manner. [Read more...]

Say No to a New Primate Research Center in Canada

We, the Undersigned, ask the Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport du Québec, la Fondation canadienne pour l’innovation and Développement économique Canada to stop financing and supporting a new primate research center (CNBE) in Montreal, QC., designed to house 150 to 200 non-human primates to test vaccines for malaria, hepatitis, AIDS, and to study cardiovascular conditions. Instead, the Undersigned ask the INRS to use the money planned for this center to fund ethical and human-based research for malaria, hepatitis, and AIDS vaccines. [Read more...]

Reunite Chimp Brothers Hunter & Lyon

Hunter and Lyons were removed last year from the Yerkes Primate Facility and sent to separate locations after 21 years together. Your help is vital to see that these two chimpanzees are reunited together in permanent sanctuary – forever. [Read more...]

Wildlife Conservation & Environmental Issues

President Bush: Implement the Energy Policy That Works!

You have admitted that America is addicted to oil, but you have failed to help America kick the oil habit. As a concerned citizen, I ask you to implement an energy plan that works – a plan that will make America a clean energy nation and add tens of thousands of jobs to the economy. Governor Bill Richardson is already steering the state of New Mexico away from foreign oil, and toward a more sustainable energy plan. Please follow Governor Bill Richardson’s lead and continue all efforts to create a cleaner, more independent America. [Read more...]

Support America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act

Utah is home to some of the most striking undeveloped landscapes in the country, including the Colorado, Green, San Juan and Dolores rivers, the Kaiparowits Plateau, the Book Cliffs and many more. But these areas are not yet permanently protected. If they disappear, future generations will never get to enjoy them. America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act seeks to protect more than 9 million acres of wilderness-quality land in Utah by adding them to the National Wilderness Preservation System. [Read more...]

Support the Healthy Farms, Foods and Fuels Act

The Healthy Farms, Food and Fuels Act of 2006, will adequately provide farmers with incentives to better conserve natural resources and protect water quality. Urge your rep to support it! If the Bill passes, farmers would be financially encouraged to be active land stewards: to keep water cleaner and use less of it, to boost renewable energy use, and to provide better wildlife habitat on their land. Communities would also benefit through better access to locally grown foods. [Read more...]

Thank Harry Potter’s Publisher for Going Green

Scholastic Books, the U.S. publisher of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has announced that the book will be printed on paper that contains a minimum of 30% post-consumer waste fiber. 65% of the paper used will be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. This is the largest purchase of FSC-certified paper to be used in a single book. The decision followed lobbying by the Rainforest Alliance. Canadian and European publishers have printed the last several Harry Potter books using forest-friendly paper, in accordance with author J.K. Rowling’s wishes. It is great news that the U.S. publisher is following suit. [Read more...]

Petition to save the Mattole Forest

This petition asks the Governor of California to take steps to protect what remains of the old growth forest in the Mattole watershed in Humboldt County, in Northern California. [Read more...]

Miscellaneous

Hold YouTube Accountable For Their Content!

Please join us in asking YouTube.com to be held accountable for enforcing their own Codes of Conduct and the content of the videos they host. A video containing frightening scenes of animal abuse was allowed to be shown to thousands of households across the world from 12/11/06 through 3/17/07. Many people flagged this video to be removed and YouTube took no action to do so. [Read more...]

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Animal Abuse

Kentucky Animal Cruelty should be a FELONY

Recently Buddy, an American Pit Bull Terrier, was taken from his family under false pretenses. While Buddy was with 34-year-old William Tod Bowlds he was murdered. Buddy was chained to the back of a pick up truck. Buddy gave all his heart and soul trying to keep up with the truck as he was pulled to his death. The murder left bloody paw prints and marks where the dog was dragged to death. [Read more...]

Michigan animal cruelty law change!

In response to the story in the Muskegon Chronicle, “Police say renter left animals in a death house” dated Tuesday March 13, 2007 we request a change in Michigan State law, Duty to provide adequate care provision. Citation: MCL750.50 We feel acts upon animals like this should be able to be prosecuted as a felony the first time. We feel this is inexcusable as well as willful. Acts like this will not stop as long as people are allowed to basically walk free. [Read more...]

ACT QUICKLY 187 ANIMAL ABUSE charges to be plea bargained

This is a horrific case of hoarding and animal cruelty uncovered in October 2005 — Rehnee Harvey and her ex-husband Terry were charged with 187 – Yes! 187! counts of animal cruelty. They had a pseudo animal rescue in Kingston, Tennessee (Roane County) by the name of Angel Wings. This animal abuser/hoarder accepted money as well as animals from people who wished to support her so-called animal rescue which in fact turned out to be an animal nightmare instead. Trial was set for August 11, 2006 – but never happened. Now they are scheduled for a hearing on March 27, 2007. [Read more...]

KICKED,SQUEEZED SMALL CHIHUAHUA MIX UNTIL THE DOG’S EYES POPPED OUT AND FRACTURED SKULL

A horrific animal abuse case took place in Lexington, VA recently. According to the Rockbridge Weekly, Robert Carini was arrested after allegedly admitting to kicking and squeezing, a small Chihuahua mix, until its eye popped out, and it’s skull was fractured. He pulled on both the upper and lower jaw at the same time until it’s skull was fractured and pressed so hard that one eye popped out. He kicked the dog until it was covered with feces and urine and almost dead. The small dog was euthanized after being picked up by an ACO. Carini was arrested on a misdemeanor. After countless calls were made, those charges were dropped and he has now been arrested on felony animal cruelty charges. [Read more...]

Animals As Food

BAN ALL WHALING WORLD-WIDE

We demand a stop to all whaling immediately, we believe it is an inhumane and unnecessary act. We believe whale watching is a much better alternative. [Read more...]

Animals As Pests

Oppose the Killing of Cats

In the U.S., more cats are intentionally killed than die of any other cause. But this doesn’t have to be the case. Virtually every feral cat that enters a shelter or animal control facility is killed. The very system that is supposed to care about the welfare of animals is, in fact, subjecting them to a ruthless policy of extermination. [Read more...]

Stop ‘Terrorism’ against Man’s Best Friend in Bangalore

In what can be termed as one of the most inhumane acts by human animals in Indian soil, the Bangalore City Corporation has ordered a drive to round up and cull homeless dogs. The killings and capture of Dogs continues. Following the tragic death of a child after it was mauled by some dogs in the suburbs of Bangalore city, all it took was just a knee jerk reaction by the authorities in Bangalore city to start a drive of ‘Terror’ against the homeless dog population in the city and some parts of the state of Karnataka. [Read more...]

Animals As Pets

PROTEST CHINA’S BARBARIC KILLING OF PET DOGS

We can not ignore the continued horrific cruelty China continues to perpetuate on PETS. Do you realize how much you buy that is “Made in China”? Use your power to BOYCOTT these products until China shows humane treatment of dogs and cats. Contact the Embassy with your OUTRAGE. How sick must someone be to bludgeon a dog to death? If a society has a fear of rabies, they vaccinate, not kill. What would the repercussions be if those with a fear of a human illness, killed every person in their wake? [Read more...]

China’s campaign to kill all pet dogs

Thousands of dogs will be culled in a Chongqing district following the death of a resident from rabies last month. The Wanzhou district government has issued a directive asking residents in
the central city area to have their dogs put down before March 15. Exemptions are government department guard dogs, and those kept by research institutions, the military and for commercial purposes. The government will cull the dogs, whether they are vaccinated or not, if the residents do not do so before the deadline. Owners will be fined between 200 yuan and 1,000 yuan for every dog found after that date. [Read more...]

Santa Clara County Low Cost Spay/Neuter Program

I support the Town Cats petition regarding the county of Santa Clara low cost spay/neuter program. Furthermore, I request that the Gilroy City Council assist in allocating a small portion of city funds to supplement Santa Clara County resources to continue this countywide low-cost spay/neuter program. The Santa Clara spay/neuter program is important for many reasons. This program not only ultimately reduces costs to Santa Clara County Animal Control, but it is also a humane way to manage animals in our community. I understand that as of today, neither Gilroy nor Morgan Hill have responded to the Santa Clara County’s request to contribute (based proportionately on each city’s usage) to the Santa Clara spay/neuter program. I ask for your support in responding with a yes to Gilroy’s participation in this program. [Read more...; and see second petition, here]

Bradford County, Fl, Animal Shelter

PLEASE allow the Rescue Groups to assist at Bradford County Animal Shelter with placing dogs in responsible foster homes and being adopted out! [Read more...]

Wildlife Conservation & Environmental Issues

Tell Congress to Support a Renewable Energy Standard

Energy – what we use, where we get it and how we use it – is one of the biggest challenges of this century. How America solves this problem will affect our health and environment, our economic well-being and our security. America faces an urgent energy challenge – but there are changes we can make and actions we can take now! Support Smart Energy Solutions and urge Congress to adopt the Udall-Platts Renewable Energy Standard (H.R. 969)! [Read more...]

Give Up Something That Contributes to Global Warming For Lent!

The season of Lent is not only a Christian time of personal sacrifice, but it is now observed by many Americans as a time to “give up” something to make the world a better place. Lent is the perfect time for you to make a change in your life to fight global warming. [Read more...]

