This HBO documentary should be seen by EVERYONE. What we allow, as a society, to happen to animals can sometimes be beyond belief. Some of the images in the film are heartwarming, while the images of extreme cruelty are difficult to watch – heartbreaking in fact. The videos of elephants being trained are harsh. How [...]
The World Wildlife Fund reports Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has pledged to work on ending the ivory trade in her country. A petition calling for this move was signed by more than 1.5 million people. The WWF quotes the Prime Minister as saying – As a next step we will forward amending the national [...]
Thailand is one of the countries still promoting the trade of products made from ivory – the tusks of endangered elephants. It has to end. Greed continues to degrade the planet, destroy our environment and kills the Earth’s beautiful animals.
It is terrible enough when any animal reaches a point of extinction. But to think majestic animals such as whales, tigers, polar bears, rhinos and elephants are in danger, just really goes to a horrible level. And we know GREED is at the heart of this danger. Thankfully, there are groups working to protect [...]
Reports indicate 22 elephants were found dead in the Garamba National Park in the Congo. Poachers took the tusks. According to a New York Times article, it suspected the Ugandan military may be involved. And there is this troubling paragraph from the article – “” Conservation groups say poachers are wiping out tens of thousands [...]
Pictures are sailing around the Web of Donald Trump’s sons posing with the bodies of dead animals they killed in Africa. The most troubling photo shows one of them with the tail of a dead elephant. Elephants are in real trouble, as poachers are trying to wipe them off the face of the Earth for [...]
Animal welfare in China gaining ground: Famous Chinese celebrities are speaking out about animal welfare issues and ABC News reports one top animal-welfare advocate notes the affect has been to see the “interest in animal rights snowball in China over the last few years.” Basketball star Yao Ming has been speaking out against bear bile [...]
Editorial slams adoption groups: A Slate.com editorial that ran Thursday on the website suggests the adoption process through rescue groups can amount to an “inquisition.” I don’t doubt that some rescue organizations can have detailed adoption application processes that turn some people off. The process varies from group to group. But the fear that homeless [...]
Leonardo DiCaprio has been named as the global ambassador for the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s Animal Action campaign“Elephants, Never Forget.” I gotta hand it to DiCaprio, he certainly has taken to heart a number of environmental and animal causes. His first mission in this new role is to raise awareness concerning the ivory trade [...]
