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06/29/2005 DISNEY PULLS SHARK'S FIN FROM HONG KONG PARK MENU!
HONG KONG (AFP) - Green groups applauded the Disney company after it said it would pull controversial shark's fin soup from the menu of its Hong Kong theme park following international outcry. The giant American company said in a brief statement it had decided to abandon plans to serve the controversial dish after failing to find suppliers that did not harvest the fins in an inhumane way.
06/27/2005 AUSTRALIAN VIVISECTION: SACRIFICED FOR SCIENCE!
Animals are being used increasingly in medical and scientific experiments - one every 69 seconds in Victoria - despite a national code of practice requiring researchers to reduce their use. Latest available figures show 488,808 animals - 1339 a day, or more than 55 an hour - were used in experiments in Victoria in 2003. This is above the long-term average of 449,000 and significantly higher than the 1997 figure of 324,308.Nearly 75 per cent of animals used in 2003 in Victoria were killed during or at the end of research. About 15 per cent were involved in non-invasive observational studies.Animal use in research will come under fresh scrutiny after the Senate this week decided to launch an inquiry into animal welfare laws and as National Health and Medical Research Council animal ethics chairwoman Elizabeth Grant told The Age that some researchers had become "complacent" about considering alternatives to animals.An Age investigation has found that animals are still involved in seemingly painful and stressful experiments.
06/26/2005 ORTHOPEDIC OPERATION FOR MONKEYS!
It was report by a news agent in China on 22nd, June 22, 2005: Doctors of West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University did an orthopedic operation for a monkey to make its mandibles shorter on 21st, June. It was regard as contribution for cosmetic surgery of human being by these doctors; in fact it's an extremely cruel animal experimentation which is aimed to find out how the operation affects nerve system of face and brain, and to find out what the sequela will be. After the operation, the doctors said they were very thankful for the monkeys because of its sacrifice for the cosmetic surgery research of human being.
06/25/2005 FOUR GORILLAS KILLED!
Nairobi - Three government soldiers have been jailed for allegedly killing four endangered lowland gorillas in the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a United States (US) conservation group said on Wednesday. The Atlanta-based Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International said the troops were detained after offering to sell meat from the dead gorillas to villagers near the Bakumbule Community Primate Reserve (Recopriba) earlier this month. "According to eye-witness reports from people who work with us they were killed by members of the military," said Patrick Mehlman, the fund's Kigali-based vice-presidentof Africa programmes.
06/24/2005 MAJOR CLOTHING RETAILERS TAKE STAND AGAINST CRUELTY TO ANIMALS!
Mega-retailer American Eagle Outfitters joins Timberland and Limited Brands-which operates stores under The Limited, Express, Henri Bendel, Victoria's Secret, and other major names-as the latest major company to join the retailer-led movement to reform the Australian wool industry by pledging to not use Australian merino wool until lamb mutilations and live sheep exports end. Along with Abercrombie & Fitch, J.Crew, SmartWool, and others, these companies have made a compassionate decision that sends a powerful message to the Australian wool industry: Cruelty to animals will not be tolerated.
06/22/2005 LIONS FREE KIDNAPPED A GIRL!
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Police say three lions rescued a 12-year-old girl kidnapped by men who wanted to force her into marriage, chasing off her abductors and guarding her until police and relatives tracked her down in a remote corner of Ethiopia.
06/19/2005 COURT RULES THAT PETA SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SHOW VIDEO OF MONKEY ABUSE INSIDE COVANCE LAB!
For 11 months, an investigator from PETA US worked as a technician inside the Vienna, Virginia, Covance laboratory, where she documented workers who were striking, choking, taunting and deliberately tormenting terrified monkeys. Covance sought an injunction and was able to get a court order that temporarily prevents PETA Europe from showing the undercover footage from inside the Covance animal-testing facility in the United States. On 16 June, His Honour Judge Langan handed down judgement in the case for injunctive relief brought by Covance Laboratories against PETA Europe Ltd, dismissing the case and calling the arguments against granting an interim injunction "cumulative and, in my judgment, overwhelming". Furthermore, PETA Europe was awarded £50,000 on account of its costs. The court was presented with the 28-minute video which resulted from the investigation, causing Judge Langan to comment on the "rough manner in which the animals handled and the bleakness of the surroundings in which they are kept", matters which, he said, "cry out for explanation". The video also shows multiple violations of the US Animal Welfare Act, which PETA US have detailed in a 272-page complaint to the US Department of Agriculture. PETA US is also challenging Covance, which is seeking removal of the video footage from the group's Web site, in the courts in the US.
