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

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Yet Birkhead credits British ornithologist Edmund Selous with sparking the world’s interest in watching rather than killing birds, despite the fact that Bailey’s “interest in bird-watching predates his,” as he admits in a footnote (p. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not.

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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.

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