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04/30/2014 JAMES CROMWELL PROTESTS ON BEHALF OF PRIMATES

Animal rights activist, and Oscar-nominated star of "Babe," James Cromwell, voluntarily caged himself at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), as part of a protest against cruelty to primates. Cromwell joined members of PETA, inside of the Tom Bradley International Terminal for a protest against Air France airlines. The seventy-four year old veteran actor was placed in a shipping crate large enough to fit his six-foot-seven-inch frame. While standing inside the crate that displayed the spray painted words "Live Primate" across the front, Cromwell held a sign that read: "Air France: Stop shipping primates to labs." Cromwell and the other protesters called for Air France to change their policies regarding the shipment of primates to laboratories. They demanded that Air France "join every other major airline in the world and stop transporting intelligent, social primates to laboratories, where they are tortured - sometimes for decades - before being killed."

04/29/2014 BRITISH MAN SAVED FROM SHARK BY POD OF DOLPHINS

British swimmer, Adam Walker had enough to worry about as he took on the freezing ocean in a grueling eight hour and 36 minute swim across the Cook Strait on Tuesday. But he had his mind taken off the extreme temperature when he noticed a two metre shark-shaped figure swimming beneath him in the New Zealand waters. Luckily enough, the shark never attempted an attack as a pod of dolphins soon came to his side, swimming alongside Mr. Walker for an hour while he crossed the strait. It was a magical sight for those watching, as Mr. Walker's long strokes were matched by the jumping figures of approximately 10 dolphins, who came so close to the swimmer that he brushed a tail as he swam.

04/28/2014 HEROIC PONY SAVES HER FOAL FROM BARN FIRE

Some say a mother's bond with her child is unbreakable, that a mother would go to the ends of the earth to keep her child safe. This was never more evident than in the story of this mother-daughter duo. Meet Bella and Butterscotch, two ponies whose bond saved them from a terrible barn fire. In early April, the barn that Bella and Butterscotch lived in caught fire in Alvarado, Texas. While fighting the flames, firefighters found dead chickens and sheep, but when they came across the ponies, they found something amazing. Bella was blocking her then two-week-old foal, Butterscotch, from the flames. "She actually kind of backed the baby into the corner and stood over her and shielded her from the fire and the debris that was falling," said Whitney Hanson of the Humane Society of North Texas.

04/25/2014 TEENAGER USES FACEBOOK TO SAVE ROMANIA'S STRAY DOGS

When French film actress Brigitte Bardot began a campaign to spare the thousands of stray dogs in Romania's capital from being put down, she did it with a $150,000 donation scheme. A similar campaign is being waged by Ana-Maria Ciulcu, a 13-year-old schoolgirl who uses Facebook to appeal to dog lovers all over Europe - and to make sure the dogs go to the right homes. Ciulcu speaks fluent German and has a grasp of the Internet, and she's used both to rescue 150 strays and ship them to Germany, Austria and Belgium since September. Ciulcu collects strays on the street. They go to a temporary private shelter, or to the backyard of her home on the capital's outskirts. She has a veterinarian vaccinate them and give them microchip identification tags and eventually gets international passports for them. All costs, from medicines, vaccines and neutering to identification chips and passports, are covered by Ana-Maria's family - about 150 euros ($210) per dog. Transporting the animals to their destinations is covered by the new guardian.

04/24/2014 FERNANDA TAVARES AGAINST ANIMAL TESTING IN BRAZIL

Brazilian supermodel Fernanda Tavares is fronting a campaign to expand a ban on animal testing for cosmetics in the rest of her native country following a landmark ruling in Sao Paulo in January. The state of Sao Paulo became the first Latin American region to introduce a ban on animal testing for cosmetics, and Tavares is now hoping to extend the regulations to the rest of Brazil. The catwalk star has been appointed an ambassador by the Human Society International (HSI) to lead the organisation's Be Cruelty-Free Brazil campaign to halt cosmetic testing on rabbits, guinea pigs and other rodents throughout the country. The model has starred in a campaign video and met with government officials in the hope of introducing a nationwide testing ban.

