Here’s Why Thousands of Walruses Are Gathering on Alaska’s Shore

Where We Stand

Riding for Wildlife

Hey guys! Hope everyone is doing well and for those that were aware, enjoyed International Rhino Day, last week! If you follow any of the conservation based NGO’s (maybe?) you would have seen a lot of cool stuff going on. Anyway, this blog is based around where we stand, in regards to both the Riding for Wildlife charity, and global wildlife conservation.

So first, the charity. Riding for Wildlife finally has its own logo and hopefully soon will have a proper website up and running! Currently were still in the process of trying to promote the ride through other organisations and social media. As strange as it sounds, this part (which was the same for the last ride) is one of the hardest and most depressing parts of the ride. For every twenty emails sent, one might be returned, normally saying that they cannot help. But regardless of this, we…

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Protect Wild Horses From Inhumane Roundups

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Commend Ban on Hunting Drones – ForceChange

Commend Ban on Hunting Drones – ForceChange.

Protect National Park from Mining Road – ForceChange

Protect National Park from Mining Road – ForceChange.

Protest Exploitative Animal Circuses and Attractions – ForceChange

Protest Exploitative Animal Circuses and Attractions – ForceChange.

Reject Monsanto’s New Pesticide-Resistant Crops – ForceChange

Reject Monsanto’s New Pesticide-Resistant Crops – ForceChange.

Rescue Polar Bear from Overheated Mexican Zoo – ForceChange

XrERescue Polar Bear from Overheated Mexican Zoo – ForceChange.

Stop Casino from Destroying Nature Park – ForceChange

Stop Casino from Destroying Nature Park – ForceChange.

Judge Rules BLM Violated Grazing Laws in South-Central Idaho

Straight from the Horse's Heart

Sources: Multiple/Story by KIMBERLEE KRUESI

BLM Breaks the Law for Benefit of Bedfellow Welfare Ranchers

BLM destroying the last of Wyoming’s Wild Horses for the benefit of Welfare Ranchers ~ photo taken last week by Carol Walker of Wild Horse Freedom Federation

BOISE IDAHO – A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management once again violated federal laws when it issued grazing permits instead of analyzing how grazing could harm sage grouse in four allotments in south-central Idaho.

In a ruling released Monday, U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill found that the BLM failed to consider stopping grazing in any of the proposed management plans in the agency’s Burley Field Office.

The decision is round two of a lawsuit led by conservation group Western Watersheds Project that is challenging nearly 600 BLM grazing allotments spread across southern Idaho.

Winmill agreed that the BLM is allowed to…

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Good News!! “Federal Judge Denies Wyoming’s Request To Regain Control of Wolf Management”

Howling For Justice

Today, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson denied Wyoming’s desperate attempt to change her ruling, so the state could proceed with their precious wolf hunts! Too bad, hunters are going to have to get refunds on their wolf tags!

As of this moment it’s still illegal to kill a wolf in Wyoming. Thank you Judge Jackson, it feels so good to have a victory for wolves, even though I’m saddened that wolves in Montana and Idaho are being hunted and Minnesota and Wisconsin hunts are just around the corner. But today we can celebrate that Wyoming wolves will be safe from hunter’s bullets and will  no longer be treated as vermin, to be shot on sight in 80% of the state.

For all the wolves, For Wyoming wolves,

Nabeki

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Federal Judge Denies Wyoming’s Request To Regain Control of Wolf Management

Article by: BEN NEARY , Associated Press Updated: September…

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Wildlife officers could carry cameras if bill passes in the Senate

Once-vast Aral Sea dries up to almost nothing

Coming soon: national war on plastic grocery bags?

Justice for the defenceless animals of The Manchester Dogs Home

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Taiji Fishermen – Jihad on Dolphins

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Nepal: Religion ? – ‘Gadhimai’ Festival This November. 250,000 Animals Could Be Mass Slaughtered In the Name of Religion. Take Action Now.

Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

‘Gadhimai’ Festival

Tens of thousands of buffalo were corralled into a gigantic pen.

Then, 200 slaughtermen wielding swords were let loose into the enclosure. The buffalo were beheaded, one by one. It’s no easy task to behead a buffalo – and for many it took more than one attempt.

These are the reports that came out of the ‘Gadhimai’ Festival in Nepal in 2009, where an estimated quarter of a million farm animals were inhumanely slaughtered as part of the sacrifice festival.

‘Gadhimai’, as the festival is known, is set to take place again this Nov.

‘Gadhimai’ takes place every 5 years in the Bara District of Nepal, south of Kathmandu. For 250 years the festival has continued relatively unchallenged, but as news of the inhumane slaughter has spread internationally, animal welfare advocates have spoken out against it.

The Nepalese Government provides significant funding, which makes this festival possible on…

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E. Ukraine: Donetsk man feeds pets left behind by refugees fleeing the Kiev junta invasion

Killer of boar piglets, saved from drowning, no longer a gamekeeper

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This is a video from Limburg province in the Netherlands, about wild boar piglets which had landed in a canal.

Firefighters then saved them from drowning.

However, as soon as the animals were back on dry land, a gamekeeper killed them.

Limburg province authorities admit the gamekeeper acted illegally.

Translated from a Dutch police press release:

26-09-2014 | 16:21

Weert – Eight wild boars were taken by the fire brigade on Sunday, September 14th out of the South Willemsvaart canal. Five of them were found to be already dead. The three surviving animals were shot on the spot by a gamekeeper. This led to great public commotion.

