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Animals News tagged with Brazil

Brazil Takes a Step Closer to a Full Ban on Animals in Circuses
Animals  (tags: brazil, legalisation, animal defenders, ban animalcircus, animal welfare, protection )

Simone
- 31 days ago - ad-international.org
Deputy Ricardo Tripoli, who championed the law, defended its conformity with the Brazilian Constitution. He argued that circuses are cruel to animals and that, in fact, the use of animals is even contrary to the Constitution. ADI applauds the members of
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SAVE THE DOGS IN A BRAZILIAN SHELTER ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, shelter, Brazil, dogs, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, pets )

Cher
- 180 days ago - animalrights.change.org
It is with much sadness, and with big indignation, that I have learned about the treatment of 400 dogs in the shelter of the Prefecture of São Leopoldo, and sbout the total indifference of public authorities.
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Getting People to Coexist With Cats
Animals  (tags: animals, big cats, co-existing, Brazil, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 190 days ago - time.com
As the human population has grown in the Pantanal, the vast wetland in central Brazil, people and big cats -- namely the South American jaguar -- are encroaching increasingly on each other's territory. When conflict occurs, as it inevitably does, the cats
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Ministerial Support Boosts Animal Welfare in Brazil
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, Brazil, environment, farm animals, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 192 days ago - wspa.ca
The Brazilian Ministry of Environment has backed the development of a Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare, moving the whole country towards recognizing the importance of how we treat animals.
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Hurt, Orphaned Wildlife Finds New Hope in Brazil
Animals  (tags: animals, rehabilitation center, Brazil, orphans, injured, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 248 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Brazilian mountain animal rehabilitation center nurses everything from monkeys to wolves, birds to boas.
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Please Take Action: Demand An End to Brazil's Bizarre Festival of Torture!
Animals  (tags: brazil, bizarre festival, torture, evil horrific cruelty, depravity, heinous animal murdering, animalcruelty )

Simone
- 256 days ago - groups.google.com
Throughout March until Easter day, a twisted and sadistic "festival" known as Farra do Boi (translated as "Festival of the Ox") takes place in Brazil. During this festival, countless oxen throughout the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina are horrific
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Getting People to Coexist With Cats
Animals  (tags: animals, big cats, coexisting, Brazil, jaguar, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 260 days ago - time.com
As the human population has grown in the Pantanal, the vast wetland in central Brazil, people and big cats -- namely the South American jaguar -- are encroaching increasingly on each other's territory. When conflict occurs, as it inevitably does, the cats
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Wild Cats of Brazil / Projeto Gatos Do Mato - Brasil
Animals  (tags: wild cats, Brazil, study, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 298 days ago - wildcatconservation.org
Project Wild Cats of Brazil is a large scale multidisciplinary effort to study Brazilian felids. It started recently as a project on the biology, distribution and conservation status of the little spotted cat (Leopardus tigrinus), that joined together
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Brazil Declares Whole Coastline as a Whale and Dolphin Sanctuary
Animals  (tags: brazil, marine wildlife, whales, dolphins, whales sanctuary, coast line of brazil, endangered, extinction, protection, habitat, humans )

Jacquelin
- 348 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
South Atlantic whale sanctuary proposed. January 2009. The Brazilian government has decreed that the whole Brazilian coastline has become a sanctuary for whales and dolphins. The decree, signed just before Christmas 2008, reinforces the total prohi
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Legless Lizard From Brazil Conformed as New Species
Animals  (tags: brazil, wildlife, wild animals, discovery, legless lizards, endangered, habitat, humans, protection )

Jacquelin
- 397 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
A legless lizard, Bachia oxyrhina, discovered in a remote region of Brazil earlier this year, has been described officially recognised as a new species by the scientific journal Zootaxa. The scientific study cited for the first time the lizard's scientifi
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AGAINST DOG KILLING IN GAS CHAMBERS IN BRAZIL
Animals  (tags: homeless dogs, brazil, dogs cruelly killed, gas chambers, animal cruelty, car exhausts, animal welfare, legislation )

Simone
- 429 days ago - oipa.org
Every week about 70 - 100 dogs are catched by the Municipal CCZ and killed in gas chambers. The homeless animals are gassed, and poisoned with engine exhaust from a truck. Gas Chambers are used to euthanize cats and dogs in animal shelters and results in
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Man Nabbed at Airport With 200 Birds in Bag
Animals  (tags: brazil, wildlife, wild animals, birds, canaries, animal trafficking, death, endangered, extinction, humans, sadness, protection )

Jacquelin
- 448 days ago - news.yahoo.com
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian authorities detained a Portuguese man at Sao Paulo's international airport with 200 birds in his bag, police said on Thursday. Customs officials found 65 of 200 Canary birds dead, the Agriculture Ministry said in a stateme
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Theft of Monkey From Brazilian Zoo a Blow to Rare Species
Animals  (tags: brazil, zoolife, primate, monkeys, theft, pied tamarin, endangered, extinction, humans, protection, investigation )

Jacquelin
- 560 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
SÃO PAULO, Brazil -- The theft of a rare Amazon monkey from a Brazilian zoo could harm biologists' efforts to repopulate the endangered species, zoo officials said Wednesday. Workers arriving at the zoo Tuesday morning noticed the male pied tamarin was
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Dwarf Woodpecker and Legless Lizard Among 14 New Species Discovered in Cerrado Region of Brazil
Animals  (tags: 14 new species, discovery, brazil, legless lizard, wildlife, endangered )

Simone
- 599 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
An expedition to a remote region of Brazil has lead to the discovery of a legless lizard and a tiny woodpecker along with 12 other suspected new species in Brazil's Cerrado, one of the world's 34 biodiversity conservation hotspots. Disappearing at
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Legless Lizard May Be New Species
Animals  (tags: brazil, wildanimals, wildlife, discoveries, new species, legless lizard, endangered, habitat, protection )

Jacquelin
- 599 days ago - theaustralian.news.com.au
SCIENTISTS have discovered a legless lizard, a toad and a dwarf woodpecker among 14 species believed to be new to science in central Brazil. A four-week expedition to the Cerrado region, a wooded savannah under threat from the expansion of farming, fou
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