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What is the difference between No Welfare, High Welfare, and Highest Welfare when they all require animals to die? Only human comfort, NONE protect the actual animals. The most humane, ethical, and honest Webster-defined "welfare" is NOT exploiting animals - not using, not wearing, not eating, not killing - animals. The only meaningful position is vegan, everything else is just how humans euphemize animals' required suffering and violent deaths: no human exploits animals because they honestly believe that NOT exploiting animals is UNethical or INhumane.
URGENT: Birds Reportedly Trapped, Dying at New Jersey Mall
Karen Lyons Kalmenson
BACKGROUND | SOURCE PETA
Birds are getting trapped behind bird-deterrent netting at Deptford Crossing Shopping Center and are then suffering and dying from starvation. According to our callers, birds enter the net through holes or gaps but are unable to find their way out! We understand that live birds are currently trapped. Furthermore, we’re told that bird nests, possibly containing babies, have also been sealed behind the netting. Graphic photos reportedly taken at this location appear to corroborate these reports. PETA contacted the Malachite Group, which owns Deptford Crossing, but was given no assurances that the matter would be speedily corrected. Your voice is needed!
We ask you to politely urge the Malachite Group either to remove the netting altogether or to free the birds and then properly reinstall the netting. Remind the company that most birds are federally protected and that harming them (even unintentionally) can result in a $15,000 fine!
WHOM TO CONTACT
Manny Malekan
CEO
Malachite Group Ltd.
melody@malachitegroup.com
SAMPLE LETTER
Dear CEO Malekan,
Birds are getting trapped behind bird-deterrent netting at the Deptford Crossing Shopping Center and are then suffering and dying from starvation. According to observations, birds enter the net through holes or gaps but are unable to find their way out. I understand that live birds are currently trapped. Furthermore, it is my understanding that bird nests, possibly containing babies, have also been sealed behind the netting.
I respectfully urge the Malachite Group either to remove the netting altogether or to free the birds and then properly reinstall the netting. Please remember that most birds are federally protected and that harming them (even unintentionally) can result in a $15,000 fine.
Thank you for taking the time to consider this urgent appeal.
NAME
Here’s the Poop: Warning Labels on Chicken
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Source PCRM
Chicken products may soon carry fecal contamination warning labels if the U.S. Department of Agriculture complies with a legal petition the Physicians Committee filed March 14. The petition calls on the USDA to declare feces an adulterant in poultry products and label products to warn consumers about likely contamination.
“USDA should make consumers aware that chicken often contains feces,” says Mark Kennedy, director of legal affairs with the Physicians Committee. “Contaminated chicken often passes right through inspection, is marketed as ‘wholesome,’ and lands on unsuspecting consumers’ dinner plates, feces and all.”
Kennedy also wrote to the co-chairs of the newly reorganized Congressional Chicken Caucus, Reps. Rick Crawford and Sanford Bishop, urging an immediate industry-wide shift to the petition’s proposed guidelines and labels.
Although USDA holds a zero-tolerance policy for fecal contamination, it applies to visible feces only. Consumers assume that this policy guarantees that the products they eat are not tainted with fecal matter. In practice, however, enforcement standards are lax, allowing fecal contamination as long as the feces are not touching chicken skin or visible to the naked eye. As a result, contaminated meat and poultry products pass inspection.
A federal inspector said, “We often see birds going down the line with intestines still attached, which are full of fecal contamination. If there is no fecal contamination on the bird’s skin, however, we can do nothing to stop that bird from going down that line. It is more than reasonable to assume that once the bird gets into the chill tank, that contamination will enter the water and contaminate all of the other carcasses in the chiller. That’s why it is sometimes called ‘fecal soup.’”
Nearly half the chicken products sold in supermarkets are contaminated with feces, according to independent laboratory testing commissioned by the Physicians Committee in 2012. The study analyzed chicken samples from 15 grocery store chains in 10 major U.S. cities. The Physicians Committee’s petition explains that even thorough cooking does not remove feces from meat.
“Feces may contain round worms, hair worms, tape worms, and leftover bits of whatever the animal excreting the feces may have eaten, not to mention the usual fecal components of digestive juices and various chemicals that the animal was in the process of excreting,” the petition states.