Save 222 acres of Wet Lands of Cahokia Mounds

What would public opinion be if Egypt wanted to put a large landfill/garbage dump next to the Pyramids? A garbage dump is proposed next to another World Heritage Site: Cahokia Mounds located just east of St Louis in Illinois. Not only would it impact an American Indian Site which is significant to the World, it would also destroy 222 acres of floodplain/wetlands [St Louis District Corps Permit application: P2476]. [Read more...]

Support the Proposed Ban on Plastic Grocery Bags

Help encourage San Francisco to lead the way in reducing global warming emissions by banning plastic grocery bags – and other cities may do the same. The Board of Supervisors have proposed a ban on plastic bags for large grocers in San Francisco. If this law were passed, large stores would have to offer customers bags made of recycled paper, plastic that can be composted or bags that can be reused. Violators would be required to pay a fine. The city’s own Mayor, Gavin Newsom, endorses this bill. [Read more...]

Keep Millions of Tons of Mountaintop Mining Waste Out of Our Waterways

Millions of tons of debris from mountaintop removal (a radical form of coal mining in which entire mountaintops are literally blown up) are being dumped into nearby streams. Since 1977, The Clean Water Act allowed industries to dump small amounts of “fill material” into waterways as long as they were not using them as a place to dispose of industry waste. But in 2002, the Bush Administration redefined “fill material” to include mining waste, which means that mining companies can dump the mountains they are destroying directly in to our streams and rivers! [Read more...]

Remove USDA Undersecretary Mark Rey

Bush administration appointee Mark Rey, a life-long lobbyist for the timber industry, has been the U.S. Forest Service as Undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources & Environment. Rey since October 2, 2001. Despite (or because of) his career-long involvement in anti-environmental, pro-industry and pro-development causes, including preventing implementation of the “Roadless Rule” during the Clinton Administration and positions such as comparing clear-cut logging as “compatible with rain forest ecology”, the Bush Administration placed him in a sensitive position from which he could forward their business-friendly, but environmentally disastrous, policies regardless of the damage caused to our national forests. [Read more...]

Shape Up! Green Your Cup!

We love you, Starbucks. But we hate your cups. From all of us that love you, please start: 1) Using compostable bio cups or fully recylcable cups (with in-store recycling bins); 2) Offering cheap Starbucks travel mugs ($3 or less) available at your stores to prompt more reuseage; 3) Giving larger discounts on using travel mugs (25 cents is a start! And more if you use a Starbucks mug!). [Read more...]

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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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Animal Abuse

NFL Dog Killer Should be Suspended/Cut from Atlanta Falcons

Twenty-five year old Jonathan Babineaux, defensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons is being accused of killing his girlfriend’s one and a half year old dog Kilo, after getting into a fight with her (his girlfriend). Babineaux apparently called his girlfriend who was out at the time, and told her she should get home and check on the dog. What she found was a badly beaten, distressed animal who was throwing up blood. She rushed her dog to the local animal hospital where he later died. [Read more...]

Baked Puppy in Georgia, Moulder Brothers (New Twist)

PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO VIEW THE URL. THERE IS A NEW TWIST TO THIS TRIAL. THEY ARE NOW ATTEMPTING TO ONLY CHARGE ONE BROTHER. PLEASE WRITE AND FAX TO JUDGE THELMA WYATT CUMMINGS MOORE. [Read more...]

Petition to press felony charges on man who cut leg off small dog

In the interest of public safety: The man who cut the leg of a small dog named Chiquita on the southside of San Antonio Texas on Feb. 13, needs to be charged with felony animal cruelty. Furthermore, this man needs to receive the maximum amount of time in prison. This was an act of needless and extreme brutality and depravity inflicting indescribable suffering to an innocent creature. According to experts in criminal psychology the next victim could not only be another animal, but a child. [Read more...]

Animals As Entertainment

SEND CLARA AND PEARL TO SANCTUARY NOW!

We, the undersigned, strongly urge Dr. Jeffrey Bonner and the St. Louis Zoo to send Asian elephants CLARA AND PEARL to “The Elephant Sanctuary”. Immediately! [Read more...]

Animals As Food

Stop advertising McDonalds on Care2

We the undersigned would ask that care2.com no longer advertises the products of said company for many reasons including the alleged mis-treatment of factory farmed animals to the alleged effect their business has on South American rainforests. We are encouraged to “click to donate, click on sponsored links”, and most of the companies advertised seem to fit in quite nicely to the ethos of the network, but by accepting the “dirty money” of McDonalds we feel very let down. [Read more...]

Tell FDA you don’t want cloned meat for dinner!

What’s the problem with food from clones? Cloning produces unhealthy animals who suffer needlessly. Clones die at a young age, suffer birth defects, and are often treated with antibiotics, possibly contributing to an increase in antibiotic resistant bacteria. New food technology such as animal cloning should be proven safe for humans and animals before being allowed on the market. Urge the FDA to keep the moratorium on meat and milk from cloned animals and their offspring and to require food from clones to be labeled if it is ever allowed on the market. [Read more...]

Wildlife Conservation & Environmental Issues

Continue Federal Protection of the Timber Wolf as an Endangered and Threatened Species

Pease speak out for the 4,000 wolves facing ruthless slaughter. We specifically petition the U.S. Department of the Interior to refrain from delisting the Timber Wolf from the list of endangered and the threatened species and to continue its protection and prohibitions against hunting or otherwise killing wolves. The Timber Wolf doesn’t hurt us, so why should we hurt them. [Read more...]

Protect Mullet Pond, Simpson Lagoon, St. Maarten

We strongly urge the government of Sint Maarten and Mullet Bay Resort to protect the few remaining mangroves and seagrass beds of Simpson Lagoon. Specifically, we support the zoning of Mullet Pond, located between Point Pirouette and Mullet Beach, as a protected area in which it is prohibited to remove and/or cut existing vegetation, including mangroves and seagrass, within 15 meters of the lagoon shoreline. [Read more...]

More Funding for Public Transportation

More funding is necessary for public transportation in the State of Illinois, especially in the Chicagoland area. We need more money for public transportation so that public transportation now and in the future can continue to operate without major fare hikes or operating with old and debilated equipment. Funding should also include money to fund more public transportation on the weekends (Saturday and Sunday) and all holidays and more frequent service. More funding today will help bring in more riders via more routes run, newer equipment, and more frequent service. By funding public transportation, the state will be able to keep more vehicles off the road and help reduce our oil dependence. [Read more...]

ENFORCE the INDIAN RIVER POWER PLANT CLEANUP.

To the State of DE for immediate enforcement of DNREC Reg 1146 to clean up the Indian River Power Plant & prohibit construction of new coal-burners or gasified coal burner plants in this State. [Read more...]

Miscellaneous

Animal Bill of Rights Needed

The area of law which governs animal welfare is largely left up to each state to legislate and enforce. This is NOT working and federal guidance is needed because many states do not take the issue of animal rights seriously. Federal laws are needed for the protection of ALL animals. [Read more...]

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Animals As Entertainment

Ruby the Elephant Deserves Retirement

TIME is running out for Ruby, a 46-year-old African elephant at the Los Angeles Zoo who has spent almost her entire life before the public. Despite popular support and an endorsement from the Board of Zoo Commissioners to move Ruby to a spacious sanctuary in Northern California, the L.A. Zoo management appears bent on sending her to the small confines of yet another zoo. [Read more...]

Helping The Elephants One Zoo At A Time

Sending our elephants to the sanctuary and permanently closing the elephant exhibit is the best thing the Buffalo Zoo-or any zoo for that matter-can do to show the world it truly cares about animals. [Read more...]

Animals As Food

Help persuade Tesco to stop selling live turtles in China

In China up to 20 million turtles are consumed each year. Some of those turtles are sold to the public from within Supermarkets such as Hymall. Due to a joint venture with Ting Hsin, for it’s wholly owned subsidiary Ting Cao, Tesco currently maintain a 90% investment in Hymall supermarkets in China. Tesco plan to open 10 new stores every year in China. A reported 2 million customers visit the 46 Hymall stores in China each week. Within those stores live turtles are available for purchase . A customer can choose to have the turtle they have purchased butchered alive in the supermarket, or they can choose to take the turtle home to end it’s life in whatever manner they choose, before cooking and eating it. [Read more...]

Animals As Pets

No Puppy Mills in Shasta County

Be it known that the undersigned oppose the permitting of any dog breeding facility such as puppy mills and irresponsible hobby breeders that sell large numbers of new animals in our community without regard to animal health, safety or comfort. We believe that there are enough unwanted dogs dying in our shelters every day. To allow a puppy mill in Shasta County is wrong…..wrong for the animals that are being sold, and wrong for the animals that will die as a result of an influx of new unwanted and poorly bred puppies. Please deny the Faubian sisters their kennel permit which is in this case, a puppy mill permit. [Read more...]

