Critter News

AUGUST 30, 2012

Mexico's first "anti-bullfighting" town has signed a petition calling on the United Nations to approve a universal declaration on animal welfare. Teocelo, a town of 15,000 inhabitants, last month became the first Mexican municipality to ban bullfighting and other events that involve animal mistreatment or cruelty.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The Great Elephant Census found that populations of Savanna Elephants Loxodonta africana have fallen by 30% between 2007 and 2014 (around 144,000 animals poached or population shrunk at a rate of 8% a year, a level higher than their reproduction rate; source https://peerj.com/articles/2354.pdf And it gave me a hope.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Despite efforts by animal rights activists to stop this hunt, it is scheduled to continue. New Jersey’s first bear hunt in five years is just a week away and set to go on as planned despite a last-ditch effort by several animal rights organizations to have the hunt postponed. That really sucks. It's a cull to "control the population."

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

A federal judge for the first time in US history has heard arguments in a case that could determine whether animals enjoy the same constitutional protection against slavery as human beings. when the constitution was adopted.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2020

For starters, the official national animal is the unicorn, a fairy-tale beast chosen by Scottish royalty in the Middle Ages for its reputation as the natural enemy of the lion, the adopted mascot of English kings. Pair of Golden Eagles (1899) by Scottish painter Archibald Thornburn (1860-1935).

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 26, 2011

After talking to the owner of the shelter however, I learned there was more to adopting little Chester, or any pet for that matter, than my love at first bark. Before visiting the local animal shelter, I should have done some background research. Protect your pooch. Don’t let the dog eat your homework.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 22, 2011

Aside from the breed’s abuses, one finds that adopting out this breed is highly difficult. It may feel threatened, and animals that feel threatened instinctually protect themselves. Another option is to call your local Human Society or Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, also known as the SPCA.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Boone Pickens said {November 18} that she would create a refuge for wild horses, after the federal agency that manages them said it might have to kill some to control the herds and protect the Western range. Horses that are too old or not adoptable by the public are sent to long-term holding facilities.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 19, 2009

When I designed my first website several years ago ( Aimee’s Animals ) the goal was to help animals find homes. The internet evolved, and this site was created with a bigger, better vision, but the goal remained the same… help animals find homes through promoting rescue groups. We are involved in Crest-Care , Inc.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. The animal rights movement is not for the faint of heart. How we change the dominant misconception of animals—indeed, whether we change it—is to a large extent a political question.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 9, 2010

See OCEANS, Save Oceans ” is an initiative developed with The Nature Conservancy where a portion of each ticket sold for the film’s opening week April 22-28 will help establish new marine protected areas in The Bahamas. “We The Nature Conservancy and its more than 1 million members have protected nearly 120 million acres worldwide.

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Reddit Animals

MAY 16, 2021

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

The program has been successful enough that some of the birds have been released back into protected areas in California, Arizona, and across the border in Baja, but the species is still far from out of the woods. Thailand’s Adopt a Vulture Program – YC Wee, Bird Ecology Study Group. Old Wold Vultures. Assorted Vultures.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

The kiwi (note, Maori loanwords do not get an ‘s’ when made plural) were first used as logos in the 19th century, and were quickly adopted as a a national emblem before the turn of the century. They are commonest where they are intensively protected and managed, but these places are often remote and hard to visit.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2007

People who adopt from animal shelters will tell you that it’s not only a rewarding experience, but also that shelters are filled with a smorgasbord of the most amazing, delightful, intelligent dogs you’ll ever find on the planet. You can find purebreds, mixed breeds and designer dogs. Sherrill Durbin Tulsa, Okla.,

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 10, 2007

Yes, concentrated animal feeding operations, or “factory farms” as you call them, are a key feature of modern agriculture. Producers like me are ready to comply with tough new Environmental Protection Agency regulations that protect the nation’s water supply, by adopting a policy of zero discharge into rivers and streams.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. To that end, the principals have created a terrific site called Conserving the Future: Refuges and the Next Generation to elicit votes and comments.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I suspect that many regular readers of Animal Ethics are already vegetarians. That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. I shall endeavor to protect and take care of all living creatures.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

He also had tigers, cougars, and some other animals. This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing. Smaller and larger animals (if there are any) are taken by other creatures. That part of the carnivore landscape is taken by other animals.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It sounds like they are calling for an animal abuse equivalent of the sex offender registry. Wouldn't you want to know if a violent or repeat animal abuser were living next door to you and your family? Communities have good reason to be concerned about the whereabouts of animal abusers. Keep your animals and your families safe.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 9, 2014

And because I adopted him as a 6-week-old kitten when I was 15 and he turns 17 in 2014, I have lived with him longer than I lived without him. The post Fancy Feasts (For Fabulous Floors) appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals. In case you can’t already tell, I absolutely adore The Boy. In short, I’d do anything for him.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

And, Fuller should know; he has spent his career producing books about extinct birds and mammals, including the recent Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record, from his home in England. Fuller is also a photographer, but his web page notes that he seldom takes photographs of birds or animals.). Nature can be complicated.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009?

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Funny lady Ellen DeGeneres and rescue group Farm Sanctuary both want you to Adopt-A-Turkey this Thanksgiving! So, this Thanksgiving instead of eating a turkey, please join me in adopting one from Farm Sanctuary’s Adopt-A-Turkey Project and you can give a turkey something to be thankful for.”

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 1, 2010

I’d always wanted a dog, and we had talked about adopting one for a while. Protect them from the sun. Personally, I know I can’t spend more than five minutes outside without a thick layer of sunscreen to protect my pale Irish skin. Talk to your vet about the best type of sunscreen or any other sun protection for your pet.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Europe banned the use of great apes in animal testing Wednesday as part of drastically tightened rules to scale back the number of animals used in scientific research. And they must work at "reducing levels of pain inflicted on animals.". Tags: chimpanzees europe animal research apes primates.

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