“The presence of feces can shut down a neighborhood pool for days,” says Joseph Gonzales, R.D., staff dietitian with the Physicians Committee. “No one wants to swim in feces, much less eat it. Consumers deserve to know that the chicken breasts or ground beef they’re purchasing is likely contaminated with feces.”
Why Vegan – Boycott Cruelty!
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Stop burning sea lions
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The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) is reportedly branding sea lions so that individual animals caught eating protected salmon can be identified and gunned down.
Astoria-area residents have reportedly observed men herding these gentle animals into traps only to burn their flesh repeatedly with a blazing-hot iron. Billows of smoke have allegedly been seen rising into the air during these assaults, and victims have been described as “[lying] on the docks trembling”—an indication of extreme stress or pain.
Disturbing photos given to PETA, which appear to corroborate these reported brandings, can be viewed here. Your voice is needed!
Using the form HERE, please politely urge ODFW officials to immediately stop the branding and killing of sea lions. Remind officials that these animals are just trying to survive and feed their families, so they should be left alone. If ODFW wants to protect salmon stocks, then banning fishing in its waters would be a good start. If sea lions must be controlled, they can be humanely and effectively deterred using physical and visual barriers.
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Dear all,
We have learned of a tragic incident at the first bend on Yarmouth track, probably not that uncommon on the greyhound racetrack. On Wednesday night Sky Sports broadcast live coverage of dog racing from Yarmouth. Having been knocked down and sustained an injury at the first bend – Kokoro – a 2 year old brindle male did not finish and had to be put to sleep. Ballycowen Dave was also brought down at the first bend.
The footage of the incident is available on YouTube http://youtu.be/Syk4sK72DIw
Please email Sky Sports and politely raise your concerns regarding their coverage and support of a cruel gambling industry.
Regards,
Greyhound Compassion
Proud to be opposed to greyhound racing. Oxford and Walthamstow greyhound racetracks closed, Wimbledon under threat.
WHOM TO CONTACT
Click HERE for an online contact form
SAMPLE LETTER
To Whom It Concerns,
I have learned of a tragic incident at the first bend on Yarmouth track on March 27, 2013. On Wednesday night, Sky Sports broadcast live coverage of dog racing from Yarmouth. Having been knocked down and sustaining an injury at the first bend, Kokoro, a two-year-old brindle male did not finish and had to be euthanized. Ballycowen Dave was also brought down at the first bend.
Please discontinue your coverage and support of a cruel gambling industry where live, sentient beings are exploited in unimaginable manners, objectified, and killed, all for profit. Animals are feeling beings, capable of emotions, including happiness, fear, and pain. Please treat them with respect and compassion and cease exploiting them; broadcasting one of the most cruel and exploitative industries only exemplifies your objection to animal respect and compassion.
Thank you for your consideration to this urgent appeal.
NAME
Shocking New Live Export Investigation
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Click HERE if you live in Australia
Background | Source Animals Australia
Australian cattle were again at the centre of a shocking expose that made international headlines in 2012.
Frightened animals being bashed, hit, shocked with an electric prod in the eyes and face before suffering a terrifying death… these are the images filmed by Israeli journalist and undercover investigator, Ronen Bar. Watch his interview…
WARNING: contains graphic images.
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Source Exposing the Big Game
MP Oleg Mikheyev, of the center-left Fair Russia parliamentary party, told reporters on Monday just what I’ve been saying all along: “People who feel pleasure when they kill animals cannot be called normal.” That quote appeared in the following article entitled, “Russia mulls total ban on game hunting.” (It appears Russians have their own version of Dennis Kucinich—too bad no American politician is willing to go as far…)
Russia may soon ban both amateur and professional hunting, only allowing indigenous peoples in remote regions and certified rangers to hunt.
Mikheyev entered a draft law to ban most hunting for preliminary discussion and expressed his belief that hunting is unnecessary and immoral, regardless of whether one sees it as a sport, a pastime or an industry. “What many people call hunting now is more of a cruel killing…” The MP noted that modern hunters use helicopters and specially built towers, and that in Russia’s Far East region many animals are killed on an industrial scale, and their carcasses are smuggled to China where they are used in traditional medicines.
Fines for poaching cannot rectify the problem, Mikheyev argues, as they are too small and cannot be increased due to corruption. He suggested a total ban on hunting, and the introduction of criminal penalties for poachers totaling up to 500,000 rubles ($16,000), or three to five years in prison; poaching is currently an administrative offense in Russia.
