Sign the Croatian petition against cruelty to animals
Protest the killing of monkeys in Barbados / Dogs massacred in Romania
Bushmeat Crisis / Stop Italian Hunters / West Nile Virus
Campaign Against Vivisection / WARNING - Danger: New Chemicals
Stop China Fur import of Cats / Sign the World Animal Rights Bill
CROATIA: Support shelter for dogs / Looting at the Baghdad Zoo
TURKEY: 1200 dogs kicked out of premises in IstanbulSHKD, Istambul: We are being kicked out of our premises by the landlord who wishes to sell the land for expensive villas. We are also threatened with expulsion from our open forest shelter. Now 16.10.2003 a lot of dogs have been saved and rehomed in Germany and the Netherlands, Still, 600 healthy, vaccinated and neutered dogs, most of them medium size (20-25 kgs) dogs are waiting to be rehomed. We hope to be able to continue our activities with about 200 dogs in a small shelter and with an animal hospital so that we can continue to employ our vets and carry out neutering campaigns and veterinary teaching throughout Turkey. If we cannot rehome those dogs by the time we lose our premises I will have a choice of dumping them onto the streets or putting them to sleep. It would be kinder to put them humanely to sleep. We have now run out of money to save most of these dogs. Please help. Visit http://gb.actiezwerfhonden.nl/ |
ActionStraydogs (NL) is trying to help. We are selling t-shirts donated by Roberth Smith; all the money earned will be donated to the S.H.K.D. shelter for costs of food, medicins and tranport to Germany and Holland. Please take a look at our site. |
Stop the Aerial Killing of Wolves in Alaska!At least 130 wolves have been killed under Alaska's deadly aerial gunning program!Trophy hunters can gun down wolves from airplanes and helicopters or run the helpless wolves to exhaustion, then land and shoot them. And now the Alaska Board of Game has expanded the program -- meaning even more wolves will be slaughtered. We need to generate more pressure on Alaska Governor Murkowski by educating and mobilizing more Americans to stop this awful killing. Help spread the word. Send an e-mail or a copy of the Defenders of Wildlife ad to at least three of your friends. Click here to download a printable version of the ad. Click here to contribute. |
Canadian Seal Hunt BeginsSeveral hundred thousand baby harp seals are being slaughtered on the ice fields off Canada's east coast right now!(Charlottetown, Canada – 24 March 2004) - Despite international condemnation, the commercial hunt for Canadian seal pups began today across the ice floes of eastern Canada, and IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare – www.ifaw.org) is out on the ice to monitor sealing activity and document hunting violations. The hunt, which is heavily subsidized by the Canadian government, is expected to take as many as 350,000 seals over the next few weeks. Seals may be killed once they begin to moult their fluffy white coats – as young as 12 days old. Ninety-five percent of the seals killed in the hunt are under three months of age. This annual Canadian seal hunt is happening right now, with the dawn of spring and newborn seal pups taking their first breath. In fact, over 95% of the seals killed during this hunt are just days or weeks old. If you were to witness this personally, your heart would break. Hundreds of acts of animal abuse and violations of Canada's criminal code have been documented by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) during this hunt: baby seals impaled on hooks ... seals skinned alive or wounded and left to die under the ice. Last year, the Fisheries minister announced he would allow 975,000 seals to be killed over the next three years. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), however, spends only 1.5% of their patrol hours monitoring sealers to prevent criminal acts and kill limit violations during this hunt. Click HERE to read the letter PeTA: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wrote to fur wearer Naomi Campbell. |
A Canadian sealer gets ready to kill a seal pup, lying at his feet, with a hakapik. Photo: © IFAW/S. Cook |
For a Universal Forum of Cultures - Barcelona 2004WE HAVE WON! — April 2004... BARCELONA has been declared free of bullfights! Download the Beauty and the Beast Pamphlet. |
“In the same way that fox hunting does not define the English people, bullfighting does not define the Spanish.” |
Killing animals for works of art !Action Against Poisoning is informed on the work of Nathalia Edenmont, who exposes her art in Gallery Wetterling in Stockholm at this moment. We respect and mostly appreciate any art expression of even the most extreme illusions. However, we strongly object to the killing of animals as a means to perform works of art. The phantasies of Mrs Edenmont could very well have been expressed in sculpture, painting or currently available computer aided (photo)graphic design programs. But at no time animals, let alone domestic animals capable of emotional integration in family life, should be freshly killed to create a parody on human communication or any ironic image whatsoever. In our opinion this art might be seen as contemporary and funny, but the actual creation reflects a disturbed mind. Consequently this art should neither be produced, promoted nor exposed. We urge Mrs Edenmont to adapt her creative
