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Animals News tagged with Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico: Hell on Earth for Monkeys
Animals  (tags: puerto rico, proposal monkeytorture labratory, animal welfare, hell on earth, horrific sadistc cruetly )

Simone
- 103 days ago - blog.peta.org
Beach bums everywhere agree that Puerto Rico's beaches are heavenly, but the island will become hell on earth for thousands of monkeys if a massive primate-breeding facility is approved. PETA is taking no time off in our efforts to shoot down the
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ACTION ALERT: Puerto Rico - New Source For Primate Suffering?
Animals  (tags: puerto rico, primate suffering, evil savage cruelty, experiments, labratory )

Simone
- 115 days ago - kinshipcircle.wordpress.com
I am dismayed to learn about a proposed primate breeding center in Guayama City. I understand Bioculture, a Mauritius-based primate supply firm, intends to ship long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in for research.
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Stop the Construction of the Primate Breeding Facility in Puerto Rico - ALDF Alert
Animals  (tags: Puerto Rico, Guayama, animalwelfare, animalcruelty, animal rights, animal testing, animal experiments, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, suffering, wildanimals )

Joanna
- 142 days ago - org2.democracyinaction.org
Please, oppose the proposed construction of a massive facility in Puerto Rico for the purpose of breeding primates for use in painful and traumatic laboratory experiments - sign electronic email to Puerto Rican officials
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Oppose Puerto Rico's Plan for a Massive Primate Breeding Facility ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, primates, Puerto Rico, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 145 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Join the Animal Legal Defense Fund and an international coalition of attorneys, scientists, and animal advocates in opposing the proposed construction of a massive facility in Puerto Rico for the purpose of breeding primates for use in painful and
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Residents Fight Monkeys
Animals  (tags: animals, monkeys, breeding facility, Puerto Rico, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 148 days ago - taipeitimes.com
Residents of a Puerto Rican town are vowing to fight a planned monkey-breeding facility for fear that the primates will escape and overrun their community.
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Campaign to Stop the Construction of a Primate Breeding Facility in Puerto Rico For RESEARCH ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, primates, research, Puerto Rico, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife, suffering )

Cher
- 159 days ago - animalrights.change.org
International campaign to stop the construction of a primate breading facility in Puerto Rico.
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STOP THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PRIMATE BREEDING FACILITY IN PUERTO RICO
Animals  (tags: animal testing, Mauritius, Puerto Rico, research, abuse, AnimalCruelty, animalcruelty, animalrights, animalwelfare, conservation )

Joanna
- 173 days ago - eceae.org
Take action! a major monkey farm will supply monkeys to the international research industry; in particular the USA. It is understood that the farm in Guayama City will be established using macaques (Macaca fascicularis) from Mauritius
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Monkey Mums Bow to Pester Power ~ Video
Animals  (tags: puerto rico, wildlife, wild animals, monkeys, rhesus macaques, tantrums, endangered, extinction )

Jacquelin
- 258 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Scientists have discovered what drives some monkey mothers to give in to their babies' tantrums. A study of rhesus macaques revealed that females were more likely to feed their bawling babies if irritated bystanders lurked nearby. The UK/Puerto Ri
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Puerto Rico Hunting, Killing Troublesome Monkeys
Animals  (tags: puerto rico, wildlife, wild animals, monkeys, diseases, killing, sadness )

Jacquelin
- 338 days ago - thestar.com.my
LAJAS, Puerto Rico (AP): The easy life is over for hundreds of monkeys -- some harboring herpes and hepatitis -- that have run wild through southwestern Puerto Rico for more than 30 years. Authorities launched a plan this month to capture and kill the
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The Next Puerto Rico Massacre-- Please Sign New Petition!
Animals  (tags: animalcruelty, animalrights, puerto rico, massacre, culling, cats, feral cats )

Nadia
- 537 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Puerto Rico is planning another of their infamous "removals", this time of the cat colonies of Old San Juan. With animal rights organizations like Save a Gato dramatically decreasing the number of strays in the area, and vastly improving the lives and he
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Losing Racehorses Killed in Puerto Rico
Animals  (tags: racehorses, Puerto Rico, killing, petition in comment )

Trudi
- 557 days ago - nytimes.com
More than 400 horses, many in perfect health, are killed each year by injection at a clinic behind the Hipodromo Camarero racetrack.Here, even when a second home is available, veterinarians say that some owners want losing horses executed anyway --
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Losing Racehorses in Puerto Rico Condemned to Die
Animals  (tags: racehorses, Puerto Rico, killing, animals, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, environment, protection )

Cher
- 557 days ago - southernledger.com
For thoroughbred racehorses in Puerto Rico, success can be a matter of life and death. Many losers don't make it off the racetrack grounds alive. More than 400 horses, many in perfect health, are killed each year by lethal injection at a clinic tucked
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VIDEO: Puerto Rico Cockfighting Thrives
Animals  (tags: cockfighting, animals, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, Puerto Rico, protection, killing, cruelty )

Cher
- 575 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Later this year, cockfighting will be banned in Louisiana, making it illegal in all 50 U.S. states. But in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, it is a legal, thriving industry with more than a hundred licensed arenas.
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Save the Dogs & Cats of Puerto Rico - PETITION
Animals  (tags: animals, welfare, advocates, puerto rico, animals abused, mistreated, homeless animals )

Simone
- 590 days ago - gopetition.com
Animals in Puerto Rico are treated horribly. There are strays running everywhere and "sweeps" are often done to get rid of the dogs. Instead of being medically treated and rehomed, the dogs are euthanized. The lack of spay / neuter programs as well
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Puerto Rico Faces Suit Over Roundup of Animals
Animals  (tags: puerto rico, animals, pets, dogs, abuse, AnimalCruelty, animaladvocates, killed )

Jacquelin
- 625 days ago - nytimes.com
BARCELONETA, P.R. -- This much seems certain about the events of last October at three housing projects in this town near Puerto Rico's northern coast: Men working for the municipality entered the projects, rounded up dozens of dogs and cats that they said
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