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Animals News tagged with sanctuary

Super-Sized Treadmill Instead of Retirement for Ailing Elephant?
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, zoos, sanctuary, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 2 hours ago - blog.peta.org
PETA and ZooCheck have been campaigning to convince officials at the Edmonton Zoo, deemed Canada's worst zoo for elephants by African elephant biologist Winnie Kiiru, to release its sole pachyderm prisoner, Lucy, to a sanctuary. We've reasoned with zoo
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Slaughterhouse Owner Pleads No Contest
Animals  (tags: slaughterhouse owner, animal cruelty, arrested, charged, farm animals abused, rescued, new home, sanctuary )

Simone
- 11 hours ago - all-creatures.org
Last year, Santa Cruz County Animal Services director, Todd Stosuy noticed a cow with a broken horn spraying blood a foot in the air. The shocking sight led him to an even more tragic situation - a custom slaughterhouse. Goats, rabbits, pigs, chickens
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Walkies! Volunteers Rehabilitate Abused Wildcats in Bolivian Jungle Sanctuary
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, wildcats, Bolivia, sanctuary, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 21 hours ago - dailymail.co.uk
Deep in the heart of the Bolivian jungle an animal conservation worker wanders through the undergrowth flanked by a wild jaguar.
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Helping Donald the Crippled Rooster and Harvest Home Sanctuary
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, roosters, crippled, sanctuary, environment, protection )

Cher
- 7 days ago - animalrights.change.org
One of Harvest Home's residents needs surgery. His name is Donald. He hatched into a first grade classroom as a project -- and he emerged from his egg with deformed legs. When Harvest Home first met him, "one of his legs was splayed at a 90 degree angle,
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Farewell Our Precious Franzi
Animals  (tags: franzi, bear, imprisoned, bear bile cruelty, rescued, sanctuary, grief, memoriam, loved, missed, goodbye )

Simone
- 9 days ago - all-creatures.org
Here too, in all her glory, was the most perfect and tragic example of an animal with "stress dwarfism"...possessing a "normal" bear-shaped head, but a crudely stunted body, she was a shell of an animal who had been squashed and trapped in a cage for 25
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Nine Elephants Cruelly Captured in Zimbabwe, Now Safe
Animals  (tags: abused, neglected elephants, rescued, safe, sanctuary, released, national park )

Simone
- 10 days ago - all-creatures.org
Nine elephants cruelly captured in Zimbabwe for the elephant back safari trade and abused during the training process have been rescued and released to a national park by the Zimbabwe National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Against Animals
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Confiscated Bears Released to the Moon Bear Rescue Centre, Tam Dao
Animals  (tags: bears, bear bile farms, rescued, moon bear rescue, sanctuary, safe, animalasia )

Simone
- 10 days ago - animalsasia.org
While we wait and lobby for the release of 79 non-microchipped bears from farms in Halong Bay, other bears confiscated under the same conditions continue to arrive at the Moon Bear Rescue Centre in Tam Dao, Vietnam.
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Is This the Only White Tiger Cub in the Wild? Newborn Gets a Bath From Mum in South Africa
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, tigers, sanctuary, birth, white tiger, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, endangered, extinction )

Cher
- 11 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
A mother always thinks her children are special. But this tiny tiger cub may be even more special than his own mother realises
10 comments
Hospice for Unwanted, Handicapped Animals Close to Shutting Down!!Needs Help
Animals  (tags: sanctuary, rescued, funds, dogs, cats, horses )

Lone
- 12 days ago - orlandosentinel.com
DeLAND -- Florence Thuot made a silent promise to the 300 handicapped and unwanted animals that found their way to her sanctuary: they would have a home for life.
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ACTION ALERT: Help Free Vietnam Bears Used for Bear Bile!!!
Animals  (tags: animals asia foundation, bear bile bears, imprisoned, freedom, rescue, sanctuary, illegal, cruelty )

Simone
- 12 days ago - animalsasia.org
There are currently over 4,000 bears on farms in Vietnam. Bear farming and the extraction of the bear's bile is illegal in Vietnam, but due to the number of bears on farms it is not possible for the authorities to confiscate them all. The Vietnamese
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BANK AUTHORIZES KILLING OF RESCUE ANIMALS
Animals  (tags: wildife, rescue animals, sanctuary, closing down, bank, authorisation, animals, killed, refuge )

Simone
- 12 days ago - australia.to
The Witter Wildlife Refuge which has rescued injured and orphaned wildlife for almost 10 years has been forced to close it's doors due to lack of funding. The refuge has taken in hundreds of animals over the years with no state or federal funding.
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Your Morning Adorable: Orphaned Baby Sloths Get An Assist From Costa Rica Sanctuary
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, sloth, abandoned, sanctuary, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 14 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Talk about specialized -- the Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica rescues and rehabilitates sloths, sloths and only sloths. Back in 1992 neighbors of the sanctuary's bird-enthusiast founders brought an orphaned baby three-toed sloth to their doorstep.
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Kanpur Zoo to Propose Leopard Rescue Centre
Animals  (tags: zoo, rescue centre, leopard, humans, conflicts, rehailitation, home, sanctuary )

Simone
- 23 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
With a view to rehabilitate the leopards who have been forced to leave their habitat due to the fast depleting forest cover in the state, the Kanpur zoo authorities will soon send a proposal to the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) for establishing a
2 comments
Ocelot Killed at Animal Sanctuary
Animals  (tags: animals, ocelots, AnimalWelfare, sanctuary, environment, killed, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 25 days ago - valleycentral.com
The valley's dwindling population recently suffered a crucial loss in the wildcat's most important sanctuary.
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Keenesburg Sanctuary Hopes to Save Cancun Tigers
Animals  (tags: animals, tigers, Mexico, AnimalWelfare, sanctuary, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 31 days ago - denverpost.com
The operator of the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Weld County will meet with lawyers in Mexico and the U.S. in the next few days to plot the next move in a bureaucratic struggle to rescue 15 tigers in Cancún.
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