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http://jakarta.coconuts.co/2016/01/25/chirping-mania-drives-indonesian-birds-brink-extinction

‘Chirping mania’ drives Indonesian birds to the brink of extinctionBy Nick Perry

Progress! National Institutes of Health Promotes Cruelty-Free Research

Progress! National Institutes of Health Promotes Cruelty-Free ResearchPETA's efforts to persuade the National Institutes of Health to embrace modern, humane research are resulting in significant progress.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/fled-queens-slaughterhouse-saved-animal-activist-article-1.2505777

Cow who fled Queens slaughterhouse saved by animal activistAnd he's now named Freddie.

hopeful future http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/636496/poll-shows-bullfighting-on-way-out

New poll shows bullfighting is on the way outSPANISH bullfighting is being put to the sword by a new generation of animal lovers.

cats and dogs are often subjected to fake anything because its cheaper than the real product. Horrendous in every aspects. http://ladyfreethinker.org/activists-save-cats-from-sold-as-meat/

Activists Save Thousands of Stolen Cats from being Sold as Rabbit Meat and Pork in Chinese RestaurantsThe cats were to be sold as rabbit and pork in Chinese restaurants.

Activists Save Thousands of Stolen Cats from being Sold as Rabbit Meat and Pork in Chinese Restaurants

Activists Save Thousands of Stolen Cats from being Sold as Rabbit Meat and Pork in Chinese RestaurantsThe cats were to be sold as rabbit and pork in Chinese restaurants.

While there is no such thing as taking an animal’s life humanely, the presence of cameras inside slaughterhouses will promote transparency and accountability on the kill floor.

http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=7412&catId=1

Cameras to Be Installed in Israel's SlaughterhousesUndercover investigation spurs Ministry of Agriculture to order the installation of cameras in the country's slaughterhouses.

In this feature episode of If Our Bodies Could Talk, senior editor James Hamblin travels across California to learn about the science and psychology of diversifying people’s protein-intake portfolio.

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/411802/our-meatless-morrow/?utm_source=SFFB

The Future of Protein Will Not Be Animal MeatNew plant-based meats are an exciting development for nutrition and the environment.

Why not to eat fish http://www.animalequality.net/node/830

Reasons Not to Eat Fish | Animal Equality

SHAME #wildlifecrime http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3403113/Noah-s-Ark-airlift-shames-Mugabe-Sold-25-000-time-terrified-baby-elephants-torn-early-mothers-flown-China-caged-abused-neglected.html

Zimbabwe sells terrified baby elephants for £25,000 each to ChinaBaby elephants are being snatched from the wild in Africa and airlifted to one of the world’s biggest zoos in China, a Mail on Sunday investigation has found.

http://www.thehinducentre.com/the-arena/current-issues/article8119877.ece

Jallikattu as a Spectacle of PatriarchyJallikattu has become a contentious issue wherein cattle protection and rights are interwoven with human identity politics in India. In this article, Yamini Narayanan writes that the bull-subjugation competition, which has been promoted as a celebration of cattle during the Pongal festivities in Tamil Nadu, is in reality only an extension of one of the most enduring oppressions — speciesism.

My family has lost pets to coyotes before, but we would never support exterminating them like this. Why? Because they’re a natural predator, we’re the ones encroaching on their territory, and it’s our responsibility to keep our pets out of harm’s way, not theirs. Coyotes are very close relatives to dogs, and very similar in intelligence and…[Read more]

