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A monthly Magazine edited and published by Maria Lopes - January 2006 Dear Friends,
Another year and the fight continues. Our Magazine celebrates its fourth anniversary and we owe this to all of you that year after year continue to fight for saving animals. To all our thanks. We generally say that nothing surprises us anymore but sometimes they come from where we least expect. Qatar Airways is promoting its flights from Thailand to Spain using a bullfight photo!!!!!!!! We insert a campaign to protest against this publicity. We want to wish you all a good year.
For the Animals Maria Lopes "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for
survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. It is
my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on
the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of
mankind."
AUSTRALIA Australian Kangaroo Kill - A Million Dead & Counting Source: http://www.kinshipcircle.org SOURCE OF INFORMATION Department of the Environment and Heritage: Contact Viva! for a free kangaroo action pack: kangaroo@viva.org.uk "The kangaroo killing lobby can no longer conceal the extreme
brutality of http://www.pm.gov.au/email.cfm Department of the Environment and Heritage Australian Tourist Commission Adidas UK Ltd: http://www.adidas.com/uk/shared/help/performance_email.asp?countryid=39 ALL EMAILS IN THIS ALERT [Gov. Officials, Adidas, Umbro, etc.]:
It's the largest known slaughter of land wildlife. Australian kangaroos die under a veil of government-sanctioned cruelty. Though beloved around the world, the kangaroo is easily butchered to make a pair of soccer cleats. I call upon federal and state politicians to outlaw this brutal industry. Kangaroos do not ravage grazing lands and crops. The widespread farming of cows and sheep does. In fact, scientific studies show kangaroos have minimal impact on agricultural properties. I ask the footwear trade that profits from kangaroo skins to utilize sophisticated faux materials. I cannot support companies willing to sacrifice wildlife. The red kangaroo, Australia's largest kangaroo species, is imperiled from shooters who covet their lucrative big skins. I urge manufacturers to ban kangaroo leather footwear. Australia's Code of Practice, which functions independently of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, permits the annual slaughter of a million or more joeys. With no legally enforceable cruelty regulations, the Code allows hunters to spotlight kangaroos in the Australian outback at night. Shooters aim for the head but often miss the brain, leaving kangaroos with gaping head and mouth wounds. These animals flee beyond the spotlight's glare, to slowly die in the scrub. Joeys are yanked from their slain mother's pouch and clubbed
on the head with water pipes or iron bars until dead. In-pouch joeys may be
fatally trampled, belted with sticks, or slammed against vehicles and tree
trunks. Time and again this morbid scene is recorded in photographs, videos, and eyewitness accounts. International audiences can view the evidence in ABC's documentary "Kangaroos - Faces in the Mob" or the International Fund for Animal Welfare film with Greg Eichner, NSW shooter/farmer. Like the Canadian seal hunt, Australia's legal massacre is ethically bankrupt and rooted in pseudo-science. The government's pro-kangaroo industry scientists fail to recognize varying needs of the four commercially killed species. Instead, they are "managed" as a single species. Population counts are guess-timates and numbers are controlled artificially to advance the kangaroo trade. There is a lack of unbiased data to validate the notion kangaroos must be killed for "damage mitigation." Conversely, the kangaroo's soft padded feet and long tail help regenerate native grasses. Destructive agricultural practices, on the other hand, are proving unsustainable. I am baffled as to why the government overlooks Australia's $6 billion nature-based tourism industry. If money is the initiative, why not maximize eco-tourism rather than condone the killing of red kangaroos at a rate three times higher than they can reproduce? I respectfully ask the government to work toward the non-consumptive "use" of kangaroos for tourism. I encourage footwear manufacturers to abandon kangaroo leather. Thank you,
=========================================== The Hon John Howard MP http://www.pm.gov.au/email.cfm [Dr David Kemp oversees the quotas, the killings and the
scientists who make policy.] Department of the Environment and Heritage http://www.deh.gov.au/about/comments.html Premier of Queensland Peter Beattie ThePremier@premiers.qld.gov.au, premiers.master@premiers.qld.gov.au http://www.thepremier.qld.gov.au/tools/contact.shtm NSW Premier Bob Carr The Hon. Ian Campbell, Minister for the Environment and
Heritage senator.ian.campbell@aph.gov.au [Michael Archer, Director supports kangaroo killing and
wildlife as pets.] Federal Tourism Minister Joe Hockey Australian Tourist Commission ausinfo@atc.gov.au http://www.australia.com/footer_elements/feedback/Submit_Feedback_ALL.aust?L=en&C=US Tourism Australia corpaffairs@tourism.australia.com
tra@tourism.australia.com http://www.tourism.australia.com Public Affairs Officer Emma Belcher Australian High Commission Adidas-Salmon AG Customer Service, Adidas UK Ltd. Ross McMullin, CEO/President, Adidas Cathy Wright, Footwear Director http://www.adidas.com/uk/shared/help/performance_email.asp?countryid=39 David Beckham Richard Wright, Director of International Footwear Mauro Zamprogno, Product Department BELGIUM CONSERVATION OF THE WOODCOCK IN WALLONIA Source: Proact International The regional conservation society in Wallonia (the southern French-speaking part of Belgium) - Connaissance & Protection de la Nature du Brabant (CPN) - has called for support in having the Woodcock Scolopax rusticola placed on the list of specially protected species in the region. The species, which is still on the list of huntable species (Annex II to the Birds Directive (79/409/EEC)) is considered to be in decline in most of Europe. Join the local conservationists and send an email to the
Wallonian Minister for the Environment, Monsieur Benoît Lutgen, asking him to
place the Woodcock on the list of specially protected bird species in the
region. To: benoit.lutgen@gov.wallonie.be Monsieur Benoît Lutgen Dear Minister Lutgen, We are writing to you to request that you place the Woodcock Scolopax rusticola on the list of specially protected species in your region. Recent scientific studies have shown that the survival of this species throughout Europe is endangered and an European Union Action Plan is being formulated.. We hope that you will give this request serious and positive consideration and demonstrate to the European Commission that Wallonia can set an example in the field of biodiversity. We remain, Sincerely, _________________________________________ La Protection de la Bécasse des Bois
Monsieur le Ministre, Je me permets de vous écrire afin de vous demander de classer
la bécasse des bois sur la liste des espèces protégées de votre région.