[Unfortunately] the bill provides for some exceptions – hunting will be allowed for indigenous peoples of the Far North, Siberia and the Far East regions, but on the condition that hunters use only traditional weapons. (What, no rifles or snowmobiles?) Hunting quotas will also remain for forest rangers, but candidates will now be required to pass a psychological test to get a hunting permit (a practice that should be adopted by the US, Canada, etc., which as Mikheyev points out, “… can help us in early detection of latent madmen and murderers.”
“People who feel pleasure when they kill animals cannot be called normal. The procedure can help us in early detection of latent madmen and murderers,” Mikheyev told daily newspaper Izvestia.
Mikheyev also pointed to African countries, saying that nations like Zambia and Botswana did the right thing when they sacrificed income from safari tourism in order to safeguard endangered species.
Fair Russia will discuss the new bill next Monday; if approved, it will be submitted to the State Duma committee for natural resources and ecology. …
(Cross your fingers, but don’t necessarily hold your breath just yet.)
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URGENT: Animals in Laton, California, Need Your Voice!
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BACKGROUND | SOURCE PETA
This Sunday, the Laton Lions Club has reportedly scheduled a “Barnyard Scramble” for the organization’s 49th annual rodeo. Bunnies, piglets, calves, lambs, and chicks will be released into the arena and frantically pursued by children ages 4 to 7. Being chased and subjected to rough handling, crowds, and loud noises is a terrifying (and easily injurious) ordeal for these animals, who have no opportunity to escape or defend themselves. To make matters worse, the animals used in the event will be sent home with participants! Sadly, every year, countless animals are “won” as prizes. Many die within weeks from neglect or are bounced around from home to home, relegated to lonely rooms or backyards, and ignored. Participants and their families are simply unprepared for the extraordinary responsibility of caring for their “prizes.”
Please urge the Laton Lions Club to cancel this cruel event. And spread this alert far and wide!
WHOM TO CONTACT
Please call and send polite comments to:
Manuel Dias, President
Laton Lions Club
559-362-0577
http://www.latonrodeo.com/id2.html (Click on this link to send an e-mail.)
Kelley Medico, Organizer
Laton Lions Club
559-355-1022
kelleymedico@yahoo.com
Laton Lions Club: 559-923-1303
SAMPLE LETTER
Dear President Dias and Organizer Medico,
This Sunday, April 7, the Laton Lions Club has reportedly scheduled a “Barnyard Scramble” for the organization’s 49th annual rodeo. Bunnies, piglets, calves, lambs, and chicks will be released into the arena and frantically pursued by children ages 4 to 7. Being chased and subjected to rough handling, crowds, and loud noises is a terrifying (and easily injurious) ordeal for these animals, who have no opportunity to escape or defend themselves.
To make matters worse, the animals used in the event will be sent home with participants! Sadly, every year, countless animals are “won” as prizes. Many die within weeks from neglect or are bounced around from home to home, relegated to lonely rooms or backyards, and ignored. Participants and their families are simply unprepared for the extraordinary responsibility of caring for their “prizes.”
Animals are sentient creatures, capable of fear, pain, suffering, and happiness. Theirs are not lives for humans to abuse, exploit, or harm. Please take this opportunity to teach each other, as well as impressionable children, the importance of non-human life and your capacity to be kind and compassionate to them by cancelling the “Barnyard Scramble”.
Thank you for taking the time to consider this urgent appeal.
NAME
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Government of Bulgaria: Stop and prosecute inhumane animal cruelty against animals like “Borko”
Please click HERE to sign petition
Background | Source Change
To:
Government of Bulgaria, Ministry of Justice
Republic of Bulgaria, Council of Ministers
Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria
After watching this video, I worry of additional mobs that might decide they do not like a disabled person living in a particular home or even a homeless person that wants to live in a particular park. There must be law and order. The directives must come from your government.
Even when there is civil unrest, it is imperative that the government establish laws to protect its citizens. If there was fear of persecution, then perhaps actions such as trespassing and subsequent beating of Borko would not occur or be documented on film.
Spay/neuter programs are crucial to combating the numbers of homeless/unwanted animals. Citizens need to be educated on proper animal ownership and care. If you do not know where to start, then please consult organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States (www.hsus.org) or K9 Rescue Bulgaria (www.k9-rescue.co.uk) for tips on how to humanely deal with stray animals. They may not have all the answers but a “stick and a mob” are definitely not the best solution!
