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Whales in danger.

4 The Love Of Animals

We recently got an email about the dangers currently being faced by our whale population as a result of a recent proposal to legalize commercial whaling. As whale lovers, and people who hope to one day be able to see them in the wild, we wanted to share this information with you in case you would like to get involved.

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Steven M. Wise on Legal Rights for Animals

Animal Ethics

The European Community and the member states signatory to the treaty are required “to pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals.” In 2002 the German Parliament amended Article 26 of the Basic Law to give nonhuman animals the right to be “respected as fellow creatures” and to be protected from “avoidable pain.”

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The Dove Who Came In From the Cold

10,000 Birds

But in the end, being dead doesn’t protect an animal from mortality. It is driven by love for animals, but relies on their deaths to exist. It contains Andean Condors and Labrador Ducks , dinosaurs and mammoths, one of only two life-size models of a blue whale in the terrestrial world. Taxidermy is a bizarre art.

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