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Wild Animals Should Not Be Service Animals
Animals (tags: wild animals, freedom, service animals, debate, cruelty, federal courrts, hearings, disasters )

Simone
- 2 hours ago - animallawcoalition.com

There is a debate over whether just any animal and particularly wild animals can or should be service animals. In just the last month two federal courts, one in Arizona and one in Missouri, found nonhuman primates in those particular situations could not

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Bear Death Prompts Formation of Animal Rights Group
Animals (tags: bears, killed, wildlife league, formation, bear killers, controversy, wild animals, black bear )

Simone
- 3 hours ago - vcreporter.com

The Ojai Wildlife League is criticizing Fish and Game officials for euthanizing a wild bear last month, as the head game warden defends his role in killing the 400-pound animal .

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Portuguese Circuses Hit By Ban
Animals (tags: good news, portuguese circuses, animals banned, laws, animal welfare, wild animals, animal rights )

Simone
- 19 days ago - captiveanimals.org

The use of some wild animals will be phased-out in Portuguese circuses thanks to a new law introduced in October. The law prohibits the purchase of all species of primates, bears, seals, hippopotamuses, penguins, crocodiles, elephants, big cats, sea

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IFAW: More Than 100 Elephants a Day Still Slaughtered By Poachers- 20 Years After Ivory Ban
Animals (tags: african elephants, butchered, slaughtered, extinction, wild animals, 104 killed a day, tragedy, horrific )

Simone
- 19 days ago - politics.co.uk

Despite ivory trade being banned 20 years ago (today) a shocking 104 elephants are still being killed every day for their tusks.

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Trapped in Debate
Animals (tags: leg hold traps, horrific cruelty, debate, wild animals, trapping )

Simone
- 23 days ago - awionline.org

It will likely take heightened international exposure of the U.S. BMP trap-testing program for the world to see it for the sham it is. Global pressure will be needed to compel the E.U. to re-think its weak trapping agreement with the U.S. and ultimately

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Dispelling a Popular Hunting Myth
Animals (tags: wild animals, wildlife, gunned down, slaughtered, hunting, killing, myths )

Simone
- 24 days ago - all-creatures.org

Sportsmen--that's the name given to people who stalk and shoot unsuspecting sentient beings who make the mistake of wandering into the crosshairs during hunting season. Sport? Sports are played between teams, people, or groups who are all aware they are

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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
- 31 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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ACTION ALERT: Save The Wolves,Ban Killing!!!
Animals (tags: obama, legalisation, ban wolf killing, massacre, protection, wild animals )

Simone
- 31 days ago - thepetitionsite.com

the wolves need protection.you need to stop the killing before they become extinct.

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Wildlife Roundup: The Good News
Animals (tags: wildlife, wild animals, surival stories, conservation, protection )

Simone
- 32 days ago - switchboard.nrdc.org

It seems that mountain lions are making a comeback. A mountain lion was just spotted in New Hampshire. There have been several possible sightings in recent years, but state wildlife officials have been hesitant to acknowledge the possible return of

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Gallery: Calgary Zoo's Tigers, Past and Present
Animals (tags: siberian tigers, zoo tigers, endangered, calgary zoo, tiger attack, wild animals )

Simone
- 32 days ago - montrealgazette.com

A look at Calgary Zoo's Siberian Tigers clan, now in the spotlight after Monday's mauling.

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Tiger at Calgary Zoo That Mauled Intruder Did Nothing Wrong: Keeper
Animals (tags: vitali, siberian tiger, enclosed, canadian man, attacked, intruder, wild animals, keeper )

Simone
- 32 days ago - montrealgazette.com

A Siberian tiger that brutally mauled a man Monday morning was only doing what comes naturally, say Calgary zoo officials. "Vitali did nothing wrong. It's his natural behaviour. They broke into his home," said zookeeper Tim Sinclair-Smith later in

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ACTION ALERT: Lujan Zoo - Argentina Zoo-Dangerous and Controversial!- Pls Sign PETITION
Animals (tags: lujan zoo, argentina, dangerous, animals, misteated, drugged, wild animals, mistreated, humans, safety )

Simone
- 34 days ago - thepetitionsite.com

Lujan Zoo, in Argentina, controversially allows visitors to enter enclosures and cages to have their photographs taken cuddling and even sitting on the backs of some of the most dangerous prediators in the world. The animals appear to be very sedate and

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ACTION ALERT: End the Poisoning of Wildlife on Public Lands!!
Animals (tags: wildlife, brutally poisoned, killed, public lands, wild animals, agribusiness )

Simone
- 35 days ago - animalrights.change.org

It's a dirty little secret: government agents spread deadly toxic poisons on public lands to kill wildlife at the behest of agribusiness. Most Americans don't even know it's happening. But wolves, bears, bobcats and foxes are being senselessly poisoned.

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ACTION ALERT: Urge Martin County, FL, to Get Rid of Canned-Hunting Facility!
Animals (tags: canned hunts, savage cruelty, fenced in animals, wild animals, slaughtered, martin county )

Simone
- 35 days ago - secure.peta.org

J&R Outfitters, a company operating in Indiantown, Florida, has reportedly operated a canned-hunting facility for several years. Not only was this operation cruel, it was also illegal! The owners had no permits to run the business, and in fact, the

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Killing the Wolf at the Door
Animals (tags: wolves, massacred, butchered, tragedy, wild animals, freedom, protection, controversy )

Simone
- 39 days ago - commondreams.org

The wolf, if anything, has been the victim of its own reputation. "We have doomed the wolf not for what it is," wrote Farley Mowatt, "but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be - the mythologised epitome of a savage, ruthless killer."

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