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Bob Barker Offers to Pay to Move Canadian Elephants to Sanctuary

Critter News

I hope, when I reach their age, I'm as active and effective as Bob Barker and Betty White are in the animal rights movement. Toronto city council voted in October to move the elephants to a facility run by PAWS (Performing Animal Welfare Society) near Galt, Calif., Excerpted from CBC News. called ARK 2000.

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The Inuit Point of View on Polar Bears

Critter News

The Inuit harvest, or hunt, polar bears in Canada. "In In the past, Inuit always considered the WWF Canada as our friend," {Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.'s He said that a lot of Inuit feel betrayed by the animal rights movement, and by some biologists when it comes to polar bears. But not with polar bears."

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On Small Victories

Animal Person

Yesterday's " Do Small Victories Affect Big Picture in Animal Rights Debate? Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans?

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