USDA Fails To Help Elephant Nosey: Second Appeal, Tell USDA To Do Its Job And Help Elephant Nosey
Karen Lyons Kalmenson
Click here to send a fax to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack right now.
Background | Source IDA
The USDA has yet again let a chronic violator of federal animal welfare standards get away with little more than a slap on the wrist. Just days before circus handler Hugo Liebel was to face a hearing for 33 violations of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), the USDA announced it had reached a settlement. Instead of revoking Liebel’s license and handing down a maximum penalty of $330,000, the USDA settled with the agreement that Liebel would pay a meager civil penalty of $7,500 and cease and desist from violating the AWA.
The charges included failure to provide veterinary care for the weight loss and chronic skin condition of the elephant Nosey, chaining her so tightly that she could not move or lie down, and handling her in a way that was dangerous to her and to the public.
IDA has worked for years to help Nosey by documenting evidence of flagrant violations of the AWA and submitting numerous complaints to the USDA, urging the agency to take action. This settlement is a shocking disappointment in its blatant disregard for animal welfare.
Please contact the USDA today. Click here to send a fax to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack right now.
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BACKGROUND | SOURCE LCA
Ag Gag or “whistleblower suppression” laws allow animal enterprises to get away with animal abuse, food safety violations, workplace safety violations, and countless environmental hazards.
SAMPLE LETTER | SOURCE LCA
Please know that citizens do not want any Ag Gag Laws to become constitutional as it is a repression of free speach rights.
Ag Gag or “whistleblower suppression” laws allow animal enterprises to get away with animal abuse, food safety violations, workplace safety violations, and countless environmental hazards.
The farm industry and the American Legislative Exchange Council are behind the latest Ag Gag bills being introduced in state legislatures nationwide. The purpose of these bills is to criminalize acts related to investigating the day-to-day activities of industrial (factory) farms and other animal enterprises, including the recording, possession or distribution of photos, video and/or audio. Such investigations have been instrumental in animal cruelty prosecutions and spurred reforms to protect the safety of the nation’s food supply. The bills threaten not only to cover up horrific animal abuse and food safety issues, but also other illegal environmental and labor violations. The animals need to be protected and the American people have a right to know how food is produced.
Free speech is a constitutional right; it is an outrage that laws are being passed to stifle it!
Please vote against Ag Gag Laws.
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BACKGROUND | SOURCE FRIENDS OF ANIMALS
The efforts of Friends of Animals and other local groups and residents have led the Mamaroneck Board of Trustees to back off from their plans to slaughter Canada Geese this summer, and from their signed contract with the USDA, as the article below details.
Please contact each member of the Mamaroneck Board of Trustees below and urge them to commit to habitat/landscape modification as outlined in Friends of Animals’ Canada Goose Habitat Modification Manual in addition to instituting a formal clean-up plan for goose droppings in parks.
Be sure to thank Trustee Illissa Miller for speaking out against the kill contract with the USDA at last night’s meeting, and for making a motion to cancel the wrong-headed contract.
Let’s make sure killing is off the table for good in Mamaroneck and that a long-overdue attitude of tolerance and respect for geese and other wildlife begin to take root.
WHOM TO CONTACT
Email Block
imiller@vomny.org , lpotok@vomny.org , lsantoro@vomny.org , abermudez@vomny.org , nrosenblum@vomny.org
Individual
Illissa Miller, Trustee
Leon Potok, Trustee
Louis N. Santoro, Deputy Mayor
Andres Bermudez-Hallstrom, Trustee
Norman S. Rosenblum, Mayor, or Phone: (914) 777-7738
SAMPLE LETTER
Dear Trustees Miller, Potok, Bermudez-Hallstrom, Deputy Mayor Santoro, and Mayor Rosenblum:
Thank you for your compassionate decision to discontinue plans to slaughter geese in Mamaroneck. This decision not only establishes a threshold for respecting wildlife, but it also says that Mamaroneck is willing to listen to concerned citizens, groups, and potential tourists.
Please commit to habitat/landscape modification as outlined in Friends of Animals’ Canada Goose Habitat Modification Manual in addition to instituting a formal clean-up plan for goose droppings in parks.
Thank you for your attention to the previous appeal and for committing to responsible habitat coexistence.
