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Re: Animal petitions and issues

Postby Pajarita » Wed Apr 15, 2020 8:59 am

Increased rhino poaching due to coronavirus?

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsa ... in-africa/
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Re: Animal petitions and issues

Postby Pajarita » Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:29 am

Petition to Spain not to bail out the bullfighting 'sport' industry:

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsa ... ing-sport/


Sri Lanka uses nets for tuna that kill dolphins:

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/in- ... title_1120


As tourism disappears, more rhinos are getting killed by poachers:

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/poa ... title_1120


Need to trap more fertile females for captive program on Sumatran rhinos to be successful:

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/sumat ... 7-77230706


Wetland habitats in Uganda are disappearing by draining to make pastures and cultivation killing amphibian species in the process:

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/the-f ... 7-77230706



Federal judge finds the US failed to protect whales under Endangered Species Act:

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/0 ... id=1643469


Chinook salmon closer to Endangered Species classification:

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/ ... id=1643469
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Gender: This parrot forum member is female
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Flight: Yes

Re: Animal petitions and issues

Postby Pajarita » Mon Apr 20, 2020 9:42 am

'Rescuing' orangutans does not work for them or the forests where they need to live (I know it sounds kind of wrong but read it and you will see that it only makes sense):

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/rescu ... 7-77230706


China bans wild animals markets but offers tax incentives for exporting them!

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/natural- ... l-exports/


Sanctuary is offering Tiger Amnesty Week so owners can bring their animals to them (remember the 400+ lb tiger that grew up in a NYC apartment? see second link)

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsa ... this-week/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/a- ... r-BB12Qw6y


Petition for LA mayor to wave adoption fees in shelter to avoid euthanasia during lockdown:

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsa ... uthanasia/



Corona virus crisis for captive lions in South Africa:

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/coron ... 7-77230706



Scientists urge humans to change the way they interact with wild animals to avoid future pandemics (first link) and How raising, hunting, selling, trading, etc wild animals leads to zoonotic diseases:

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/natural- ... -pandemic/

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/how ... title_1120


Malaysian officials seized a record 6 tons of pangolin scales on Apr/1:

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/mal ... title_1120
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Flight: Yes

Re: Animal petitions and issues

Postby Pajarita » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:45 am

Pandemic potential vectors: Deforestation of Amazonia (first link), South Africa Promoting consumption of wildlife (second link), Factory Farming (third link), Higher death rate linked to air pollution (fourth link)

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/rapid ... 7-77230706

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/sou ... title_1120

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/natural- ... ronavirus/

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environm ... ath-rates/


Petition: protect Australian race horses during lockdown:

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsa ... australia/


Gas company pays to kill wolves in endangered caribou natural habitat and migration corridors so they can destroy most of it with their pipeline!

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/a-d ... title_1120


Circus stuck in parking lot in Italy needs food for its animals and who comes to the rescue? The association that wants circus NOT to have animals!

https://www.ibtimes.com/its-potatoes-ag ... wn-2961091
Pajarita
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Gender: This parrot forum member is female
Posts: 18701
Location: NW Pa
Number of Birds Owned: 30
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Flight: Yes

Re: Animal petitions and issues

Postby Pajarita » Wed Apr 22, 2020 9:37 am

US and Canada have been using Chinese labs to conduct animal experiments:

https://www.change.org/p/dogs-need-your ... tm_term=cs


New report shows that meat industry is unsustainable:

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environm ... -industry/


Ohio investigation into public records shows the carnage to other species brought on by the practice of trapping wolves (almost 50% of animals caught belonged to other species and, out of this percentage, 57% of them were killed and the 'released' ones, most likely, ended up dead from the wounds).

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/the ... title_1120


Petition URGENT! 66 beagle puppies to die at gruesome Dept of VA lab:

https://act.whitecoatwaste.org/page/18571/petition/1


Environmentalists slam Trump Admin as 'tone-deaf' for opening 2.3 million acres of wildlife refuges to hunters:

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/ton ... rce=mailpo
Pajarita
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Gender: This parrot forum member is female
Posts: 18701
Location: NW Pa
Number of Birds Owned: 30
Types of Birds Owned: RoseBreasted too, CAG, DoubleYellowHead Amazon, BlueFront Amazon, YellowNape Amazon, Senegal, African Redbelly, Quaker, Sun Conure, Nanday, BlackCap Caique, WhiteBelly Caique, PeachFace lovebird, budgies,
Flight: Yes

Re: Animal petitions and issues

Postby Pajarita » Thu Apr 23, 2020 10:02 am

Petition: raising and killing animals for skins could spark next pandemic:

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/pet ... title_1120


Petition: ban cruel and deadly transport of calves (another undercover video of the Irish dairy industry has surfaced);

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsa ... c-footage/


Petition for harshest sentence for woman who abandoned old, emaciated dogs:

https://forcechange.com/558583/demand-j ... abandoned/


Trump Admin sued to overturn denial of protection to spotted owl:

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/law ... title_1120


Leaked Trump Admin memo instructing staff to keep public in the dark on how the Endangered Species Act is being carried out:

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/lea ... title_1120


Earth 6th Mass Extinction Event (only, this time, we are doing it):

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/gre ... nihilation—inside-earths-sixth-mass-extinction-event/ss-AAHJBRR?li=BBnb7Kz


New snake species is discovered and named after Salazar Slytherin :D

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... r-BB130hy8
Pajarita
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Gender: This parrot forum member is female
Posts: 18701
Location: NW Pa
Number of Birds Owned: 30
Types of Birds Owned: RoseBreasted too, CAG, DoubleYellowHead Amazon, BlueFront Amazon, YellowNape Amazon, Senegal, African Redbelly, Quaker, Sun Conure, Nanday, BlackCap Caique, WhiteBelly Caique, PeachFace lovebird, budgies,
Flight: Yes

Re: Animal petitions and issues

Postby Pajarita » Fri Apr 24, 2020 10:20 am

States not reporting animal cruelty to FBI as they should (and this is bad for animals AND people as there is a known link between cruelty toward animals AND violence toward people!)

