Archive for October 2008

The following images can be found disturbing. Click for larger view.
Hardly recognisable as being a living animal, this puppy was found collapsed in the middle of the road on the outskirts of Colombo in Sri Lanka. ( October 2008 )
By chance, Kim Cooling and her team from Animal SOS Sri Lanka were travelling along the same [...]

October 28, 2008, Philadelphia: In the wake of last night’s death of pregnant Atlanta Zoo African elephant Dottie, aged 26, outraged local residents request the Philadelphia Zoo to halt plans to breed Kallie and Bette, both 26-year-old African elephants, and instead send them to a sanctuary.   Dottie’s death follows the similar premature death of Mary, [...]

Thank you for letting me join your group. I run a small animal sanctuary in Scotland with currently 66 horses and ponies, 2 cows, nine pigs and numerous rescued dogs and cats, peacocks, hedghogs and any other animal or bird that needs a safe place.

There are plans to build an Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route with a dual carriageway running through our land. We stand to lose 20 acres and the road would have a devastating effect on the sanctuary and on the environment. There is a strong public feeling that the road is not necessary or in the wrong place and a Public Inquiry is being held at the moment, but even if the Reporter recommends that the road should not be built, the Scottish First Minister can overturn his decision.

André Menache is a veterinarian and colleague in the anti-vivisection movement. He has done great work with Animal Aid in the UK, and he now works with Antidote Europe and Claude Reiss.

This video clip is intended to help individuals who want to familiarise themselves with some of the scientific arguments against animal experiments. This presentation reflects 30 years of [...]

In the Guinness Book of Records (GWR) 2009 Edition released this month, Indonesia is once again referred to as the country with the world’s highest rate of deforestation. Citing the FAO’s State of the World’s Forests 2007 (SOFO), the country has “destroyed” its forests at a rate of 1.8 million hectares annually during the period [...]

Last week HSUS staff hosted a private awards ceremony for the family of Buffy, a German Shepherd from Oakland Calif. , who was posthumously named the Valor Dog of the Year, the highest honor in the companion dog category of The HSUS’s inaugural Dogs of Valor Awards.
Buffy’s intervention during a robbery saved her owner’s life [...]

Bruce MacFarlane has been studying salmon for 25 years, and he still sounds amazed when he talks about their evolutionary adaptations.
“It’s a brilliant survival strategy,” he says. “They spend most of their lives in the ocean–it’s a nutrient-rich environment. There’s loads of food. But it’s also a predator-rich environment. So where do they go to [...]

The most comprehensive assessment of the world’s mammals has confirmed an extinction crisis, with almost one in four at risk of disappearing forever, according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, revealed at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona.
The new study to assess the world’s mammals shows at least 1,141 of the 5,487 [...]

Scientists have found lichens can give insight into nitrogen air pollution effects on Sierra Nevada and San Bernardino mountain ecosystems, and protecting them provides safeguards for less sensitive species.

Their findings are presented this month in the international journal Environmental Pollution and are significant because nitrogen from air pollution causes detrimental chemical and biological effects to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Other harmful effects include elevated nitrate concentrations in streams and groundwater, and weakened California forests more susceptible to bark beetle infestations and fires.

Project 10 to the 100th is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.
Good luck, and may those who help the most win.

Science’s understanding of human pain remains simplistic, with no safe and effective analgesia for chronic pain despite decades of animal experiments, according to an article published in international peer-reviewed journal Neuroimage, collaboratively authored by leading pain experts and the Dr Hadwen Trust.

Sometimes it’s hard to make the difference between a painting and a photography. Observe the care for detail and desire to catch the essence of the animal.