The deer hunting season is happening right now and vulnerable animals urgently need your help!
Our precious wildlife deserves the right to live without the fear of being hunted. But hunt groups are out killing wildlife as we speak and these vulnerable animals urgently need your help and protection from barbaric hunting activity!
Your support can help capture important evidence of criminal hunts taking place and safeguard thousands of innocent animals from those who wish to inflict pain and suffering on them.
Imagine you are a majestic deer peacefully roaming the West-Country lands when suddenly a group of hunters and their army of dogs begin to charge in your direction.
You flee in terror but you hear the distant barking grow louder and louder, and you realise they have closed in on your trail.
You are terrified and exhausted but your fight for survival gives you one last surge of energy; you sprint through the undergrowth and cross an invisible barrier onto land which does not permit hunters and is a safe-haven for animals.
This land is Baronsdown Wildlife Sanctuary, a 250-acre oasis in Exmoor owned by the League Against Cruel Sports. On all points of the compass the sanctuary is surrounded by land where the hunting of deer is permitted, therefore it is imperative that we protect it.
Please help Keep Out the Hunters and to protect animals living on Baronsdown Wildlife Sanctuary.
Not only will your donation help to protect animals from illegal hunting activity, it will also help increase biodiversity allowing animals to not just survive on Baronsdown Wildlife Sanctuary land, but to thrive.
How you can
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I hope your answer is yes – because these sanctuaries could not survive without you. You are the heart and soul of the League’s work and your support really does matter!
Without Baronsdown Wildlife Sanctuary, thousands more animals would be hunted and killed through barbaric blood sports every year. But with the help of animal defenders like you, we can continue to protect them together.
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You don’t want to think about animals suffering anywhere, let alone in your own neighborhood. And you may never see the victims—the scars, bite wounds, the anguish on the faces of dogs raised to fight.
But underground dogfighting goes on every day, and it may be closer than you think. In a barn, warehouse, apartment building, a back alley, in the middle of the woods… Dogs are chained or caged in isolation, until they're thrown in a pit and forced to fight. Then, it's kill or be killed.
We need your help to stop such heinous cruelty and to rescue animal victims. |
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Dogfighting is a felony in all 50 states, yet this despicable, for-profit blood sport occurs in secret in every part of the country, in every type of community. The number of people involved in dogfighting is estimated in the tens of thousands—causing untold suffering for the animals they abuse.
Fights last from minutes to hours, and even the survivors face a grim fate: Dogs who lose are often brutally discarded. Dogs who win go back on the chain to fight again.
But you can be a part of the ASPCA's efforts to end the violence—and free dogs like these from lives of cruelty. As a member, you help support criminal investigations. You help rescue and shelter animal victims, and rehabilitate dogs so they can be adopted into loving homes. And you help put animal abusers behind bars. Please give today and help break the chain of abuse. |
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Learn why chickens may be the most abused animals on Earth.
Chickens are inquisitive, social animals with distinct personalities. They establish complex hierarchies, their "pecking order," and communicate using at least two dozen different sounds that we have been able to identify—and probably many more. A hen will cluck to her chicks while they're still inside their eggs so that they know their mother's voice even before they hatch.
But most of these wonderful, intelligent individuals never get a chance to roost in a tree, enjoy a dust bath, or bond with their chicks. After spending their entire lives crowded in filthy, windowless sheds, they're taken on a frightening journey to the slaughterhouse to meet a gruesome death.
More chickens are raised and killed for food than all other land animals combined. They are kept in cramped confinement from the moment that they hatch until the day that they are killed—even those on so-called "free-range" farms, a term which is little more than a marketing ruse. "Broiler" chickens—those raised for their flesh—are bred and fed to grow so quickly that their legs and organs can't support their bodyweight. Many die of heart attacks or from heat stress, or the bones in their legs splinter and they collapse.
Slaughterhouses are the stuff of nightmares. Chickens are shackled upside down by their legs, their throats are slit by a machine, and they are plunged into scalding-hot water to remove their feathers. Many birds' necks miss the blade, so they end up being scalded to death.
Chickens abused for egg production fare no better. They, too, are crammed together with other "laying" hens in a wire-mesh cage. To prevent them from pecking at each other, part of their sensitive beaks is cut off, which causes them immense pain.
In the egg industry, male chicks, who produce neither eggs nor the excessive flesh desired by the meat industry, are typically burned or gassed to death or ground up alive.
Their mothers and sisters remain confined until their bodies become so exhausted from intensive egg-laying that they are no longer "productive," typically after about two years. Then they, too, are sent to terrifying slaughterhouses, where their throats are slit or they are scalded to death while still conscious.
Many consumers believe that buying "free-range" or "organic" protects chickens from this kind of misery. But chickens kept on these farms are still painfully debeaked, and their lives are violently cut short at the same terrifying slaughterhouses where chickens from conventional farms are killed.
Through powerful exposés and headline-grabbing campaigns, PETA and our international affiliates are challenging the misery that the meat, egg, and dairy industries try to conceal from the public. We're inspiring tens of thousands of compassionate people to leave animal-derived foods off their plates, pushing restaurants to add vegan menu items, and fulfilling more requests than ever for our free vegan starter kit, which helps consumers make the transition to a healthful, cruelty-free diet.
As early as this fall, Wyoming will allow grizzly bears to be killed for the
first time in decades. In June, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke
stripped 42 years of federal protection from the grizzly bear in the Greater
Yellowstone Ecosystem.
OneProtest started this petition to ask the Wyoming Game
and Fish Department to cancel the proposed hunting season for grizzly bears. If
you agree, please sign and share today.
Animal advocates warn the
trophy hunting of those grizzlies, once protected under the Endangered Species
Act, will be crippling to a species already threatened by habitat destruction
and staple diet loss.
According to Rebecca Riley, Senior Attorney at the
Natural Resources Defense Council, "This population is still so small that
any hunting would be a problem," "We need the population to continue to grow
bigger and more genetically diverse.”
To protect Wyoming’s grizzly
bears, please join OneProtest in urging the Wyoming Game and
Fish Department to terminate plans for a grizzly bear hunting
season.
Oppose
Ohio's Cruel & Lethal Proposal for Bobcats. Less
than four years after bobcats were removed from Ohio's Endangered and Threatened
Species list, the Ohio Division of Wildlife (ODOW) has proposed that the species
be added to Ohio's list of trappable fur-bearing animals, allowing incredible
pain and suffering to be unleashed upon these sensitive animals. On February 8,
2018, the ODOW issued proposed rule changes for Winter 2018, among which
included the opening of a bobcat trapping season to begin in January 2019. We
can't let this happen! TAKE
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Nearly Blind Pup Found Sanctuary. Can
you imagine having to wander alone as a child on the busy streets of a bustling
city with one eye wounded and blind? This was the reality for a four-month-old
pup named Buffy in Mumbai, India, who was one of the lucky ones who ended up at
IDA India's Blind Ward. READ
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