It’s Time to Stop Drift Gillnet Fishing off the California Coast
by Teri Shore
The “curtains of death” sweep up whales, dolphins and sea turtles along with the swordfish and sharks they are fishing for.
Earlier this week, federal fishery managers imposed emergency measures ( seaturtles.org/article.php?id=… ) on the California drift gillnet fleet to protect endangered sperm whales. The action came two years after a pair of endangered sperm whales were killed in a single gillnet in 2010 in deep water west of San Diego …
Earth Island Journal – September 6, 2013
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On the frontline of China’s animal welfare war
Author: Primrose Riordan, Beijing
There are few hardcore career activists fighting against China’s dog meat trade. Instead, loosely organized groups of IT workers, rouge police officers and elderly dog shelter owners are slowing working for change …
DW.DE – September 3, 2013
www.dw.de/on-the-frontline-of-…
More information:
GMS countries pledge to end dog meat eating
www.nationmultimedia.com/natio…
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