Poached rhinoceros horns worth US$1.1 million stolen from police facility after being seized
The Guardian
Activists condemn authorities after thieves escape with 12 horns worth US$1.1 million
Thieves have raided a police storeroom holding Mozambique’s largest ever haul of confiscated rhino horn and ivory, making off with 12 horns valued at around US$1.1 million.
A police spokesman told the investigative journalism group Oxpecker that the horns had disappeared from the police headquarters in the capital of Maputo early on Friday morning and had not been recovered …
South China Morning Post (subscription) – Thursday, 28 May, 2015, 10:36pm
www.scmp.com/news/world/articl…
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Sea Shepherd publishes vegan cookbook (Video)
Robert Isenberg
To describe the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as “controversial” is like calling whaling “unpleasant.” But that’s to be expected, when you routinely use guerilla warfare to sabotage illegal fishing ships. Paul Watson, the white-goateed captain of the world-famous anti-poaching campaign, has a colorful relationship ( www.ticotimes.net/?s=paul+wats… ) with Costa Rica, mostly involving Interpol, extradition requests, and naming a ship after a murdered Tico environmentalist …
The Tico Times – Thursday, 28 May, 2015
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Inuit seal hunting
Author Report: Malcolm Brabant, Copenhagen
Inuit hunters from Greenland visited the European Parliament in Strasbourg to try to convince lawmakers to end a ban on seal products. A moratorium that was introduced in 2009 has wiped out the seal fur industry on which they Inuits depend. Malcolm Brabant met with the hunters at the start of their journey …
Deutsche Welle – Thursday, 28 May, 2015
www.dw.de/inuit-seal-hunting/a…
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Help Stop Air India From Shipping Animals to Laboratories!
Dear Martina,
Imagine the terror of being abducted, thrown into the noisy and dark cargo hold of an airplane – something unimaginable in your world – and flown hundreds of kilometres away from your family to another unimaginable thing, a windowless laboratory where you’re thrown into a metal cage and poisoned, cut into and eventually killed …
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View this message online:
www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign…
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Sent: May 27, 2015 at 03:42 PM
From: “PETA India” info@petaindia.com
To: pattersonmatpatt@gmx.de
Subject: Help Stop Air India From Shipping Animals to Laboratories!
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Sent by:
Martina Patterson (May 27, 2015 at 07:39 PM)
pattersonmatpatt@gmx.de
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