Darren Tortoise Protection

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Kent, UK, United Kingdom
male, age 43
married, 3 children
Speaks: English only
Joined Apr 3, 2007

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STOP TORTOISE IMPORTATION FOR THE PET TRADE!

May I ask you please take a moment of your time to view the video opposite & kindly read the below

The Tortoise Protection Group is a non-profit organisation founded in 2007 and is run by a group of voluteers, dedicated to helping ensure the survival of tortoises in the wild and to promote high standards of husbandry to tortoise keepers.

My primary reason for joining this group was to promote the TPG campaign and aims. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as it is a very good cause. May I ask you please take a moment to sign our petition concerning the importation of tortoises into the UK.

Illegal tortoise trade is happening in Britain” (DEFRA, 2004).

An estimated 10 million tortoises were shipped into the UK for the pet trade between 1890 and 1984 before the initial ban was introduced. This trade is back! … and tortoises are being imported in substantial numbers. However, DEFRA are failing to prevent this illegal trade and are in fact licensing it. These tortoises go through untold misery and often arrive here with chronic worm infestations and dehydrated, which far too often contributes to their early demise.

We have been actively promoting the Care2 petitions on Myspace and are looking for good friends to help promote the petitions. If you have a Myspace account, please consider adding us by clicking the below link :-

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Please also consider adding us to your Care2 friends.

Please lend this petition your support and kindly ask your friends & all contacts to do the same:-

STOP TORTOISE IMPORTATION FOR THE PET TRADE!

and kindly take a moment to look at the following links:-

http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/TortoiseProtectionGroup/

http://www.tortoise-protection-group.org.uk/

Although my main concern to join this group was to promote the TPG petition, joining has really opened my eyes to the thousands of animal welfare concerns.

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Darren
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Hometown	UK
Homepage	http://www.tortoise-protection-group.org.uk
Birthday	Jan 08, 1966
Languages	English only
About Me	Believes in good family values who has always maintained a fascination with wildlife and felt an urge to protect it in it's natural environment.
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Pets	2 Free-roaming Rabbits, Tortoises
Activist Aspirations	Enthusiastic
Political Leaning	Moderate
Religions	Agnostic
Eating Habits	vegetarian
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What Gives Me Hope	Nice people
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by	Talk to people
What/who changed my life and why	Children
What Bugs Me	All forms of disrepect
Passions	Wildlife - always has been
Inspirations	Selfless People
What Scares Me	Selfish People
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Role Models	David Attenborough
Quotation	"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated" Mahatma Ghandi
Interests	wildlife
Books	Wildlife, Good Horrors
Music	Varied
Movies	Good Horrors, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Groundhog Day, My Cousin Vinny, Lord of the Rings
TV Shows	Comedies, Wildlife
Favorite Foods	Spicy Food, Indian/Asian, Mexican
Favorite Places	The Red Sea
Can't Live Without	Happiness
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David R. (3)	Hi Darren, thanks for the friend invite on here as it's always a pleasure to meet someone else who wants to make a difference in this world. Nice to know you mate! Peace Dave
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Arild W. (48)	Welcome my new friend, have a nice day - Peace and love
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ronnie p. (116)	Thanx for the add, xoxo.
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Cathi H. (89)	blessings, Darren
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Ludger W. (8)	Happy Halloween http://www.ist4you.com/yeti_i/Pucki-Halloween/eingemauert.html Don´t worry, 5000 years are faster gone than you think.
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