04/24/2014 LIAM NEESON TARGETED BY HORSE-CARRIAGE FOES

The battlefront in New York City's horse-carriage wars shifted Saturday to the sidewalk outside actor Liam Neeson's Upper West Side condo, where animal activists picketed over his efforts to rally support for the industry. "Liam Neeson: Stop Supporting Cruelty!" read one sign. The Irish actor has taken on a role as a spokesman for the Central Park horse drivers and an outspoken foe of Mayor Bill de Blasio's promised but as yet undelivered ban on the carriages. "Liam Neeson has abused his stature as a celebrity to promote lies among the general public," said Allie Feldman, head of New Yorkers for Clean, Livable and Safe Streets, or NYCLASS, a leading horse-drawn-carriage opponent. "Keep in mind, he is the only celebrity to ever support the abusive carriage-horse industry."

04/23/2014 EU SEEKS TO CUT PLASTIC BAG USE BY 80 PERCENT BY 2017

The European Parliament passed a directive on last Wednesday aimed at cutting the use of thin single-use plastic carrier bags by 50 percent by 2017 and 80 percent two years later. The directive leaves it to individual states to choose their strategy, for example taxing bags or banning them. EU ministers are due to debate the law in June and the parliament will take it up again later this year following elections in May. Some 100 billion plastic bags are used every year within the European Union and an estimated 8 billion end up as litter that turns up in Europe's seas. The stomachs of 94 percent of all birds in the North Sea contain plastic, according to figures from the European Commission.

04/22/2014 FRENCH PARLIAMENT BANS CULTIVATION OF GM MAIZE

France's lower house of parliament adopted a law on Tuesday prohibiting the cultivation of any variety of genetically modified maize, saying it posed a risk to the environment. France adopted a decree last month to halt the planting of Monsanto's insect-resistant MON810 maize, the only GM crop allowed for cultivation in the European Union. The law also applies to any strain adopted at EU level in future, including another GM variety, Pioneer 1507 developed jointly by DuPont and Dow Chemical, which could be approved by the EU executive later this year after 19 out of 28 member states failed to gather enough votes to block it. The law adopted by the French National Assembly is similar to one rejected by the Senate, upper house, in February when it was deemed unconstitutional.

04/18/2014 AUSTRALIA CONDUCTING AN AGGRESSIVE CULLING DRIVE AGAINST SHARKS

Australia is conducting an aggressive culling drive against sharks, with the largest slaughter of the marine animals in the world now happening off the state of Western Australia. Yet a new survey finds that many people in the country are not frightened of sharks' presence. Forty-five sharks have been killed off the state's shores so far this year after being caught in the hunt on baited drum lines. The state government wants to extend this practice for three years. But the survey, of 583 people visiting Sea Life Sydney Aquarium, found that 77% of the respondents were "not at all frightened" or only "moderately frightened" by sharks. And 87% said the animals should not be killed despite their perceived threat.

04/17/2014 AGRICULTURE'S GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ON THE RISE

New FAO estimates of greenhouse gas data show that emissions from agriculture, forestry and fisheries have nearly doubled over the past fifty years and could increase an additional 30 percent by 2050, without greater efforts to reduce them. This is the first time that FAO has released its own global estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU), contributing to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Agricultural emissions from crop and livestock production grew from 4.7 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2 eq) in 2001 to over 5.3 billion tonnes in 2011, a 14 percent increase.  The increase occurred mainly in developing countries, due to an expansion of total agricultural outputs. Nearly two-thirds of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture are sourced to the livestock sector.

04/16/2014 ANIMAL GROUP FURIOUS AFTER SWISS ZOO HAS BEAR CUB PUT DOWN

A Swiss zoo has provoked an outcry after putting down a brown bear cub because it was being bullied by its "jealous" father. The cub was among two born earlier this year to Misha and Masha, who were gifts from then-Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in 2009. But keepers at Bern's Dahlholzi Zoo refused to separate the animals - even after Misha killed his other cub in front of horrified families last week. When 360kg male Misha started being aggressive towards Baby Bear 4, as the cub was called, zoo chiefs decided to kill it instead of raising it in solitude. But Swiss Animal Protection, the country's oldest and largest animal rights group, was in uproar. It condemned the action in the "strongest possible terms" and said the zoo has massively mishandled the situation.

