The European Commission will ask its member states to ban the importation of furs made from the skins of young seals hunted in Canada, the European Environment Commissioner said Thursday.
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]]> "WE HAVE A WRITTEN AGREEMENT TO HUNT ON THE ESTATE, WHICH DOESN'T EXPIRE AT UNTIL THE 30TH OF AUGUST," he said. SO THE JOLIE-PITTS WILL HAVE TO PUT UP WITH SPLIT BOAR-GUTS IN THEIR BACKYARD, ALONG WITH THE OTHER SIGNS...
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]]> A poll by the American Museum of Natural History finds that 7 in 10 biologists believe that mass extinction poses a colossal threat to human existence, a more serious environmental problem than even its contributor, global warming, and that the dangers...
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]]> More than a hundred horses at the Equus Horse Sanctuary in Juniper Hills are being assessed by animal control personnel. Christina Gonzalez was in Northern LA County near Pearblossom with more on what veterinarians are saying about the animals.
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]]> Garlick's 16-year-old daughter, Liz, is among about 30 students from Hackett Catholic Central High School preparing to head to Spain on Tuesday for a 12-day trip to learn more about the country and practice their Spanish.
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]]> A Kaneohe Marine will be discharged from the Marine Corps for throwing a puppy off a cliff into a ravine while on patrol in Iraq on March 2007 — an action that was videotaped and shown over the Internet.
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]]> "For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task of building up an ethical system in which justice for animals is regarded as the norm rather than the exception...
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]]> These are important beginnings of the World's consciousness and truth of "Canada's Crap"...the 2007 dismantling of their Wildlife Services and the Canadian Parliament's stance that even though seal fur sales have dropped, they will cull at 100%...
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]]> "Reforms need to be made," said Ashley Byrne, campaign coordinator for PETA. "People see the image of Eight Belles on the track and are horrified."
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]]> The environmental group said "large-scale embezzlement" was allowed as an "open secret" by the Institute of Cetacean Research in Japan. The body oversees Japanese whale hunts, which are done in the name of "scientific" research.
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]]> Troake says Ottawa should be doing more to protect sealers from protesters.
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]]> "Look, we know who you are, we know where you live, we know what you look like, and we're coming to get you,'" ...
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]]> "Their attitude was completely different out there than in school - they just bloomed," said cultural teacher Audrey Qamanirq, who accompanied the group on the land."
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]]> Take the veneer off thoroughbred racing and the reality beneath is as grotesque as anything Michael Vick was castigated for. Racing horses are routinely drugged, whipped, pushed to the literal breaking point and then cast off to be killed and sold off...
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]]> Countless horses are killed each year so the owners can collect insurance on them. Countless horses are drugged to hide any imperfections during a sale. Countless horses are tortured to make them perform better in shows. For many unfortunate horses...
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]]> This is for Eight Belles who will live in our HEARTS forever and in our SOULS for ETERNITY.

Eight Belles we LOVE and Miss you.
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]]> Horse racing is coming under fire from animal rights group PETA (which stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). The organization states that they will hold a protest of the second leg of horse racing's triple crown...
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]]> PETA has called for the suspension and investigation of Eight Belles jockey Gabriel Saez, and also has started an online petition to change the rules of thoroughbred racing.
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]]> Eight Belles was euthanized after breaking both front ankles following a second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby.
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]]> Maj. Chris Perrine, spokesman for the Marine Corps Base Hawaii, earlier said the Marine involved could be based at Kaneohe, but would not confirm his identity.
"Thankfully, it appears the Marines are taking this very seriously, as we expected...
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]]> An investigation may be concluded soon into an online video that appeared to show a U.S. Marine throwing a puppy into a ravine in Iraq, an official said yesterday.
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]]> LaFosse said his clients will plead not guilty to the charges they face under the Fisheries Act.
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]]> Thanks to everyone who participates, in one form or another, helping animals to live and not barely survive to an early death.

Sincerely:

River
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]]> An official statement released Tuesday by the Marines calls the YouTube video "shocking and deplorable" and said it violates "the high standard we expect of every Marine," while some in the blogosphere label the clip an obvious fake.
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]]> Federal and provincial politicians have entered the fray, suggesting the protest against Canada's annual seal hunt would be less effective if hunters were banned from clubbing animals to death.
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]]> The White Bay Challenger was headed towards Englee in the early morning on April 17, escorted by the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Ann Harvey, when it was struck by ice.

