Please support Wolves, Burros, Arctic Waters, & GAPA
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Please click on and sign/send the following:
1. End Wholesale Slaughter Of British Columbia Wolves
2. Texas, Stop Killing Wild Burros!
3. Keep Oil Out of Arctic Waters
4. USA Friends, Send a Fax To Support The Great Ape Protection And Cost Savings Act
1. Background | From Kinship Circle
In British Columbia a no-quota, all-year wolf hunt has begun. It overlaps whelping season as females nurse pups. Baiting is permitted. The government will go to any length to appease livestock interests — even though wolves statistically account for a marginal loss of farmed animals. In the same region, an experiment is underway to sterilize and kill wolves so hunters have more caribou and elk to shoot. BC wolves are under attack, just like western gray wolves in the U.S.
2. Background | From Change
Less than 300 wild burros remain but Texas Parks and Wildlife intends to kill these nationally protected burros to the “maximum extent possible”. The national protections do not extend to this State-held land. What Texas is doing may be legal, but we think its an atrocity.
This horrid policy is carried out quietly, behind the scenes, with efforts to keep visitors to the Big Bend Ranch State Park from realizing wild burros are there and wild burros are being killed. We want the world to know how Texas chooses to kill their own living legacies of natural, cultural and historical heritage of their State, the region and America.
Only 5,800 wild burros are held in the protected areas managed by the BLM. Texas has their own small but vitally precious relic herd of wild burros, documented as laying claim to these lands as their ancestral home for hundreds of years. Officially, the Parks Department states that these wild donkeys harm the resource of the Park.
As evidence they provide ancient documents from 1974 and videos produced by the US China Lakes Naval Base where a 1981 court case revealed the base killed 648 wild burros illegally. In addition, Parks staff have stated on the record, that they needed to kill these wild burros to ensure that they could release restored “native” bighorn to the park.
The bighorn are a high profile species that are prized by big game hunters. Their restoration is heavily subsidized by private individuals who believe that the wild burro is an “enemy” of the bighorn. The hunting permits for the bighorn are sold in an auction format, with the highest recorded winning bid being $152,000.
Texas is killing wild burros to make way for hunting opportunities for wealthy hunters. The local community supports bighorn restoration, but not killing wild burros. Please help the community to stand up against these powerful forces that have refused to hear pleas to keep the wild burros, alive.
3. Background | From Oceana
Don’t let oil poison seals
Seals, whales, and many other animals depend on both clean air and clean water to survive in the fragile Arctic environment. But oil drilling threatens both.
Spilled oil collects in the same breaks in the ice that seals and other animals use to come up for air. And in the remote Arctic, no one can clean up spilled oil fast enough to prevent animals from inhaling its toxic fumes or becoming coated by oil. But we can prevent Arctic oil spills – by not drilling there.
Oil companies are clamoring to drill in the Arctic, despite knowing the risks of spills. If we don’t stop them now, it might be too late for the seals and other animals in Arctic seas. Send the Department of the Interior a message today that we want a healthy, vibrant Arctic. Stand up for seals and other Arctic animals and put a stop to plans to drill in the Arctic.
4. Background | From IDA
The Great Ape Protection And Cost Savings Act has been reintroduced in the House of Representatives and the Senate! This landmark bill would ban invasive experiments on chimpanzees. IDA has been working for this since 1993.
The bills are H.R. 1513 and S. 810.
Representative Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland, one of the original co-sponsors, said:
“As a scientist who worked with chimpanzees on research projects, I believe the time has come to limit invasive research on these animals and rigorously apply existing alternatives.”
For 18 years, IDA has documented and battled against abuse, fraud, waste and cruelty in chimpanzee experiments. IDA shut down the world’s biggest chimpanzee laboratory – the notorious Coulston Foundation – resulting in the single largest effort ever accomplished on behalf of chimpanzees in labs: the permanent retirement of 266 chimpanzees and 61 monkeys by the state-of-the-art sanctuary Save the Chimps. IDA also secured criminal cruelty charges against NIH-contractor Charles River Laboratories and got an entire laboratory disqualified by the Food and Drug Administration. These actions were unprecedented in the history of U.S. medical research, and helped lay the groundwork for this landmark legislation.
Since 1993, IDA has repeatedly called for an end to chimpanzee experiments, documenting the cruelty that is inherent in experiments on chimpanzees. We urge you to support this historic legislation.
We’ve made it easy for you! Just fill out the form below and send, to tell your legislators, and President Obama and Vice President Biden, that you support the Great Ape Protection And Cost Savings Act! Feel free to edit, or send as is, and thank you for your support.
Important – since this form will send faxes to your specific Senators and Representative, entry of a valid U.S. zip code and address is required!
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we as a species
the creator’s last
thought
but did we listen
to the lessons
he/she taught?
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