Critter News
JANUARY 26, 2009
First wolves, then polar bears, now beluga whales. And those are just the endangered animals (remember the turkey being ground up during her tv interview?) The State of Alaska has worked cooperatively with the federal government to protect and conserve beluga whales in Cook Inlet," Palin said last week.
Critter News
OCTOBER 6, 2008
Whale Wars will air on Animal Planet in early 2009. I don't get animal planet, but hopefully I can find it on Pirate Bay or someplace after it airs.
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Critter News
APRIL 25, 2010
So, remember the incident in which an orca whale attacked and killed its trainer at Sea World? I sincerely hope this leads to a change in law regarding animals in captivity. At a minimum, they should stop the captivity of orca whales. Tags: Sea World captivity marine animals legislation Orcas congress.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2016
“Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.” (“Antarctica” by Kim Stanley Robinson, 1998). Sperm Whales prey on Toothfish and large squid and in February 2007, a 10-metre (32.8 Enough History – Back to the Future.
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. Advertisement: Story continues below "This case is on the next frontier of civil rights," said PETA lawyer Jeffrey Kerr, representing the five orcas.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 9, 2012
Full story posted on Global Animal and from the Huffington Post. Do whales deserve constitutional protection against slavery? On February 8, a federal judge said ‘no,’ stopping a historic case filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals against SeaWorld for violating the 13th Amendment on slavery. On Wednesday, U.S.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 30, 2012
The legal rights of nonhuman animals might first be achieved in any of three ways. For example, the Treaty of Amsterdam that came into force on May 1, 1999, formally acknowledged that nonhuman animals are “sentient beings” and not merely goods or agricultural products. What is the common law? Why the common law over legislation?
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