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In 2011, green sea turtles laid a staggering 1.44 million eggs on just one island in the Philippines thanks to conservation efforts, breaking all previous records.
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NEWS YOU CAN USE: 8 Simple Things to Do on Valentine's Day
How can you enjoy some romance without playing into the marketing ploy?
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Colorado Rejects Animal Abuse Registry
On Monday, the state of Colorado rejected a bill that would require animal abusers to register with an online database somewhat resembling the sex offender registry. Colorado is one of five states that considered the bill in question.
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Stop Plundering of Tigers in the Wildlife Park in Southwest China - ACTION!
Tigers die slowly of neglect. In row after row of foul, cramped cages, more tigers lie alone, crippled and dying. One is hunched up against the side of its cage with its neck grotesquely deformed. Another, blinded in one eye, lies motionless.
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Canada - Reduce the Power of the Fisheries Minister ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Ask the Canadian government to overhaul its long outdated governance of fisheries, reducing the power of conflicted ministers and their departments and ensuring that long-term, scientifically based decisions are made.
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Stop Wake County Animal Center from Killing Two Cats ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Wake County Animal Center has trapped two cats from a managed and Trap-Neuter-Returned colony. Although both cats are cared for and one is already neutered and vaccinated, the shelter refuses to release the cats to Operation Catnip, a renowned feral cat
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Tell Loews to Embrace TNR for Hotel Cats ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
More than 6,000 compassionate citizens have contacted Loews to voice their support for the cats. Youve gotten their attention. We want to make sure that Loews continues to hear from you!
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ACTION ALERT: Stop the Reopening of the Cruel Diving Horse Show! PLEASE SIGN !
The diving horse show at the Atlantic City Steel Pier was shut down in the 1970's, but the event is set to return this summer. Riders mount horses and then dive from the tall pier into the water below. This dangerous and cruel event is terrifying.
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Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth
Environmentalists are torn over the high cost of breaking reliance on fossil fuels. Public comment has been sought, but insiders are calling the shots.
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ACTION ALERT: Save Lug & Marley, German Shepherd dogs that were protecting their home! PLEASE SIGN !
Please do not punish Lug and Marley, the two German Shepherd dogs owned by Ingrid Sacha, for doing exactly what humans have not only relied upon our canine companions to do for centuries, but also bred them to do protect us and our homes from threats
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Save Lives by Supporting the Florida Animal Rescue Act in the State Senate ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
The Florida Animal Rescue Act (SB 818 and HB 597) is a groundbreaking bill that would create a fundamental shift in the way animals in Floridas animal sheltering system are treated. By prohibiting shelters from killing any animal in a pound or shelter
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Support Minnesota Companion Animal Protection Act ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
The Minnesota Companion Animal Protection Act (MN CAPA), HF 1735, has been introduced in the Minnesota House of Representatives and is sponsored by Rep. John Benson (R-30B). This landmark bill emphasizes saving animals lives in Minnesotas public and
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Killing Giraffes for Sport ! PLEASE TAKE ACTION ! !
With the giraffe populations decreasing, its troublesome to learn that hunters are able to travel to Africa and pay up to £10,000 for a chance to slay these beautiful creatures. Certain African countries allow this to go on under the claim that it helps
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U.N. Security Council to meet on Syria as deaths mount
More than 200 people were reported killed in Syria, hours before the U.N. Security Council was scheduled to meet and likely vote on a draft resolution intended to pressure the government there to end its months-long crackdown on demonstrators, diplomats
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ACTION ALERT: Ban the Bag Australia!! PLEASE SIGN !
Australians use 3.92 billion plastic bags a year, that's over 10 million new bags being used every day. An estimated 3.76 billion bags or 20,700 tonnes of plastic are disposed of in landfill sites throughout Australia every year.
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France Defeats Monsanto
France has held firm in its opposition to Monsanto's genetically modified MON 810 maize - and the agri-chemical multinational has admitted defeat.
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Kazakhstan monkeys fed wine to keep warm
Kazakhstan monkeys may be a little tipsy, but at least theyre not cold.
A Kazakhstan zoo fed its monkeys a wine concoction as a remedy against flu as overnight temperatures dipped to -27 Fahrenheit...
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Help End The Annual Seal Slaughter - ACTION!
Please tell everyone you know about Canada's cruel slaughter of baby seals and urge them to contact the Canadian government to ask for an immediate end to this cruel slaughter.
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Killing Me Softly: The Truth Behind Pet Treat Labels
Pet treat labels often include BHA, BHT, Ethoxyquin, Sodium Metabisulfite, and TBHQ among the ingredients. Renz notes that Del Monte and Purina routinely use these chemical ingredients, which are known to be carcinogenic and can also cause liver and
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New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby star
An international team of scientists has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star.
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Whitey Day in Brewerstan?
See 1st comment.
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Open Thread - 2/5/2012
Personal news, a Jig Zone puzzle, 3 short takes, including a peace video, and a homemade cartoon (shown).
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Romney Buys Nevada
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The brutal festival at Nem Thuong village, Vietnam ACTION
Every year, at a village near Hanoi, a pig is brutally chopped into two so that people can smear banknotes with its blood in the belief that it would bring luck.
