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Animals News tagged with congress

Congressoinal Committee Will Cal for Moratorium on Gathers of Wild Horses and Burros
Animals  (tags: congress, legalisation, BLM, mortatorium, BLM roundups, gathers, wild horses, burros, protection )

Simone
- 18 days ago - rtfitch.wordpress.com
Update Nov. 2, 2009: A Congressional staff member has confirmed to Animal Law Coalition that the House Natural Resources Committee is calling on BLM to stop all gathers or removals of wild horses and burros until Congress takes action on the controversial
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U.S. House of Representatives Takes Action to Protect Animals From Cruel Traps on National Wildlife Refuges
Animals  (tags: congress, bill forwarded, ban animal trapping, national wildife refuges, wildlife, sadistic cruelty )

Simone
- 45 days ago - awionline.org
Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) introduced legislation to end the use of brutal traps on furbearing animals within federal wildlife refuges. H.R. 3710, the Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act, which was submitted with a total of 35 original co-sponsors,
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Aerial Gunning of Alaska's Wolves Being Challenged in Congress, and You Can Help.
Animals  (tags: endangered wolves, wolf massacre, congress, legalisation, aerial killing, cruelty, wolf protection )

Simone
- 101 days ago - examiner.com
There is currently a frighteningly single-minded campaign to devastate Alaska's wolf and bear populations. The reason? To provide more moose and caribou for non-essential hunters, like non-resident trophy hunters and the dramatically increasing guiding
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California Lawmakers Take Aim at Alaska's Aerial Wolf Hunts
Animals  (tags: califronian lawmakers, congress, reintroduced, wolfprotection, aerial wolf slaughter, conservation )

Simone
- 109 days ago - miamiherald.com
Alaska's predator-control program to kill wolves, which drew renewed national scrutiny last year during former Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for vice president, is under attack again in Congress. Two California Democrats in Congress have introduced
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Wild Horse Sense
Animals  (tags: animals, wild, horses, wildlife, wildanimals, protection, environment, animalwelfare, habitat, animalrights, goodnews, contraception, wilderness, conservation, science, investigation, government, congress, politics )

Tom
- 122 days ago - latimes.com
Creating vast contained wildlife refuges with grassland for wild horses would make it easier to monitor the herds and administer birth control. Equine contraception may offer the best hope of humanely keeping the animals alive while protecting wilderness.
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Horses On The Hill : July 14, 2009
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, horses, slaughter, Congress, environment, animaladvocates, killing, protection )

Cher
- 158 days ago - horsesonthehill.org
Equestrians and equine advocates from across the country will descend on Washington, D.C., on July 14, to press Congress to end horse slaughter once and for all.
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ACTION ALERT: Halt Remote Control Internet Hunting/Canned Hunting!!!
Animals  (tags: congress, internet hunting, killing wildlife, cruelty, canned hunts, legalisation, banning, wild animals welfare, protection )

Simone
- 161 days ago - community.hsus.org
The Sportsmanship in Hunting Act (H.R. 2308) aims to ban the practice of killing animals remotely via the Internet and crack down on captive hunts--the abhorrent practice of shooting confined, tame, exotic animals in an enclosed space.
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PLEASE TAKE ACTION: Urge Congress to Help Safeguard Wildlife From Global Warming
Animals  (tags: obama, congress, endangered wildlife, wildlife, habitat destruction, global waqrming, protection )

Simone
- 171 days ago - animalrights.change.org
President Obama has made it clear that he wants to tackle global warming, the single biggest threat to wildlife, this year. Now let's make sure Congress is on board. Please Urge Congress to pass strong climate and energy legislation this year that
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Take Action: BILL TO BAN HORSE SLAUGHTER INTRODUCED IN UNITED STATES SENATE
Animals  (tags: horse slaughter, ban horse slaugher, bill, congress, horse protection legalisation )

Simone
- 239 days ago - awionline.org
A bill to ban horse slaughter was introduced in the United States Senate today. Sponsored by Senators Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and John Ensign (R-NV), S. 727, the Landrieu-Ensign "Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act" will end the slaughter of American horses he
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PLZ TAKE ACTION:Ask Congress to Pass a Wildlife-Friendly Budget!
Animals  (tags: congress, wildlife, protection, conservation, habitat, endangered, wildlife friendly budget )

Simone
- 240 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Currently Congress is considering the budget resolution, which provides the tools necessary to increase investments in a clean energy economy, support a cleaner, healthier environment, and paves the way for comprehensive climate and energy legislation
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Exotic Animals Need Your Help (HR80/S462) Take Action!
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, animalcruelty, protection, animaladvocates, cruelty, animalrights, sadness, ethics, congress )

Suzybell
- 249 days ago - capwiz.com
Just last month, a 55 year old woman in Connecticut was severely mauled by a 200+ pound chimpanzee that was kept as a pet by her friend. Police were called, and the chimp then attacked an officer. Why do people insist on keeping exotic animals as pets
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Petition: Nationwide Law Banning Puppy Mills- Please Sign!!
Animals  (tags: animals, puppy mills, petition, cruelty, dogs, cats, law, congress, pets, suffering, animalwelfare, AnimalCruelty, abuse )

Nadia
- 270 days ago - gopetition.com.au
We the undersigned implore you to take into consideration passing a criminal law which bans puppy mills nationwide and imposes stricter penalties to those who break this law. We need to stop this unnecessary suffering of these animals who share our world.
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PLZ SIGN; Urge the 11th Congress to Protect Horses - STOP HORSE SLAUGHTER
Animals  (tags: congress, prevention equine cruelty act, laws, legislation, banning horse slaughter, horse protection, welfare )

Simone
- 313 days ago - community.hsus.org
The Conyers-Burton Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 503) will prohibit the barbaric slaughter of American horses for human consumption, including the transport of horses to Mexico and Canada for this purpose.
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URGENT/TAKE ACTION; BILL TO END HORSE SLAUGHTER REINTRODUCED Washington, DC (January 13, 2009)
Animals  (tags: horse slaughter bill, reintroduced, congress, horses, ban horse slaughter, horse advocates, horse welfare, protection )

Simone
- 315 days ago - unnecessaryevils.blogspot.com
The Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (formerly HR 6598) was reintroduced today as HR 464, by House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Representative Dan Burton (R-IN). They first introduced the bill which will ban horse slaughter,
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TAKE ACTION; Tell Congress To Stop Funding Nicotine And Tobacco Experiments On Animals- PLZ SIGN
Animals  (tags: monkeys, animal experiments, animal torture, nicotine experiments, funding, congress )

Simone
- 374 days ago - ga0.org
Every year in the U.S., at least hundreds (if not thousands) of animals are harmed and killed in experiments to test the effects of nicotine and tobacco. Conservatively, at least $47 million has been spent on this category of research under the
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