U.S. to Iceland: Stop Trading in Endangered Whale Meat
Taryn Kiekow’s Blog
Endangered fin whales facing Iceland’s harpoons have a new ally: the United States Department of Interior. Today Interior Secretary Sally Jewell certified to President Obama under the Pelly Amendment to the Fishermen’s Protective Act that Iceland’s international trade in whale meat and products diminishes the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Click here to read our response to the good news: www.nrdc.org/media/2014/140206… …
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) – Posted February 6, 2014
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U.S. Declares Iceland in Defiance of Global Trade Ban on Whale Products
Written by Press Release
Conservation and Animal Protection Groups Welcome Action and Call for Sanctions
WASHINGTON — (ENEWSPF) — 6 February 2014 – Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell issued a formal declaration that Iceland is undermining the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora’s (CITES) and its prohibition on international commercial trade in whale products …
eNews Park Forest – 06 Feb 2014 11:23
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Documents show PETA killed nearly 2000 shelter animals in 2013
• Animal rights group says its doing what’s best for the animals in its Virginia shelter but critics point to unseemly 82 percent kill rate
• According to the Center for Consumer Freedom, PETA has killed over 31,000 animals since 1998
By Daily Mail Reporter
Animal rights group PETA may go to extreme lengths to save animals from the slaughterhouse but the Virginia-based organization’s animal shelter killed nearly 2,000 stray cats and dogs at its shelter in 2013.
The Center for Consumer Freedom released its annual review of PETA’s Norfolk shelter and it shows a surprising 82 percent euthanization rate.
Despite outcries from some fellow animal activists, PETA has declined to change its policies since 1998. Since that year, the shelter has put down over 31,000 animals, most of which it insists are injured or unadoptable …
Daily Mail – PUBLISHED: 20:22 GMT, 5 February 2014 | UPDATED: 16:24 GMT, 6 February 2014
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