NAME
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Graveyard Races: A PETA Undercover Investigation
Please click HERE to end similar cruel races in the US.
Background | Source PETA
On September 1, 2012, the National Flying Club released more than 5,500 pigeons from Fougères, France, for a large international pigeon race. The birds had to attempt to fly hundreds of miles back to the U.K., including across the English Channel, where winds can be fierce and exhaustion means drowning, and only 622 pigeons reportedly made it back home. The rest, some 89 per cent, are believed to have perished. This is just one example of the enormous number of casualties documented during PETA’s heartbreaking investigation into the secretive world of pigeon racing in Britain.
Our investigators went undercover at multiple races across Europe and gained access to all major British pigeon-racing organizations. Everywhere we turned, the findings were the same—most birds who are entered into pigeon races never make it home. Click here to learn more.
There are many reasons why pigeons don’t survive races. Young birds easily become disoriented, and because they have no experience at finding food, water, or shelter on their own, they often succumb to the elements, starvation, or predators. Pigeons used for racing are forced to travel extremely long and dangerous distances, including over the English Channel, which is commonly referred to as the “graveyard” in racing circles. They have nowhere to land if they become tired or injured or encounter treacherous winds and storms, and many of them die.
Those birds who do make it home aren’t as lucky as you might think. It’s common practice for birds who are not winning or producing winners to have their necks broken. Our video shows one man who kills a pigeon with his bare hands and leaves the bird, while the animal’s wings are still flapping, to die slowly in a paper bag.
Please click here to watch the video from our breaking investigation, and click here to learn more about the case.
The death of one animal, let alone thousands, is heartbreaking, but if you are like me, you must be thinking, “What is being done, and how can I help?” PETA is calling on residents of the U.K. to help us fight the European races, but we need you to help us end similar cruel races here in the United States. Find out more by clicking here.
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Thank you for all your support!
Karen Lyons Kalmenson
Background | Source PCRM
I am very excited to be able to share with you that Kiki, Alley, and Fiddle, the last three cats used in the University of Virginia’s (UVA) pediatrics residency program to teach endotracheal intubation, have been adopted out after eight years of abuse. PCRM learned of the change when we received documents via a state public records request.
This change is the result of PCRM’s campaign that began in September 2010 and the support of our members – including retired pediatrician Roberta Grey, M.D., who started a Change.org petition that received more than 185,000 signatures from people asking UVA to stop this practice. PCRM filed federal and state complaints against UVA’s animal use and held a demonstration outside the president’s office, and more than 200,000 supporters e-mailed UVA’s administrators encouraging the university to take this progressive step.
In this training, pediatrics residents and other trainees repeatedly forced breathing tubes down the throats of Kiki, Alley, Fiddle, and other cats. This practice can cause tracheal bruising, bleeding, scarring, severe pain, and permanent injury.
UVA now joins the 98 percent of pediatrics residency programs in the United States and Canada that view nonanimal methods as not only more humane but educationally superior.
Unfortunately, live pigs are being killed in Advanced Trauma Life Support training at Hartford Hospital. Please ask Hartford Hospital president and CEO Jeffrey Flaks to replace this use of pigs with medical simulation.
Thank you again for all of your support. Without it PCRM would not be able to secure victories like this for animals still used in medical education and for the future infant patients of today’s pediatrics residents.
Tell U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service To Protect Wolverines
Karen Lyons Kalmenson
BACKGROUND | SOURCE IDA
It was bittersweet news when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS) recently announced its intent to list the wolverine as an endangered species due to threats from climate change and recreational trapping.
Once found all across North America, current guestimates are that 250-300 wolverines reside in the lower 48 states, and fewer than 40 of those individuals are able to breed. As the largest member of the weasel family, wolverines have huge territories and are constantly on the move, which makes them extremely likely to encounter deadly traps.
Most wolverines are hanging on to life in the high mountain ranges in Montana – the only state in the lower 48 that still allows trapping of this rapidly vanishing species. Montana’s Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MTFWP) is not only opposed to protecting wolverines, but the agency is expected to try to get federal permission to allow trapping of other animals within wolverine habitat once the species is listed.
Needless to say, traps don’t discriminate – where they exist, they catch and kill animals regardless of their “protected” status.