06/16/2005 DOG AND CAT FUR TRADE FACING EUROPEAN BAN!
Euro-mp Roger Helmer has hailed an announcement that the trading of cat and dog fur in the European Union is to be banned. Conservative MEPs have staged a six-year campaign andthis week European Commissioner for Consumer Affairs, Markus Kyprianou, said: "There are legal problems but I've asked my team to find solutions."Items made from cat and dog fur are widely available for sale across the EU. Often they are not labelled, or are falsely labelled with names of exotic species like "Arctic fox" or "Asian jackal".Goods include garments, rugs and novelty soft toys such as toy cats made of dog fur.
06/15/2005 3,000 EXOTIC BIRDS, 1,960 GREEN LOGS SEIZED!
Port Dickson: The marine police have thwarted an attempt to smuggle 3,000 exotic birds of various species and 1,960 green logs from Indonesia along the coastline of Kuala Linggi. The contraband, transported via seven barter trade boats were seized in a four-hour operation, codenamed Ops Octopus, by six marine police officers from Muar.Asst Supt Ghazali Harun, who led the raids, said they started the operations at 1.30am yesterday following a tip-off. They trailed seven vessels on police PAC boat at mid-sea and blocked them when they reached the shoreline here.ASP Ghazali said the police detained the seven tekong of the boats and 19 others - all Indonesians aged 30 to 40. The vessels were tugged to the Kuala Linggi fisheries department jetty.
06/14/2005 HENS WILL NO LONGER BE STARVED BUT THEY WILL STILL SUFFER!
Machipongo, Va. - Following an intense 13-year animal advocacy campaign launched by United Poultry Concerns (UPC) in 1992, the US egg industry trade group, United Egg Producers, has issued a ban on forcing hens to drop their feathers and cease laying eggs by going without food in the practice known as forced molting - "reversing a practice followed for more than 100 years," according to the agribusiness journal Feedstuffs on May 9, 2005.Faced with mounting criticism, United Egg Producers came up with a low-protein "molt diet" to replace food deprivation. Instead of being completely starved, force-molted hens under the new "animal welfare" regimen get just enough nutrients to maintain sufficient energy to express their suffering in being semi-starved, debeaked, unable to walk, spread their wings, perch, dustbathe or sunbathe.
06/13/2005 TOURIST HUNTING ON SEALS CONTINUES IN SEPTEMBER!
Norway - Tourist hunting on seals started on the coast of northern Norway this spring. The hunting quota was 645 seals. At the end of the hunting season, only 82 animals had been killed. Representatives of NorSafari, which organizes guided hunting tours with tourists, will continue the hunting in the autumn. From the 1st to 15th of September tourists will be accompanied to kill seals along the shores of Vega.
06/12/2005 VEGANISM COMES TO BIRMINGHAM!
This June sees Birmingham host the year's most unusual, cheerful celebration of positive living. The vegan revolution is coming to the second capital of England. The latest edition of the New Scientist commented on the vegan phenomenon in the UK, observing that "there is a rush towards vegetarianism and veganism in the UK." The festival will take place at the Birmingham Carling Academy, Dale End. From 9.30 to 5 pm.
06/11/2005 FISHING NETS KILL 1,000 MARINE MAMMALS DAILY!
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Almost 1,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises die daily in fishing nets and urgent changes are needed in trawling methods to save nine populations under immediate threat, conservation group WWF said on Thursday.Its report -- which WWF says is the first assessment of the situation by leading marine scientists -- points to the accidental catching of cetacea in fishing gear as one of the gravest global threats to marine mammals."Almost 1,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises die every day in nets and fishing gear. That's one every two minutes," said Dr Susan Lieberman, director of WWF's Global Species Programme.
06/09/2005 WHALING AND SEALING QUOTAS 2005!
