A 64-year-old woman is being held without bail, accused in a horrific animal cruelty case. Officials initially thought there were just 20 cats. One reason: the hair of two of the cats were so intertwined that everyone thought the matted
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]]> 22 June 2008-6 activists Equanimal returned to break into the middle of a bullfight to claim the abolition of bullfighting and animal rights.Several policemen beat the activists inside the plaza- 4 of them had to be taken to hospital.

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]]> This is the Elephant Sanctuary, a 10-year-old hospice for elderly, ailing elephants from circuses and zoos. Here the animals spend their final years roaming, dining on wild plants and cavorting with their own kind. Great Article from the Chicago Tribune
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]]> The Robert Smerdon-trained Eveready was put down after the race, as was eight-year old gelding Charted, trained by Kathryn Durden. Only four horses finished the race. Eleven horses have died this year in Victoria. See comments for addresses to action.
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]]> On its Spanish website, Paddy Power – the Irish sports-betting company – is accepting bets on the number of ears cut off bulls who have been tortured in Spanish bullfights.
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]]> We must not allow NCSL to be on record as opposing federal action on this issue. We must block this resolution, which could give Congress yet another excuse to continue to allow the cruel and inhumane slaughter of American horses in Mexico and Canada.


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]]> Angel,a Pit Bull Terrier mix who was severely neglected and starved almost to the point of death found a forever home. VIEW HER VIDEO that highlights her valiant struggle from rescue to adoption.North Shore Animal League America
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]]> Oliveira do Bairro will host the 1st Horse Fair between 5th and 13th of July. In the provisional program it is scheduled a bullfight and a garraiada (bullfight with bulls less than three years old) with the trainees of the bullfighting school of Azambuja.
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]]> Activists describe the blasting of Kentucky's Appalachian peaks as a great human rights and environmental tragedy, but the Bush administration enthusiastically backs Big Coal's cheap way of getting at the black stuff.
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]]> The early signs of climate change are showing up across vastly differing landscapes: from melting outposts near the Arctic Circle to disappearing glaciers high in the Andes; from the rising water in the deltas of Bangladesh to the "sinking" atolls
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]]> AS the face of the anti-whaling campaign in Australia, Far Northern actor Isabel Lucas wants her home town to adopt a whale. Lucas, 23, is back in Cairns this week to visit her family and finalise a visa that will allow her to work in Hollywood.




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]]> Experts on amphibians have been caught on the hop by a rare batch of albino tadpoles living in a garden pond.Tiny pale globules of frog spawn and tadpoles are now under observation at a secret and closely guarded address in Carmarthenshire, west Wales
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]]> The Navy has released its final environmental impact statement for activities in the Hawaii Range Complex — the ocean area used for naval exercises — including the controversial use of sonar in Hawaiian waters.
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]]> BirdLife International is deeply disappointed that the European Commission’s proposal for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Health Check – released today – fails to respond to the pressing environmental challenges facing Europe, including ...
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]]> BORNEO - Villagers with the help from Tutong District Fire & Rescue Department pushed an injured dolphin that had been washed ashore back into the sea yesterday.
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]]> The Atlantic bottlenose dolphin is a common sight along the Southeast coast. Hardly a day will go by when at least one or more is seen frolicking in the rivers, the sounds and along the beachfronts. Incidents of people illegally feeding dolphins.


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]]> Before you go and save some lives from the year 2100, you might want to look around and save a few here in 2008. This is like people from 1908 trying to help us with breast cancer. No one knew what a gene was in 1908!
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]]> Publishing in the journal Nature this week, a NASA-led team of scientists has come up with what it said is the first study to show a direct link between humans, climate change and impacts.
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]]> "I've personally never seen anything like this -- all these animals, the sheer volume -- all waiting for food from the current," expedition member and marine biologist Dr. Mireille Consalvey said Monday.
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]]> Hannah was a happy 13-year-old until she became an 'emo' - part of a sinister teenage craze that romanticises death. Three months later she hanged herself. Here, her devastated mother tells other parents: No child is safe
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]]> "He says authenticity is when what you think matches what you say and what you do. Unspoken is that this should also match what you are." A very well written article by Mark S. Smith
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]]> Intermingled amongst brand new hotels and entertainment swag are the ghosts of New Orleans. Abandoned buildings with boarded up windows are on every side street off Canal. Hidden only by the busy flickering of neon lights and bars begging for your.......
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]]> And there are, as always in America, the issues of race and class. Despite the gentrification that has taken place in some inner cities, and the plunge in national crime rates to levels not seen in decades, it will be hard to shake the longst........
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]]> Los Angeles officials discussed Thursday a plan to conserve water which includes limiting water use, punishing water wasters and recycling waste water, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times.
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]]> Without warning the Icelandic government authorized Icelandic whalers to begin their killing on May 20th in direct defiance of the global moratorium on commercial whaling. Iceland has rejoined the trinity of whale killing nations along with Japan and Norw
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]]> Once the catastrophe hit it was a long time before people started to understand what was really going on. By then, the world had abandoned the already marginalized communities, leaving them to fend for themselves while being largely displaced......
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]]> Norman Seemann’s pal of 10 years, Whiskey, a boxer mix dog, is dead because this man, 23 yr old Michael Jones of Oakland Park, FL was annoyed with its barking. It interfered with his studying so on Jan 19th, while the dog was just sitting there, not bark
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]]> "Iraq? Somalia? Afghanistan? No, this is the United States of America, ground zero, desolation row, lower ninth ward, New Orleans," says Real News Network analyst Pepe Escobar in front of homes that remain destroyed almost three years after Hurricane....
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]]> This exhibit looks at how malaria, eliminated from the UK by the 20th century, may return thanks to climate change and our growing fondness for al fresco living. Be afraid, be very afraid.
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]]> Conservationists are calling on Britain to act to save birdlife on a tiny British-owned island in the South Atlantic, which is now home to a quarter of the world's newly endangered birds.
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]]> If the issue is choice, and it should be for NARAL Pro-Choice America, there is absolutely no reason to prefer Obama over Clinton. Obama supporters on the board outnumbering the Clinton backers!
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]]> This is absolutly heartbreaking for me, and it hits close to home. They need a home, appearantly there are more than just these four little buddies =(
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]]> THE biggest gift President Bush has given his party this year was to keep his daughter’s wedding nearly as private as Connie Corleone’s. Now that his disapproval rating has reached the Nixon nadir of negativity, even a joyous familial ritual..........
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]]> What single silver bullet can simultaneously reduce air pollution and oil dependency, roll back urban congestion, and fight obesity?
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]]> The letter to Mayor Daley was blunt, "very personal and vicious" -- and singled out the mayor's wife, Maggie, and their children.

The writer was furious about the slaying of a wild, roaming cougar in Roscoe Village on April 14, and threatened to
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]]> The decision could force the Treasury Department to make bills of different sizes or print them with raised markings or other distinguishing features. American Council of the Blind has been fighting govt. over it for 6 years now.
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]]> Myanmar (Burma) is a nation of around 55 million people; all aspects of society (business, media, economy) are controlled by the ruling military junta.

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]]> A report released this week by the Stockholm International Water Institute says that as much as 50 percent of the calories grown globally don't make it to the table. Given that crop production uses about 1,800 trillion gallons (1,700 cubic miles) of water
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]]> The local branch of the United Nations Association of Canada hosted a round table on water in the Quinte watershed at the Belleville library May 14.
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]]> There is no substitute for clean, fresh water. We can live weeks without food but only days without water. Every day our bodies need four to five gallons of water—just to survive.
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]]> How to inspire an environmental spirit in kids - that sticks.
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