-"On average, 24 horses die each week at racetracks across America. "
-this is really a shame, dumping them by the side of the road or in landfills?

"The birds, which weigh just 25g (0.8oz), travel from sub-Saharan Africa to their Arctic breeding grounds. "

"The 550-pound bear that was found hiding out in a New Jersey basement had been living there for weeks."

"Tommaso, a four-year-old, one-time stray from Rome, is thought to have become the world's richest cat.
Since the death of his 94-year-old mistress last month, he has become a property magnate — or perhaps mognate — with flats and houses worth an estimated €10m scattered from Milan in the north to Calabria in the south."

"Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month."

"A woolly rhino fossil dug up on the Tibetan Plateau is believed to be the oldest specimen of its kind yet found. "

“The Stampede's claims to have made the race safer have been proven false,” society spokesman Peter Fricker said at the time.“It is totally unacceptable to continue this event when horse after horse is dying just to entertain a crowd.”

-to slaughter that many elephants,(or any), should warrant a life time sentence!!

“We venture no comment on the evidence,” the editors write. “Our readers will appreciate it for themselves. Whatever be their interpretation of the facts, they will, at least, allow that in them there is something of the marvellous.”

"Marcy Moriarty says they will be interested to find the mass grave mentioned in the documents.
She says this has been truly difficult to learn of....
".......that description where he notes that one of the dogs he thought had been killed was crawling around in this mass grave.....honestly I had to put down the story then."
She says it's a dirty secret of the industry that so many dogs are bred purely out of greed."

"The Serengeti, once gone, will never return. The potential for collapse of the entire ecosystem exists, should the Serengeti Highway ever become a reality. "

"Police in southeastern B.C. have raided a marijuana grow operation that was apparently guarded by black bears."

"This is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what we're likely to see in the next several years," he told BBC News. "And we've only looked here at one [out of the] six bat species that have been affected by the disease."

"Ninety per cent of the world’s rhinos have been slaughtered in the last 40 years to feed the illegal horn trade in China and Vietnam."-so sad and so sick!

"“Most British Columbians would be as sickened as I am by this so-called ‘sport,’ added Joe Foy, of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee. “That article was some kind of sick eco-porn for those that like to hurt living creatures for the fun of it.”

-enough is enough!-the "Calgary Stampede" is barbaric!

RIP Pan Da

"This is a portrait of a dog living at Les Praz, near Chamonix, who, in the summer of 1908, distinguished himself by climbing Mont Blanc. His master, a workman, was employed on repairs to the observatory on the summit, and one morning, after having been seen by his owner’s wife at eight o’clock, the dog disappeared. He must have rapidly tracked his master by scent, for he arrived at the summit at half-past two in the afternoon, having accomplished in six and a half hours what usually is estimated to require thirteen hours for a man."

"As your correspondent can attest having spent his student days chasing radio-tagged urban foxes around Bristol with an antenna, these canines are normally frustratingly shy and elusive - keeping their distance from humans and preferring to bed down for the night in a deserted graveyard rather than predating children in their beds."

"They may all look similar, but killer whales, also known as orcas, include several distinct species, according to genetic evidence published"

"The tigers were apparently fed cheap chicken bones." -and it is the year of the tiger!

"Animal rights groups say appointing state-funded animal lawyers would ensure animal welfare laws are upheld, and help prevent cases of cruelty."-and of course the farming lobby is against it!-what a surprise!!

-why were the bastards shooting horses or anything else? not for food that's for sure! and if just sport it's even sicker!

GOOD DOG!!

-let the football hooligan jokes begin!

"What does it take in Toronto to capture a deer that is sitting still?
Start with a dozen police constables. Add another dozen police from the Emergency Task Force in grey jumpsuits and bulletproof vests -- armed with dart guns, Tasers and a big sort of fishing net -- plus two vans from Animal Services and a senior veterinarian from the Toronto Zoo. Give them four hours: they will get the job done."

-Siamese croc on the way back!

"For the first time ever, graphic feature-length footage of the annual slaughter of some 2,500 dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, has been captured during a unique yearlong covert operation."

"Wolf control is indefensible ethically. I think most British Columbians would agree with that," Darimont said. "What this study contributes to the discourse is additional ecological evidence that wolf control is a very bad idea indeed." -agreed!

Cheers to the Wild ARC! and the folks that rescued the owl too!

nice!

-good luck to the other two!!

-just maybe,maybe it's time to stop these races!!

-great idea!!

"Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said."-the comments are as fun as the story, if not more so!

"Keepers at Germany's Bremerhaven zoo couldn't get two penguin parents to take care of their egg, so they're trying an experiment — they gave the egg to a gay male penguin couple."

"OBAMA PHOTOGRAPHED WITH NOTORIOUS SEAL BUTCHER"-;)

-boycotting maple syrup is just one thing! -Stupid!!!

"So in Canada they have this thing called the "Governor General," which is some sort of viceroy or something appointed by the Queen of England, and her name is Michaelle Jean. Yesterday, Jean kicked off a tour of Canada's Arctic region by gutting a seal and eating its heart raw."

-people like this truly make me angry!

"Right now there is a lack of government programs needed to help make these communities bear-safe," he said. "These areas need bear-proofing."He points out one example in which a local resident left a tub of fresh salmon on his deck and then killed a female grizzly and her two cubs when they arrived and tried to eat the fish."-sounds as though he was "baiting" the bears!

"The discovery of the new swine flu in pigs on an Alberta farm raises a spectre that worries influenza experts: the possibility of the virus moving back and forth between humans and pigs, giving it more chances to mutate along the way"

-this is just sick!

"Few species have come as close to extinction as the milu (Elaphurus davidianus) and survived. For centuries, the rare Chinese animal, also known as Père David's deer, has existed only in captivity. Now, more than 100 years after the species disappeared from its homeland, it is taking its first steps back into the wild."

"The coastal waters of the Great Bear Rainforest in Northern British Columbia, home to hundreds of salmon spawning rivers, grey whale migratory routes, the feeding grounds for orca and humpback whales. It is an area teaming with life and steeped in the culture of BC's coastal First Nations. For over 35 years these waters have been protected from the threat of oil spills by a ban on oil tanker traffic. This ban on tankers is now under threat. Plans to build pipelines and a supertanker port in Kitimat by Enbridge are moving forward with support from the BC and Canadian governments. But there is still time to save our coast."

"BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A shelter in the Belgian city of Liege has opened its doors to dogs this winter to persuade their homeless owners to come in from the freezing cold." -this may just be a way to get more homeless into shelters on cold nights but i am happiest for the dogs! -thanks X!

"The 47-year-old, nearing the end of his prison sentence, allegedly stabbed his cellmate six times in the neck for scaring the feral cat." -um, maybe he won't be out as soon as expected!!