Marine Park to open in Japanese town infamous for dolphin killing
Agence France-Presse in Tokyo
The Japanese town made infamous by the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove will open a marine park where visitors can swim with dolphins, but officials said its annual slaughter of the creatures will continue in a nearby bay …
South China Morning Post – Tuesday, 08 October, 2013 [Updated: 1:47AM] www.scmp.com/news/asia/article…
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Greenpeace crew in ‘inhuman conditions’
Greenpeace crew members charged with piracy over a protest against Arctic oil drilling are being kept in ‘inhuman conditions’ and transported to and from Russian jails like ‘chickens at a bad poultry farm’, a lawyer says …
Sky News Australia – 05:11, Tuesday October 8, 2013
www.skynews.com.au/world/artic…
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PETA Putting Vegan Theater before Homeless Pets
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) runs an animal shelter out of its Virginia headquarters, but the poor dogs and cats that end up there probably would rather go just about anywhere else. According to records on file with the Commonwealth of Virginia, nearly 90 percent of the pets unfortunate enough to end up there never breathe free air again, courtesy of PETA killing them ( www.petakillsanimals.com/ ) …
Consumer Freedom – October 7, 2013
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DRC endangered by oil firmL WWF
By SAPA
Paris – Environmental campaigners WWF filed a complaint on Monday against a British oil company accused of intimidating the local population and endangering wildlife in the oldest nature reserve in Africa …
Independent Online – October 7 2013 at 06:56 pm
www.iol.co.za/news/africa/drc-…
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Philippines boosts animal protection
AFP
Manila: The Philippines has approved a law increasing penalties for cruelty to animals, the presidential palace said Monday amid a social media outcry over a video showing three girls crushing a puppy to death …
gulfnews.com – Published: 14:43 October 7, 2013
gulfnews.com/news/world/philip…
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Whaling in Greenland: To hunt or not to hunt?
By Corinne Purtill
SERMILIK FJORD, Greenland — On the rocky shore of a quiet inlet whose local name translates to The Place Where We Used to Hunt in the Springtime, Inuit men with long knives butcher a whale’s corpse …
MinnPost.com – October 7, 2013 08:29 am
www.minnpost.com/global-post/2…
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