04/15/2014 UKRAINE CRISIS LEAVES ANIMALS IN KHARKIV ZOO FIGHTING FOR LIFE

Campaigners and Ukrainian citizens are facing a daily struggle to keep animals in a Kharkiv zoo alive while the political crisis in the country continues. The government began in January to divert funds away from the Nikolaev zoo, which houses nearly six thousand animals, including big cats, bears, monkeys, crocodiles, boa constrictors and elephants. The dire situation at the 114-year-old facility, which has survived two World Wars, was highlighted in March by a letter sent by zoo director Alexey Grigoriev to Ukraine's prime minister that said: "The Kharkiv animals on the verge of starvation." "Our animals are not fighting for power, they do not share anyone's political views, they just want to live," continued the letter. However, locals immediately responded to the plea, donating large sums of money as well as food supplies to the zoo.

04/14/2014 HUNGARY DESTROYS ALL MONSANTO GMO CORN FIELDS

Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech giant Monsanto and genetic modification by destroying 1000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds, according to Hungary deputy state secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development Lajos Bognar. Unlike many European Union countries, Hungary is a nation where genetically modified (GM) seeds are banned. The checks will continue despite the fact that seek traders are obliged to make sure that their products are GMO free, Bognar said. In a similar stance against GM ingredients, Peru has also passed a 10 year ban on GM foods.

04/11/2014 "NOAH" IS TOTALLY VEGAN PROPAGANDA

How do you make a movie involving an ark filled with animals that doesn't use a single real animal...? Darren Aronofsky's "Noah" is definitely a milestone in blockbuster veganism, in mainstreaming the vegan idea, weaving it through related issues - justice, faith, sacrifice, masculinism, militarism, climate change, violence, nonviolence and storytelling. Noah and his family are introduced gathering berries and other plant foods, as Noah admonishes them "we collect only what we need." An ecological ethic, this is also a vegan one: We need to eat plants to survive, but we don't need to eat animals. Director Aronofsky makes clear that the first step, not the last, to balancing our relationship with the world is to address our relationship to animals and to seek justice there just as we seek it among ourselves.

04/10/2014 IAN SOMERHALDER ON ANIMAL TESTING: "IT'S NOT NECESSARY!!!"

Ian Somerhalder is always using his reach on social media to promote environmental and animal rights issues. This time, he's tackling the use of animals in scientific research. "The Vampire Diaries" star instagramed a video of a protest against Delta Airlines, a partner of Air France, which still flies animals like dogs and primates to take them to labs where they’ll be used as test subjects. They are put in the cargo holds in wooden crates and proceed to labs where they are legally tortured during tests. "Wow. This is a bummer... Do we really need to test on animals still? We can send missions to mars yet we still test on animals-guess what? It's NOT NECESSARY!!!!," wrote the 35-year-old whose non profit organization is raising funds to open an animal sanctuary for abused animals. "We know this like we know the earth is round... Primates should be in trees. Not in labs."

04/09/2014 THE MOST TRAFFICKED MAMMAL YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF

Inside a metal vault in rural Vietnam is a creature believed to be the most trafficked mammal in the world. No sounds come from its cage. No squeaks or howls. A padlocked door creaks open to reveal an animal that seems far too unassuming to be traded by the ton. The pangolin is a rare, scale-covered mammal, about the size of a house cat. Pangolins - two species of which are endangered and all of which are protected by international treaty - are trafficked by the thousands for their scales, which are boiled off their bodies for use in traditional medicine; for their meat, which is a high-end delicacy here and in China; and for their blood, which is seen as a healing tonic. By the most conservative estimates, 10,000 pangolins are trafficked illegally each year. If you assume only 10% to 20% of the actual trade is reported by the news media, the true number trafficked over a two-year period was 116,990 to 233,980, according to Annamiticus, an advocacy group. The pangolin could go extinct before most people realize it exists. Or, more to the point: It could go extinct because of that.