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsa ... -pandemic/


Government has been trying to take protections away from Lynxes but study shows their numbers are in decline in the Northwest (not in Alaska, though):

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/scie ... ecies.html


India sees coronavirus as threat to fragile tiger population:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/scie ... virus.html



Incredible facts about lemurs:

https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/anima ... 1-40378997


Alexander wolves need urgent help as Wildlife trapped and killed 97% of the population. They killed 165 wolves out of a total 170, almost the entire population even though it had been designated a 'vulnerable' species!!! (what were these people thinking?!) I keep on telling you, the worst enemy of a wild animal is the Wildlife and Fish, it's entirely made of hunters who, as we all know, don't care about animals at all.

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/ale ... title_1120


Coronavirus threatens fragile tiger population in India:

https://www.courant.com/coronavirus/sns ... story.html


Indian and African poachers exploiting lockdowns to kill more animals:

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsa ... lockdowns/
https://www.bing.com/search?q=indian%20 ... DDB4320FDF
Pajarita
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Gender: This parrot forum member is female
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Types of Birds Owned: RoseBreasted too, CAG, DoubleYellowHead Amazon, BlueFront Amazon, YellowNape Amazon, Senegal, African Redbelly, Quaker, Sun Conure, Nanday, BlackCap Caique, WhiteBelly Caique, PeachFace lovebird, budgies,
Flight: Yes

Re: Animal petitions and issues

Postby Pajarita » Sat Apr 25, 2020 9:19 am

Pledge to keep fighting for animals in cruel lab experiments:

https://neavs.org/pledge?link_id=3&can_ ... y-our-paws


Petition to stop children from participating in trophy hunting (it needs to be regulated because the parents cannot realize how bad this is for their psyche as they have been damaged themselves) - lack of empathy and finding pleasure in killing defenseless animals is NOT a good thing.

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsa ... y-hunting/


Illegal 'bushmeat' smuggled into UK (and other countries) can cause pandemic:

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/natural- ... -pandemic/


China breeding 'bamboo' rats because they believe eating them will make them prettier and detoxified them:

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/natural- ... mboo-rats/



Peru zoo and sanctuaries animals in danger of starving to death during lockdown:

https://www.newstribune.com/news/intern ... ut/825348/
Pajarita
Norwegian Blue
 
Gender: This parrot forum member is female
Posts: 18701
Location: NW Pa
Number of Birds Owned: 30
Types of Birds Owned: RoseBreasted too, CAG, DoubleYellowHead Amazon, BlueFront Amazon, YellowNape Amazon, Senegal, African Redbelly, Quaker, Sun Conure, Nanday, BlackCap Caique, WhiteBelly Caique, PeachFace lovebird, budgies,
Flight: Yes

Re: Animal petitions and issues

Postby Pajarita » Tue Apr 28, 2020 11:20 am

Petition: stop misinformation that dog and cat meat cures coronavirus

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsa ... -covid-19/


Petition: Zoos and aquariums must help stop spread of zoonotic diseases

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/pet ... title_1120


Honey Dolphin dies after two years of living alone in tank in Japan:

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsa ... in-a-tank/


Conservationists slam Malta for bird hunting during coronavirus lockdown:

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/con ... title_1120


Pork producers to kill baby piglets unless they get 1 Billion from government:

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsa ... t-bailout/


Justice for dogs beaten up so badly they threw up:

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsa ... -threw-up/
Pajarita
Norwegian Blue
 
Gender: This parrot forum member is female
Posts: 18701
Location: NW Pa
Number of Birds Owned: 30
Types of Birds Owned: RoseBreasted too, CAG, DoubleYellowHead Amazon, BlueFront Amazon, YellowNape Amazon, Senegal, African Redbelly, Quaker, Sun Conure, Nanday, BlackCap Caique, WhiteBelly Caique, PeachFace lovebird, budgies,
Flight: Yes

Re: Animal petitions and issues

Postby Pajarita » Wed Apr 29, 2020 9:04 am

Tourist slapping seal in Hawaii (then he apologized - funny how evil people are all sorry once they are found out):

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsa ... in-hawaii/



Palm oil - bad for environment, bio-diversity, orangutans and indigenous populations - and there is absolutely NO need to use it, at all!

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environm ... diversity/



Hypocrisy! UK FA application for development hinged on benefits for wildlife through the creation of a pond, then when the ducks came, they killed them because they pooped!

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/rev ... title_1120


Show horses may end up in slaughterhouse because of lockdown (that should tell you how much the actually care for the horses!):

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsa ... -for-them/


450 greyhounds need homes due to Alabama lockdown of races:

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsa ... -pandemic/


600 birds seized in cockfighting Ca ring:

https://patch.com/california/pleasanton ... -birds-see
Pajarita
Norwegian Blue
 
Gender: This parrot forum member is female
Posts: 18701
Location: NW Pa
Number of Birds Owned: 30
Types of Birds Owned: RoseBreasted too, CAG, DoubleYellowHead Amazon, BlueFront Amazon, YellowNape Amazon, Senegal, African Redbelly, Quaker, Sun Conure, Nanday, BlackCap Caique, WhiteBelly Caique, PeachFace lovebird, budgies,
Flight: Yes

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