Medical Care For Wild Dogs of the Chilcotin

We demand immediate resolution to the ongoing tragedy of the massive number of abused, unsheltered, injured, diseased, starving, and lonely wild dogs (previously domestic) roaming the wilderness communities of Anahim Lake and Nimpo Lake on British Columbia’s Chilcotin Plateau. We need the government and the British Columbia Veterinary Association to organize a regular program of veterinarians to come to the area, possibly a voluntary rotation. Some sort of clinic and shelter must be setup whether the funds come from the government or BC Veterinarians themselves. [Read more...]

Stop the inhumane treatment of strays

Vrindavan Society in Thane, Maharashtra, is in news for all the wrong reasons – they have murder on their hands. It is a double crime because it was perpetrated on trusting, defenseless and mute victims. About 40 stray dogs in this locality were poisoned to death on February 15-16, 2007. This is repulsive and unacceptable in a society that prides itself as being civilised and having respect for all living beings. It is unfortunate that the so-called educated people living in upper class localities and having access to both information and resources resort to such measures to resolve what appears a ‘menace’ to them. The perpetrators of this crime need to be booked under under Section 148 of the Indian Penal Code and also under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act for the crime they have committed, so that such incidents will not recur, and the example will serve as a deterrent to others who may want to resort to violent and inhuman means to eliminate the weak, mute and disadvantaged creatures. [Read more...]

Animals As Research Subjects

Animal Testing

About 1,438,553 animals [Not including rats, mice and other small animals] are killed in testing each year! These tests are cruel and in-humane. Animals are often taken form streets or bought from shelters to become test subjects! Just think, you could loose your pet one day and find out the animal shelter sold him/her to testers! The tests preformed are extremely cruel. And we fund them. Many tax dollars go to these cruel companies to make animal tests happen. we need to reduce the amount of animal tests going on, if not get rid of tests for good. [Read more...]

Wildlife Conservation & Environmental Issues

Please Fight for Lowering the Benzene in Gasoline in the Pacific Northwest

The amounts of benzene and other cancer causing chemicals that are allowed in our gasoline should NOT be higher, they should be decreased from our gasoline. You have shown that you wish to be an example to others in this country about a lot of issues. Make cleaner air a reality by pushing for the lowering of these chemicals in our environment. It is for all of our children and your state that we are asking for you to help in this cause. [Read more...]

Urge Stora Enso to stop logging ancient forests

After a stop of logging ancient forests, Stora Enso is right now logging forests in Lapland, Finland again. Stora Enso has to stop destroying the last ancient forests on earth! [Read more...;see also Tell Stora Enso to stop logging ancient forests in Lapland]

Protect Wild Parrot Habitat in San Francisco

Please protect wild parrot habitat in San Francisco by voting FOR Supervisor Bevan Dufty’s proposed legislation, which will provide for the pruning and maintenance of two Monterey cypress trees on the lower Greenwich Steps, mandate the planting of up to six new parrot-friendly trees, and protect the property owner from liability. Thank you very much for your support of the city’s non-voting inhabitants: the urban environment’s plants and animals. [Read more...]

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Animal Abuse

Prosecute John Hornaday – Felony Animal and Domestic Abuser

John Hornaday, 25, of Indiana, is accused of multiple counts of FELONY ANIMAL CRUELTY as well as mutliple counts of FELONY DOMESTIC ABUSE. Please help ensure that he receives the maximum penalty on ALL charges by contacting the courts involved and signing this petition. [Read more...]

Justice for Winston

Winston, an afghan hound rescued in Zanesville, OH was severely neglected by his former owner. He was surrendered to the local dog warden suffering untreated injuries, emaciated and severely matted coat. Local authorities conducted something they called an investigation that resulted with his no charges being filed against his former owner. We invite you to please sign this petition requesting that the Muskingum County Prosecutor reopen the investigation for animal cruelty and neglect against Winston’s former owner. [Read more...]

Animals in Placer County, CA Need Your Help!

There have been several high profile incidents of animal abuse in Placer County in less than 8 months leading to the confiscation of dozens of dogs and one horse. The incidents involving dogs include one of seven dogs belonging to Ron Artest, a well known public sports figure with the Sacramento Kings, as well as a Meadow Vista Afghan Hound breeder and a breeder of Miniature Pischers and Chihuahuas in Loomis. The horse, when relinquished, weighed 200 pounds below what a healthy adult horse should weigh. Here is what we are petitioning for: We want animal abuse and neglect to be prosecuted! No actions have yet been taken to prosecute any of the aforementioned cases! [Read more...]

Avian Guardian Angels

The Police Department want to arrest the Avian Guardian Angel because she took these birds to the vet to have them looked at after they were found in a neglectful and abusive situation. The birds were not stolen they were given away. [Read more...]

Animals As Entertainment

Make Belgrade Zoo animal friendly

Belgrade Zoo houses over 2000 animals in small cramped concrete cages. Many of these animals show signs of ‘stereotypic behavior’ which is common in animals that exist in cages without anything to stimulate the animals mind. Grass for visitors, concrete for animals. [Read more...]

Animals As Food

Stop Whole Foods from selling live lobsters!

Whole Foods is going back on their promise to end all sales of live lobsters. Please let Whole Foods know that you do not support them in this decision. [Read more...]

Kentucky Fried Cruelty

Help stop Kentucky Fried Chicken, K.F.C., from torturing chickens. They haven’t responded to any letters sent to them, PETA, or people who have advised them to change their process of how they get their chicken. The chickens did nothing wrong to deserve this torture. They torture them by scalding them alive. Please, sign this petition. [Read more...]

Animals As Pets

Georgia Shelter rated one of the “Cruelest” among local rescue community. Help us stop the madness!!

Walker County Animal Shelter, (Georgia – USA), is in serious need of change. Local officials seem to think that it’s acceptable for the euthanasia rate to be in the 90% range. Based on an article in the WALKER COUNTY MESSENGER 1/12/07, the new shelter manager stated that 9 out of 10 dogs and cats are being euthanized there TODAY. This is a 20% drop in the rescue rate since the new shelter manager was hired 7 months ago! They take in around 96 animals per week – you do the math! [Read more...]

Chloe the Service Dog and Owner are Denied Access to Wal Mart

We had a recent experience at Walmart that was very unfortunate and I would like to ask your help to receive news coverage to help ensure the dignity and rights of those individuals depending upon Service Dogs and hopefully educate the public and businesses of Service Dog rights and American Pit Bull Terrier prejudice. [Read more...]

Anti-Chaining Legislation in MD

Please support the proposed anti-chaining legislation SB696 and HB673. This important legislation provides definition of collar and the types that are appropriate for use; length and type of tether that is permitted and the restriction of hours that dogs may be chained outside. [Read more...]

Wildlife Conservation & Environmental Issues

SAVE SPANISH BEARS

Unknown property speculators are threatening the continued (precarious) survival of the brown bear in Spain. An unsustainable project to build a ski resort in an important corridor of access for the last remaining bears in N.Spain may go ahead if EU environmental protection laws are allowed to be amended. The local population will not get rich on 1 or 2 weekends of piste skiing a year, but should concentrate on the area’s natural beauty and wildlife – it’s main attraction. [Read more...]

Tell Automakers Why You Want Green Cars Today

The need for fuel-efficient cars has never been greater. With just four percent of the world’s population, the United States consumes a quarter of global oil consumption; U.S. passenger vehicles alone guzzle 10 percent of the world’s oil! We spent $250 billion on this oil habit last year alone, and as a result we’re less secure, more polluted, and economically weaker. [Read more...]

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Animal Abuse

Millionaires Starve Nearly 300 Animals On Their Property

Farm Animal Abuse so bad the Department of Agriculture has declared a “State of Emergency”. The 98 starving horses were known about last Thursday, 01/31/07, the Dept of Ag showed up on Tuesday, 02/01/07, and they were finally moved on Wed. 02/02/07. As of today, 02/02/07 no arrests have been made. Why are we being asked to help donate money to feed millionaire’s horses? The Pike County Farm owners are Roger Prater and his wife Bobbie Allison who are millionaires, live in a 10,000 square foot home, and own a feed store, plus 2 or 3 other farms. They also got over $64,000 in USDA farm subsidy money. [Read more and view contact information...]

ACT QUICKLY-Dog dragged under car in Knox County, TN

We, the undersigned, would respectfully like to petition the Knox County Sessions Court to prosecute, to the fullest extent of the law, the driver who dragged a dog beneath her vehicle for approximately 4 miles on September 29, 2006. The sheriff’s office report number for this case is 06-09292380. It is our firm belief that no plea bargain at a lesser charge should be accepted. Any action which is this heinous absolutely deserves full prosecution as a felony offense with appropriate fines and punishment. Thank you for your consideration. [Read more...]

Animals As Game

Ban Canned Hunting in South Africa

Ask the South African Government to Ban Canned Hunting! [Read more...]

Animals As Pets

SAVE MORE THAN 500 CATS IN BARCELONA

More than 500 cats live on land where the construction of the high speed train tracks between Madrid and Barcelona will soon begin. They live there because they have been abandoned by their owners. The cats suffer from cold, hunger and mistreatment, and the City Council of Barcelona hasn’t done anything to resolve this problem. Many cats have been killed in the course of earlier public projects in Barcelona, and we want to avoid another massacre. However, the City council of Barcelona has ignored our petition and local journalists joke that the cats are happy to be homeless, and that there are other things more important than cats to discuss in the Local Council. [Read more...]

