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Save the Cajun Tigers
Sep 11, 2009
Focus: Animal Welfare
Action Request: Various
Location: United States

Last Chance for Animals (LCA) urges everyone to help rescue and relocate 7 Tigers that have been living in deplorable, substandard conditions, in Cancun, Mexico for FIVE years. They are kept in 12 foot cages, sitting in their own feces, with little or no interaction.  They are not fed or given water regularly (they often drink water covered in algae, bugs, and rotten food). The level of neglect is appalling!  "Pepe," the owner, refuses to allow a veterinarian to examine his tigers; consequently they are in dire need of medical attention!

Click here to see video!
LCA interviews Tippi Hedren at Shambala Preserve in Acton, CA. 
See footage of the Cancun Tigers shot by LCA's undercover operative.

Tiger with broken leg
Bengal Tiger with dislocated leg, sitting in feces and rotten food

"Pepe" used to own and run a restaurant/hotel in Cancun.  Tourists would dine among the caged tigers, and for a fee, get a picture taken with them.  When Hurricane Wilma wiped out Cancun in 2004, the restaurant was never re-opened.  Consequently, the building they are caged in is in dangerous disrepair. They are malnourished, abused, and in dire need of medical attention!

endofmarch
"Pepe" dragging a tiger after his restaurant was flooded in 2004.

And it's getting worse!  Read this testimonial from a passing tourist who saw the tigers recently and wrote this letter of outrage:

I have seen these animals in March 2009 and one of the tigers kept trying to stand up but it's back legs would give way. While we were looking Pepe came out shouting at us to go away which we did not do. When I asked him to come to the side of the iron bars I was on, he refused because I told him I would put him in the same dying condition of these poor endangered big cats.

The Mexican Government wildlife agency, PROFEPA, recently reviewed and revoked the UMA license held by Gil Jose Juarez ("Pepe") after pressure from GEPDA (Gente por la Defensa Animal), an animal rights group in Mexico that has been trying to relocate these tigers to The Wild Animal Sanctuary (TWA in Keenesburg, CO. 

This is where the Cancun tigers should be! 
TWAS tigers showing affection
Affectionate tigers relaxing on TWAS' 320 acres of grassland

The rescue mission was in place 10 days ago--the Mexican government has now reneged on their agreement to release and relocate these tigers to TWAS. They are now talking about sending these already abused animals to a zoo in Mexico City!  PLEASE--help us put the pressure on them to honor the original plan: to release and relocate these tigers to TWAS, where they will get the medical attention they desperately need, as well as a beautiful home where they will be safe and taken care of. TWAS is located on 320 acres of Colorado grasslands, and would be the perfect home for these neglected exotic wild cats.

A CALL TO ACTION!

Help LCA, GEPDA, and TWAS save these exotic cats by putting the pressure on the Mexican Government, as well as the Mexican Embassies and Consulates all across the U.S., by flooding their offices with emails, telephone calls, and letters demanding (politely!) that they release these beautiful animals to The Wild Animal Sanctuary (TWA, in Keenesburg, CO. 

The Cancun Tigers could be frolicking here at TWAS!
TWAS Tigers
Happy tigers relaxing on the wide open grasslands at TWAS

Please contact the Mexican authorities, and give a voice to the voiceless. The terrible existence of these beautiful, exotic animals is reprehensible!  The Cancun authorities don't want negative publicity to affect their holiday trade--this desire to avoid negative public perception can be used to pressure them to do the right thing and relocate these tigers immediately to The Wild Animal Sanctuary (TWA! 

For complete information on who to contact and helpful talking points, please visit:
www.savethecancuntigers.com

Help LCA, GEPDA, and TWAS rescue these exotic cats!

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For the animals,

Campaigns Dept
Last Chance for Animals
310-271-6096 x 27
campaigns@LCAnimal.org
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Posted: Sep 11, 2009 6:52am
Release Captured Sea Shepherd Crew Members Now!
Jan 15, 2008
Focus: Animal Welfare
Action Request: Various
Location: United States
Due to the urgency of this situation, Kinship Circle is forwarding this
alert, as received, from Win Animal Rights.

This is NOT a Kinship Circle alert.
Please reply to sender: Centcom <centcom@war-online.org>

Kinship Circle stands behind the actions of Win Animal Rights and Sea Shepherd.

Please help free Sea Shepherd crew members held captive on a Japanese Whaler
vessel. READ BELOW...
Kinship Circle
http://www.kinshipcircle.org

------ Forwarded Message
From: Centcom <centcom@war-online.org>
Organization: Win Animal Rights
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:53:13 -0500
Subject: [WAR] URGENT
Take Action Now to Secure Release of Captured Sea Shepherd Crew Members

*****Cross Post Widely & Quickly*****

URGENT: TAKE ACTION NOW
CALL/EMAIL/FAX/PROTEST

 <http://www.seashepherd.org/>

Two Sea Shepherd Crew Still Being Held Captive
on Japanese Whaler Yushin Maru No 2

For stories on what happened: (most recent stories listed first)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/16/2139273.htm?section=justin

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200801160825/sea_shepherd_activists_held_on_whaling_ship

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/16/2139250.htm?section=justin

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/15/2139211.htm

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4357626a10.html (has picture of them being bound in ropes)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml;jsessionid=T2YYSZM0PL3LRQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/earth/2008/01/15/eajapan115.xml

or visit the Sea Shepherd's website at http://www.seashepherd.org/ for the latest updates.

PROTEST AT JAPANESE CONSULATE

Who: Japanese Consulate General - New York City
Where: 299 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10171 (between 48th and 49th Streets)
When: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Bring appropriate signs or banners if you have them

CALL: (212) 371-8222 (be patient as you will have to listen to long messages in japanese and then english)

FAX: (212) 371-1294

EMAIL:
inquiry@ny.cgj.org
goikenbako@ny.cgj.org
visainfo@ny.cgj.org

WRITE:
Ambassador and Consul General Motoatsu Sakurai
Japanese Consulate General
299 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10171

For a listing of other staff members at the Japanese Consulate Office visit:
http://www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp/en/a/05.html

Ambassador Ryozo Kato
Embassy of Japan in the USA
2520 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC  20008

PHONE:
　202-238-6700 (Main)
　202-238-6800 (Visa)
　202-238-6900 (Japan Information & Cultural Center)
　202-238-6773 (JET Office in the Embassy)

FAX:
　202-328-2187 (Main)
　202-328-2184 (Visa)
Also, If you are not from the greater New York area, protest at your own local embassy or consulate office.

To find the nearest Japanese Embassy or Consulate Office:
http://www.mofa.go.jp/about/emb_cons/over/index.html

http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/Japan/Japan.html

For more info contact Win Animal Rights at: centcom@war-online.org
Call: 646.267.9934 or visit the WAR website at: http://war-online.org


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W.A.R. (WIN ANIMAL RIGHT is an independent non-profit organization not affiliated or associated with SHAC, SHAC USA or any other group or organization and does not conduct or incite any illegal activity. The above information is not meant to incite or request any illegal actions or illegal activities of any kind.  If you have any questions about the legality of any act, we encourage everyone receiving this (or the) action alert(s) to check your local laws and ordinances before proceeding to do anything.
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