Two little ducklings were rescued from a storm drain after quick-thinking workers coaxed them to safety with an iPad recording of their mother’s quack. The birds, which were only a few days old, fell down a manhole in Burton Bradstock in West Dorset last week. They were discovered when holidaymakers heard the mother duck …
David Cameron promised to ban wild-animal circuses by January 2015 but failed to bring any legislation to Parliament during the last government. I’ve just written to him and asked him to get it done now! Please join me in taking action: petauk.org/circusban
‘Save Lolita’ Public Service Annoucement from Underdog Entertainment on Vimeo. A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling against animal rights groups that want orca whale Lolita removed from an oceanarium in Florida. Lolita has lived at Miami Seaquarium since 1970. Last year, a local judge dismissed the groups’ lawsuit which alleged that the tank holding …
Angora Day of Action Less than 24 hours after PETA’s Angora Day of Action, United Colors of Benetton has confirmed that it will never use angora again. Click the link below for full story:
There is no kind way to rip the skin off an animal’s back Say NO to fur and fur trim. Ashley James’ Anti-Fur Photoshoot for PETA See also: FUR OUT THE CLOSET
I DON’T HAVE TIME TO WORRY about who doesn’t like me… I’m too busy loving the people who love me.
Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld’s U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that their needs could ever be met in captivity. …
Lawsuit seeks to represent anyone who purchased tickets, memberships or SeaWorld orca experiences. Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP is a consumer-rights class-action law firm with offices in nine cities. The firm has been named to the National Law Journals Plaintiffs Hot List eight times. SeaWorld customers, represented by attorneys at Hagens Berman, today filed a ground-breaking class-action …
After 45 miserable years in captivity, the tide may finally be turning for Lolita, the world’s loneliest orca. Public opposition to keeping orcas in captivity is growing, and just last month the U.S. government ruled that she should receive endangered species protection, along with the rest of her pod, which lives off the coast …
There is no such animal as a “cage bird.” All caged birds were either captured or bred in captivity. In the wild, these beautiful beings are never alone. If they become separated from their flock-mates for even a moment, they call wildly to them. They preen each other, fly together, play, and share egg-incubation duties. …
Dozens of lions, tigers, zebras and camels are still used in travelling circuses in the UK. A new law to ban this use of wild animals in circuses is being repeatedly blocked by three Conservative MPs, despite the personal support of David Cameron, the government, Labour and over 90% of the British public. The British …
Thank you to everyone who signed the petition to free Ricky the Bear, who had spent her entire life caged in a concrete enclosure outside Jim Mack’s Ice Cream Parlor in York, Pa. Ricky is now living at The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado. Click on CARE2 logo for the full story. See …
This morning I heard gunshots in the distance. The “hunters” were shooting defenceless pheasants. These sentient creatures are bred and reared for the purpose of being killed, for pleasure, by people who seem to regard themselves as sportsmen. I regard them with contempt.
Torture In A Tin In California, a federal judge has lifted a state-wide ban on the sale of foie gras, which is made from the engorged liver of ducks or geese that have been force-fed. PETA Protesters Foie gras is made by shoving hard metal pipes down the throats of geese and ducks and force …
Free Ricky The Bear Author: Chris Wolverton Ricky, an 18-year-old black bear, has spent her entire life caged in a concrete enclosure outside Jim Mack’s Ice Cream parlor in York, Pa. The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) observed and took footage of Ricky with matted hair, eating dog food with only green-looking water available. The …
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The Asiatic Black Bear, also called the Moon Bear, is held in captivity to harvest bile, a digestive juice stored in the gall bladder. When extracted, the bear’s bile is for sale as an ingredient in Traditional Chinese Medicine. To facilitate the bile milking process, the bears are kept in extraction cages, also known …
Harvey Nichols: Stop Selling Fur The Coalition To Abolish The Fur Trade See also: Fur Out The Closet
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