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http://www.care2.com/causes/success-organizers-cancel-cruel-sheep-racing-event.html

Success! Organizers Cancel Cruel Sheep Racing Event | Care2 CausesWhen Samantha Francis discovered that her local church was organizing a sheep race, she created a Care2 petition to cancel the race, and the parish council

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2017/jul/10/fido-tree-dogs-an-amazing-animal-family-in-pictures-patrick-aryee?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Green+Light+2016&utm_term=235027&subid=9773987&CMP=EMCENVEML1631

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/13/eu-calls-for-immediate-ban-on-logging-in-bialowieza-forest-poland?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Green+Light+2016&utm_term=235027&subid=9773987&CMP=EMCENVEML1631

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-fight-climate-change-have-fewer-children?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Green+Light+2016&utm_term=235027&subid=9773987&CMP=EMCENVEML1631

http://www.koitpets.com/blogs/living-animals-keeping-track-your-pet

Living With Animals: Keeping Track of Your PetNot knowing where your animal has gone, if he or she is safe… that’s a horrible experience.

http://thestarphoenix.com/life/bridges/help-on-four-legs-researchers-examine-how-animals-can-help-humans

Help on four legs: Researchers examine how animals can help humansColleen Dell and Darlene Chalmers believe in the therapeutic power of the human-animal relationship. For 10 years Dell, an addictions expert at the University of Saskatchewan, and Chalmers, a membe…

https://www.rt.com/politics/396317-activists-demand-urgent-approval-animals/

Activists demand urgent approval of bills targeting animal abuseRussian animal activists are picketing near the State Duma building, demanding that MPs speed up approval of a bill targeting cruelty to animals, which has been in the works for 16 years.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/07/14/animal-rights-activists-confront-florida-fishermen-over-suffocating-tilapia-in-viral-video.html

Animal rights activists confront Florida fishermen over 'suffocating' tilapia in viral videoYou can call this tilapia the one that got away.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/828600/Animal-experiments-outrage-5-000-dogs-tested

'It is UNACCEPTABLE' Animal experiments OUTRAGE as UK sees almost 5,000 dogs tested onDOGS were used in 4,932 laboratory experiments last year, according to Home Office figures condemned by animal welfare campaigners.

http://www.straitstimes.com/world/microscopic-tardigrade-named-worlds-toughest-animal-which-can-survive-all-imaginable

Microscopic tardigrade named world's toughest animal which can survive all imaginable catastrophesPARIS (AFP) - If a monster space rock crashes into our planet or radiation from an exploding star boils our oceans, humans and most other life forms will disappear.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/adorable-moss-piglets-will-still-be-here-in-10-billion-years-time-even-if-nothing-else-is/

Scientists Have Figured Out Which Will Be The Last Surviving Animal On EarthWhen the Sun turns into a red giant and swells to consume the Earth in a fiery death, we can be sure that there will be at least one living creature to experience the destruction.

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/help-animal-hoarders-by-referring-them-for-mental-health-assessments-imh-consultant

Help animal hoarders by referring them for mental health assessments: IMH consultantSINGAPORE - Family and friends can help animal hoarders by referring them for assessments to see if they have underlying mental illnesses, a consultant for the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) told The Straits Times on Friday (July 14).. Read more at straitstimes.com.

http://www.care2.com/causes/the-future-for-borneos-critically-endangered-orangutans-looks-grim.html

The Future For Borneo's Critically Endangered Orangutans Looks Grim | Care2 CausesDespite ongoing efforts to help orangutans survive in Borneo, they've continued to decline at an alarming rate.

Eels are vertebrate animals who are fully capable of feeling pain. In this article, the very real spectacle of animal suffering is ignored in favor of slime jokes, even though it was noted that eels produce slime as a response to stress.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/14/truck-eels-overturns-slime-cars-highway

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/13/swimming-trunk-elephant-rescued-from-ocean-10-miles-off-sri-lanka-coast

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/13/us-approves-oil-drilling-in-alaska-waters-marine-life-fear

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/12/house-panel-lifts-ban-on-slaughtering-horses-for-meat.html

House panel lifts ban on slaughtering horses for meatA House panel has voted to lift a ban on slaughtering horses at meat processing plants.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/monkey-selfie-macaque-copyright-court-david-slater?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=234767&subid=9773987&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

http://cavalrygroupnewswire.com/2017/07/12/circus-animal-ban-stalls-newark-city-council/

Circus animal ban stalls at Newark City Council - CavalryGroupNewswire.comNEWARK – Circuses will still be allowed to visit Newark. A bill that would have prohibited circuses or carnivals with wild or exotic animals was not voted out of committee Monday night. The law would have not allowed permits to be issued to circuses or Read more...

http://www.thebatavian.com/billie-owens/volunteers-for-animals-gets-grant-from-aspca-to-spay-and-neuter-pets-of-low-income

Volunteers for Animals gets grant from ASPCA to spay and neuter pets of low-income residentsPress release: Volunteers For Animals is proud to announce that we have once again been awarded a grant from the ASPCA to provide low-cost spay and neuter of canines and felines belonging to NYS residents who receive p Read more...