Wildlife officials stunned and outraged after the Trump administration guts the Migratory Bird Act
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Monthly Archives: February 2018
“Watch a Harrowing Giraffe Rescue” National Geographic
The Dog Meat Industry: South Korea’s Dirty Little Secret amid the Winter Olympics – FIREPAW, Inc.
The Winter Olympics is shining a light on a common practice in South Korea that many people outside the country fine reprehensible. Horrific conditions for dogs followed by torturing killings, in order to meet the demands for dishes containing dog meat. The Humane Society International puts the figure at 2.5 million dogs bread and slaughter every year as food for South Koreans, who believe that dog meat has special medical properties. Reports from inside reveal that family pets also end up on dinner plates.
Trashing rainforest for biofuel? A TOTAL disaster! – Rainforest Rescue
French oil multinational Total is stepping up its resilience on palm oil and wants to build a “biorefinery” in Marseilles to meet allegedly growing demand for diesel fuel – and this in spite of the European Parliament’s call for biofuels from palm oil to be phased out.
https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1096/trashing-rainforest-for-biofuel-a-total-disaster
Rainforest to be felled with Norwegian money? Stop it! – Rainforest Rescue
The Norwegian government is considering whether to finance industrial logging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Twenty million hecheres of virgin rainforest could be given up to the logging industry. Trade and tropical timber destroys the livelihoods of humans and animals and fuels climate change.
Stop the destruction of 47,000 km² of Amazon rainforest! – Rainforest Rescue
Brazil’s beleaguered president Temer wants to open up face swathe of protected rainforest – an area the size of Denmark -to mining and industrial agriculture. With this gift to his cronies, he is hoping to keep himself in office and out of prison for corruption on a grand scale.
Stop felling Canada’s centuries-old forest giants for lumber! – Rainforest Rescue
The temperate rainforests of British Columbia are one of the rarest ecosystems on the planet, but that’s not stopping Canadian loggers: 90 percent of Vancouver ancient giants have already been felled. Tell British Columbia’s provincial government of to stop the destruction and protect the remaining from the forest
An EU seal for illegal timber from Vietnam? NO! – Rainforest Rescue
Illegal Timber from Southeast Asia – laundered with and E U seal of approval? This could soon become reality. The EU is preparing a trade deal on tropical timber with Vietnam, a hotbed of timber trafficking. Tell the EU that Vietnam does not deserve a trade agreement until it has cleaned up its act.
https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1106/an-eu-seal-for-illegal-timber-from-vietnam-no
Supermarkets: Stop burning Paraguay’s forests for summer BBQs! – Rainforest Rescue
The forests of the Paraguayan Chaco are being cleared and converted into charcoal which is exported to Europe and the USA. This threatens endangered species and one of the last indigenous peoples living Untouched by this industrial society. Tell European supermarkets to stop selling charcoal made from this destruction of Paraguay’s forests.
USDA WS exterminating the deer of Upper Dublin
On January 9, 2018, the Upper Dublin Township commissioners voted 6 – 1 to permit USDA Wildlife Services to sharp shoot the deer of Upper Dublin on public land. Taxpayers were not permitted a vote on this expensive and enduring violence that is about to descend on our township.
The sharpshooting will take place on four (4) evenings between Monday, February 26, 2018 and Saturday, March 31, 2018 during the hours of 10:00PM-6:00AM.
The Ambler Gazette reported: “The exact dates for the hunts — 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. — will not be advertised, because “they don’t want to be harassed or have people hindering the process,” [Officer] Madrak said. http://www.montgomerynews.com/amblergazette/news/sharpshooters-hired-to-cull-deer-herd-in-upper-dublin/article_d8fb8a64-cc22-51b8-ac37-9e7f619994fc.html
Upper Dublin Township is withholding the dates of the killings and thereby usurping residents’ first amendment rights of free speech and to peaceably assemble to make a difference in this unnecessary violence.
The commissioners lie about the deer population…
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