Village council bans hunting of wild birds
Correspondent
ITANAGAR, March 9 – In a move to protect wildlife, the traditional village council ‘Nguang-Awang’, of Kaimai village in Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh has decided to ban hunting of wild birds in the village and its peripheries with immediate effect …
Assam Tribune – March 09, 2016
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The Shameful Toll of Taiji’s Dolphin Hunt
Mark J. Palmer
As depicted in the Academy Award-winning documentary, The Cove, the annual dolphin hunts in Taiji, Japan, have just ended after another six-month long season, although harpooning of pilot whales will continue offshore for several more months. We now have reports from CetaBase ( www.ceta-base.com/ ), via the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s Cove Guardians ( www.seashepherd.org/henkaku/ ), of numbers for the entire killing season from Sept. 1, 2015 through February 29th, 2016. Our thanks to these two organizations for keeping close track of the continuing dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan …
Huffington Post – March 09, 2016 at 09:39 am ET
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Environmental Pirate Paul Watson Runs Aground In Paris
Cordélia Bonal
Wanted in two countries for his actions to save endangered marine wildlife, the Sea Shepherd founder is now under the unofficial protective custody of France, where he manages an extreme conservation group that makes Greenpeace look like pikers …
Worldcrunch – March 09, 2016
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10 endangered species still being hunted
by Rosalie Marc
Too many animals continue to suffer at the unscrupulous hands of humans despite best efforts to protect them.
Lately, Japan announced that their whaling activities will continue. While whale meat demand has decreased considerably in the country, the hunting won’t stop for ‘political reasons’. As a consequence, the whale population will become more endangered than it already is. Unfortunately, whales are not the only endangered species that continue to be hunted for their meat or particular characteristics. Here are some others …
Shout Out UK – March 09, 2016
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Dogs need you more than ever
Can you imagine your pet being stolen from your home, bound up painfully, thrown into a cage stuffed full of terrified animals, then left without food or water, until the day that they are violently killed? Can you picture their body being used as food?
This is the reality of the Philippine dog meat trade. This barbaric action happens every day, to create ‘bar snacks’ for vile men. We simply must stop it.
More information:
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Subject: Shawn, dogs need you more than ever.
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