Tell AZA – don’t let San Antonio Zoo keep elephant Lucky alone
The San Antonio Zoo recently made the cruel decision to keep a female elephant named Lucky alone, following the death last month of another elephant, Queenie. Now, the zoo is asking the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) – a trade industry organization – for a variance that would allow the zoo to maintain a solitary female elephant. Female elephants are profoundly social and naturally liv… Read More
Speak up for the 10,000 animals who drowned at New York University labs
Six months after Superstorm Sandy, we must not forget the 10,000 rats and mice who died in laboratories at New York University Medical Center in New York City, left to drown as floodwaters surged into the basement where they were housed, trapped in cages with no means of… Read More
Tell new U.S. Interior Secretary to protect wild horses and burros
The Senate recently confirmed Sally Jewell as the next Secretary of the Interior. This could be a positive change from her predecessor, Ken Salazar, who failed to deliver on his promise to reform the federal wild horse and burro program. Salazar, a rancher, defended other ranchers to the detriment of wild horses and… Read More
Tell FDA to not approve genetically engineered salmon
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is set to approve the first genetically engineered (GE) farm animal, a salmon who grows at twice the rate of wild salmon, in a grossly inadequate process that fails to fully consider the welfare of the animals or the implications for t… Read More
Help Save Horses From Slaughter
It is estimated that more than 100,000 horses from the U.S. are shipped to slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico each year. In 2011, President Obama signed a bill stripped of language which had previously defunded inspections at horse slaughterhouses, which opened the door once again to legal horse slaughter in the U.S. Now, some states are moving forward to establish slaughterhouses. If any of… Read More
Tell U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service To Protect Wolverines
It was bittersweet news when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS) recently announced its intent to list the wolverine as a threatened species due to threats from climate change. Most wolverines are hanging on to life in the high mountain ranges in Montana – the only state in the lower 48 that still allows trapping of this rapidly vanishing… Read More
Mexico: Protect Critically Endangered Sea Turtles
North Pacific loggerhead sea turtles spend up to a decade feeding on small crabs in an area off the coast of Mexico’s Baja California. Alarmingly, more than 1,000 North Pacific loggerheads die every year when they are accidentally caught up in fishermen’s… Read More
Tell BLM to Protect Wild Horses During Drought
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is accepting public comments on an Environmental Assessment (EA) of a plan to manage wild horses and livestock during drought. The EA analyzes a range of management alternatives that may be implemented to mitigate the effects of drought and to address emergency… Read More