Animals As Research Subjects

URGENT! Tell Government to ban primate experiments!

Please sign this petition to tell Government that we want an end to all experimentation on primates! After more than 20 years there is finally a revision of the Animals Scientific Procedures Act 1986 to be made. There has been no indication of what might be reformed, however At present over 2500 monkeys are exposed to mortifying unethical scientific experiments that are of no value to humans, and a further 4500 in the EU. If we don’t make a change now we may be waiting another twenty years for the opportunity to make a difference, in which time we will have lost a further 50,000 of these beautiful intelligent creatures, in the UK alone. [Read more...]

Wildlife Conservation & Environmental Issues

Global Warming: Urge Presidential Hopefuls to Take a Stand!

As candidates from all parties are throwing their hats into the ring and traveling the country in search of public support, NOW is the time to make a huge splash. We have a tremendous opportunity to make sure our next president is committed to solving global warming. Help turn up the heat! Show that solving global warming is a priority. Sign the Heat Is On Petition below. Help us reach 50,000 signatures! [Read more...]

Petition to protect the Green areas of Cape Canaveral.

The following concerned residents of Brevard County hereby submit this petition to the City of Cape Canaveral’s City Council members. We urge that an immediate moratorium should be imposed on any upcoming development projects that lead to destruction of green areas within the city. This includes deforestation (removal of trees) on lands that are larger than 1/2 acres. [Read more...]

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Animal Abuse

Court Case 4FA-06-2515CR (State of Alaska vs. Richard D. Lang)

This petition is limited to Local signatuers. FAIRBANKS and ALASKA residents, please sign to support the following statement and its conntents below, and ask your friends and family in Alaska to do the same: “As residents of Fairbanks North Star Borough and Alaska, we respectfully request that Richard Lang (Case 4FA-06-2515CR: State of Alaska vs. Richard D. Lang) be thoroughly prosecuted to the full extent that the law will allow.” Animal Legal Defense Fund supports this petition. Click here or “Click here for more information” below the petition on this page and see the photo of “Keesha”, one of Lang’s victims. [Read more...]

Animals As Clothing

Opposition to the Chinese Fur Industry

We the undersigned believe in the sanctity of all life, no matter what forms it takes. Every living being deserves to be treated with respect. Therefore, we strongly oppose the Chinese fur industry and its cruel, inhumane practices. [Read more...]

Animals As Entertainment

RICHMOND VA : Make the Brutal Bloodsport of Cockfighting a Felony! Support S.B. 1190

A BILL to amend and reenact § 3.1-796.125 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the fighting of cocks and other animals; penalty. [Read more...]

ANIMALS ARE USED AS A TOOL OF PUBLICITY IN THE FEATURE FILMS IN INDIA.

ANIMALS ARE ILL TREATED DURING THE SHOOTING OF A FEATURE FILMS IN INDIA, A.W.B.I FAILED TO PROPER SCRUTINY & CONTROL ON ANIMAL ABUSE DURING THE SHOOTING. ANIMALS BECAME PUBLICITY TOOLS FOR THE PRODUCERS. [Read more...]

Animals As Food

Stop Distribution of Shark Fins

Alibaba.com is one of the largest online traders of seafood and other products, especially shark fin – without regards to source or sustainability. The practice of shark finning, where a shark is captured, the fins removed, often while the shark is still living and the body discarded, is a brutal practice that is decimating shark populations worldwide. This lucrative market for shark fin is creating huge incentives for poor nations- as represented by scores of businesses on Alibaba.com- to remove the ocean’s shark populations. Without any control, it is likely that endangered and threatened shark species are traded in great volume at great profit. As a web based business gateway, Alibaba.com is collusive and partner to this criminal and wasteful practice. [Read more...]

Ban Horse-Slaughter

The goal of this petition is to ban Horse-Slaughter in the United States. Your signature will help in closing the three remaining slaughter houses in Texas and Illinois. Every signature counts. [Read more...]

Animals As Pets

Spay/Neuter Ordinance

We are requesting that Mayor Will Wynn and the Austin City Council consider a spay and neuter ordinance for both cats and dogs to prevent the production of unwanted animals in Austin, TX. [Read more...]

GAITHERSBURG MD: Save Our Cats! Brand New AWLMC No-Kill Shelter :: American Feline Idol Cat Show

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that AWLMC be commended to the County of Montgomery; its accomplished and respective Executive, The Honorable Ike Leggett; its dedicated and hard-working Council Members; its State Legislators; and its United States Representative, The Honorable Chris Van Hollen. [Read more...]

Animals As Research Subjects

PALMER UNIV. TEST ON ANIMALS!

The Palmer Chiropractic University System recently spent $4 million ($1.3 million of which was provided by American taxpayers) on a new laboratory to conduct outdated experiments on animals. Palmer says that its animal experiments are designed to validate “a profession that has been under attack for its 107-year history.” The truth is, Palmer will never be able to satisfy its critics by doing spinal experiments on animals. The truth is, if Palmer experiments on animals, it can apply for huge grants from the federal government. [Read more...]

Wildlife Conservation & Environmental Issues

Wolves Lose ESA Protections – Express Outrage at Plans To Kill Them

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released its proposal to strip wolves of crucial Endangered Species Act protections in Idaho and parts of Wyoming. Both states are now preparing massive wolf eradication plans, with the intent of killing hundreds of wolves. In Idaho alone, the governor plans to kill all but 100 of the wolves in the state. He’s already set a price too: $26.50 to kill a wolf if you’re a resident and $256 dollars if you’re from out-of-state. “I’m prepared to…shoot a wolf myself,” declared Idaho’s governor preparing for the de-listing of wolves from the ESA. [Read more...]

Polar Bear S.O.S. – Your Official Public Comment Urgently Needed

The Bush Administration has proposed to list the polar bear as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act because its Arctic sea ice habitat is melting from global warming. This proposed protection comes after successful legal action by NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) and its partners to protect the imperiled polar bear. But this proposal won’t become reality without a huge outpouring of public support. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is asking for your comments before making a final decision about whether to protect polar bears or leave them at the mercy of global warming and their vanishing habitat. [Read more...]

Declare Head Harbour Passage and West Isles an Emergency Marine Protected Area

The Quoddy ecosystem is threatened by 3 proposed LNG terminals in Passamaquoddy Bay and the Passage of Tankers through summer feeding and breeding areas of Endangered Right Whales, Finbacks and Porpoise, other cetaceans, important marine birds and fishes, and nearly 3,000 invertebrate species. Ship strikes took 6 right whales this year, some in this area. If industrial port development in Passamaquoddy Bay continues, ship strikes will continues to climb. [Read more...]

Petition to Reinstate the Recycling Program in Brewton, Alabama

The petition below as well as all the collected signatures will be presented to the Mayor of Brewton at a city council meeting by the following students from Brewton Middle and Elementary School: Fred Grice, Kelsey Clayton, Madalyn Weaver, and Anna Catherine Wilson. “We, the undersigned, 1) are committed to participating in a recycling program and 2) petition the Mayor and the Brewton City Council to form a committee to research the best recycling program for Brewton and its perimeter for the purpose of reinstating the recycling program as quickly as possible.” [Read more...]

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Animal Abuse

Maximum Sentencing for Martin Gray Spivey, alleged dog killer

In the rural area of East Bend, NC, on the night of July 20, Martin Spivey, 47, who was estranged from his family, became intoxicated, borrowed a double-barrel shotgun from a friend and drove to the family home where he quarreled with his wife. Their two young children were present during the altercation. Spivey threatened his wife, then turned, took aim, and shot Rocky in the face with both barrels of the shotgun. [Read more...]

MS: State Needs Tough Felony CTA Laws/Support HB 710 And HB 1291

Since animals don’t vote in most counties — though anything’s possible in Noxubee, it seems — our four-legged friends don’t have much power with legislation. And because most animal advocacy groups come across as total Fruit Loops, their barks are often ignored by our lawmakers. But our Legislators need to pay attention to a bill that would put more teeth in our existing animal cruelty laws. It’s a good, sensible bill that reasonable people should support. [Read more...and try to ignore the gross stereotypes]

Help our pets/animals, let’s change the law!

Animal lovers please help to change the law to protect our pets. The law says that a shelter outside is good enough for short hair dogs. But our Canadian winters are too cold for short hair dogs. The law must be updated. We are opposing the current bill S-213, which was originally enacted in 1892. We are in the 21st Century now, and need a new Bill. Bill C-373 will help against animal neglect/cruelty. Our Current Legislation wording of “wilful neglect” requires proof of a person’s intent. The requirement that a person intended to neglect their animals makes it extremely difficult to lay charges. By signing this petition you are supporting a great cause, a New Bill C-373, for a new Century! [Read more...]

Animals As Food

Tell ihop to stop using battery cages

This petition is to ask ihop (the breakfast restauraunt) to make them phase out using battery cage eggs over 1 year and to use more humane cage-free eggs. [Read more...]

