Stop massacre of street dogs in Bangalore; stop coal’s train of destruction; oppose Mexican Wolf killing
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1. Help IDA-India Stop Massacre Of Street Dogs In Bangalore
2. Stop Coal’s Train of Destruction
3. Don’t let Mexican wolf trapping start again
1. Background | From IDA
The Indian city of Bangalore has begun a campaign to eradicate stray dogs, or “street dogs,” through “culling,” i.e. killing. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to do away with 50% of the street dogs in Bangalore since they are considered a “menace” to the human population. The other half is going to be dumped in an isolated area away from humans.
While large numbers of stray dogs can pose both a human health risk and increased animal suffering, mass slaughter is not the answer.
Animal birth control experts and In Defense of Animals-India are encouraging city officials to begin a systematic sterilization campaign, which has successfully and humanely made many areas of India including much of Mumbai “stray dog-free.”
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2. Background | From RAN
America’s top three banks—Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America—are all ready, willing and able to finance dirty coal ports on the West Coast of the U.S.
A successfully completed “coal export terminal” means 10 open-top trains a day will spread toxic coal dust in communities living along the rail line, beautiful Pacific Northwest ecosystems will be threatened, and vulnerable communities in Asia—as well as the global climate—will be heavily impacted by the emissions of America’s dirtiest fossil fuel.
Demand that Citi, Chase and Bank of America stop perpetuating 19th-century technologies and fund clean, renewable energy technologies instead.
3. Background | From Center for Biological Diversity
From the inception of the Mexican wolf reintroduction program in 1998 up until 2008, federal agents shot 11 wolves, accidentally killed 18 wolves during capture, and captured dozens that would never again be released to the wild. As a result the wolf population that was expected to reach 100 in 2006 is still languishing at half that level in 2011, and inbreeding depression may be hurting the wolves through lower litter sizes and pup survival rates.
In 2008, shooting and trapping of wolves in response to depredations was suspended in part due to opposition by the New Mexico Game and Fish Department and then-governor Bill Richardson.
But now New Mexico game commission appointees of Governor Susana Martinez have prohibited the game department from working with the feds on wolf recovery for the endangered Mexican gray wolf.
Despite the cessation of wolf removals, the number of depredations has actually steadily decreased in the past three years — perhaps because ranchers were more careful with their stock knowing that wolves would not be killed in response to depredations. Reverting to wolf removals now would undercut painstaking continued efforts at coexistence.
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to teach the world
that it needs to be kind
that another way of living
it now needs to find
to educate a world
that can be cruel,
cold and callous
to add a sense
of compassion
while removing
its malice
Karen Lyons Kalmenson
Our Compass 
perth western australia
done done done
keep up the great work
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