Name/Country MEXICO PLEASE HELP TO ANIMALS IN MEXICO, SEND PROTEST LETTER AGAINST THE "PASEO DEL BUEY" (STROLL OF OX) IN QUERETARO Source:Ana Isa Please send emails to Mexican authorities: presidente@corregidoramunicipioqro.gob.mx,
arzobisp@arzobispadomexico.org.mx
, With CC to tourism,newspapers and Franciscan Monks: LIC. FRANCISCO GARRIDO PATRON LIC. DAVID LOPEZ CORRO En espera de una respuesta, QATAR Qatar Airways promotes bullfights Source: International Movement Against
Bullfights Qatar Airways, Thailand branch is adverstising flights to Madrid, Spain
using a photo of a bullfight.
 It's outrageous that any flight company promotes bullfights but it was unexpectable that an airline from the Emirates would use such publicity. Please send protest emails to the Qatar Airways asking them to withdraw that publicity and explain to them that bullfights are not the image of Spain, by the contrary, that image is tarnishing Spain all over the world.
We sent them a fax asking to withdraw this publicity some
weeks ago but till now we have had no reply.
Dear Mr. Salam Al Shawa, I have learnt of an advertisement in which Qatar Airways promotes its flights between Bangkok and Madrid using a photo of a bullfight. I am not aware if this is the policy of your company and I feel outraged. Bullfights are disgusting spectacles where 6 bulls are tortured to death and where the horses used also suffer injuries, sometimes fatal. Promoting your flights using this kind of publicity not only stains your image as well as enforces the popular misconception of Spain as a country steeped in bullfights. Please be aware that the majority of the Spanish people are opposed to bullfights and fight to end this barbarity. I would like you to inform me if being accomplice to this barbarity is the policy of your company or just your Thailand branch. In either case I would strongly urge you to have this marketing campaign reconsidered and to remove this national stereotyping. I look forward to your early reply.
Yours sincerely, THAILAND 100+ Orangutans Stolen From The Wild Source: http://www.KinshipCircle.org SOURCE OF INFORMATION Palm oil industry blamed for abuse of orang-utans, By Jerome Taylor Thailand National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation
Department FROM ORANGUTAN SURVIVAL FOUNDATION: If you do not receive a reply within a
PETITION: Bring me home... CONTACT INFORMATION H.E. Mr. Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand Prime Minister Foreign Office, The Government Public Relations Department National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department dg@dnp.go.th Royal Thai Embassy in the United States, H.E. Mr. Kasit Piromya info@thaiembdc.org, thai.wsn@thaiembdc.org ttny@aol.com, tatla@ixnetcom.com Royal Thai Embassy, Ottawa, Canada Royal Thai Embassy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland FOR THAI EMBASSIES IN OTHER COUNTRIES, TRY: ALL EMAILS IN THIS ALERT + SAMPLE LETTER EMAIL BLOCK - OFFICES RELATED TO PRIME MINISTER, TOURISM, THAI EMBASSIES webmaster@thaigov.go.th,prforeign@prd.go.th,webmaster@opm.go.th, EMAIL BLOCK - THAI NATIONAL PARKS, WILDLIFE & PLANT CONSERVATION
DEPT. dwffp@dnp.go.th,lad@dnp.go.th,fpfco@dnp.go.th,pio@dnp.go.th, paro2@dnp.go.th,paro3@dnp.go.th,Paro4@dnp.go.th,
Paro12@dnp.go.th,Paro13@dnp.go.th,Paro14@dnp.go.th,Paro15@dnp.go.th, Paro16@dnp.go.th,parob1@dnp.go.th,parob3@dnp.go.th, Honorable Officials of Thailand: I join the global community of animal welfare and conservation groups opposed to the unlawful custody of more than 100 orangutans indigenous to Indonesia. I ask Thai officials to return these animals for rehabilitation and release into the wild. Indonesian wildlife centers and funding are available to negotiate this transaction right now. I am distressed to learn black-market dealers and trading groups seize critically endangered orangutans to exploit at Thai theme parks, zoos, and farms. Orangutans, endemic to Sumatra and Borneo, are not commodities to box and ship to places like Bangkok Safari World for use in kickboxing exhibitions. The staged fights feature two costumed orangutans dueling it out, as a bikini-clad chimpanzee totes cards. The orangutan is a remarkably intelligent creature who does not belong in an amusement park. As you are likely aware, poachers ransack Indonesian jungles where orangutans are protected under a presidential decree enacted in the 1930s. Mother orangutans are gunned down with their tiny babies left clinging to their bodies. Many of young animals do not survive. A dead female adult also marks the loss of four or five more babies she would have parented during her lifetime. In September 2003 and July 2004, a Thai and Indonesian government
