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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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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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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The wolf battle continues!
On Chuck Becker’s cattle farm in north-central Minnesota, wolves can cause his animals to run through fences and become crippled. Some are eaten alive.
Before, Becker could trap or shoot the wolves to protect his cattle. The state even reimbursed him for the animals killed by the wolves, provided that he had proof.
But [...]
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Orangutan Awareness Week is November 10-16. Celebrate by helping us save the orangutans from extinction and educating yourself and others about the issues!
This week I’ll show you videos that will help you understand orangutans, why they are threatened, why we need to protect them, and what you can do to help.
Related articles on the web:
Orangutans’ [...]
Reading this story makes me wonder if and how the results of studies on genetic differences between humans and other primates will affect animal rights legislation. What do you think?
Researchers have carried out the largest study of differences between human and chimpanzee genomes, identifying regions that have been duplicated or lost during evolution of the [...]