Ask Laguna Beach to stop year-round mass killing of coyotes!USING CITY FUNDS TO KILL WILDLIFE  On January 12, 2016, the Laguna Beach City Council voted and approved (4-1) allocation of at least $30,000.00 of taxpayer money toward year-round coyote trapping and killing, believing this will result in safer conditions for small pets. It will not. No matter how many coyotes are exterminated, more will move into the vacant territory - it will never be safe to leave small pets outdoors or walk small pets without taking precautions.       VIOLATING STATE LAW To date, the City of Laguna Beach maintains the contractor employed to trap and kill the coyotes is within the law, setting traps within 150 yards of homes without those homeowners' written consent.  This is a violation of the California Code of Regulations Title 14 Section 465.5 (g)(3), which requires the trapper receive written consent of neighboring homeowners before setting a trap. Laguna Beach steps up effort to trap, kill coyotes despite animal advocates' claims that city is violating state law   RISK TO OTHER ANIMALS AND PETS Trapping is indiscriminate. Pets and other wild animals, such as bobcats and fox have been snared and strangled in traps meant for coyotes. Coyote snare traps called inhumane, L.A. councilman wants to ban them Video of an animal control officer attempting to release a coyote from a snare     COYOTES ARE GASSED - BARBARIC AND INHUMANE  Critter Busters uses a 'mobile gas chamber' to kill captured coyotes using CO2, claiming it is humane and an 'approved' method for killing. Approved for small animals, the use of carbon dioxide on large animals can cause pain and suffering. Seal Beach Councilman Mike Levitt regretted approving the contract with Critter Busters when he realized the animals suffered, "I found out [afterward] that the animal does not go to sleep. There are spasms. They choke." In 2013, the American Veterinary Medical Association changed their approval of CO2 gas to 'acceptable with conditions'. The European Food Safety Authority and the World Society for the Protection of Animals consider CO2 an unacceptable method for euthanasia. Seal Beach Decides Its Coyote-Killing Mobile Gas Chambers Are Kinda Creepy The Gas Chamber Debate Not Acceptable     THERE IS A BETTER WAY  Attempts to reduce the coyote population in Laguna Beach will be short-lived as coyotes from the surrounding area will move into the habitat. When they are exterminated, new ones will move in.  So, the answer is not to try to control coyote populations, but to manage the habitat - the neighborhoods, to make them less attractive, less hospitable. The long-term answer is for residents to learn how to live safely and respectfully with neighboring wildlife. We propose the City of Laguna Beach adopt a Coyote Management Plan similar to the one adopted by the City of Calabasas, where lethal control is used only when a human is threatened or injured by a coyote. Coyote Management Plan Year-round coyote trapping and killing is not the answer!    

This is a really fascinating read: the “Wild Field Manifesto,” written by a Russian scientist currently working to recreate an Ice Age ecosystem in Siberia (eventually complete with genetically resurrected mammoths). He argues that all the environmental disasters we presently face trace their origins back to the late Pleistocene, when humans,…[Read more]

No Ban Yet, But NYC Takes Step in the Right Direction to Retire Carriage Horses http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/nyc-to-take-step-in-right-direction-to-retire-carriage-horses/

No Ban Yet, But NYC Takes Step in the Right Direction to Retire Carriage Horses

The decision is being called a compromise between animal rights advocates and industry union leaders.

In the video, Goodall breaks it down quite simply,”… In order to feed the billions and billions of cows and pigs and chickens … you have to admit huge areas of forest are cut down to grow grain to feed them. Intensive cattle grazing is turning forests to woodland, to scrubland. And food in one end, gas out both ends, that’s methane. And that’s…[Read more]

Ethical Veganism Now Legally Recognized in Ontario, Canada: Under this definition, service providers such as hospitals, schools, and employers may not discriminate against requests based on vegan ideals. Also, schools cannot obligate students to dissect animals, hospitals must provide vegan meals upon request, and employers cannot discriminate…[Read more]

Ethical Veganism Now Legally Recognized in Ontario, CanadaThe Human Rights Commission of Ontario deems veganism an ideology with similar discrimination protection rights as other belief systems.

t’s great news for the most loyal friends of the Indian Army. Not only are the Army dogs set to feature in the Republic Day parade after a hiatus of 26 years, but the government is also working on a policy to stop their mercy killing after retirement.…[Read more]

A prominent international group of cognitive neuroscientists and other experts made a strong declaration, endorsed by Stephen Hawking, affirming that all “nonhuman animals… including octopuses” are sentient and feel emotions such as fear and happiness. In Argentina, an orangutan won non-human rights against his zoo-keeper. Recently, in the news,…[Read more]

An extraordinary pig clay animation made by 13 year-old Kyle Kelleher: https://www.facebook.com/gary.yourofsky/videos/929600023761913/

One of the unintended victims of the fishing industry is the extremely rare and endangered Maui’s dolphin. Forty years ago, their populations were at 1,800 and in 2005 it was just 111. What are the population numbers of this New Zealand native species of dolphin 16-years later? Less than 5…[Read more]

The Shocking Way Our Food Choices Are Driving a Rare Dolphin Into Extinction

One of the unintended victims of the fishing industry is the extremely rare and endangered Maui’s dolphin.