Animals As Pets

Join The World and Outlaw Declawing of Animals

Outlaw the declawing of any animal worldwide. Most of the world does not declaw and for good reason. In practically every country where cats are companion animals, declawing is illegal or effectively banned. It is still common in the U.S. and Canada, why? [Read more...]

RICHMOND VA: Stop gassing Virginia Pets! Support House Bill No. 3004

Tomorrow a member of our Board of Directors, in conjunction with the Virginia Federation of Humane Societies, is slated to testify before the House Subcommittee on Agriculture in support of Virginia General Assembly House Bill No. 3004. This bill would eliminate the use of gas chambers when euthanizing animals in Virginia. We support this legislation because the use of gas chambers is inhumane. [Read more...]

Wildlife Conservation & Environmental Issues

Support Proposal to List Polar Bears As “Threatened”

Send in your public comment to support listing polar bears as a “Threatened” species! Polar bears really need our help: according to government studies in recent months, more and more are starving to death, and more and more of their babies are dying before reaching adulthood. In fact, of polar bears studied between 1990 and last spring, only 25 cubs per 100 females survived. That’s less than half the survival rate of polar bear cubs studied from 1967 to 1989! [Read more...]

Support Effective and Real Global Warming Action

In the past two years there has been a lot of tough talk on global warming. But our elected leaders have yet to put forth any real or effective solutions. With the new Congress, we have a new opportunity to pass meaningful legislation. Environmental leaders and many of this countries largest companies support passing mandatory limits on carbon emissions and with a robust trading system. And polls have shown a strong majority of Americans – including a majority of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents – favor such a plan. [Read more...]

Our National Parks are Suffering – Tell Congress to Fix Our Parks!

NPCA has a plan that addresses these problems in “5 Ways America Can Fix Our National Parks.” By following this plan our parks will be in great shape before the National Park System’s 100th birthday in ten years. But for this plan to work, Congress must uphold their promise to fund the park system! To make up for the budget shortfall and restore the National Park System to its original beauty, an increase of at least $250 million in park funding is needed in Fiscal Year 2008. [Read more...]

Stop proposed Sand Mine next to WI State Recreation Area

Menomonie & Colfax, WI: Proppant Specialists of Brady, Texas, is proposing to mine a silica sand quarry on about 430 acres, mostly on land owned by Darold Lausted next to Hoffman Hills, a WI State Recreational area inhabited by birds on the threatened species list. This sand mine should not be approved. [Read more...]

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Animal Abuse

U.S. Soldiers Taunt Crippled Dog In Iraq VIDEO.

WHETHER YOU SUPPORT THE MILITARY OR NOT, PLEASE VOICE YOUR OUTRAGE AT THE HEINUOUS DISPLAY OF CRUELTY CAPTURED ON VIDEO OF WHAT APPEARS TO BE 3 U.S. SOLDIERS, ONE HOLDING A VIDEO CAMERA AND TWO THROWING ROCKS AT A CRIPPLED, DEFENSELESS DOG. [Read more...] [See also "Kinship Circle: Latest Casualty - Soldiers Torment Crippled Dog In Iraq"]

Animals As Clothing

Petition to ask J.C. Penney to stop selling raccoon dog fur trimmed apparel.

Penney’s has decided to continue selling coats with fur trim made from the canine species related to the dog that we all have as pets. We ask that they immediately stop selling raccoon fur trimmed items. Until this decision is reached, we ask that persons who agree, refrain from purchasing from J.C. Penney’s. [Read more...]

Animals As Food

Protect Beluga Sturgeon By Continuing Trade Ban

The environmental community urges the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to keep the beluga caviar trade closed. [Read more...]

Animals As Game

Call for a boycott of all Tiriac businesses to protest the Balc wild boar hunt

We, the undersigned, as ethical persons and people of conscience, declare our intention not to support, even implicitly, the event organized every year in January near Balc, Romania, by Mr. Ion Tiriac (famous Romanian tennis player, now a businessman and the richest man in Romania). Therefore, we will pull out any contribution and in the future we will avoid involvement as clients in any Tiriac companies. We consider that the Balc wild boar hunts, during which the invited guests (foreign and Romanian politicians and big business tycoons, partners or potential partners of Ion Tiriac) kill about 200 animals each year, are in essence massacres disguised as entertainment and “sport” for VIPs. [Read more...]

Animals As Pests

Federally protect the Feral Pigeon aka the Dove

The Pigeon is mankind’s oldest feathered friend, this bird helped save lives before the telegraph or phone was invented, they flew the skies delivering messages from hospital to hospital, they fought next to our troops in many wars including the Iraq war,this bird shares the sky with other birds and currently is being slaughtered across the USA by the numbers just for the fun of it as they are not protected by any laws. Please help these birds that deserve honor instead of persecution. The Dove aka the Pigeon aka the Rock Dove is our nations symbol of PEACE. [Read more...]

Animals As Pets

Thank State of Illinois for Preventing the Criminalization of Canines

An innovative law that took effect January 1, 2007 will prevent dogs from being used as weapons. Gang members, who are often legally prohibited from owning armed weapons, frequently use dogs as weapons to intimidate community members. This novel law was developed as a solution to protect the public from dangerous dogs, while also keeping the best interests of dogs at heart. Public Act 94-0818 will make it a misdemeanor for a person convicted of a felony to own, possess, have custody of, or reside with an un-neutered dog older than 12 weeks of age, or any dog deemed “vicious” under the Illinois Animal Control Act. [Read more...]

Saga Dog Breeder – Animal Cruelty

Unscrupulous dog breeders are rife in Japan, all bent on making money from the recent boom in owning pets. Kinji Mitsutake is one of these breeders in Saga Prefecture, on the southern island of Kyu-shu-. Animal rescuers/activists investigated the premises in December 2006 and were able to observe first-hand, dogs on short chains with little to no shelter or in decrepit cages, unable to escape their prisons, living on top of piles of feces and hair. Others were perched on wooden pallets surrounded by a stagnant lake of fetid feces and rainwater. All were without adequate food and water, never exercised and waiting to die. Some skeletons were also found as well as one rotting carcass covered in maggots. [Read more...]

Straydogs in Turkey

Informing her Majesty about the animal abuse as a result of municipalities trying to solve the straydogproblem in so many wrong ways and asking her to raise the matter of the straydogs in Istanbul on as many occasions as possible during her visit to Turkey in February/March 2007. [Read more...]

Wildlife Conservation / Environmental Issues

We are nothing more than cannibals: Save the Gorillas from ourselves!

The purpose of this petition is to raise awareness among the public, and specifically, to encourage world leaders and organisations such as the United Nations to increase funding and logistical support for the conservation efforts and for the work of the courageous park rangers who risk, and sometimes lose, their lives for this noble effort. [Read more...]

Tell Nestle et.al “Stop Aiding Destruction of Tiger/Rhino Habitat!”

This petition’s goal is to help WWF-Indonesia’s Director of Policy and Corporate Engagement, Nazir Foead, get the message across to the world’s coffee distributers that the public will not support companies that aid in the destruction of Bukit Barisan Selatan, home to endangered tigers and rhinos. [Read more...]

Laura Bush, Please Protect Mother Polar Bears!

Our polar bears – and their cubs – are in big trouble. Scientists say that global warming is pushing them to the very brink of extinction. Now, as if that’s not bad enough, President Bush continues to push for harmful drilling in one of the places most important to denning polar bears – the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. [...] This Mother’s Day, ask Laura Bush to help mother polar bears by convincing her husband to leave the Arctic Refuge wild and free of oil drilling! [Read more...]

Save the Polar Bears! Help Stop Global Warming

Rising temperatures due to global warming are threatening the entire Arctic ecosystem. Warmer temperatures means less pack ice – ice that polar bears depend on for hunting. As their natural habitat gets warmer and decreases in size, the end result is fewer polar bears. For the polar bear, an irreplaceable symbol of the Arctic, climate change could lead to extinction. [Read more...]

Tell President Bush: Move America Beyond Oil

President Bush admitted that America is addicted to oil, but he has failed to use his executive power to help America kick the oil habit. Call on President Bush to break Big Oil’s stranglehold on energy policy and cut America’s dependence on oil by 2.5 million barrels a day within 10 years. [Read more...]

Pledge To Be A Climate Messenger

If each and every one of us would make a resolution for our Earth for this coming year whatever it be and stick with it, we can bring back some of the balance lost. However, we are running out of time before the window closes. This petition seeks signatures of those of all political, social, and economic backgrounds who are committed to doing just that. [Read more...]

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Animals As Food

Save Man’s Best Friend from the Dog Meat Trade – Say YES to House Bill 2991

Because this barbaric commercial industry provides a steady flow of income not only to the traders but to officials and police officers, the dog meat trade remains unscathed from the Welfare Act. However, House Bill 2991 is currently pending in the Committee on Revision of Laws that provides a stiffer penalty to dog meat traders. Introduced by Representative Francis Escudero, the creation of the bill was based on the need to upgrade an Act that, as noble as the objectives of the law are, the traders remain elusive because the penalty is unrealistic. The penalty must be upgraded. [Read more...]

