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Animals News tagged with animal welfare groups

China Animal Welfare Growing Despite Many Challenges
Animals  (tags: cats, rescued, cat meat trade, horrendous animal cruelty, animal welfare groups, animal activists, china animal welfare laws )

Simone
- 69 days ago - examiner.com
Sometime this past August, a group of animal welfare activists lay down in front of trucks traveling outside Shanghai to stop the transport of 2000 stolen, pet market and stray cats heading toward Guangdong Province where the Chinese cat meat trade
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Wildlife Groups Seek Halt to Polar Bear Trade
Animals  (tags: animal welfare groups, polar bears, protection, ending polar bear trade, endangered, extinction, survival, protection, laws )

Simone
- 86 days ago - reuters.com
Polar bears in the wild live entirely within five countries: Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Norway, Russian Federation, and the United States. There are presently between 20,000 and 25,000 polar bears and the number is decreasing.
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ACTION ALERT: Save the Romanian Zoo Lions!!!
Animals  (tags: romanian lions, suffering, horrendous prisons, starving, animal welfare groups, donations, sanctuary )

Simone
- 86 days ago - newsoftheworld.co.uk
LEANING her emaciated body against the small rusty cage, starving lioness Anetta paws at the bars forlornly as the days count down to her pride's execution. For Anetta and 13 other kings and queens of the jungle - some too weak to stand or even roar
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National Coalition Calls on the Huntington to End Cruel Coyote Snaring Program- Employee Fired After Freeing Snared Coyote
Animals  (tags: coyotes snared, trapped, horrific cruelty, suffering, employee fired, rescuing coyote, animal welfare groups, protest, huntington, banned coyote snaring, animal cruelty )

Simone
- 288 days ago - awionline.org
A national coalition of wildlife advocacy organizations has called on the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Calif. to cease its "Coyote Abatement Program" that involves killing coyotes caught in wire neck snares.
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Man Who Dumped Puppies in Outhouse Fined- NO JUSTICE/Slap on the Wrist Again
Animals  (tags: puppies, dumped, cold freezing weather, outhouse, cruelty, fined, no justice, animal welfare groups, disappointed, animal abuser )

Simone
- 301 days ago - canada.com
a B. C. man convicted of throwing a litter of puppies down the hole of an outhouse has been spared jail time, but faces fines. Frederick Hoath, 57, of Fernie, B. C., was sentenced tuesday in Pincher Creek provincial court on five Criminal Code counts
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CHINA: Terrible Suffering Inflicted On LIVE Cats - Please READ AND TAKE ACTION!!!
Animals  (tags: TORTURE, animal cruelty, cats skinned, barbaric, evil, chinese cats, cat nappers, cat owners, terrorized, investigation, animal welfare groups, cat advocates, animal abuse )

Simone
- 326 days ago - serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com
THE CHINESE NEW YEAR WILL BRING UNIMAGINABLE SUFFERING TO CHINESE CATS AS THEY ARE BEING SKINNED & BOILED WHILE STILL ALIVE IN SOUTH OF CHINA. CAT OWNERS ARE TERRORIZED BY CAT NABBERS.
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Ringling Brothers Responds to a Pending Lawsuit (Video)
Animals  (tags: Elephants, RINGLING BRO. CIRCUS, animal welfare groups, lawsuit )

Kathy
- 508 days ago - lasvegasnow.com
An American institution -- the Ringling Brother's circus is facing an uncertain future now that a lawsuit is moving forward in Federal Court. It took animal welfare groups eight years to get Ringling into court. The trial begins in October.
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Law Providing Stiffer Penalty For Animal Abuse Passed By Canada's House Of Commons
Animals  (tags: canada, house of common, animal abuse law passed, animal welfare groups, penalties, animal abusers )

Simone
- 593 days ago - allheadlinenews.com
On a 189-71 vote, Canada's House of Commons passed a bill imposing stiffer penalties for animal abuse. The measure is the first major amendment on the country's animal cruelty laws in over 100 years. But large animal welfare groups in Canada are not
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Emergency Rule Sought to Stop Park Service Slaughter of Wild Bison in Yellowstone National Park
Animals  (tags: animal welfare institute, animal welfare groups, petition, protests, outrage, yellowstone buffalo slaughter, massacre )

Simone
- 594 days ago - earthtimes.org
A diverse coalition of tribal, conservation, hunting, animal welfare and wildlife groups, an outfitting business, and concerned citizens from Montana and South Dakota, have filed an emergency rule-making petition with the U.S. Department of the Interior
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The Slaughter Of The Seals In Canada (March 29, 2008 )   video
Animals  (tags: seals, baby seals, canadian seal slaughter, Animal Welfare Groups, ifaw )


- 605 days ago - youtube.com
Bad weather is disrupting Canada's annual seal hunt, where a fleet of sealing vessels is heading towards the main arctic breeding grounds. Animal rights campaigners say the hunt will be as cruel as ever, despite new rules to make the killing more humane.
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Alberta Plans to Kill Wolf Pups, Sterilize Parents to Save Elk
Animals  (tags: wolves, massacred, wolf pups killed, sterilize parents, outrage, animal welfare groups, wild animals, disappearing, wolf families destroyed, elk herds )

Simone
- 627 days ago - canada.com
A controversial experiment to shoot wolf pups and sterilize their parents so more elk will be left for hunters is being criticized by conservationists, scientists and Parks Canada. The experiment in the area near Rocky Mountain House, about 230
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Indian Kashmir Authorities Cancel Plans to Poison More Than 100,000 Stray Dogs
Animals  (tags: indian kashmir authorities, animal welfare groups, animal advocates, cancel stray dog massacre, stray dogs )

Simone
- 628 days ago - iht.com
Faced with protests from animal rights groups, authorities in the main city of Indian Kashmir have canceled plans to poison its nearly 100,000 stray dogs as part of an anti-rabies program, an official said Friday. Local officials would instead work
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Owners of Massacred Pets to Receive Help
Animals  (tags: animals massacred, puerto rico, help, animal welfare groups )

Simone
- 772 days ago - ap.google.com
Animal welfare groups will help Puerto Rico housing project residents pursue legal action after animal control workers seized their pets and hurled them to their deaths from a bridge, an activist said Sunday. Puerto Rico-based Friends of the Animals,
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