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ACTION ALERT: Join the Campaign - Send This Letter - Help the Galgos!!
Animals  (tags: galgoes, abused, legalisation, spanish greyhounds, protection, welfare, politicans )

Simone
- 3 days ago - galgonews.com
Joan Barrett is mounting a campaign to try and persuade politicians to act to improve the plight of the galgos. I hope you will all support her in this. This is what she has sent me.
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Animal Rights Activists Win Campaign to Rehouse India's Suffering Elephants
Animals  (tags: indian zoo, circus elephants, abused, mistreated, animal advocates, freedom, sanctuaries, welfare )

Simone
- 4 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
The elephant may be one of the national emblems of India, but animal-rights activists have long lamented the squalid conditions that most of the country's captive jumbos endure. Now the activists -- and the animals -- have cause to celebrate, after
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Move Over Mercedes - Zoo Plans to Breed Polar Bears
Animals  (tags: mercedes, limited room, polar bears, zoo, controversy, welfare, concerns, animal groups )

Simone
- 10 days ago - news.scotsman.com
The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) has revealed plans to bring a new pair of polar bears to the Highland Wildlife Park, near Kingussie, in the hope they will have cubs. Currently, there is only one polar bear in the UK. Known as Mercedes,
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ACTION ALERT: Tell the U.S. Not to Strip CITES Protection for Bobcats!
Animals  (tags: Cities, USA, endangered, bobcats, protection, conservation, welfare, legalisation )

Simone
- 12 days ago - secure.humanesociety.org
The meeting (CITES) is coming up in March 2010, and the United States has, for the fourth time, submitted a proposal to strip CITES protection for bobcats. The same thick fur that makes bobcats so beautiful is also in high demand in the fur trade.
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ACTION ALERTS; International Animal Actions!
Animals  (tags: OIPA, international animal actions, alerts, welfare, legalisation, protection )

Simone
- 13 days ago - serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com
BAN FUR FARMING IN IRELAND Saturday 10th October marked an historical victory for anti-fur campaigners across Ireland. Green Party members voted in favour for a new programme for government, which will see fur farming banned in Ireland within 3years.
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Escaped Circus Elephant in Enid Has Escaped Before
Animals  (tags: circus elephants, imprisoned, investigation, escaped, welfare )

Simone
- 13 days ago - newson6.com
The circus elephant that broke free and charged an SUV earlier this week in Enid has escaped before. Last summer in the town of WaKeeney, Kansas, two elephants escaped from a circus after being spooked by tornado sirens. One of those elephants, Kamba,
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Protected Zones Will Help to Save Britain's Marine Wildlife
Animals  (tags: marine act, bill, welfare, protected areas, marine wildlife, protection )

Simone
- 13 days ago - guardian.co.uk
An exotic underwater world of seahorses, sharks and corals that surrounds the coast of Britain is to be given greater protection under new legislation coming into force this week. The long-awaited Marine Act will allow conservation groups to map sites
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Los Angeles and Beverly Hills Join San Francisco in Moving Toward Cat De-Claw Bans
Animals  (tags: cats, welfare, legalisation, banning declawing, protection, laws )

Simone
- 13 days ago - examiner.com
The Los Angeles City Council today, in a preliminary action, voted unanimously to ban cat de-clawing, the Los Angeles Times reports. The council is scheduled to take a final vote on the measure on November 17, Similarly, on Thursday evening, the
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ACTION ALERT: Ask Your Senators To Support The Great Ape Protection Act (H.R. 1326)!!
Animals  (tags: great ape protectiion act, stop primate testing, experiments, vivisection, welfare, legalisation )

Simone
- 32 days ago - animalrights.change.org
As your constituent, I am writing to ask for your leadership on a Senate version of the Great Ape Protection Act (currently H.R. 1326). This legislation will end invasive research on chimpanzees, retire all federally-owned chimpanzees to sanctuary, and
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ACTION ALERT: Tell Nebraska Lawmakers No to Horse Slaughter!
Animals  (tags: horsees, welfare, laws, protection, nebraska lawmakers, no, horse slaughter )

Simone
- 45 days ago - animallawcoalition.com
Nebraska lawmakers are holding hearings to address what is described as the "problem" of disposing of horses now that slaughter in the U.S. is illegal. The legislature claims there is a "problem" of unwanted horses but now no way to dispose of them.
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ACTION ALERT: 600 Million Stray Dogs Need You!
Animals  (tags: stray dogs, homeless dogs, worldwide, welfare, animal activists, working together )

Simone
- 56 days ago - 600millionstraydogs.com
Welcome to a powerful project which will bring an end to one of the leading causes of animal suffering and death in the world -- animal overpopulation. Over one billion animals are violently killed every year simply due to overpopulation. This project
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Rising Deaths of Captive Animals, PETA Wants Zoos Closed
Animals  (tags: captive animals, zoos, india, investigations, deaths, endangered, welfare )

Simone
- 65 days ago - thaindian.com
Citing deaths of animals in captivity, activists of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India Wednesday staged a demonstration in front of the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) here and called for a shut down of all zoos. Following a recent
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ACTION ALERT: No Apes in Entertainment!!!
Animals  (tags: apes, chimpanzees, exploitation, film industry, advertising, ban wild animals, welfare, protection )

Simone
- 66 days ago - janegoodall.org
As a leader in our industry, our organization pledges not to use live great apes (gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans or bonobos) in connection with any of our products or services or for advertising, entertainment or any other purpose. " To have a real
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STOP MASS CAT KILLING IN LOS ANGELES - TAKE ACTION!
Animals  (tags: LA, feral cats, welfare, death, extermination, Vector )

Raffi
- 69 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Los Angeles County Department of Health has contracted with the Carson Animal Shelter to trap cats at various locations across the county. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of vaccinated, spayed, healthy cats will be killed. Feral cats are not
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China's Animal Revolution Rises
Animals  (tags: china, welfare, organization, animal protection laws, worldwide outrage )

Simone
- 79 days ago - redpepper.org.uk
Welfare legislation to protect animals in China sounds like a pipe dream when every day the international media reports news of bears held in cages no bigger than their own bodies and tapped of their bile, cats water-boiled alive and livestock thrown to
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