Save An Endangered Fish; Ban Global Trade of Beluga Caviar

This petition urges the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to keep the beluga caviar trade closed, as beluga sturgeon populations in the Caspian Sea are drastically low and cannot sustain trade pressure. [Read more...]

Animals As Game

Stop CRUEL LEGHOLD TRAPPING in the Basha Kill

Recently while hiking in the Basha Kill with our dogs, one of my dogs stepped into a steel leghold trap. We finally got it off her, with me holding her down as she screamed and thrashed, and my husband figuring out how to open the damnable thing. There are NO SIGNS there – anywhere in this 2715 acre state land area, that say trapping is permitted, especially in an area where people walk with their children or pets. [...] Please sign this petition to tell the DEC that trapping is a hideous practice and allowing trapping in an area where people go to bird watch, kayak, and walk or hike is deplorable. Safety needs to take precedence over the rights of trappers! [Read more...]

Animals As Pets

Share a story about your rescued pet.

Did your pet come from an animal shelter? If so, the ASPCA wants to hear your “tail”! Tell us about your pet and include their photo. How has your pet enriched your life? How did rescuing a pet from a shelter make you feel? [...] Tell the ASPCA about your adoption experiences and include a photo of your special companion. This is fun way to spread the word about the importance of adopting pets from shelters rather than pet stores and encouraging others to do the same. [Read more...]

2007 Animal Welfare Reform Initiatives

In an effort to illuminate the desperate need for companion animal welfare reform, I am going to meet with my delegate to express my alarm at the INCREASING numbers of animals euthanized in shelters annually. I am also going to present the 2007 animal welfare initiatives as outlined by the Virginia Voters for Animal Welfare, which will, if implemented, reduce these numbers. It is clear that we will never be able to “rescue” out of this shameful situation, that real reform is required. The future of the millions of companion animals in the United States that will enter the shelter system, that will be killed on our roadways, that will die alone and neglected, is everyone’s responsibility. Please sign this petition and show your support for animal welfare reform: end euthanization by gas chamber; mandatory spay/neuter with stiff fines for non-compliance; stricter regulations for breeders… [Read more...]

Stop Breed Specific Legislation! Save the Pitbull!!

This is about California legislation being passed to exterminate pit bulls. If it passes in California, it could be on it’s way to anywhere. Someone has to try to make a difference…what if it were your pet? Punish the deed, not the breed. These animals need our help. Please sign this petition to stop the extermination. These animals deserve it!!! [Read more...]

HB 4612

Bill Description: If passed, this bill would require retailers to ensure that young parrots are weaned — able to eat on their own — before the animals are sold to consumers. In addition, the bill establishes basic sanitation, veterinary care and housing standards for birds in pet shops. [Read more...]

Wildlife Conservation

Save the Seneca White Deer

The former Seneca Army Depot is now closed after many decades of providing munitions for various military campaigns to help keep American free. In the 1950’s, the first white deer were seen within the Depot and due to military protection, proper habitat management and an annual, managed hunt, today constitute the world’s largest herd of white deer. This crown jewel of a natural resource, if properly managed, can bring significant economic growth to Seneca County and the Finger Lakes. [Read more...]

Environmental Issues

Urgent: Congress to Vote on Energy, Show Them Where You Stand!

During the first 100 legislative hours of the new Congress, House leaders have pledged to pass key bills affecting the everyday lives of all Americans. One of these bills, which Congress is slated to vote on soon, would increase investment in renewable energy and begin the path to energy independence. [Read more...]

Tell Congress to Reject ExxonMobil’s Tactics and Take Real Action on Global Warming!

For years, ExxonMobil has been undermining science and casting doubt on the facts about global warming — just like the tobacco industry tried to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking. On January 3, the Union of Concerned Scientists released a new report documenting ExxonMobil’s use of Big Tobacco tactics to delay meaningful action on global warming. It’s time to call on the new Congress to reject ExxonMobil’s disinformation campaign. Tell your senators and representative to eliminate billions of dollars in tax breaks for major oil companies and support bills that ensure reductions in global warming pollution. [Read more...]

Save Cockpit Country, Jamaica

Cockpit Country is a mountainous, forested area of western Jamaica, rich in biodiversity and home to the Leeward Maroons of Jamaica. Its landscape of steep-sided hills and deep, round valleys eroded from the limestone bedrock is an outstanding example of karst topography. The wet limestone forest of Cockpit Country is Jamaica’s largest remaining primary forest and a refuge for rare Jamaican animals such as the Black-billed parrot and the Giant Swallow-tail butterfly, and more than 60 endemic plants. [...] A renewed interest in prospecting for bauxite and limestone in the Cockpit Country has sparked a campaign led by a wide cross-section of local and overseas Jamaicans – the Cockpit Country Stakeholders’ Group – to protect this unique area. Mining in Cockpit Country would destroy the natural, cultural and archaeological resources of Cockpit Country that are virtually untapped as a source of sustainable livelihoods, especially eco- and heritage tourism, for many rural communities of Jamaica. [Read more...]

Close Entergy’s Failing Indian Point Nuclear Reactors

Entergy’s Indian Point Reactors are aging, decaying nuclear reactors that are contaminating the Hudson River with radioactive contaminants from leaking fuel rod storage facilities…our health is at risk, and we need you, Congressman Maurice Hinchey and others in Washington, DC to opposed the relicensing of these facilities, and to call for the full close and decommissioning of same. [Read more...]

Hemp for a sustainable future

Signors of this petition agree that Hemp could alleviate environmental concerns, as well as produce products we’ve become accustomed to. Hemp was one of America’s original natural resources, and should be treated as such. Therefore, it is our opinion that implementing the use of hemp should be top priority. Past Hemp studies have produced nothing, and it is the responsibility of the government to provide all the best alternatives for our country. [Read more...]

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Normally, I’d save this for Sunday’s weekly petition digest, but according to the petition author, the case is set to be heard tomorrow, on January 9. So, chop chop!

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Support Michael Herring, Richmond VA, Commonwealth Attorneys Office to Prosecute Dog Fighter

Stacey Miller of Richmond is charged with the crime of dog fighting. His case will be heard on Jan. 9 and 10, 2007. Michael, Herring, Commonwealth’s Attorney of Richmond, is prosecuting the case. Let Mr. Herring know how important a conviction and heavy penalty are to you. [Read more...]

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UPDATE, 1/25/07:

PETA2 reports that POM has finally agreed to stop testing their products on animals. More here.

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Animal Abuse

Prosecute Shannon Devon Wright

Wright faces felony charges stemming from authorities’ repored October 23 discovery of the remains of Snoop, her dog, outside her Lambert Street home. Officials evidently found the dead dog caged near a bowl of fecal matter and dirt; he did not have access to food or water. Investigators concluded that the emaciated dog died of multiple organ failure, malnutrition, and dehydration, according to news sources. [Read more...] [More information on this case is available from Pet-Abuse. com.]

Canine brutally stabbed needs your help to bring justice

Brownie, a friendly neighborhood dog in Kaohsiung (Taiwan) was brutally stabbed on Oct. 26th, 2006. A suspect was recorded on surveillance camera chasing Brownie prior to the attack. The suspect was interviewed, but no further investigation was conducted by the police. [Read more...]

HELP!! MAN CHAINSAWS AND TORTURES DOG!!

Saying he saw “the devil in the dog’s eyes,” a 41-year-old Monson man was arraigned in Palmer District Court yesterday for animal cruelty after he attacked a mixed-breed dog with a chain saw, nearly severing one of its paws….The dog, a 6-year-old female named Duke, was euthanized at Springfield’s Boston Road Animal Hospital, said Monson Police Chief Stephen Kozloski Jr. [Read more...]

THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT, 1960 NEEDS ITS REVIEW & AMENDMENTS

THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT, 1960 NEEDS ITS REVIEW & AMENDMENTS IN INDIA NOW. THE PUNISHMENT UNDER THE WHOLE ACT IS VERY MINOR, LESSER & THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS ACT IS NOT VERY MUCH EFFECTIVE DUE TO ITS CLASSIFICATION OF COGNIZABLE OFFENCES. THE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES & THE PUBLIC IN INDIA REQUIRES MORE AWARENESS ABOUT THIS ACT. [Read more...]

Animals As Clothing

Tell JCPenney to Go Faux

JCPenney knows about the suffering that goes into every fur-trimmed coat, hat, or bag, yet it continues sell real fur. Other top retailers including Polo Ralph Lauren, J.Crew, Jones Apparel, Ann Taylor, and others—that have already adopted permanent fur-free policies. Please sign this petition to tell JCPenney that animals’ pain is not ours to sell. [Read more...]

Animals As Entertainment

Help Spanish Dogs

The dogs are mostly used for hunt and dog races. After one to three seasons, the dogs are dumped in the most horrible ways. They are hung by their necks to a tree, gasoline poured over them and set to fire, buried alive or towed to a driving car untillthey die. If they are lucky they get left behind on the street – with a large possibility of getting hit by a car. These street dogs sometimes have the privilege to be brought to a center or shelter. Sometimes they even get adopted. [Read more...]

Animals As Food

I do not want to eat cloned animals!