powers as of now to non destructive methods. We ask the
relevant authorities and institutions to use their powers to stop
animal abuse as a form of art or any animal abuse for that matter. Write
a letter to registrator@agriculture.ministry.se, send
a protest to the Gallery that shows her pictures http://www.wetterlinggallery.com/ and
protest to the Swedish Embassies of your countries! See article
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"Help the Horses" campaignEach week over 100 lorries crammed with horses arrive at the Italian border. Many will have travelled almost 1,500 miles, often without rest periods contrary to European Union law. Naturewatch is working with other European animal welfare groups to stop this cruel trade. This is the tragic cost of supplying horsemeat to the Italians. |
From its home in Lithuania to the slaughterhouses of Italy. |
URGENT! AUSTRALIA: DOUBLE BETRAYALThe greyhound industry is passing on countless greyhounds that are no longer fast enough or making a profit by selling them or donating them to vivisection laboratories for experimentation, dissection, and surgical training... Read more... BAN THE EXPORT OF GREYHOUNDS TO ASIA CAMPAIGN 2003It has been reported by the media that many greyhounds in Asia in places such as Macau, Korea, Vietnam and China have either been discovered slaughtered in landfills or have ended their days in the barbaric dogmeat industry, suffering horrific cruelty along with other breeds of dogs, until they are finally butchered... Read more.. |
Countless
greyhounds around the world are exploited every year for
profit in the name of entertainment and conse- quently
sentenced to a brutal death.
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International Campaign against EU-subsidies
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In SÃO PAULO'S ZOO, Brazil, Animals ARE BEING PoisonED By AN Animal Serial Killer!The zoo in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo is facing a murder mystery worthy of an Agatha Christie novel. Since late January, the zoo, one of the most modern in Latin America, has lost 10 animals, including an elephant - fatally poisoned by what police are calling a "serial animal killer". So far, laboratory tests have shown the animals were killed with sodium fluoroacetate, a banned rat poison. According to the Sao Paulo State University, where autopsies were performed, the poison caused the animals to stop breathing and led to cardiac arrest. What troubles investigators is that tests on the animals' food and water could find no trace of the poison. The first animal to die was Tony, a chimpanzee. Since then, two other monkeys, an elephant, three dromedaries and three tapirs, includi ng a newborn, have joined the casualty list. " We are deeply saddened by these events. Many of the workers have been with the zoo for several years and spend more time with the animals than with their own families," said Fatima Valente Roberti, a biologist at the zoo."We cannot fathom what could possibly lead a person to commit such aggression." From: Ecology Fund Newsletter http://www.ecologyfund.com |
Caretaker stands next to the cage of the Zoo's last live chimpanzee, a female named Fafa, February 16, 2004. In the last three weeks thirteen animals, including Fafa's male companion, have mysteriously died at the Zoo. From: Planet Ark Newsletter http://www.planetark.com |
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After several hours of torture... This mutilated ox is still alive... |
Ban the import, export, sale and production
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A Saint Bernard stands alone among the cages stuffed with dogs. These dogs will soon be killed in the cruelest manner |
Commemorative March for BPRC-Primates on International Animal Rights DayWed. 10 December 2003, 14h45, Town Hall, Rijswijk, HollandThe Dutch animal protection organization E.D.E.V. (http://www.edev.nl) - an animal, a friend - leads a peaceful quiet march through Rijswijk to commemorate all primates that died in the Biomedical Primate Research Center (BPRC). Since 1960 an estimated 10,000 primates - not including pigs, rats, mice and other animals that are used by BPRC as well - have been tortured and killed by lab tests and vivisection in this former TNO-Primate Center. The march starts in front of the new Town hall of Rijswijk at the Bogaardplein and finishes at the BPRC. From 14.45 hrs you are welcome at the meeting place in front of the Town hall. Please join this march with your family and friends. As we commemorate the primates wear black dress if possible. Let the municipality of Rijswijk, the BPRC employees and above all the primates inside this torture center know that we have not forgotten. 100 free....., still 1500 to release. Close the primate hell in Rijswijk! Let us not stop before the last cage is empty! For organizational reason please register at: campagnes@edev.nl From now on free IARD 2003 posters and leaflets (with new BPRC-photographs) are available via akoenen@edev.nl |
