Legislative Advocacy, Teala Dunn, Wildlife Under Attack, Zoo ends animal performances, Turkeys Are Dropped From Planes in Arkansas, Animals Can Improve Your Health, Yummy, Dog Meat, Yulin dog meat festival, Ukraine Bears, Animal Abuse a Violent Crime?
Wildlife, including some of the most endangered species on the planet, are under attack from trophy hunters. We need your help to protect them.
The U.S. Department of Interior is creating and seeking nominations for the International Wildlife Conservation Council. Despite its name, this council is about anything but conservation. Instead, the council will advise the government on the “benefits” of U.S. citizens traveling to foreign countries to hunt animals.
Click here to oppose the formation of this dangerous council
Pro-hunting groups have claimed for years that hunting supports wildlife conservation. It doesn’t. Hunting only benefits the hunter and the commercial interests of hunting companies. Your action is critical. Elephants and other endangered species need to be protected.
To make matters worse, you can only submit a comment for a short period of time – through November 24, right after the Thanksgiving holiday. This isn’t an accident. It’s a deliberate attempt to push through a dangerous policy that hurts animals.
Take action today to protect endangered species like African elephants
We can’t let the hunting industry get away with this. Please join us in telling the Department of Interior that we want science informing our wildlife policies, not special interest groups.
Turkeys Are Dropped From Planes in Arkansas. The practice is now an unofficial part of an October festival
No matter how busy the holiday travel season, you're pretty much guaranteed to have a smoother flight than the unfortunate turkeys involved in Arkansas' Turkey Trot. The annual October festival in Yellville sees turkeys hurled from buildings and a plane flying 500 feet above the ground. Disturbed? You're not alone. Tommy Lee is among those to bash the "sick" tradition, reports Arkansas Online. Live Science explains the uproar: Domestic turkeys are bred for flightlessness, their bodies too heavy for their wings to get them off the ground. While their wings can slow a descent, there's no guarantee domestic turkeys will survive falls from great heights. The same is true of wild turkeys, which can only fly short distances. Indeed, two turkeys dropped from a plane last year died on impact.
At least four turkeys dropped this year were found injured and bleeding, though they've since found refuge at a New York shelter, where they were named John, Ringo, George, and Paul, per the Fairfield Citizen. The town of Yellville technically stopped throwing turkeys in 1989—continuing the Turkey Trot festival started in 1946 with a dance, race, and parade—but local pilots continue to throw turkeys, per the Citizen and Baxter Bulletin. Despite animal activists' appeals, the FAA says it doesn't have the authority to intervene. "FAA regulations do not specifically prohibit dropping live animals from aircraft, possibly because the authors of the regulation never anticipated that an explicit prohibition would be necessary," a rep tells the Huffington Post, adding, "This does not mean we endorse the practice."
The Yulin dog meat festival shocked the world.
Over 7 million people took to Change.org to call for the Chinese government to ban the selling and consuming of dog meat at the annual festival. It’s one of the biggest movements we have ever seen on our website.
With passionate people like you interested in this issue, we took a deeper look at the work and impact taking place behind the headlines.
Over the next 4 weeks, we will share those stories with you in a series of videos. We hope you’ll stay tuned for each new release, and you’re encouraged to share the videos with others who care about the progress being made to end the Yulin dog meat festival.
Watch a sneak peak of our new video series called After Yulin.
The U.S. Department of Interior is creating and seeking nominations for the International Wildlife Conservation Council. Despite its name, this council is about anything but conservation. Instead, the council will advise the government on the “benefits” of U.S. citizens traveling to foreign countries to hunt animals.
Click here to oppose the formation of this dangerous council
To make matters worse, you can only submit a comment for a short period of time – through November 24, right after the Thanksgiving holiday. This isn’t an accident. It’s a deliberate attempt to push through a dangerous policy that hurts animals.
Take action today to protect endangered species like African elephants
We can’t let the hunting industry get away with this. Please join us in telling the Department of Interior that we want science informing our wildlife policies, not special interest groups.
Turkeys Are Dropped From Planes in Arkansas. The practice is now an unofficial part of an October festival
At least four turkeys dropped this year were found injured and bleeding, though they've since found refuge at a New York shelter, where they were named John, Ringo, George, and Paul, per the Fairfield Citizen. The town of Yellville technically stopped throwing turkeys in 1989—continuing the Turkey Trot festival started in 1946 with a dance, race, and parade—but local pilots continue to throw turkeys, per the Citizen and Baxter Bulletin. Despite animal activists' appeals, the FAA says it doesn't have the authority to intervene. "FAA regulations do not specifically prohibit dropping live animals from aircraft, possibly because the authors of the regulation never anticipated that an explicit prohibition would be necessary," a rep tells the Huffington Post, adding, "This does not mean we endorse the practice."
With passionate people like you interested in this issue, we took a deeper look at the work and impact taking place behind the headlines.
Over the next 4 weeks, we will share those stories with you in a series of videos. We hope you’ll stay tuned for each new release, and you’re encouraged to share the videos with others who care about the progress being made to end the Yulin dog meat festival.
Watch a sneak peak of our new video series called After Yulin.
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