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ACTION ALERT: Protect The North Dakota Badlands ! PLEASE SIGN !
The oil boom in North Dakota is out of control. The state officials have done little to protect the residents, the communities, the wildlife, and the landscape. It is truely the Wild West.
The North Dakota Badlands are home for the many animals;
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Why It's a Republican Recession
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Hubble images reveal galaxy similar to Milky Way
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of a barred spiral galaxy a galaxy similar to our own and expected to give astronomers a better insight into the Milky Way.
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Majority of Andes' biodiversity hotspots remain unprotected
Around 80 percent of the Andes' most biodiverse and important ecosystems are unprotected according to a new paper ..
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Bob Barker Speaks Out Against the Calgary Stampede Rodeo and The Price is Right Support ! PLEASE TAKE ACTION ! !
Please contact CBS and politely let them know what you think of The Price is Right sponsoring the cruel and deadly Calgary Stampede Rodeo.
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Investigate Brutal Beating and Slaughter of Sheep by U.S. Military Personnel ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
To urge the U.S. military to conduct a thorough investigation into the brutal beating of a sheep by military personnel.
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OUTRAGEOUS! One Million Moms to JC Penney: fire Ellen, she's gay
One Million Moms -- a project of the American Family Association -- is very angry at JC Penney because the Texas-based department store has hired Ellen DeGeneres as a spokeswoman.
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Tell Congress to Let the Keystone XL Pipeline Die ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
President Obama has already done the bidding of the American people by rejecting this destructive project. Please make sure that our government is not held hostage by a fossil fuel scheme that will enrich the oil companies while impoverishing our health
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Empowering Minorities to Shape Urban Landscapes
Michele White helms a school aimed at giving Detroits public school students exposure and access to design thinking and landscape architecture, urban planning and product design professions.
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Outlaw the Use of Brutal Bullhooks to Train Elephants ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
To outlaw the use of bullhooks to train elephants in circuses
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ACTION ALERT: No drilling in the Arctic! PLEASE SIGN !
Despite offshore oil drilling's long record of environmental disasters the Obama administration is considering a plan to allow more offshore drilling in the Arctic. He even talked about it in his State of the Union address.
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Ban Beastiality in the United States ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Enact a law that makes beastiality a felony and protects animals in all 50 states from sexual preditors that believe sex without consent is acceptable. It isn't. It's rape.
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Tell Obama to Stop Aerial Wolf Killing in Idaho ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Your tax dollars could be used to pay for an ill-conceived aerial wolf cull in Northeastern Idaho an unscientific plan to boost game populations that could kill as many as two thirds of the wolves in the Lolo District of the Clearwater National Forest
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Puerto Rico plans massacre of invasive iguanas, export of harvested meat
Puerto Rico has announced plans for a massive cull of an invasive species of iguana and for the sale of harvested meat
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Help Brown Pelicans in the Gulf ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Help protect the Gulf's brown pelicans. Urge Congress to pass legislation to help restore the Gulf today.
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Phase Out Dog Racing ! PLEASE TAKE ACTION ! !
Legislation has been filed that could bring an end to dog racing at Tucson Greyhound Park! Senate Bill 1273, sponsored by Senator Michele Reagan and Representative J.D. Mesnard, changes the state's racing law to remove the mandate that Tucson Greyhound
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In Russia there will be a single web-based transactions on Timber
At the meeting of the FFA, WWF and regional bodies of forest management came to the conclusion that the bill will actually help to reduce illegal logging and illegal timber trade. However, it needs to be expanded.
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NIGER: Three Million Children Threatened by Hunger
A national survey of vulnerable households shows that 5.4 million people face food insecurity across Niger.
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Ban Trophy Hunting of Lions in Africa ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
To ban the importation and hunting of lions by listing them as an endangered species
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.Afghanistans Soldiers Step Up Killings of Allied Forces
American and other coalition forces in Afghanistan are being killed in increasing numbers by the very Afghan soldiers they fight alongside and train, in attacks motivated by deep-seated animosity.
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Soaking the Poor, State by State
Payroll taxes aren't progressive, for example. In fact, they're actively regressive, with the poor and middle classes paying higher rates than the rich.
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Haratin: Protesters Against Slavery Arrested in Mauritania
Several campaigners for the abolition of slavery in Mauritania were arrested on 15 January 2012, with all those detained being members of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement, an NGO in Mauritania.
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ACTION ALERT: Justice for innocent kitten kicked like a football by a psycho! PLEASE SIGN !
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A Southwest Side man has been charged with animal cruelty after kicking his kitten like a football, police said.
Officers saw Percy Love, 22, take a running start.
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Law enforcement websites under attack by hackers
Saboteurs stole passwords and sensitive information on tipsters while hacking into the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective known as Anonymous
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South Africa: Rhino poachers from Mozambique jailed for 25 years
South African court sentences three Mozambicans to 25 years each in jail after being found guilty of hunting rhinos in the famous Kruger National Park.
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Campaign against live transportation
Millions of animals including calves, sheep, horses and dogs are transported long distances every year throught Europe. Animals are often so tightly packed they can not even turn around
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