Animal experimentation involves the incarceration of animals and their subsequent poisoning, mutilation, disease and killing. It is arguably the most brutal and most severe form of systematic, genocidal-scale violence in the modern world. |
IRAK: LOOTING REACHES THE BAGHDAD ZOOONLY THE LIONS AND TIGERS REMAINRead more... Visit http://www.ifaw.org, they need your help! MARJAN, a one-eyed and dejected version of the king of beasts, became an international symbol of the suffering that the Taliban had inflicted on Afghanistan. Now the same is set to happen with captive animals in war-beleagered Iraq. More... Visit http://www.jobs.ge/gevha and http://www.lionlmb.org/lion.html |
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For more information about West Nile virus, visit the AVMA's website. Tips on pet poison prevention can be found at APCC online. |
Protest the Killing of Monkeys in BarbadosIn Barbados, the government has placed a bounty on the 14,000 green monkeys who inhabit the island. Hunters are paid $7.50 for every tail that they bring in, so they usually kill the animal, cut off the tail, and throw the carcass away. The Barbados Primate Research Center pays $25 for monkeys brought in unharmed, who are then used for research or killed so that their kidneys can be used for polio vaccines, even though safer polio vaccines are produced through human cell cultures. Of the 1,500 monkeys brought to the Barbados Primate Research Center every year, more than half are sold for $1,500 each to other research centers and various companies where they are tortured and killed. Help stop the cruel exploitation and slaughter of green monkeys. Tell the minister of tourism, Honorary Noel Lynch, that you will boycott Barbados until the killing is stopped: Email: barmot@sunbeach.net, fortea@gov.bb. For more information visit PETA's website. |
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PROTEST AGAINST BULLFIGHTS AND FOR ANIMAL RIGHTSLISBON, 18 JULY (FRIDAY)The march will start at 17h00 at the PARQUE EDUARDO VII, in Lisbon (next to the Praça do Marquês de Pombal) and will end at the Praça de Touros do Campo Pequeno (bullring) (Parque Eduardo VII - Praça do Marquês do Pombal - Av. Fontes Pereira de Melo - Praça Duque do Saldanha - Av. da República - Praça de Touros do Campo Pequeno) Information: Miguel Moutinho (miguel.moutinho@animal.org.pt o r +351-962358183) |
More than 35
City Halls support bullfights in Portugal: from Albufeira to Vila Viçosa.
See the list.
Write to the mayors.
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PORTUGUESE ASSOCIATION OF TRISOMY 21 (Down Syndrome) PROMOTES BULLFIGHTINGINTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT AGAINST BULLFIGHTS
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More than 35 City Halls support bullfights in Portugal: from Albufeira to Vila Viçosa. See the list. Write to the mayors. |
URGENT! Petition Against Swiss Eating Dogs and CatsSign the petition: http://www.petitionpetition.com/cgi/petition.cgi?id=5335 Swiss Animal Protection Laws are due to be revised this summer (Swiss laws presently allow the eating of dogs and cats). Our colleagues at Sirius GAO (http://sirius.2kat.net) have created a petition demanding that the Swiss Govt. address this vital issue. Only international pressure will ensure that this loop-hole is closed once and for all. |
THE ANIMALS IN ANDALUSIA, SPAIN, NEED YOUR HELP AND PROTECTION !The BrightEyes Society is lobbying the Regional Government of Andalusía to force the government to introduce animal protection laws in the Region, and we will move on to the remaining lawless regions once this is achieved. Read more... and sign the petition. |
SCIENTISTS, PHILOSOPHERS AND LEGAL SCHOLARS GATHERED AT THE LISBON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL TO DEMAND BETTER LEGAL PROTECTION FOR ANIMALSCIENTISTAS, FILÓSOFOS E JURISTAS REUNIDOS NA FACULDADE DE DIREITO DE LISBOA DEFENDEM MELHOR PROTECÇÃO LEGAL PARA OS ANIMAIS |
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No More Homeless Pets Conference – April 25-27, 2003 Costa Mesa, CARegister online at: http://www.bestfriends.org/ Everything you need to know to bring an end to the killing of homeless pets in your community. Read more... |
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Don't let Renault execute in Romania hundreds of strays!!!The management team of Renault in France has a new target: the killing of all stray dogs at the Dacia Company, a Renault subsidiary. Hundreds of dogs are killed and poisoned. Dacia's Romanian management wanted to only catch the dogs, but Renault France however made arrangements to kill them all. Read more... LATEST NEWS: no dog was killed at Mioveni factory since our protest began. Thank You All! |