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How to Confront Cruelty

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I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. 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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Group Seeks to Ban Chinese Fur Trade with Australia

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Humane Society International (HSI) called on Wednesday for a ban on the fur trade to Australia. The call was issued after the animal rights group discovered that the fur were sourced from the raccoon dog in China, ABC Radio Australia reports. The dog fur are used are inside lining for ugg boots.

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Animal Cruelty Database at Pet-Abuse.com

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You can search for all kinds of crimes against animals in the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Spain. Tags: canada australia animal abuse UK new zealand us. There are 14,436 cases in the animal abuse database. Great research tool. Amazing work.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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’ Ironically, this is from Birds of Australia , which scholars and art historians suspect was more Elizabeth’s work than John’s.*. There are two subjects which I think could have been explored more thoroughly–women in ornithological history and colonialism. Birkhead knows that these are sensitive topics.

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What to do if you no longer can care for your bearded dragon.

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Since there are many laws and fines against animal cruelty or irresponsible pet ownership, its possible that the man felt this was his only recourse. Australia is its natural habitat so letting it roam free in your neighborhood can be deadly to the animal and scary to other residents.

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Australian government abusing animals by imposing an unnecessary but mandatory quarantine: how can I raise the awareness?

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The subject is explained in outlets such as ABC news and 9News here: [link] [link] In summary, new law issued by Australian government a couple of months ago requires cats and dogs entering the Australia from all -except around 30- countries to be held in a 6 month quarantine alone. How can I raise the awareness about this cruelty?

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Australian Fireman Honored by Animal Rights Activists

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I also agree with PETA that the guy they've arrested for starting the fire should face animal cruelty charges. Peta called on authorities to add cruelty to animals to the arson charge laid against a 39-year-old man on Friday in connection with a bushfire in rural Victoria state that killed 21 people.