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]]> The comment from Dimas, who said he will present legislation soon to ban all seal product imports into Europe, represented a two-pronged attack Thursday on the embattled Canadian industry.
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]]> The comment from Dimas, who said he will present legislation soon to ban all seal product imports into Europe, represented a two-pronged attack Thursday on the embattled Canadian industry.
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]]> A ban on imports by the EU as a whole could have a dramatic effect on the trade, which is worth more than NZ$24m each year.

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]]> Thousands of seal pups are being clubbed to death so their fur can be sold for as little as £5, it was revealed.
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]]> The savage slaughter of the baby seals has been suspended for a week.

The sealers of the Quebec’s Magdalen Islands have returned home to bury three of the four sealers killed by Canadian Coast Guard incompetence.
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]]> A coast guard icebreaker and a ship owned by an activist conservation group have collided in the Gulf of St Lawrence as tensions mount over the annual Canadian seal hunt.
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]]> The high-seas skirmish, which was hotly denied by federal fisheries officials, comes on the heels of a rescue operation gone awry that cost the lives of four seal hunters over the weekend.
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]]> Dear Citizens of the World

A rogue nation amongst us Canada has ruthlessly decided to mindlessly
Slaughter Seals and Bottom Trawl the world's Oceans to extinction!
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]]> Canada's controversial seal cull, which begins on Friday, will see new rules requiring hunters to ensure the animals are dead before they are skinned.
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]]> He was speaking after EU environment commissioner, Stavros Dimas, said he is considering trade sanctions against Canada, one of the largest killers of seals, ahead of the latest cull due to start this week.
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]]> Canada's annual seal cull, due to start later this week, will face a significant challenge with the European Union deciding to consider trade sanctions against Ottawa.
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]]> The puppy-throwing video that brought death threats for a Monroe Marine and his family has highlighted a new and growing problem for the U.S. military.
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]]> JAPAN is using the slaughter of hundreds of eastern grey kangaroos in Canberra to undermine Australia's anti-whaling crusade.
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]]> SYDNEY: Efforts by the new Australian government to establish itself as caring and animal friendly have run into trouble with its refusal to stop a plan to kill 400 kangaroos on a former military base.


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]]> Dressed in combat gear, the U.S. Marine grips the motionless puppy by the scruff of the neck.
"Cute little puppy, huh?" he says as he smiles broadly.
"Oh so cute, so cute, little puppy," replies another man in a child-like voice.
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]]> The 5th Iraqi Puppy Toss Contest was held this year in Samarra, an Iraqi religious hotspot about 124 km north of Baghdad. The event was a huge success for the American troops attending.
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]]> The anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's founder, Capt. Paul Watson, told CNN that two of his crew members were injured when crew members on the Japanese ship Nisshin Maru threw flash grenades aboard his ship, the Steve Irwin.
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]]> What, then, provoked one U.S. Marine to let himself be videotaped apparently flinging a yelping puppy over a cliff, bursting into laughter at the sound of the animal's body hitting the ground below?
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]]> Now Namibia Allows A Premier Hunting Safari Group to Bow&Arrow-Hunt Cape Fur Seals,
Along with Baby Seal Clubbing, Bull 'penis' Seal Shooting, Trophy Rifle Hunting and Live-Seal Exports, This is besides the tens of thousands of seals illegally shot...
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]]> February 29, 2008—A three-month-old polar bear named Wilbär is being raised by its mother in Stuttgart, Germany, the city's zoo has revealed after keeping the birth under wraps.
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]]> A MOTHER’S love, they say, is the most powerful force on earth. But it may not be enough to save these babies. The polar bear cubs snuggling up to their mother after emerging from their den in the frozen wastes of Alaska are enduring a rapidly...
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]]> A coalition of environmental and animal rights groups notified the U.S. Department of Interior on Wednesday that they plan to sue to stop the removal of gray wolves in the northern Rockies from the endangered species list.
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]]> Anti-whaling campaigners chasing down the Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctic waters "were ready to be hauled back to Japan if that's what it took", protest leader Paul Watson said.
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]]> Through the years, Lopez has worn the skin of just about every animal imaginable, from foxes, who are bludgeoned to death and often skinned alive, to small, gentle chinchillas, who are killed by electrocution or have their delicate necks snapped and 100..
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