Jiah Khan helped animals in distress: PETA India
Agency: IANS
She was an active supporter of PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) India, and even featured in an advertisement urging the Indian government to cut out glass-coated manja and not birds’ wings …
Daily News & Analysis – Wednesday, Jun 5, 2013, 22:32 IST
www.dnaindia.com/entertainment…
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Over One Million people sign to Protest Icelandic Whaling
Avaaz.org has organized a campaign in order to try to stop Icelandic whale hunting. Over one million people have signed their anti-whaling petition online.
Click HERE to read more about the campaign or to sign the petition:
www.avaaz.org/en/days_to_stop_…
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News of Iceland – Wednesday, 05 June 2013 18:03
www.newsoficeland.com/home/env…
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29 critically endangered elephants were killed last year in Indonesia
By Staff, Associated Press
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Poisoning or shooting killed many of the 129 critically endangered elephants that have died on Indonesia’s Sumatra island in less than a decade, highlighting weak enforcement of laws against poaching, an environmental group says …
RYOT – June 5 2013 at 8:52 am
www.ryot.org/29-critically-end…
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Whale-War Fugitive: Q. & A. with Paul Watson
Posted by Raffi Khatchadourian
Fans of Animal Planet’s “Whale Wars,” a reality show that documents members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (www.newyorker.com/reporting/20…) battling Japanese whalers every winter in the Southern Ocean, will have to wait several months longer than usual for the show’s new season to première. The airdate for “Whale Wars,” usually slated for June, has been pushed back, possibly to the fall, or even to 2014. In the past year, Sea Shepherd has become mired in litigation, diplomatic pressure, I.R.S. audits, and Interpol notices, and Animal Planet decided that, instead of placing its own crew on Sea Shepherd ships, it would stitch together episodes from footage that the activists shot of themselves. This may be a first for a reality show—certainly one this popular—but if Animal Planet is able to pull together a season that has integrity, the sixth installment of “Whale Wars” promises to be the show’s most entertaining and provocative …
New Yorker (blog) – June 4, 2013
www.newyorker.com/online/blogs…
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