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Canned Hunting Ban: Breeders Threaten Mass Lion Slaughter : EcoWorldly
Animals  (tags: banning lion hunt, canned hunting, canned lion scandal, lion slaughter, South Africa, South African Predator Breeders’ Associa, trophy huntingabuse, abused, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates, animals, cruelty, death, endangered, huma )

Pirjo
- 11 hours ago - ecoworldly.com
The trophy hunter walked up to the dead lion, opened her mouth, and smiled for the cameras.  Her body was taken to the skinning shed where her beautiful coat was removed. "As they worked, the mother's milk spilt from her teats and mingled with her blood.
ACTION ALERT Pro-Galgo Petition - Add Your Name!
Animals  (tags: spanish authorities, galgoes, spanish dogs, greyhounds, tortured abandoned, beaten, protection )

Simone
- 1 day ago - galgonews.com
please sign the petition against the mistreating and killing of the galgos (spanish greyhounds) and other hunting dogs in Spain!
See the Women Who Saved the Kitties in Tianjin!!!!! All the More Reason to Support
Animals  (tags: AnimalWelfare, cats, dogs, animalwelfare, rescued, protection )

MARY
- 2 days ago - cnn.com
See her as she is and the furkids she loves and is fighting to save!!! Please support her and her fight!!!
ACTION ALERT: Demand a End to Brazil's Cruel Festival of Torture!!
Animals  (tags: oxen, tortured, mutilated, chased, beaten, hacked alive, horrific cruelty )

Simone
- 3 days ago - translate.google.com.au
One of the most savage rituals of cruelty toward animals is Brazil's Farra do Boi. Farra do boi, loosely translated as " Festival of the Oxen" or "Ox Fun Days", involves the torture- killing of several hundred oxen each year in more than thirty
Horses as Courses May End Under French Pet Protection Bill
Animals  (tags: french pet protection, legalisation, stopping horse slaughter, horses eaten, debate )

Simone
- 2 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
It is a working animal that has been used on farms, in sport, in warfare and on the plate for thousands of years. But now a debate is under way in France over a move to classify the horse as a domestic pet. The argument is passionate -- with insults
Researchers Recommend Protected Zone for Feeding Endangered Killer Whales; Vancouver Island
Animals  (tags: killer whales, habitat, feeding ground, endangered, protection, zone )

Simone
- 3 days ago - kelowna.com
Wildlife researchers have identified the key feeding area for a critically endangered population of killer whales near Vancouver Island and proposed the creation of a unique, miniature conservation zone for the few square kilometres encompassing the
Pressure Group Accuses Circus of Elephant Abuse
Animals  (tags: circus animals, evidence, animal defenders, abused, tortured beaten, government )

Simone
- 2 days ago - gazette-news.co.uk
ALLEGATIONS of circus animal abuse by a leading pressure group have prompted the Government to launch a public consultation on the issue. Earlier this year, Animal Defenders International released footage of shocking treatment to elephants at the
ACTION ALERT: Defra- Should Wild Animals Be in Circuses?
Animals  (tags: animal defenders, evidence, video, england, undercover exposure, ban wild animals, animal circus, horrendous cruelty )

Simone
- 3 days ago - surveymonkey.com
ADI has been pushing for a ban for of animals in circuses for ten years, presending evidence to Defra. As a result, DEFRA is starting a three-month survey aimed at gathering public opinion on whether animals should be banned from circuses.
New Focus on Illegal Slaughterhouses
Animals  (tags: illegal slaughterhouses, cruelty, welfare, animals, backyards, suffering, horses slaughtered )

Simone
- 2 days ago - all-creatures.org
"This is going to be a bigger black eye. These illegal slaughter farms have been running for north of 20 to 30 years without anyone doing anything about it,'' said Couto, who left the SPCA to form his own group, Animal Recovery Mission. For 20 years,
ACTION ALERT: LIBERATE THE BERLIN BEARS!
Animals  (tags: bear park, capviity, concrete, suffering, brown bears, bear pit, liberation, welfare )

Simone
- 3 days ago - bornfree.org.uk
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall and the liberation of the people of the German Democratic Republic, two brown bears remain behind their own Berlin wall in their pit in the middle of a Berlin park. There is no liberation in sight.
 
 
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