Chelsea Clinton, 'Don't Let Them Disappear', The Lesniak Institute for American Leadership, Dogfighting is a Crime, Lawsuit to Save Arctic Seals, April the Giraffe, Boomer, Gibbons are known for their songs...Animal & Wildlife Welfare Report!
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“As these ice seals’ homes melt away, the Trump administration has to give these animals the protection the Endangered Species Act requires,” said Emily Jeffers, a staff attorney with the Center. “With the Arctic warming at twice the global warming rate, ringed and bearded seals urgently need our help.”
Separate oil-industry challenges to protection for bearded seals and ringed seals were rejected by the federal courts last year. But the Trump administration hasn’t taken the legally required steps to protect their habitat. The Center first petitioned to protect both species in 2008, and the Obama administration listed the seals in 2012.
Ice seals are vulnerable to oil spills and the impacts of climate change. The Trump administration is currently pushing to expand offshore oil drilling in the Arctic and onshore fossil fuel production in the Western Arctic and the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.
Bearded seals, known for their mustachioed appearance and elaborate courtship songs, give birth and nurse their pups on pack ice. The rapid loss of that ice jeopardizes their ability to rear their young and is lowering the abundance of the seals’ food on their shallow foraging grounds in the Bering Sea.
Ringed seals, which are covered in dark spots surrounded by light grey rings, give birth in snow caves built on top of the sea ice. Global warming is reducing the amount of snowpack, causing caves to collapse and leaving pups vulnerable to death by freezing or from predators.
Plants and animals with federally protected critical habitat are more than twice as likely to be moving toward recovery than species without it, a Center study found. Designating critical habitat for the seals does not affect subsistence harvest of the species by Alaska natives.
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Boomer is a Pitbull mix that has found himself in a seemingly impossible situation. However, we can help! Please read the details of the case, sign the petition and SHARE!
Boomer has been accused and convicted of killing his Chihuahua neighbor. He has been ordered to be destroyed by the court and the Circuit Court upheld the order because the Judge said that if there is a chance that Boomer did this, it was good enough for him.
The problem is that there is no chance that Boomer is guilty.
The Facts:
Boomer was found circling in the corner of the Chihuahuas' yard with the Chi already dead in another area of the yard. He was found with no blood on him anywhere. He has a white muzzle and chest, if he had attacked, this is where blood evidence would be most prominent. Also, as a Veterinarian testified to, these are the areas in which a dog could not clean himself.
Boomer and the Chi were friends, fencemates, neighbors. Dogs are compassionate creatures and very protective. Because of the nature and timing of the attack, it is believed that a coyote attacked and Boomer came to his friends aid. The Chi was torn open from the stomach. Coyotes eat the innards, therefore they rip open the stomach. The attack was very swift and the Chi was dead within minutes. When a domesticated dog attacks, it is not to eat, it is for sport. They will chase and play with their catch, taking up to a half hour to kill. Boomer was only outside for a couple of minutes. If a dog does attack for feeding they will eat from the anus in, they will not eat the internal organs. The time of year was April and the attack was around 3 in the afternoon. Unbeknownst to Boomers Counsel at the time of trial, there had been a coyote warning issued by the city. This information was withheld and only recently discovered. April in Michigan is the time of year that adult coyotes teach their young to hunt and kill. It typically takes 30 seconds to 3 minutes for a coyote to kill it's prey.
A behavioralist testified that Boomer is non reactive to other dogs. Meaning he's not dog aggressive. He plays with other dogs, big and small, and has not shown any signs of aggression at all. If a dog has aggressively attacked and killed another dog, they would most definitely show signs of aggression around other dogs.
Boomer sits in a boarding facility awaiting his second appeal, which could take up to 8 months before a decision is made as to whether the appeal will be heard.
PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE this petition. Let's send a message to the Michigan State Court of Appeals. Dog's are family, they are not disposable. Ordering them to be destroyed on a "Chance" that they could be guilty, as the Appellate Judge ruled in this case, is unacceptable.
If you would like to see more about this case and /or help with boarding costs, or just to show your support and get updates, you can follow Save Boomer on FB.
Gibbons are known for their songs. Melodious bird-like notes sung in duets, between the monogamous pairs of the gibbon family, swinging through the high forest branches in the company of their offspring.
When you hear it, it's hard not to just stop, close your eyes, and take it in.
Conservationists listen for that unmistakable call to find these elusive, small apes in the treetops. But we're not the only ones. In the forests of Southeast Asia, poachers too are tracking thes rare apes. All gibbon species are threatened with extinction, and some are amongst the most endangered species in the world.
Gibbons' problems don't start and end with poachers. Deforestation and illegal logging increasingly threaten to push them toward extinction. Without a healthy and thriving rainforest, gibbons – which, in undisturbed forest, spend 100% of their time in the forest canopy! – have nowhere to live.
But these small apes are near and dear to the heart of many of us at WCS. Their songs. Their appealing faces. Their stable family lives. Their incredible tree top acrobatics... They are stunning creatures.
If today is the first time you're learning about gibbons and what they're up against, that's okay – because there is still time. Even now. Together we can stop the spiral of gibbons and other vulnerable wildlife into extinction.
Because we are there, on the ground. And we know that with proven, science-based strategies, we can make stunning victories like these happen:
- Successfully reintroducing 24 zebras into Tanzania's Kitulo National Park after a nearly 50-year absence
- Catching illegal trappers in the Republic of Congo in the act, then nursing African grey parrots back to health and releasing them into the wild
- Using a combination of science and protection strategies to allow tiger populations at WCS sites throughout Asia to grow
 Animals Are Still Whipped, Beaten, and Shocked so That They'll Perform in Circuses. Elephants, bears, and tigers exploited for circuses don't stand on their heads, jump through hoops, or balance on pedestals because they want to. They do it out of fear of punishment. Urge these venues, companies, and circuses to end all animal acts today. 8 Actions To take! |
Ask Kroger to Reconsider Selling Eggs From Disgraced Supplier. PETA's exposé of an egg farm found that many dead hens were decaying inside cages. The survivors were confined alongside their rotting cagemates for days on end.
After PETA Push, D.A. Investigates Trainers in Horse Deaths. Good news! After discussions with PETA, the Santa Anita Park racetrack has finalized its ban on some of the worst abuses in racing, including all whipping, the injection of corticosteroids into horses' joints, painful shockwave therapy (which masks pain), the use of anabolic steroids, and more. The Los Angeles County district attorney has launched an investigation into the trainers of the horses who have died at the track. If they've violated anti-cruelty laws, they must be prosecuted.
 April the Giraffe Is Being Treated Like a Breeding Machine for Profit. A giraffe named April, now confined at Animal Adventure Park in New York, has been forced to breed again and again, only to have her babies yanked away from her prematurely. Tell this seedy roadside zoo to stop breeding giraffes and exploiting their babies.
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Don Lichterman
Sunset Corporation of America (SCA)
Sustainable Action Network (SAN)