ALERTS: Pregnant orang-utan pictured clinging to final tree as bulldozers destroy rainforest around her ABOMINATIONS, ACTIVISTS & HEROES, ANIMAL DEFENDERS, ANIMAL MARTYRDOM, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, BETTER HUMANITY, CORPORATE CRIMES, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, ECOANIMAL, ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, SAVING THE PLANET No Responses » Jun 152013 By Sarah Arnold, mirror.co.uk With 15 intelligent comments She is too weak and frightened to leave the trunk where she had sought sanctuary as machines tear down her jungle home in Borneo. A starving, heavily pregnant orang-utan clings to a solitary tree high above what had been pristine rainforest for millennia – till giant bulldozers moved in and flattened it in days. Boon-Mee was too weak and frightened to leave the trunk where she had sought sanctuary as the machines tore down her jungle home in Borneo, reports the Sunday People. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
ALERT: Hunger strike to protest Chinese consumption of ivory ABOMINATIONS, ACTIVISTS & HEROES, AFRICA, ANIMAL DEFENDERS, ANIMAL MARTYRDOM, BETTER HUMANITY, ECOANIMAL, SAVING THE PLANET No Responses » Jun 152013 kristalparks.com We are pleased to distribute this alert received from our associate Valerie Traina. As usual it seems as if it’s mostly women who man (sic) the front-line trenches. See if you can help, and always remember that passivity and indifference cost lives. Eventually our own.—PG Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Combustible from algae CAN replace all petroleum fuels ANIMAL DEFENDERS, ANIMAL MARTYRDOM, ANNOTATED NEWS, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, SAVING THE PLANET No Responses » Jun 132013 SPECIAL EarthTalk® E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: How far along are we at developing algae-based and other higher yield sources of biofuels? – Jason McCabe, Tullahoma, TN A few years ago biofuels were all the rage. Environmental advocates to national security hawks alike were extolling the virtues of ethanol and biodiesel as a carbon-neutral bridge to our energy future. But the bubble burst when it became apparent that there wasn’t enough agricultural land in the U.S. or elsewhere to grow sufficient amounts of corn, palm and other crops to feed both people and their engines. To boot, the process of extracting and distributing biofuels has proven anything but carbon neutral. And with ever cheaper natural gas widely available now, paying a premium for ethanol or biodiesel seemed frivolous. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Cop Shot Litter of Kittens in Front of Screaming Children ABOMINATIONS, ANIMAL DEFENDERS, ANIMAL MARTYRDOM, ECOANIMAL, INDECENT SLIMEBALLS, MORAL BACKWARDNESS, POLICE & REPRESSION, THE ANIMAL QUESTION 1 Response » Jun 122013 AlterNet [1] / By Kristen Gwynne [2] June 12, 2013 | On Monday in Ohio, animal control Officer Barry Accorti shot and killed a litter of kittens in front of freaked-out children nearby. “He informed [a witness] that shelters were full and that these cats would be going to kitty heaven,” Ohio SPCA Executive Director Teresa Landon told the Sun News [3]. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Operation Breakthrough: The story behind Big Miracle ACTIVISTS & HEROES, ANIMAL DEFENDERS, ANIMAL MARTYRDOM, ANTI-CORPORATISM, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CORPORATE TELEVISION, CULTURE & CRITICISM, GREAT HYPOCRISY, RUSSIA, SAVING THE PLANET No Responses » Jun 112013 From our archives: Setting the record straight> Articles you should have read the first time around, but missed. Campbell Plowden, Greenpeace International True to form, Ronnie didn’t lift a finger to help the whales, but made sure he got some of the credit. To mark the launch of new movie, Big Miracle (2012) starring Drew Barrymore, about the 1988 rescue of grey whales in Alaska, we’re publishing this fascinating story by Campbell Plowden who was a Greenpeace whales campaigner who played a key part; he describes one of the craziest weeks in his 14 years with Greenpeace, and puts the whale rescue story dramatised the movie Big Miracle in the context of a wider campaign to end whaling worldwide. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
The Wages of Dominionism: OPEN SEASON IN TEXAS ABOMINATIONS, ANIMAL DEFENDERS, ANIMAL MARTYRDOM, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, BETTER HUMANITY, CONTROVERSY, CULTURE & CRITICISM, ECOANIMAL, SAVING THE PLANET No Responses » Jun 082013 Guest editorials Scimitar-horned oryx resting peacefully, only to be struck down by a hunter By Ruth Eisenbud “God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you shall rest on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the air, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.’” Genesis Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
A (NOBLE) BRIEF FOR ANIMALS ABOMINATIONS, ANIMAL DEFENDERS, ANIMAL MARTYRDOM, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, BETTER HUMANITY, CULTURE & CRITICISM, SPECIESISM, THANK THE ANIMALS, THE HUMAN ANIMAL, UPLIFTING 2 Responses » Jun 072013 By Paul Craig Roberts The article below is reprinted from CounterPunch, January 12, 2011. Since the article was first published, Washington has added the slaughter of Libyans, Yemeni, and Syrians along with that of wolves to its accomplishments. An addendum describes the wicked new “sport” of “canned hunting.” Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
OpEds: My Manifesto For Rewilding The World ABOMINATIONS, ANIMAL DEFENDERS, ANIMAL MARTYRDOM, ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, ETHOLOGY, SAVING THE PLANET 1 Response » May 292013 Nature swiftly responds when we stop trying to control it. This is our big chance to reverse man’s terrible destructive impact Forest elephants were exterminated from Europe 40,000 years ago when modern humans arrived. Photograph: Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images By George Monbiot Source: The Guardian (UK) Until modern humans arrived, every continent except Antarctica possessed a megafauna. In the Americas, alongside mastodons, mammoths, four-tusked and spiral-tusked elephants, there was a beaver the size of a black bear: eight feet from nose to tail. There were giant bison weighing two tonnes, which carried horns seven feet across. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Guest Editorials— Bullfighting: Spain’s perverse pursuit ABOMINATIONS, ANIMAL DEFENDERS, ANIMAL MARTYRDOM, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, EU.Spain 2 Responses » May 292013 MAY 27, 2013 BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION BY KIM BARTLETT, PUBLISHER, ANIMAL PEOPLE A bull bled heavily during a fight in Madrid earlier this month. We commend the editors of the Boston Globe for attending to this issue. SPAIN’S BULLFIGHTING industry has been battered in recent years, a victim of declining popularity and economic recession. The number of “corridas” has fallen sharply, along with attendance at the bloody spectacles, which invariably end with the death of the animal. In 2007,according to The Wall Street Journal, there were more than 1,000 bullfights registered in Spain; this year promoters will schedule only half as many. In a 2011 survey by the ministry of culture, the number of Spaniards saying they attend bullfights had dropped to just 8.5 percent, a new low. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
Connecticut May Let Students Opt Out of Dissection ACTIVISTS & HEROES, AMERICAN STUDIES, ANIMAL DEFENDERS, ANIMAL MARTYRDOM, ETHOLOGY, SAVING THE PLANET 10 Responses » May 192013 by Alicia Graef Connecticut students who have a conscientious objection to dissection may soon have the right to opt out if lawmakers pass An Act Concerning Dissection Choice. Students have come forward to express their discomfort and objections to learning about the study of life by wasting the lives of innocent animals. Some are met with understanding and support, while others have had to struggle with criticism and ostracism from both educators and peers to have their ethical objections recognized as valid. Continue reading » Did you like this? Share it:
