What is shark finning?

IDA Billboard Gets Captive Audience

“Skin Trade” and the Cruelty of Fur.

The Paw Report

Last night, I attended a screening of the documentary film “Skin Trade” at Bluestockings Bookstore and Activist Center. I wanted to attend because even though I already boycott fur, I wanted to learn more about the industry.

“Skin Trade” was directed and produced by Shannon Keith, also an animal rights attorney. The film was a blend of animation, interviews, and undercover footage. “Skin Trade” details the history of wearing fur and the rise of its cultural value and describes the lies and deceit of the fur industry.

Fur Fact… The film showed a coat priced at $3,000. The number of coyotes killed to produce that one coat? 11.

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The Life And Times Of The MGM Lion.

I hope to be remembered for my atrocities!

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Massive Die-Off of West Coast Sea Life Accelerates

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Locals say it’s far worse than what the national and international media is reporting

Source: Adan Salazar

Oregon natives confirmed to Infowars Friday that strange anomalies have sprung up along the Pacific coast in what amounts to further testimony supporting the fact the media is suppressing both the surge in extremely high radiation readings along the West Coast and the subsequent die off of sea life in the area.

Residents of Charleston, Ore. report new die-offs around the Bastendorff Beach area.

Several residents in the Charleston fishing village described suspicious anomalies such as disintegrating bioluminescent jellyfish and Japanese “tsunami debris” washing ashore, with one lifetime resident even telling us he saw about a hundred dead starfish near the Bastendorff Beach County Park.

Marine biologists had originally encountered “melting” starfish off the Washington state coast of Puget Sound, a mysterious illness scientists termed “sea star wasting disease.”

“It’s widespread, it’s very…

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Condor cam

First Light Productions

SEE it here. Best when the sun’s right.

Lead poisoning continues to be a scourge for the big birds. Last month, Condors #340 and #444 were trapped and found to have high lead blood levels. They were both immediately transferred to the Los Angeles Zoo for chelation treatment

Many species of wildlife feed on animals killed with lead bullets. The lead leaches into the bloodstream and they slowly die of starvation as the lead paralyzes their digestive system.

A 10 year-old male condor (#318) died after ingesting a bullet, presumably while feeding on a carcass. He was found barely alive and unable to feed or use his legs to stand. Veterinarians could not save him. A necropsy determined the cause of death was lead toxicosis. A radiograph showed multiple metal fragments and a 22 caliber lead bullet in his digestive tract.

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Source: Ventana Wildlife Society.

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Boycotts and Protest Do Work: Original Cheerios to go GMO-free

Permit to hunt black rhino in Namibia sells for $350,000

Our Compass

Please note that there are no petitions to sign or letters to send. This hunt will go on. The only thing you can do to protest this atrocity is to go vegan: be a friend to all animals and refuse to use them in any manner. If everyone were vegan, hunting would be a relic.

SourceDallas News

A permit to hunt an endangered African black rhino has sold for $350,000 at a closely watched auction that’s been criticized by wildlife and animal rights groups.

The Dallas Safari Club and the African nation of Namibia auctioned the permit Saturday to raise money for efforts to protect the black rhino.

Safari Club spokesman Steve Wagner confirmed the sale of the permit at the closed-door event. He declined to name the buyer.

The auction has drawn howls from critics, including wildlife and animal rights groups, and the FBI last week said it…

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LONDON PROTEST AGAINST SLAUGHTER OF DOGS IN BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA AND ROMANIA

IN MEMORY OF VUČKO

Yesterday, Saturday the 11th January, a protest was staged outside of the BBC in London. People of all ages came from all over England, and also from Ireland, Poland, Wales. Many brought their rescue dogs. A number of key activists for both Romania and Bosnia Herzegovina were able to attend.

