Rhinos airlifted to safety: South Africa to evacuate up to 500 animals from poaching hotspot including endangered black rhino
By Harriet Hernando for MailOnline
● WWF estimates there are just 300 black rhinos left in Kruger National Park
● They have teamed up with Eastern Cape Parks to relocate animals
● It is hoped the rhino will be able to breed in safer wildlife reserves
Up to 500 rhino will be evacuated from Kruger National Park in South Africa which has been blighted by poachers hunting them for horns.
The authorities announced the plan to airlift the animals to safer areas in the country by helicopter because illegal killings have soared in recent years, despite the deployment of soldiers throughout the nature reserve.
Figures show a shocking increase – 13 were illegally killed in 2007, while 1,004 were butchered last year. And this year 630 rhinos have already lost their lives – 408 of them in Kruger …
Daily Mail – 16:30 GMT, 16 August 2014
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic…
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SeaWorld to expand killer whale habitat at its parks
By Barbara Liston, Reuters
Theme park operator SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. said on Friday it would nearly double the size of its San Diego killer whale tank and expand similar enclosures in Florida and Texas amid criticism over its treatment of the animals …
Bangor Daily News – Aug. 16, 2014, at 10:31 a.m.
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Victory! California Coastal Commission Votes Unanimously to Protect La Jolla Seals
By Michael “Beach Mick” Hudson
FRIDAY HARBOR, WA August 15, 2014:
by: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
The California Coastal Commission yesterday voted unanimously to protect vulnerable harbor seals by closing Casa Beach (also known as La Jolla Children’s Pool) in the La Jolla area of San Diego to human activity during the seals’ critical pupping season …
Beach Carolina Magazine – August 16, 2014
Victory! California Coastal Commission Votes Unanimously to Protect La Jolla Seals
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Sea Shepherd: An Open Letter to SeaWorld: More than Bigger Tanks, Orcas Need the Ocean
By Michael “Beach Mick” Hudson
FRIDAY HARBOR, WA August 15, 2014:
by: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Dear SeaWorld,
Your stocks are dropping by the day. You’re bleeding financially in the wake of the powerful documentary “Blackfish” and, more importantly, the public’s growing realization that confining intelligent cetaceans to cruel and small tanks and forcing them to perform is just plain wrong. As the backlash continues, there is a better move forward – and a better use of your money – than your plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build bigger orca tanks …
Beach Carolina Magazine – August 16, 2014
Sea Shepherd: An Open Letter to SeaWorld: More than Bigger Tanks, Orcas Need the Ocean
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Dairy Cruelty Exposed!
Dear Friend,
The routine misery endured by cows on dairy farms is horrifying.
In disturbing footage that PETA first revealed this week, cows are shown wading through their own liquefied manure with no grass, straw, or other bedding to lie on to rest at night. Known only by the numbers on the tags fastened to their ears, some of these gentle cows suffer from painful infections of their skin and hooves as the manure cakes onto their legs and splashes onto their udders moments before they’re to be milked—something that consumers of dairy products might find alarming.
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View this message online:
www2.peta.org/site/MessageView…
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Sent: August 15, 2014 at 02:00 a.m.
From: PETA DonorE@peta.org
To: pattersonmatpatt@gmx.de
Subject: Dairy Cruelty Exposed!
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Sent by:
Martina Patterson (Aug 15; 2014 at 04:13 P.M.
pattersonmatpatt@gmx.de
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