We the undersigned, believe that cloning animals for food is dangerous and wrong. We disagree with the recent FDA decision that states “meat and milk from clones … [is] as safe to eat as food from conventionally bred animals.” The FDA has said that food products from cloned animals will likely contain no special labeling – making it likely that we all will consume cloned animal products without realizing it. This is unfair, unjust, and simply wrong. [Read more...]

Ask Dunkin’ Donuts to Offer Soymilk!

America runs on Dunkin, that’s true. But what about those of us who choose the more compassionate, healthy lifestyle? Dunkin’ Donuts, as of now, does not offer soymilk. Starbucks, on the other hand, has been offering it for years. Now, I am not asking anyone to stop drinking milk (although it is a good idea). I simply want healthier alternatives for the DD consumers who choose the alternative lifestyle. [Read more...]

Animals As Pests

Don’t Strip ESA Protections From Wolves in WY and ID

Soon, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to release a proposal to strip wolves of crucial Endangered Species Act protections across most of Wyoming and de-list wolves in Idaho, where the state is poised to kill up to 75% of the wolves living in the Lolo district of the Clearwater National Forest. This proposal could allow the use of aerial gunning and other lethal control methods to kill as many as two-thirds of the wolves in Wyoming and as many as 54 of Idaho’s 65 wolf packs! [Read more...]

URGENT: Urge Illinois Municipality to Pull Cruel Beaver Traps Immediately

Whistleblowers have just informed PETA that the village of Orland Park has set conibear and/or leg-hold (body-gripping) traps in several local ponds in order to drown families of beavers. The body-gripping traps used by trappers to capture and kill beavers cause immeasurable suffering. Death by drowning is also extremely cruel and is condemned by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) in its “2000 Report of the AVMA Panel on Euthanasia” (Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 218 (5): 696). It can take up to 24 minutes for beavers to drown. Imagine beavers’ terror as they struggle and fight against the body-gripping traps and suffer from lacerations and internal injuries. Such trapping is a cruel and ineffective way to resolve perceived problems with beavers. [Read more...]

Animals As Pets

Ban the Selling Of Animals On MySpace

This petition has been created to show the owner of MySpace how many people are concerned about the sale of animals on MySpace. Responsible breeders would not sell puppies or kittens through Myspace, and by allowing anyone to post animals on MySpace, unethical breeders are able to access millions of people with their ads. Help us put a stop to these breeders using MySpace as a venue for the selling of animals. Let Myspace know how you feel by signing and commenting on this petition. [Read more...]

Brookhaven Animal shelter reform needed-Help stop the euthanizing of animals & mislabled dogs!!

In light of the most recent issue with a golden retriever that was labeled as “food aggressive.” The golden had a few rescue groups that were trying to get the dog out of the shelter and were willing to work with her. What started as a “small nip” from a dog turned into a “dog that was out to kill.” The shelter claimed the dog was “food aggressive,” which is common among many breeds. However, when rescue groups went in to help this dog, the pound would not release the animal, but did assure everyone that the dog would not be euthanized until it was evaluated with a particular person. Everyone believed the dog would be safe. But instead, the shelter decided to euthanize the dog, WHILE assuring to rescue people that the dog was safe. [Read more...]

SAY NO TO THE PROPOSED BREED BAN IN NEW YORK

We, the undersigned, oppose the proposal to ban Pit Bulls in NYC, and would like to see it defeated.
NYC Councilman Peter Vallone is trying to ban pit bulls from city pet owners (by way of repealing a “state law prohibiting breed-specific legislation”.) Breed Bans ARE NOT the answer!! [Read more...]

Animals As Research Subjects

Make POM Juice Company STOP testing on animals!

The pomegranite juice company, POM Wonderful, tests the good, and not so good effects of its juice on animals (such as mice, rabbits, dogs, etc.) by cutting their arteries, depriving them of oxygen in order to cause severe brain damage, and mutilating their inner organs (while the animals are living). I do not see a reasonable point to these experiments, and would like to see them end. [Read more...]

Environmental Issues

Make “Climate Change, Global Warming and Saving the Planet” Our Top Priority

It’s time we make “Climate Change, Global Warming, and Saving the Planet” this country’s top priority! Ask the new Congress to act now to protect our sacred earth. If we don’t accomplish this, all other problems and concerns won’t matter. [Read more...]

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Animal Abuse

URGENT! Please help Bobo, the dog dragged behind his owner’s SUV

I need some help on behalf of a little dog dragged behind his owner’s SUV. I am a TN resident who has watched with great interest as well as great horror the developments in Bobo’s tragic story of being dragged behind his owner’s SUV for a mile. Link to story: www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=40677. I called LaFollette Veterinary Services (providing medical care for Bobo), and was told that his owner, Susan Baird not only didn’t show any remorse when confronted by an animal control officer, but she has not checked on her dog since his trauma, and Bobo has endured several surgeries already, including 2 surgeries just to re-attach his ears. When the animal control officer notified Susan Baird of the little 10 pound dog attached by a leash to the trailer hitch of her SUV, she removed the leash from her dog and made him get into her SUV unassisted. She is charged with animal cruelty, a misdemeanor. [Read more...]

Stop “TERRORISM” against Wild Animals in India

In what must surely rank as one of the most brutal and insensitive cases of animal torture in India, a Himalayan Black Bear (Moon Bear) was encircled by a group of villagers in Pir Panjar in Jammu and Kashmir who stoned, hammered and eventually set the animal on fire alive. [Read more...]

Animals As Food

KFC Cruelty – We do chickens Wrong

PETA is asking KFC to eliminate the worst abuses that chickens suffer on the factory farms and in the slaughterhouses of its suppliers, including live scalding, life-long crippling, and painful debeaking. The more than 850 million chickens killed each year for KFC are tortured in ways that would result in felony cruelty-to-animals charges if cats or dogs were the victims, but KFC still refuses to make changes. As the leader in the chicken industry, KFC has a responsibility to ensure that the chickens raised for its buckets are protected from the worst cruelties. [Read more...]

Petition to Ban Horse Slaughter in the United States

Please sign this petition to end horse slaughter in the United States. Let our Government know how many people are against this atrocity. Evidently, our “screams” were not loud enough last year! [Read more...]

Make cat and dog meat illegal for consumption

HM King Bhumiphol has expressed a wish on his 79th birthday that this year mercy and compassion be given to all animals, especially his beloved street dogs. Please make a law [in Thailand] to protect our companion animals as a gift to HM for his 80th birthday 5 Dec. 2007. [Read more...]

Animals As Pets

JAPAN’S CATS & DOGS NEED OUR HELP

The public finally has to become informed about the living situation of our animal friends in High-Tec-Japan. There have been several reports about whale-hunting and dolphin massacres for many years. However, not only whales and dolphins suffer and die, slaughtered by humans, but also many other species. They haven’t been taken into account yet by the international animal welfare organizations or animal rights associations, because outside of Japan none or only very few facts about their sad destiny are known by the people. [Read more...]

Wildlife / Conservation

Save The Gorillas-Stop poaching and help efforts to stop ebola breakout

There has been a recent outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. It has killed 5,000 gorillas, and the species faces extinction, especially due to hunting of the animal. This petitions goal is to express the concern for the animal, and in hopes bring the issue into the spotlight and help put an end to the mistreatment of the gorillas, and help bring more research for the disease,and in time, stopping the outbreak. [Read more...]

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Animal Abuse

Fatally Injured Dog Received No Veterinary Care

On November 14, a Fort Worth city police officer—who claimed that a stray dog charged at him repeatedly—reportedly shot “several rounds from his handgun striking the animal.” The dog, later identified as a family’s companion named Bud, was reportedly shot in the head and the chest. According to TV news reports and city officials, the dying dog was left alone at the city’s animal shelter without care for several hours, during which time he surely suffered horribly. Bud died slowly, most likely from blood loss, organ damage, and/or shock. [Read more...]

Animals As Entertainment

SOS: Elephants are not ‘Party Animals’

The new french consul Philippe Martinet and his wife, Benedicte Alliot, welcomed their
guests into their new house with a live pink elephant. The elephant, standing in the narrow driveway of their new house, stood for more than four hours without water or feeding with his mahout perched on his head using his hooked stick to keep the animal from moving. The elephant and mahout waited with similar glassy expressions and drained eyes while the glittering guests wound their way into a manicured lawn to an open bar, loud dj’s urging guests to the dance floor. [Read more...]

Animals As Food

Dolphins and Porpoises are Being Needlessly Slaughtered

Right now, Japanese fishermen are killing thousands of dolphins and porpoises as part of their annual hunt. Between October and April, more than 20,000 of these graceful creatures will be slaughtered. Speak out against this barbaric and unnecessary practice now! [Read more...]

Boycott Canadian seafood to stop the seal hunt

Red Lobster purchases more Canadian seafood than any other restaurant or chain. If they join the Canadian seafood boycott, this will have a huge impact. Parent company Darden management’s responses to requests to join the boycott are feeble attempts at playing dumb. Darden management at various times has claimed that they don’t understand why they have been targeted, asserted that they “don’t serve seal meat”, and have claimed that they don’t buy seafood from Newfoundland and don’t want other companies that may not be directly involved in sealing to be affected. We know that their participation is very important and that the boycott would end much sooner were they to join. [Read more...]

