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Australian Animal Rights Campaign to Help Calves

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ANIMAL rights groups have begun a campaign against the dairy industry's treatment of bobby calves. Animals Australia has a video on its website showing calves being roughly dragged off utes and thrown to the ground. Animals Australia has a video on its website showing calves being roughly dragged off utes and thrown to the ground.

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Commissioned Study Shows Namibian Seals Worth More Alive than Dead

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These are the results of a study commissioned by Bont voor Dieren (BvD), Humane Society International (HSI), Respect for Animals (RFA) and the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), and produced by the Australia-based independent economics consultancy Economists at Large. Excerpted from PR Newswire.

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One Tree Hill-Dandenong Ranges National Park

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We viewed the memorials to the Kokoda campaign and then we set off on our descent of the hill. We are used to observing Wedge-tailed Eagles in big open skies in the north of Australia or eating carrion on the highway. Birding Australia Australian birds Melbourne parrots' Kokoda memorial-One Tree Hill.

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The Ross Sea – the Last Intact Marine Ecosystem on Earth – and I

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Consequently, the Ross Sea has become a focus of numerous environmental groups who have campaigned for a world marine reserve. In October 2014, during a meeting in Hobart, Australia, the protection of this important region was once again blocked by China and Russia. Back to the Future – the Case for Protection.

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How to Confront Cruelty

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Why and how do people campaign on behalf of a species that is not their own? Readership: This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the animal rights movement in England, the United States and Australia. Sounds interesting.

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The Jewel Hunter: A Book Review About One Birder’s Quest for Pittas and Beer

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Black-faced Pitta is found only on one of the Solomon Islands (northwest of Australia). There go my plans for a 10,000 Birds write-in campaign. (That’s Pitta, people, not Antpitta, which is what I foolishly first envisioned, having never birded beyond the Americas.) The endangered Gurney’s Pitta is losing habitat due to deforestation.

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From Today's New York Times

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No wonder rBGH has been banned in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Anticorporate activists have campaigned against this and other ag biotech products for years in denial of the demonstrated environmental, economic and health benefits. There’s good reason for cynicism. George Entenman Chapel Hill, N.C.,