Wolverines will fiercely fight for their own survival and to protect their offspring’s lives, which is why trappers use spine-crushing traps, or snares, which do the dirty work of slowly and painfully suffocating the animals. Baited traps and snares lure any animal into their tortuous and often deadly grip. A MT study showed that the majority of female wolverines were pregnant at the time they were killed in traps or snares.
WHOM TO CONTACT | ONLY YOUR SAMPLE LETTER IS A REQUIRED FIELD
1) Contact USFWS today and encourage them to prohibit ALL recreational trapping in wolverine habitat in all states where wolverines still occur, and particularly in Montana. Tell them that you do not tolerate Montana FWP’s apparent priority to put the “recreational” interests of trappers ahead of their obligation to protect wildlife.
Unfortunately, comments are being taken only by webform, at this link. So we can’t set up an automatic point-and-click letter for you. Instead, please copy the sample letter below, then visit the webform and paste it in, or compose your own copy. Deadline for written comments is May 6.
If you prefer to mail your comments, please send to:
Public Comments Processing
Attn: FWS-R6-ES-2012-0107
Division of Policy and Directives Management
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
4401 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 222
Arlington, VA 22203.
2) If you are near Montana, please try to attend the public hearing on this proposed rule:
- Helena, Montana: March 27, 2013 at the Red Lion Colonial Inn, 2301 Colonial Drive, Helena, MT 59601. The public informational session will run from 2 p.m. – 5 p.m., followed by public speaker registration at 6 p.m., and then the public hearing for oral testimony from 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
SAMPLE LETTER
As a U.S. resident and supporter of In Defense of Animals (IDA) who is deeply concerned about the survival of the last remaining wolverines in the Rocky Mountain States, I thank you for your intent to protect wolverines under the Endangered Species Act.
I understand that Montana’s state wildlife agency, the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MTFWP), is going to apply for a permit (the 4-D-rule) that would allow continued trapping of other animals within wolverine habitat, even after the species is listed.
I urge you not to allow this to happen. Wolverines are currently threatened with extinction due to climate change, but also due to recreational trapping, even when they are not targeted. There are a mere 300 wolverines left, with an “effective population” size of fewer than 40 individuals.
Wolverines have huge territories, and as researchers often state, “wolverines are always on the move,” which makes them extremely vulnerable to encounter indiscriminate and baited, deadly traps and snares. Studies in Montana have shown that a large number of female wolverines are pregnant when trappers kill them.
Allowing trapping in the habitat of an endangered or threatened species is unethical and contrary to the intent of the Endangered Species Act to prevent further threats to a listed species. Allowing trapping would further threaten the intended and much needed recovery of wolverines in Montana as evidenced by the fact that other listed species, i.e. lynx, are caught and killed in traps every season because Montana allows trapping in core lynx habitat. In recent incidents in Montana, four Golden Eagles were either seriously injured or killed in traps and snares intended for other animals.
In addition, 50 “incidental” dog captures, two of which were lethal, and several mountain lion captures in traps set for wolves, were reported to MTFWP this trapping season.
Montana is the last stronghold of wolverines in the lower 48 states. Please do not allow Montana to continue to put trappers’ recreational interests ahead of the welfare of the wild animals they have an obligation to protect. I urge you to not allow MTFWP to continue recreational trapping in wolverine habitat. Wolverine conservation for all (people and wild animals) has to trump recreational interests of few.
Sincerely,
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You can help by taking action at PETA.org/AirCruelty!
Background | Source PETA
I have exciting news to share! Thanks in large part to your phone calls and support, Hainan Airlines has just confirmed to PETA that it will maintain its ban on shipping primates to laboratories. In a written statement, Hainan representatives said they “fully agree” with PETA on this issue and that they support our “effort in the protection of animal rights.”
Because no China-based airline is willing to get involved in this cruel practice, primate experimenters have no easy or feasible route to import primates to the United States from China. This means that more monkeys will remain with their families in the wild and fewer monkeys will suffer a fate worse than death in laboratories, where monkeys are commonly force-fed experimental chemicals, cut up, addicted to drugs, and killed. PETA will remain vigilant to ensure that no airline starts or resumes shipping monkeys to laboratories under pressure from the cruel primate experimentation industry.
Only three major international airlines still ship monkeys to laboratories: Vietnam Airlines, Philippine Airlines, and Air France. PETA will continue to increase our pressure on these airlines until they stop delivering primates to laboratories. You can help by taking action at PETA.org/AirCruelty!
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