Maui’s dolphin in global spotlight
By Rebecca Fox
The plight of New Zealand’s endangered Maui’s dolphins has again been highlighted at an international level, this time by global conservation agency WWF.
WWF joins University of Otago dolphin specialist Associate Prof Liz Slooten in presenting papers on concerns about the dolphins’ future to the international Whaling Commission Scientific Committee that is meeting in Slovenia …
Otago Daily Times – Sat, 24 May 2014
www.odt.co.nz/campus/universit…
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Cruelty Still Flies With Air France (Video)
Mimi Bekhechi
PETA UK’s Associate Director
The skies are getting friendlier for our fellow primates, now that all major airlines but one have banned shipments of monkeys destined for laboratories in the EU, the US and elsewhere. As a result, owners of primate prisons everywhere are finding it increasingly difficult ( news.sky.com/story/1255132/ani… ) to fill their ghastly cages with animals to poison, cut into and kill in experiments …
Huffington Post UK – 23/05/2014 16:50
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mimi-…
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David Delgado of Filthy Facility with 18000 Dead or Dying Snakes and Rodents is Sentenced
By Matt Coker
The manager of a Lake Elsinore breeding facility for Rancho Santa Margarita-based Global Captive Breeders was sentenced Thursday to a jail work-release program, community service and probation, the fallout from an investigation that uncovered tens of thousands of dead or dying snakes and rodents. David Delgado, 30, of Rialto, and Global Captive Breeders’ owner Mitchell Steven Behm, 55, of Coto de Caza, pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges last month …
OC Weekly (blog) – May 23 2014 at 10:14 AM
blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing…
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Canada Loses Fight Against EU Ban On Seal Products
By Bill Chappell – NPR News
The World Trade Organization has rejected Canada’s appeal of a ban that keeps pelts and other products from the country’s seal hunt from being imported into the European Union. The ban was instituted on moral grounds, the EU says …
Ktoo – May 23, 2014 at 8:07 am
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