Animal rights advocates say rabbit haters are using poison, sharp objects and even dogs to control a growing bunny population in Kelowna. But authorities won’t do much to stop the carnage.
The creatures are considered an invasive species in B.C. and can be killed without a permit.
Jim Corbett, with the Conservation Officer Service for the Okanagan, [...]
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If you’ve been to Olympic Plaza in Calgary or to Parliament Hill in Ottawa recently, you’ve probably come across an installation of five statues depicting the “Famous Five” — the five Canadian women whose lawsuit led to the historic declaration in 1929 that women are to be considered “persons” under Canadian law.
The sculptural tableau is [...]
More than half of US households own a pet. Most are too busy to research the current politics behind the animal rights versus animal welfare movement.
Animal welfare, AW, movement wants to improve the conditions of animals, animal rights, AR, movement, in the long run, is against any and all animal use, even as pets.
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The primatologist Dr Jane Goodall will today propose that a Nobel prize be set up for advancing medical knowledge without experimentation on animals. The scientist, who pioneered research on chimpanzees in the wild, says moving away from animal research is a “goal towards which all civilised nations should be moving”.
She will speak at an event [...]
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A federal judge in Montana has rejected a request by the government to delay a lawsuit seeking to place the gray wolf back on the endangered species list, saying he’s “unwilling to risk more deaths.”
At least 39 of the Northern Rockies’ 1,500 gray wolves have been killed since they lost federal protection in March. That [...]
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They are both amputees: She lost part of her right leg to bone cancer at the age of 10, and he lost part of his left leg four months ago because of an injury he most likely suffered at a Brooklyn slaughterhouse.
Her name is Jenny Brown, and she is a 36-year-old television producer turned animal [...]
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New York has become the first state in the nation to ban the electrocution of animals in a particularly gruesome way to harvest their fur.
The law bans the practice of anal and genital electrocution of fur-bearing animals, including mink, foxes, chinchillas and rabbits. The misdemeanor is punishable by up to a year in jail.
National animal [...]
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Environmental and animal rights groups sued the federal government Monday, seeking to restore endangered species status for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lifted federal protections for the estimated 1,500 wolves in March. It turned over management responsibilities to state officials in Idaho, Wyoming and Montana for the first time [...]
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Nearly a decade later, Daphna Nachminovitch still remembers the rerelease of the Disney classic “101 Dalmatians” and the tragedy that followed. First there was a spike in sales of the famous spotted breed. Then, in the months that followed, shelters took in hundreds of Dalmatians from disillusioned pet owners around the country. “As soon as [...]
Is the average American church unaware of animal rights? Is there an inverse correlation between church attendance and support for such rights?
An opinion piece in today’s Harvard Crimson attempts to answer those questions. For a different take on religion and animals, read Times staff writer Stephanie Simon’s Column One article below…
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