Environmental Issues

Protect Wildlife in Bristol Bay from Oil Drilling

The Bristol Bay is home to endangered Northern Pacific right whales and Steller sea lions. It is also one of the world’s most productive fishing grounds, with and important snow crab fishery and the planet’s largest sockeye salmon run. But President Bush has a different vision for this precious piece of the Pacific: he wants to turn it over to profit-rich Big Oil, lifting a moratorium that has been in place since the disastrous Exxon Valdez spill. [Read more...]

Save Alaska’s Bristol Bay

Alaska’s Bristol Bay supports the largest sockeye salmon population in the world and is rich in wildlife including moose, brown bear and caribou. The surrounding wild lands are beautiful and pristine, which is what makes this area so uncommonly vital to wildlife and a thriving fishing and tourism economy. But Bristol Bay is threatened by plans for the largest open-pit gold and copper mine in North America, Pebble Mine, to be situated in the Bay’s backcountry headwaters. [Read more...]

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Wow! This week has been such a slow one as far as petitions go, I almost feel silly posting a petition “digest” with just three links. So…you really don’t have an excuse for taking action this week, folks!

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Animals As Food

Ask Tim Horton’s to Offer Soy Milk

This petition is to show the owners of Tim Horton’s that enough people want soy milk as an alternative to cows milk, to make it worth their while to offer it. [Read more...]

Environmental Issues

Thank Victoria’s Secret For It’s Environmental Promise

Great news! The DIRTY secret got out, consumers spoke up, and Victoria’s Secret realized there is nothing SEXY about forest destruction. Care2′s partner ForestEthics and Victoria’s Secret have reached a landmark agreement…Let’s make sure they keep up the good work. Send the CEO of Victoria’s Secret a nice big THANK YOU and let him know that his efforts are not going unnoticed. [Read more...]

Get Recycling at Russell Sage College!

By signing this petition, you are showing your support for a recycling program for paper products at Russell Sage College. As a part of our Women Changing the World Project, we have investigated the costs and benefits of recycling on this campus to find some startling facts. (For students of Russell Sage College only!) [Read more...]

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Animals As Entertainment

Saving Lolita

Lolita is an Orca Whale surviving at the Miami Seaquarium. She lives in the smallest and oldest tank built for killer whales and she has been there for nearly 40 years, the past 25 years she has been alone. Her previous mate killed himself 25 years ago, by thrashing his head against the wall of their tiny tank. Lolita is a 20 foot long Orca whale living in an 18 foot deep tank, imagine living inside a bathtub all your life. She has no protection from the hot Miami sun, and other than two performances a day, no exercise. Lolita often spends time in between shows expressing signs of boredom and depression. This petition aims to bring Lolita to a better, more suitable home. [Read more...]

Animals As Food

Request an immediate Senate Vote on S. 1915 – The Ban on Horse Slaughter for Human Consumption

We the undersigned request that our U.S. Senators bring S. 1915, aka AHSPA, to a vote before the 109th Senate adjourns. Thousands of people have been working diligently to stop horse slaughter in the United States. American citizens have given their time and money to end this atrocity in our country, and we no longer want our country to be associated with this barbaric and inhumane practice that only benefit very few in the United States and Europe. We ask that S. 1915 immediately be sent to the floor of the Senate for consideration. [Read more...]

Save Our Whales – Stop Japan’s Slaughter Now!

As an Independent councilor and in partnership with Whale Call, I am sponsoring a shire wide petition to demonstrate this community’s outrage at Japan’s killing of the very same humpback whales we see migrating off our Central Coast beaches. This petition will be tabled at the Japanese embassy. [Read more...]

TO EDUCATE THE JAPANESE PUBLIC THROUGH THE USE OF GLOBAL SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIPS

Whale Call is a peak Australian based international environmental organization, which is concerned about matters of the conservation of the oceans and protection and research of whales and dolphins, and opposes any slaughter of whales and dolphins of any species whatsoever, and of the over-exploitation of ocean fish stocks. A plea to inform the Japanese public to lobby their respective Prefectures, Governments and the Japanese Royal Family to put a halt to the unnecessary slaughter of whales, dolphins and ocean fish stocks. [Read more...]

Pigs in Pain

GAIA opposes the castration of piglets carried out without anaesthesia. This very painful procedure is carried out for economic reasons and should be prohibited by legislation. [Read more...]

Animals As Game

Boycott Troy Gentry for Killing “Cubby” the Black Bear

The purpose of this petition is to boycott Troy Lee Gentry, Country Western singer (Montgomery Gentry duo), for killing “Cubby” a domesticized black bear in a pre-arranged “canned” killing on November 28th in the bears 3 acre pen attached to a wilderness area. In addition, Mr. Gentry lied in registering with the Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources in which he claimed to be hunting in the larger wilderness area attached to the penned area where Cubby was located. [Read more...]

Ban Blood Sports in Ireland

We, the undersigned, call on you to urgently outlaw hare coursing, fox hunting, carted deer hunting, mink hunting, hare hunting and all forms of hunting animals with hounds. These cruel blood sports have no place in a modern and civilised country like Ireland. [Read more...]

Animals As Pets

The Slaughter of innocent cats and dogs

South Korea plans to kill cats and dogs to try and prevent the spread of bird flu after an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus at a chicken farm last week. “Animal health experts, suggest it is ["a bit of an extreme measure"] since there is NO scientific evidence that suggests that cats or dogs can pass the virus to humans”. South Korea plans to slaughter pigs, all dogs, and cats in the outbreak site in Iksan by Thursday 11/30/06 .Tell South Korea that this is not the right step in the prevention of a Bird Flu outbreak. [Read more...]

Animals As Research Subjects

Release Wenka and the Elder Chimpanzees

The United States is the biggest user of chimpanzees in research – an estimated 1,300. Many have been in research for decades. The oldest known is Wenka – she is 52. After nearly 50 years, it’s time for her and the other elders to retire so they can spend their remaining days in peace and comfort. [Read more...]

Environmental Issues

German Ridge

The proposed “German Ridge Restoration Project” would clearcut 355 acres, shelterwood cut 120 acres, and thin 215 acres for a total of 685 acres of logging. The proposed timber sale also authorizes the building of two miles of new roads, the building of two miles of temporary roads, and the reconstruction of nine miles of existing roads. The project further authorizes prescribed burning of 2,170 acres, in one of the most popular recreation areas in the forest, an area known to be used by Indiana bats, and would likely add even more pollution to an area of Indiana that is already a nonattainment area for particulate matter. This is the first project the Forest Service is attempting to implement under the new Hoosier Forest Plan, which is still pending appeal from several environmental groups and individuals. [Read more...]

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Animals As Clothing

Please Ban the Import of Sealskin to the UK

Please ban the import of sealskin to the UK immediately. This could help put a stop to the annual cruel slaughter of seal pups on the ice floes of Canada. [Read more...]

Animals As Entertainment

Stop Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey’s Circus, one city at a time!

Circus promoters claim they only use positive reinforcement and rewards to train their animals but in reality elephants don’t stand on top of each other, tigers don’t jump through rings of fire, and bears certainly do not ride bicycles naturally. Whips, chains, electric prods, and bullhooks are circus animal trainers “tools of their trade”. These trainers aim their “tools” directly at the most sensitive parts of the animals body. [Read more...]

Animals As Pets

STOP OFFICIAL CRUELTY AGAINST THE ANIMALS IN THE ANTI-RABIES CENTERS!

The people and Animal Protection Associations (APAs) signing this petition declare our dissatisfaction with the methods used by government agencies to control the overpopulation of domestic animals in the anti-rabies, canine and feline control centers. [Read more...]

Environmental Issues

Tell Wells Fargo to stop funding dirty energy

Wells Fargo, one of America’s largest banks, is a top financier of destructive oil, coal, logging, and mining operations that contribute to global warming, ecosystem destruction, and human rights abuses. The corrupt power of their finances funds organizations that have worked to rollback forest, endangered species and clean water protections devastating eco-systems and communities from Alaska to Appalachia. [Read more...]

Encourage International Paper to Fix Our Paper Packaging Problem

Packaging symbolizes the disposable society we have become. More than half of all paper produced in the United States is used in paper packaging. As a result, in the U.S. we generate 300 pounds of packaging waste per person each year and 32% of the entire domestic waste stream consists of containers and packaging. Because the Southern U.S. is the largest paper producing region in the world, and more than half of all paper production goes to paper packaging, our society’s decisions about packaging directly impact Southern forests. [Read more...]

Border Fauna in danger of Extinction

On October 26, 2006, Bush signed a bill approving the construction of 1,100 kilometers (700 miles) of new fences on the border with Mexico. This border will affect the migratory routes, water supplies and natural passages of endangered wildlife such as the Jaguar, Black Bear, Bison, Black-tailed Prairie Dog, Desert Pronghorn Antelope, Bighorn Sheep, Mexican Wolf, Puma, as well as several species of Fox, Deer and Wild Cats. In other words, this fence would put these species at even greater risk of extinction. [Read more...]

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