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Animals News tagged with captive

ACTION ALERT: End the UK Primate Pet Trade!!
Animals  (tags: primates, wild animals, torn from wild, captive, pet trade, suffering, disaster, tragedies, legalisation, protection )

Simone
- 17 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Wild Futures, formerly The Monkey Sanctuary Trust, based in Cornwall, is a registered charity, which draws on over 40 years of experience caring for unwanted ex-pet monkeys. The Trust is working hard to raise awareness of and put an end to the cruel
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Captive Pet Bear Kills Woman While She Was Cleaning Cage
Animals  (tags: tragedy, pet black bear, captive, caged, attacked, killed woman, wild animals )

Simone
- 50 days ago - examiner.com
A Pennsylvania woman cleaning out a bear cage on Sunday night was mauled and killed by the 350-pound captive black bear who was confined inside. To compound the tragedy, her children and a neighbor's children witnessed the horrific incident and called
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Grizzly Cub Transferred From Glacier Park After Mother Killed
Animals  (tags: yearling female bear cub, captured, mother and brother killed, authorities, zoo, captive )

Simone
- 98 days ago - flatheadbeacon.com
The yearling cub of a 17-year-old female grizzly that was recently killed by Glacier National Park rangers was transferred out of the park Tuesday on its way to the Bronx Zoo in New York. The female cub, which rangers estimated weighed 80 to 100 pound
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WCS Opens New Home for Great Cats
Animals  (tags: wcs, snow leopard, breeding programme, new homes, captive )

Simone
- 157 days ago - wcs.org
Big cats are on the prowl in a scrubby patch of the Central Park Zoo, where the Wildlife Conservation Society has opened the Allison Maher Stern Snow Leopard Exhibit. The exhibit's rugged evergreen habitat, complete with a rocky waterfall, replicates
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ACTION ALERT: Stop Abuse of Tony the TruckStop Tiger at Iberville Parish, Louisiana, USA- NEW PETITION
Animals  (tags: tony, truck stop tiger, imprisoned, suffering, wild animal, captive, freedom, sanctuary )

Simone
- 162 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Why is there a live tiger in a tiny cage next to the gas pumps in this 24 hour truck stop at Grosse Tete? Because the Iberville Parish doesn't want to enforce their own rules against "one of their own." Indeed they have amended their own laws
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Lion on Our Menus?
Animals  (tags: abuse, lions, cats, wildlife, animals, killing, death, killed, exotic, captive )

Patricia
- 236 days ago - ireport.com
Lion meat is showing up for sale on a US based meat company's website. Last summer lion meat was served for a limited time at a Dunedin, Florida restaurant. They stated that the meat was farm raised in South Africa.
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Free Lolita ~ Demonstration
Animals  (tags: florida, marine wildlife, whales, orcas, captive, free lolita, endangered, extinction, protection, suffering, humans, demonstration )

Jacquelin
- 273 days ago - care2.com
There will be a demo THIS Saturday, February 28th in front of the Miami Seaquarium from 12 Noon until 2 PM to protest against Lolita's horrible living conditions and to promote her retirement to a protected bay pen in Washington. Every last Saturday of t
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A Life Sentence: The Sad and Dangerous Realities of Exotic Animals in Private Hands
Animals  (tags: exotic pets, animals, captive, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 274 days ago - bornfreeusa.org
Across the United States, millions of exotic animals are kept captive in private homes and in roadside zoos and menageries. The trade in exotic animals is a multi-billion dollar industry, and exotic animals are bred, sold, and traded in large numbers.
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Namibia: Captive Leopard Tastes Freedom
Animals  (tags: two leopards, captive, captured, life of misery, suffering, freedom, released )

Simone
- 286 days ago - allafrica.com
AFTER a life of misery, the first of two leopards that were confiscated last year by the Ministry of Environment and Tourism from the farm Werda has been set free in the Namib-Naukluft Park. Initially the cat was very unsure of what was happening, but
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Dying to Be Held - Fair Is NO Fun for the Big Cats - VIDEO
Animals  (tags: fairs, big cats, cubs, exploitated, abused, declawed, captive, humane, greed, big cats suffering, laws, legislaiton, protection )

Simone
- 289 days ago - bigcatrescue.org
After paying $20.00 to have their picture made with a baby lion or tiger the vast majority of people, who learned the truth about the miserable lives captive cats lead, confess "I knew in my heart that there was something wrong..." Often it is the
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RETIRE LOLITA THE ORCA WHALE -Plz Sign PETITION
Animals  (tags: lolita, captive, imprisoned, orca whale, retirement, exploitated, animal welfare, whales, animal rights )

Simone
- 352 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
"Though a young and healthy adult at about age 36, Lolita is the oldest whale in captivity. She is kept in the oldest and smallest orca tank in the U.S. The owner was quoted in a tourist trade magazine saying: "We recognize that the facility needs a
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15 Percent of Captive Elephants in South India Have TB
Animals  (tags: captive, elephants, TB, 15 %, 2year study, 387 elephants )

Kathy
- 442 days ago - thaindian.com
The first exhaustive study of captive elephants in southern India has found that 15.25 percent of them suffer from tuberculosis.
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Wild Horses Make Way to Sonoma County
Animals  (tags: wild horses, roundup, adoption, freedom, captive, sonoma county )

Simone
- 573 days ago - www1.pressdemocrat.com
Breathing a whisper of the Old West into Wine Country, a herd of 40 mustangs and burros culled from high desert lands in Nevada and northeast California are headed to Sonoma County this weekend for public adoption. The first such occasion in 11 years,
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Say No to Tiger Farming
Animals  (tags: tiger farming, farms, breeding, killing wildlife trafficking, captive, wild animals, cruelty, killed )

Simone
- 580 days ago - eia-international.org
China is currently attempting to lift the successful ban and legalise the buying and selling of tiger body parts for traditional medicines from farmed tigers. If you would like to take action against this potentially devastating threat to wild tigers
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Canned Hunting - Current Status
Animals  (tags: canned hunting, brutal killing, slaughter, wild animals, captive, cruelty )

Simone
- 583 days ago - whitelions.org
White Lions are not protected from being hunted to extinction. In South Africa, White Lions may be legally hunted in captivity and legally hunted in the wild. On 1 February 2008, under mounting international pressure, the South African Government
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