World Wildlife News

Last year, PETA discovered that POM was funding outrageous experiments on animals in order to make health claims about its products. It’s hard to imagine why a company that makes pomegranate juice would be testing on animals, but what we learned was shocking. In one experiment, balloons were inflated into live rabbits to study erectile dysfunction! In another experiment, baby mice were suffocated to the point of brain damage and then had their heads cut off. Those are just a couple of the tests that POM was funding.

We immediately contacted POM, urging the company to abandon all tests using animals, but after being told by the company that it would continue to fund animal tests, we had no choice but to launch a full-fledged boycott campaign. After enduring just a few months of PETA’s public education campaign about POM’s deadly tests, POM has decided to stop funding and conducting animal tests.

In a letter to PETA, Matt Tupper, POM president and CEO, stated: “Neither POM Wonderful nor its related entities provide funding for ongoing animal testing on POM Juice (or POM Tea). Moreover, there are no plans to do so in the future.”

This is a huge victory for animals who are being tortured and killed in laboratories, and it exposes just how ridiculous the vivisection industry is as a whole-torturing animals to promote fruit juice! With this announcement, POM joins other compassionate juice companies like Welch’s, Naked, Frutzzo, Old Orchard, Lakewood, and many others that have provided written assurances to PETA affirming that they do not fund or conduct any experiments on animals.

Please thank POM for making the compassionate decision to end all animal tests and for showing that good health never has to come at the expense of animals’ suffering in labs

This famous wonder of the World is part of the wildlife conservation land and depicts hunting scenes and the famous hands paintings made in the caves over 11,000 years ago. The World Wildlife Foundation state that they are privileged to take on the responsibility of conserving these wonders for generations yet to come. Pumas have raised many Puma cubs in these caves. Pumas range over the more than 27 square miles [17,290 acres] of this Conservation Range-Park and so the conservationists are doubly privileged to accept the responsibilities involved.“The Caves of the Painted Hands” are World renowned and generate continuous global publicity from TV, newspapers, academia, artistic comment & [currently] from postage stamps portraying the World famous paintings. The name of the surrounding host conservation range-park would be forevermore associated with “The Caves of the Painted Hands”.

We give our expert time and effort to helping others. For example, some time ago we received a request from a group in northern Iraq [Kurdistan] asking us to help and advise an animal conservation there and to help them to organise themselves. We are happy to do this. We informed the Kurdish group that we will assist them in any organisational way and by co-operation and also we will assist them to gain an international presence. To take things further , we decided to let anyone interested in environment and animal preservation to create a chapter of the World Wildlife Foundation in his/her own city. Drop a line and become an active member.

Did you know that leopards still exist in Iraq? From time to time, we get sightings, however amazing this may sound. These animals must be protected, not hunted down out of selfish reasons.