A female humpback whale had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat, She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth. A fisherman spotted her just east of Farallon Island (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed for help. Within a few hours, a rescue team arrived and determined that she was so badly off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her…a very dangerous proposition.
ANIMAL MARTYRDOM
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Next time you see raccoons near the roads, think of this.
4 minutes readRespect and love for wildlife—and all animals—is our moral duty, and privilege. Gates Wildlife was called out to humanely remove a mother raccoon and her babies from an attic of a home. Watch to see what the mother does in response to us removing her babies and how quickly her maternal instincts kick in.
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As the natural world shrinks due to myopic and misguided human agency (wars, oceans and water pollution, rainforest devastation, climate change aggravated by anthropogenic factors, etc., our effort to help people and animals must be redoubled. The best thing in the world is being able to help someone in need. Sometimes this must be done through radical and enlightened political means, especially if we wish to achieve lasting and meaningful improvement affecting entire categories of beings. Other times, as seen in these videos, through direct action. Exercise your compassion imagination. Practice it as much as possible. We go around only once.
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Capricious nature: A Tragic flood drags many animals to a premature terrifying death.
4 minutes readThis natural catastrophe is said to have happened in Peru, but others claim it happened in Nayarit, Mexico. What is beyond dispute is that similar events have been reported in Australia, India, and other parts where the global weather patterns are becoming more capricious and extreme. The images speak for themselves. They make you wonder whether the Gods—if they exist—have any compassion.
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Unfortunately, many YouTube channels showing animal hardships may be fakes seeking money support
20 minutes readPATRICE GREANVILLE—Falling for these grifters is easy. The editor himself, an experienced a/r activist, has been fooled on several occasions. The matter is complicated because—thankfully—there are also many legitimate groups rescuing animals in distress all over the world. This problem is typical of a world in disorder, where many urgent social priorities (ecoanimal tasks, eradication of poverty and economic insecurity, eradication of animal exploitation and cruelty, universalisation of healthcare for all sentient creatures, human and non-human, etc.) are still very much impossible since our species remains in the grip of human-made plagues: endless wars for profit, mass ignorance, lowering or negation of compassionate standards due to extensive social hardships, and so on.