88 Articles match "United States"

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  Keith, Here is an online ethics and animals class I developed for the Humane Society of the United States. Perhaps its content would be useful for your readers. Thanks Nathan Nobis , Ph.D
  Animal Ethics - Thursday, May 8, 2008
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  It's not that different from the rest of Latin America, but Puerto Rico is part of the United States. There's no excuse for them not to be on par with at least the worst US state. ...Tags: I really like this group and donate to them. Puerto Rico's animal welfare is pathetic. Tags: puerto rico animal
  Critter News - Sunday, November 29, 2009
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• HSUS Offers Reward in Grizzly Poaching Case
  
  The Humane Society of the United States and The HSUS Wildlife Land Trust are offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the illegal killing of a grizzly bear found dead in Ashton Reservoir near Ashton, Idah The Humane Society is offering a 2500.00 reward for the poaching of a Grizzly in Idaho.
  Critter News - Thursday, January 22, 2009
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• Update on National Meat Association vs. Brown
  
  The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently heard arguments in National Meat Association v. coalition of animal protection groups consisting of the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Farm Sanctuary, and the Humane Farming Association (HFA), intervened in the case to ensure that the interests of animals and the public were represented. ...Tags: Did anyone know this was going on? Brown, a case in which the meat industry is attempting to invalidate a California law designed to reduce animal
  Critter News - Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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• Legal Efforts to Dismiss the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act
  
  The defense demanded that the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) be struck down as unconstitutional before Judge Ronald Whyte of the United States District Court, Northern District of California in San Jose. I found this on the Twin Cities Indy Media blog.... On July 13th, defense attorneys for Joseph Buddenberg, Maryam Khajavi, Nathan Pope and Adriana Stumpo (the AETA 4) presented oral arguments on their motion to dismiss the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.
  Critter News - Wednesday, July 29, 2009
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• Activists in Canada Found Not Guilty of Getting to Close to Seal Slaughter
  
  They are representatives of Humane Society International and Humane Society of the United States. ...Tags: That's good news . A judge has found five animal-rights activists not guilty of getting too close to seal hunters during the 2006 hunt off Canada's east coast.
  Critter News - Friday, October 17, 2008
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• Hamsters Celebrate 70 Years in the US
  
  Sadly, though, some 200,000 hamsters were used for research in the United States in 2000, third behind rats and mice. ...Tags: Interesting article. Prior to the 1930s, hamsters were pretty much in the wild. Prior to the 1970s, virtually all were descended from one breeding pair.
  Critter News - Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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• From Today's New York Times
  
  Of that, most goes toward conservation in the United States and Europe, and only a fraction is spent to protect tropical forests. The United States is losing its historic leadership position in international nature conservation, as countries like Germany, Norway, Britain and others have made financial pledges that begin to dwarf United States yearly financing rates to address deforestation and species conservation. To the Editor: “ Watching the Numbers and Charting the Losses—of Species ,” by Verlyn Klinkenborg (Editorial Observer, Oct. 15), is precisely
  Animal Ethics - Thursday, October 23, 2008
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• Senator Maria Cantwell Receives Award for Animal Welfare Work
  
  She is a US Senator from our home state of Washington. My husband worked for her years and years ago, when she was just a State representative. The Humane Society of the United States cited Senator Cantwell’s efforts to improve marine mammal rescue capability, including such challenges as disentangling marine mammals from fishing nets. Tags: State U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) received the Humane Society’s Legislative Leader award for her leadership in protecting animals.
  Critter News - Monday, March 8, 2010
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• US a Hub for Eatin' Them Endangered Species
  
  Be warned there's a horrific picture of a cooked monkey head in this article.) From Alternet.org... "The United States is one of the world's largest, if not the largest, consuming nations for wildlife products. And here I've been yelling at China all this time. (Be This includes wildlife used for food, whether for cultural reasons or luxury markets," says Leigh Henry, a senior policy officer for the World Wildlife Fund and the international wildlife-trade monitoring network TRAFFIC. "Since
  Critter News - Thursday, February 18, 2010
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