This is a pick handle. It is what will be used in Namibia to beat 85 000 baby seals to death come 1 July. You can help to stop this by signing and sharing this petition which will be delivered to The Hon. Bernard Esau, Minister of Namibia’s Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources.
Tasmania to ban battery cages and phase out pregnant sow crates by 2013
This heralds the beginning of the end for two of the cruellest devices ever used to confine animals raised for food.
This breakthrough for animals in factory farms follows intensive consumer awareness campaigning by Animals Australia, the efforts of colleague groups, and strategic investigations by Tasmanian member society Brightside Farm Sanctuary. Importantly, Tasmania’s decision will add pressure on other states to follow suit.
Tasmanian Primary Industries Minister Bryan Green said the landmark decision was underpinned by growing public awareness and by informed consumers refusing to support cruel practices through the choices they make at the supermarket…
Sumatran Orangutan: “It is no longer several years away, but just a few months or even weeks before this iconic creature disappears”- Briton Ian Singleton (Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme)
More information on the recent deforestation tragedy in Indonesia. It’s worse than I thought…
Photo of the day from The Voice of Stray Dogs: 1137 dogs rescued from ONE truck destined for slaughter for the Chinese New Year in Chongqing.
This tank at the Taiji Whale Museum sickens me.
No creature deserves this let alone dolphins. Dolphins are one of the most intelligent animals on this planet and here they are confined to a fish tank without any adequate stimulus. As it would any human, this prison slowly drives the captives completely insane.
Jackie Chan on Bear Bile Farming
Mother Bear Kills Own Cub Then Commits Suicide
Bear bile farming. It is something many of us have forgotten about. We don’t read about it in the newspapers, it’s not featured on T.V. So naturally, we lead ourselves to believe it doesn’t happen anymore. But it is alive and well.
A heart-breaking true story about a desperate mother has been released. The mother bear and her cub were destined for a life of pain and suffering in a bear bile farm, where bile is extracted without anesthesia and cages are so small the occupants cannot even turn around.
It is what this mother bear did for her cub that shocked the bile farmers and even made Chinese news.