Norway - The quota for mike whale for 2005 is 797 animals. The hunt is underway...The Minister of Fisheries, Svein Ludvigsen, has increased the state subsidies to the sealing industry to NOK 16 million. The quota for harp seals is 25.000 adult animals. Instead of one adult, 2 or 2,5 pups may be killed, dependant on the place of hunting. The quota for hooded seals is 5.600. Instead of one adult 1,5 pups may be killed. Suckling pups are not to be killed. Fixed dates decide when pups are considered to have stopped suckling, and may be killed.
06/08/2005 AFC MARKS WORLD OCEAN DAY!
On June 8 and 11, 2005, Animal Friends Croatia will organize workshops, prize winning games and drawing competitions for children on the theme of sea mammals and their protection. There will also be a display of informative billboards for citizes and educational materials and flyers will be handed out.Apart from these public events and the letter of support to the Croatian government for joining IWC, Animal Friends Croatia will mark the World Ocean Day on June 8, by a movie projection showing whale hunting, followed by a presentation depicting the killing of sea mammals and fish for human food and profit.
06/05/2005 SCANDAL OF MINK FARMS IN EUROPE!
Foxes and mink are being pitilessly gassed, strangled and beaten to death - just so their furs can be sold in the High Street. The sickening scenes have been caught on camera by undercover investigator Martin Balluch, 40, from PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. He spent two years exposing the brutal treatment the animals endure in Scandinavian fur farms.He said: "There are 150,000 animals in the fur farms of Sweden and Finland but they are being kept in totally inhumane conditions. I saw animals crushed so tightly in their cages they could barely turn around. The stench of dead rotting animals and excrement was appalling."His horrific pictures, some too distressing for us to publish, showed piles of skinned animals being burned in funeral pyres and fox and mink gnawing at the bars of their cage in a desperate bid to escape. It comes just three weeks after The People exposed the horrific raccoon fur trade in China.Sean Gifford from PETA said: "Fur farming is illegal in the UK because of its obvious cruelty. But fur is still being imported from Scandinavia where animals lead miserable lives and endure agonising deaths."Martin and his team from Austria hid in freezing forests, endured beatings and death threats from thuggish farmers, not to mention police raids and imprisonment as they filmed 76 fur farms in Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway.
06/04/2005 SAVE THE KEOLADEO NATIONAL PARK AS A WORLD HERITAGE AND RAMSAR SITE!
Indian conservationists are appealing for support in their efforts to save the wetlands of the Keoladeo National Park in Rajasthan, India - a World Heritage and Ramsar site.Bureaucratic incompetence and apathy, together with poor local land management due to lack of education and environmental awareness, have combined to seriously threaten the future of the park after a succession of droughts. Since 2004 migrating bird species, including threatened population such as Siberian Crane, Sarus Crane, Black Necked Stork, Sociable Lapwing, Pallas' Fish Eagle, Marshall's Iora and the Greater Adjutant have ceased to use the wetlands as a staging area in winter. It is essential that measures are taken to restore the wetlands to their former state as soon as possible and that this habitat is maintained as a World Heritage and Ramsar site of global importance.
06/03/2005 AIRLINE STOPS ALL LIVE TRADE FOR USE IN EXPERIMENTS!
British Airways has been accused of setting back medical research in the UK by enforcing a blanket ban on the transport of live animals for use in experiments. Government officials and leading scientists have expressed their dismay to the airline about the toughening of its stance which they fear will send the wrong message to scientists and pharmaceutical companies involved in animal testing, and could encourage extremists who have been running a high-profile campaign to shut down the live animal trade.
06/02/2005 RARE CHANCE FOR HISTORIC CHANGES TO DRUG TESTING LAWS!
The legislation surrounding approval of drugs is outdated, scientifically groundless, and a major reason for the continuation of vivisection. An Early Day Motion, EDM 92 is being presented to parliament (UK) which could lead major changes to the way drugs are tested. Europeans for Medical Progress, a doctor's group campaigning for abolition of vivisection has been behind the EDM and it is their priority to promote overwhelming support for it.
06/01/2005 TEXAS - ANTI-CRUELTY BILL H.B. 326!
Texas House Bill 326 would make any act of injury or death to an animal, even hunting or field trials, an act of animal cruelty; however a substitute bill introduced restores the exemption for hunting, fishing and trapping in the section defining animal cruelty.Similar legislation has been attempted in Idaho, Kansas and Virginia.
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