Peter Egan, actor and animal advocate who is actively involved with All Dogs Matter, a voluntary dog rescue organisation based in London, attended and made a speech. Peter and his wife Myra own several rescue dogs and have adopted a rescue dog from Bosnia Herzegovina, from rescuer Milena Malesevic. Peter sat cuddling some of the rescued dogs while he gave his inspiring speech, it was very touching. He also read a piece from Vic Ferguson, who was a NATO soldier in Sarajevo in 1995 and 1996, and who is now actively supporting the campaign against dog abuse and…

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Australians protest against governmental shark killing

Dear Kitty. Some blog

This video from Australia says about itself:

Thousands protest Western Australia catch-and-kill shark cull plan

4 Jan 2014

Thousands of people held protests in Melbourne and Perth on Saturday.

From the BBC:

4 January 2014 Last updated at 13:15 GMT

Australians protest at plans to kill sharks in Perth

Thousands of people have been taking part in protests in Australia over a plan to kill large sharks.

The Western Australia government is set to install baited hooks off Perth’s popular beaches in response to seven fatal shark attacks in three years.

But protesters say a cull is not the answer, and will only damage the sea’s delicate ecosystem.

More than 4,000 people gathered for a demonstration at Perth’s Cottesloe beach alone.

“Without the sharks there will be no future for humanity because they balance out the ecosystem and every living creature in the sea is really important,” one…

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Satellites track orcas’ winter wanderings (Canada, USA)

The ocean update

Wednesday, January 8, 2014. SEATTLE — Satellite tracking that let us “tag along” with killer whales as they spent many weeks hunting in the Columbia River plume in early 2013 is this winter revealing another orca pod’s travels in the Salish Sea.

Members of the J, K and L pods are collectively referred to as Southern Resident clan killer whales. They are famous in the San Juan Islands and Puget Sound, but much less is known about their lives along Washington’s outer coast. NOAA Fisheries started a project in 2011 in which a satellite-linked tag is attached to an individual member of these separately traveling pods to see where they spend the winter.

So far this winter a tag has been attached to an adult male, L87, which usually hunts with the J pod. New tracking shows these orcas made their way around Texada Island in the northern Strait of Georgia…

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Update for January 9th 2014: Bottlenose dolphin killing and capture drive continues today

Sharp Drop In Sardines Threatens California Ecosystem

Ann Novek( Luure)--With the Sky as the Ceiling and the Heart Outdoors

There has been a noticeable drop in Pacific sardine numbers off the coast of California in recent years.   The number of sardines has also dropped dramatically off the coast of Mexico as well.  Many fishermen have been returning with empty boats after going out to fish for the entire day.  Sardine numbers frequently rise and fall, sometimes sharply, but this decline appears to be worse than usual.  It appears that the population of sardines has dropped 72% from assessed 2006 levels.

The cause of the decline is not exactly known, but climate change seems to be a primary factor.  Natural cold-water oscillations circulate cold water back and forth along the California coast.  These oscillations often bring in more species such as squid and anchovies, but rebuff small fish species like sardines.  The boom in squid has resulted in higher numbers of marine mammals, such as whales and orcas and birds…

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Vietnam: Over 500 illegal incursions by Chinese fishing boats in 2013

Quote of the Day: Defiant Rancher is Saving Fukushima Cows

The Paw Report

“These cows are living testimony to the human folly here in Fukushima. The government wants to kill them because it wants to erase what happened here, and lure Japan back to its pre-accident nuclear status quo. I am not going to let them. If authorities say kill the cows, then I resolved to do the opposite by saving them.”

This article moved me to tears. Before the nuclear disaster, Mr. Masami Yoshizawa raised cows for slaughter. After the disaster, however, he saw things that changed him (in his words, he decided to “become the resistance”): He describes his horror on visiting abandoned farms where he found rows of dead cows, their heads fallen into food troughs where they had waited to be fed. In one barn, a newborn calf hoarsely bawled next to its dead mother. He said his spur-of-the-moment decision to save the calf, which he named Ichigo, or…

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Whaling In Norway

Ann Novek( Luure)--With the Sky as the Ceiling and the Heart Outdoors

Whaling in Norway

Commentary by Erwin Vermeulen

The whale-killing ship, Reinefangst – photo: Erwin VermeulenYou can’t say Spitsbergen is unspoiled. The massacres perpetrated by the Dutch and other European countries since the 17th century made sure that even now the once plentiful Bowhead whale is rarely spotted among these islands in the Arctic. There are beaches here, full of the bleached and weathered skulls and bones of hundreds of slaughtered belugas, and the walrus was almost hunted to local extinction.  Still it is the scenic beauty and remaining wildlife that today attracts thousands of tourists to these snow-covered peaks jutting from the cold waters.