04/08/2014 ANIMAL FRIENDS MARKED WORLD HEALTH DAY

On the occasion of World Health Day, April 7, Animal Friends promoted its new nutrition brochure Plant Based Nutrition intended for doctors and nutritionists and others who are interested in healthy foods, a plant based diet, the Green Monday campaign but also people who already are vegetarian or vegans. On the main Zagreb square they presented a six meters long Vitamin line with ingredients of plant-based origin, which attracted attention of many passers-by. This event is supported by bio&bio and Encian who have made their products available for the vitamin line. Photos from the action can be seen here.

04/07/2014 WHY YOU SHOULD STOP EATING MEAT IF YOU'RE SERIOUS ABOUT FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE

Serious about battling climate change? Then you might want to consider going vegetarian. That's because it's looking like world temperatures will continue to climb unless people stop chowing on so much meat and dairy, according to new research from Sweden. The United Nations believes it's imperative to keep future warming from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. To meet that target, there will have to be a sharp decrease in greenhouse-gas emissions by the end of the century. Some of the reductions must come from the energy industry, and some must hail from the agricultural realm. But with agriculture, it won't be enough to roll out "smarter" animal feeds and better methods of crop production, say scientists at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. Rather, "reduced ruminant meat and dairy consumption will be indispensable for reaching the 2°C target with a high probability, unless unprecedented advances in technology take place," they assert in a study in Climatic Change.

04/04/2014 TIGERS KILLED TO ENTERTAIN RICH AND POWERFUL

More than 10 tigers have been killed as "visual feasts" to entertain officials and rich businessmen in a Chinese city, state media reported. Police in Zhanjiang in the southern province of Guangdong seized a freshly slaughtered tiger and multiple tiger products in a raid this month, said the Nanfang Daily, the mouthpiece of the provincial Communist Party. Local officials and successful businesspeople gathered to watch the tigers being killed as "eye-openers" to show off their social stature, it said. Video footage of a killing two years ago showed the tiger, kept in an iron cage, having an electrified iron mass prodded into its mouth with a wooden stick and passing out after being electrocuted for more than 10 seconds, the paper said. Police said a butcher - who jumped to his death while trying to escape arrest in a raid -  had killed more than 10 animals.

04/03/2014 AIRLINE BUCKLES TO PRESSURE FROM PETA ON MONKEY CARGO

After years of protests by animal rights crusaders, a Chinese airline has said it will no longer transport monkeys and other primates used for laboratory experiments. China Southern Airlines, a state-owned carrier, has decided to "stop transporting live primates for laboratory experiments on all flights," Chen Qiuhua, the airline's chief manager of special cargo transportation, told People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The decision was effective immediately, Mr. Chen wrote in an email to PETA. "We truly request PETA to stop protests against China Southern Airlines," it said.

04/02/2014 JAPAN WHALING PROGRAM RULED ILLEGAL

Great news for whales in the Southern Ocean! The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that Japan's whaling program must stop and all licenses granted to hunt them must be revoked. The verdict came today from Hague, where a 12 to 4 vote determined that Japan's JARPA II program is not, as they claimed, "for scientific purposes" and, therefore, is illegal under the International Whaling Commissions regulations. It ordered that Japan cease the JARPA II operations, revoke any licenses granted by the initiative and provide proof that it won't carry on with JARPA II or any similar programs. The decision was a major win for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a non-profit group that has actively confronted whaling ships in the ocean and tried to prevent whales, many who are pregnant, from being killed in an area that is supposed to be protected.

04/01/2014 BIG THREAT TO JAPAN WHALING: DECLINING APPETITES

The greatest threat to Japan's whaling industry may not be the environmentalists harassing its ships or the countries demanding its abolishment, but Japanese consumers. They've lost their appetite. The amount of whale meat stockpiled for lack of buyers has nearly doubled over 10 years, even as anti-whaling protests helped drive catches to record lows. More than 2,300 minke whales worth of meat is sitting in freezers while whalers still plan to catch another 1,300 whales per year. The whaling is ostensibly for research, but Australia argued in a lawsuit that it's a cover for commercial hunts.

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