Police have investigated this affair. This showed that the gamekeeper had not acted in full compliance with rules. He should have gone to the police first, according to the applicable rules.

Rules

Under these rules, animals may be killed if…

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Tell EPA to Fix Its Clean Power Plan

Tell EPA to Fix Its Clean Power Plan.

BEAR-HEADED

10 Ways to Cook With Pumpkin Flesh and Seeds | One Green Planet

Life or Lunch?

It seems as soon as the weather turns cooler, the pumpkins come out. Once you see the orange pumpkins, large and small, in the grocery store and farmers’ markets, we know autumn has truly arrived. Pumpkins may make us think of Halloween and Jack o’ lanterns, but they aren’t just for decorating. In fact, carving pumpkins are different from cooking pumpkins.

Smaller pumpkins are better for cooking because they have a smooth texture, dense flesh and are sweet. They usually weigh between 4 and 8 pounds. When choosing a pumpkin, make sure there aren’t any bruises or soft spots since that might mean the pumpkin has begun to rot. Choose a pumpkin that has no cuts in the shell and be sure to check the bottom since it has probably been sitting on the damp ground. One last thing: the stem is not a handle. Lift a pumpkin from the…

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Dozens of dead sharks found washed ashore off NC coast

Illegal traders of dugong, turtle meat targeted with $5m poaching crackdown (Australia)

The ocean update

A baby dugong floats on its side. A 2003 survey into dugong populations in the NT estimated the coastline from Daly River to Milingimbi at supporting over 13,000 animals. AAP : Dave Hunt, file photo

September 27^th, 2014. The Federal Government is warning anyone involved in the illegal trade of dugong and turtle meat that they will be caught.

The Government has allocated $5 million to a dugong and turtle protection plan that involves the Australian Federal Police (AFP), Customs and Border Protection, and the Australian Crime Commission.

Environment Minister Greg Hunt said the Crime Commission has been given $2 million to investigate the illegal trade.

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Rare White Orca Sighted Off Russian Coast

The ocean update

September 26^th, 2014. Researchers tracking whales off the coast of Russia sighted, and were able to film, one of the rarest of all cetaceans : a juvenile white orca, an animal that has only been observed a handful of times in the wild.

The scientists were engaged in research for the Far East Russia Orca Project (FEROP) when they spotted the whale, according to the Daily Mail. The team was operating off the southeastern coast of Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula and the Northern Kuril Islands, surveying the area as part of a project focused on humpback whales, when the sighting occurred. Orcas have previously been sighted in the region, yet few have been so rare.

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Atlantic Beach passes ordinance opposing use of seismic airguns for oil exploration (Florida, USA)

The ocean update

These North Atlantic right whales were photographed in 2009 traveling off the coast of St. Augustine. Photo courtesy of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

September 26^th, 2014 (Amanda Durish Cook). On Sept. 8, the City of Atlantic Beach became the fifth town in Florida to formally oppose seismic airgun testing when the city commission passed a unanimous resolution. The city joins the ranks of Cocoa Beach, St. Augustine, Cape Canaveral and St. Petersburg, which all passed similar resolutions earlier this year.

With the force of an explosive charge that’s 100,000 times more intense than a jet engine, seismic airgun surveys shoot compressed air along the ocean floor every one to 12 seconds, 24 hours a day for up to weeks on end. The guns are used for geologic exploration, to find pockets of oil and natural gas that can later be captured.

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Green Alien-Like Algae Eggs Wash Up on Sydney’s Beaches (Australia)

The ocean update

September 24^th, 2014 (Kristin Lofgren). The aliens have landed! If you were hanging out on Sydney’s Dee Why beach last weekend, you would have been a witness to the flood of rare, bizarre green balls that washed up on shore. Locals woke up to find hundreds of spongy alien-like egg-shaped spheres all along the beach, like something out of a crazy sci-fi movie.

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Lyme retreatment guidance may be flawed

CLINICALNEWS.ORG

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Most doctors treat Lyme disease with antibiotics for two to four weeks after diagnosis, but if symptoms persist after that, medical guidelines recommend against antibiotic retreatment. That recommendation may not be warranted. A newly published statistical review of the four studies upon which those guidelines are based reports flaws in design, analysis, and interpretation that call into question the strength of the evidence against retreatment.

Allison DeLong, a biostatistician at Brown University’s Center for Statistical Sciences and lead author of the study published online Aug. 19, 2012, in Contemporary Clinical Trials, said the four studies do not prove that retreatment does not work. That questionable interpretation, however, has led doctors to forgo treatment and insurance companies to withhold reimbursement.

“The goal of the paper is to clarify what was actually found from these clinical trials and what could be said and what couldn’t be said,”…

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In Wildness is the Preservation of Raccoons, In Raccoons is the Preservation of the Wild

Video: Kitten and Donkey Smooch on Camera

Straight from the Horse's Heart

Video by Johnny Bomblast

“I have to confess, I am caught between a crazy Cat Lady (Terry, my wife), who is about only one horse away from being called the Nutty Horse Woman and a Donkey/Burro Advocate (Marjorie Farabee) who both of which are always after me about saying ‘Wild Horses AND Burros’ instead of just Wild Horses.  Well, in an effort to satisfy both camps I render, this day, a video that pulls both the feline and equine souls together…please enjoy our ‘Feel Good Sunday’ installment and enjoy your day of peace, relaxation and renewal.  To all my friends; Keep the Faith!’ ~ R.T.

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