You would think that mankind and especially Norway, that governs these isles under the geo-political name of Svalbard, would have drawn lessons from that ignorant, destructive past and that the tourist money would be an extra incentive to protect all that is left…Not so!

There are…

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Update in Taji: Close Up Shots as the Killings begin again today…

36 Signs The Media Is Lying To You About How Radiation From Fukushima Is Affecting The West Coast, USA

A thought on Dolphins

Cousteau and World Cetacean Alliance Making a Splash

Pentagon Agency Admits It Began Stockpiling Potassium Iodide Due to Fukushima

Nwo Report

Radiation leaks from nuclear plant “renewed interest” in iodide, agency said in 2012

Source: Kit Daniels

A federal bid notice reveals that a Pentagon agency began stockpiling potassium iodide in 2012 due to its concerns over the Fukushima nuclear crisis, shedding light on why the Dept. of Health and Human Services is now ordering 14 million doses of iodide.

“The recent earthquake in Japan in March of 2011 and the resultant nuclear crisis has renewed interest in” potassium iodide, the Defense Logistics Agency said in a solicitation.

The Defense Logistics Agency posted a solicitation on FedBizOpps in 2012 asking contractors for 75,000 packages of potassium iodide tablets because the “recent earthquake in Japan in March of 2011 and the resultant nuclear crisis has renewed interest in this item.”

“The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency has submitted a MILSTRIP (Military Standard Requisitioning and Issue Procedures) for this item to ensure that…

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AUSTRALIA TAKING JAPAN TO COURT TO ANSWER FOR WHALING IN INTERNATIONAL WHALING SANCTUARY ?

Tell Amazon: Stop Selling Bluefin Tuna

“FREE TRADE DEALS WITH JAPAN MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHALES” ? ~

Reporters Confirm Radiation Levels 1200% Higher Than Normal on Cali. Beach

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Source: Infowars.com

On Surfer’s Beach outside San Francisco, the Infowars crew makes a startling discovery:

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For a Quiet Home

Government, Media Cover Up Fukushima Radiation Wave Hitting US

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As radiation levels spike and mutated wildlife washes ashore, government and media promote delusion.

source: Anthony Gucciardi

Radiation hot spots are popping up around the United States thousands of percentages higher than ‘background radiation’, mutated wildlife is being found dead on the same West Coast beaches where increased radiation levels have been documented by independent researchers and the Fukushima TEPCO plant workers have been caught using duct tape to fix their nuclear equipment. But according to both the Japanese and United States governments, these events mean absolutely nothing.

In fact, you must be a conspiracy theorist if you fail to believe the official story that it was likely red-painted utensils that led to a spike in documented radiation levels along the California coast (yes, the government actually offered this up as an official answer). And you must absolutely be a conspiracy theorist if you have the gall to actually look…

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Looney tuna: Did anyone really pay $2 million for a fish?

Endangered Whales of the world

Conjoined whale calves a rare find (Mexico)

The ocean update

January 7^th, 2014. Scientists in Baja California have discovered what could be the first case of conjoined gray whale calves.

While conjoined or siamese whale calves have been reported in a number of other whale species, including fin, sei and minke whales, it is believed this is the first case for gray whales.

Unfortunately the twins did not survive and scientists think they were most likely miscarried.

The carcass, found in Laguna Ojo de Liebre, was only about 2m in length ; newborn gray whales are usually between 3.6m and 5m.

This species reaches a length of 14.9m and can weigh up to 36 tonnes.

The twins were severely underdeveloped and scientists wonder whether the birth or stillbirth might also have killed the mother.

Images of the twins were posted Sunday to the Guerrero Negro Verde Facebook page, with the translated statement,

“Unfortunately, the specimen died. [Its] survival…

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