Kitty Momow’s Orangutan Outreach Benefit Concert was a huge success and a TON of fun! Thanks so much to everyone who came out to the show. I need to thank a few more folks, and then I’ll tell you how you can get a FREE T-SHIRT!
Thanks a MILLION!
The Mellow Mushroom Bar - The venue!
OZ Music [...]
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I’m posting this at 3:30 AM on Wednesday, with just 16 hours left until the Orangutan Outreach Benefit Concert starts.
I finally finished all the signs and donation collectors, or “donation stations,” as I christened them. I tried to make this event as environmentally friendly as possible and used recycled materials for as many things as [...]
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Colugos (aka flying lemurs)—the closest living relatives of primates most notable for their ability to glide from tree to tree over considerable distances—are more diverse than had previously been believed, according to a new report published in the November 11th issue of Current Biology.
Primates are most familiarly represented by monkeys and [...]
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I have a new campaign idea: SAVE THE UGLY ANIMALS! That, my fellow animal lover, is our new rallying cry! Save the ugly animals! Save the ugly animals!
I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that you won’t see a “Save the lampreys” bumper sticker any time soon.
Not only are they so unattractive [...]
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Write to your congressman or congresswoman to encourage them to maintain protections for endangered species!
California Attorney General Jerry Brown has called on the Bush administration to abandon its proposed changes to rules in the Endangered Species Act in a letter to the Fish and Wildlife Service.
The changes could put “entire species and ecosystems [...]
If watching this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD6UpPQkNBU) doesn’t convince you of the REAL (not made up by animal-rights-psychos, I swear) need to protect orangutans and thousands of other endangered species from the destruction of deforestation and the palm oil industry, then …you should really keep researching it. All I’m asking you to do is think about the [...]
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Tens of thousands of animals throughout Europe are kept in cruel conditions because zoos fail to apply EU rules on standards of care and the laws themselves are unclear, an animal welfare coalition said on Wednesday.
Zoos often fall short of providing proper space, nutrition and mental stimulation for the animals, said ENDCAP, a pan-European coalition [...]
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Kitty Mowmow’s Animal Expo is throwing a Benefit Concert for Orangutan Outreach, and now it’s just a week away! If you live anywhere near Tuscaloosa, AL, you should DEFINITELY come out the benefit. It’s gonna be awesome! Orangutans WILL be saved [...]
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On Thursday, November 6, 2008, Dr. Kirt Rusenko, Marine Conservationist, and staff from Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton will release two juvenile loggerhead sea turtles raised in captivity into the Indian River Lagoon near Sebastian Inlet.
The loggerheads, dubbed Milton and FeeBee, hatched on Boca Raton’s beaches in July 2002 and were [...]
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Scientists in the remote Bale mountains of southern Ethiopia are in a race against time to save the world’s rarest wolf.
Rabies passed from domestic dogs is threatening to kill up to two-thirds of all Ethiopian wolves.
Scientists from the UK and Ethiopia are currently vaccinating wolf packs to prevent the spread of the disease.
The population has [...]
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