Alarm signals
In Wolf’s Clothing
An article from The Economist
Nov 19th 2009
Wolves are being blamed for damage actually done by dogs
FARMERS have never liked wolves. That is why wolves are rare where farmers are common. Fashion, though, is swinging round to the wolf’s point of view in many places where town-dwellers are even more common than farmers and the big, [...]
Born to die…
Every year, an estimated 5 to 10 million pets are euthanized in animal shelters in the United States. Why? Because there is no place for them to go, no homes for them. Yet, we continue to let animals roam freely, unneutered and producing more unwanted animals. Their offspring often go from birth to the shelter [...]
Crime Doesn’t Pay: Wildlife Hotline Targets Bear Bile
A Wildlife Crime Hotline run by Vietnamese member society Education for Nature (ENV) is getting real results for bears. Tapping into public determination to stop the bear bile trade, tip offs have led to bears being removed from bear farms.
Radio, television and print advertising for the WSPA-funded hotline are clear: the bear bile trade is based on extreme cruelty and buying or selling products made from bears is illegal.
Bloody Waters
What you see below has nothing to do with surgery. It’s pure slaughter.
Photos of the Faroe Islands whale slaughter , taken by Mark Cox.
Animal rights activists or extremists
In September, Dutch daily De Telegraaf warned that an extreme animal
rights group had move its operations to the Netherlands to target
Euronext Amsterdam (the Dutch branch of NYSE Euronext exchange group),
other financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies and shops that
sell fur.
Meanwhile, the ‘NYSE Euronext bomb squad’ have claimed on an animal
rights website that it placed six explosives under [...]
Animal Testing - Cruel and Unreliable
You may remember that last week I sent you an e-mail in which I wrote about the terrible plight of Daisy, a dog who was fed a “plant growth regulator” in a gruesome laboratory experiment.
I’m sure you were as horrified as I was when I learned that this toxic substance was given with her food, [...]
Philadelphia Zoo’s Plans to Subject Elephants to Life-Threatening Breeding Procedure
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, [...]