inspection of Safari World uncovered 115 orangutans, most constrained in
squalid, cramped conditions. Many were not registered with authorities. Safari
World claims a breeding program produced the orangutans, yet the
disproportionately higher number of young orangutans to adults renders this
claim implausible. As experts await DNA test results, many conclude Safari
As a potential tourist, I am uncomfortable visiting Thailand until animal trafficking laws are vigorously enforced. Please investigate, prosecute and penalize wildlife dealers to the fullest extent under Thai law. In addition, please confiscate illegally acquired orangutans from Safari World and other Thai commercial venues for rehabilitation and release in Indonesia. Finally, I advocate a permanent ban on the use of orangutans in kickboxing matches. I eagerly await your response to my letter. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely,
U.S.A. Who's supporting Iditarod dog torture in 2006? Source: Sled Dog Action Coalition, http://www.helpsleddogs.org Please help the Iditarod dogs by sending protest emails to race supporters. These dogs are helpless victims of profoundly inhumane treatment and cannot speak for themselves. A list of what happens to them during the Iditarod includes death, paralysis, penile frostbite, bleeding ulcers, broken bones, pneumonia, torn muscles and tendons, diarrhea, vomiting, hypothermia, fur loss, broken teeth, viral diseases, torn footpads, ruptured discs, sprains, anemia and lung damage. How do sick animals run the 1,100 miles across frozen tundra and through icy waters? Veterinarians give them massive doses of antibiotics to keep them going. Anemia tires the dogs but mushers force them to run mile after grueling mile. No one knows how many dogs die after this tortuous ordeal or during training. Please send protest emails to race supporters using the list below of organizations that are 2006 Iditarod race sponsors, musher sponsors, or Iditarod promoters. Emails are first given in block form and then individually under the sample letter. Email addresses with semi-colons in block form can be found at http://www.helpsleddogs.org/sponsors.htm on the bottom of the page. ALL EMAIL ADDRESSES in blocks of 10 to be easy to copy/past communitymatters@morganstanley.com,
lhopkins@netbsa.org,info@workman.com,media@girlscouts.org, marketing.center@lpcorp.com,tjacobs@dobson.net,info@standard.com, Shareholders.IM@pg.com,investor.relations@blockbuster.com, contact.privacy@mcd.com,amy_phillips@olntv.com,bhehn@alacer.com, trey.harris@polarmax.com,info@spyoptic.com, international@grabberwarmers.com, mwittman@bcs.k12.oh.us,fanningm@danbury.k12.oh.us,ahelion@wcasd.net, climb@alpineascents.com,wjjq@wjjq.com,email@murphydesmond.com, jharling@nwtf.net,Sales@oddsonrecording.com,files@metalmagic.com, DWalker@NorthernOutfitters.com
Dear Iditarod Supporter: Please stop supporting the barbaric Iditarod dog sled race. Mushers treat their dogs abominably. In the Iditarod, dogs are forced to run 1,150 miles, which is the approximate distance between Miami, Florida and New York City, over a grueling terrain in 8 to 15 days. USA Today sports columnist Jon Saraceno called the Iditarod "a travesty of grueling proportions" and "Ihurtadog." Fox sportscaster Jim Rome called it "I-killed-a-dog." Orlando Sentinel sports columnist George Diaz said the race is "a barbaric ritual" and "an illegal sweatshop for dogs." Please visit the Sled Dog Action Coalition website http://www.helpsleddogs.org and be sure to read the quotes on http://www.helpsleddogs.org/remarks.htm . All the material on the site is true and verifiable. Iditarod dogs are simply not the invincible animals race officials portray. Here's a short list of what happens to the dogs during the race: death, paralysis, penile frostbite, bleeding ulcers, broken bones, pneumonia, torn muscles and tendons, diarrhea, vomiting, hypothermia, fur loss, broken teeth, viral diseases, torn footpads, ruptured discs, sprains, anemia and lung damage. How do sick animals run the 1,100 miles across frozen tundra and through icy waters? Veterinarians give them massive doses of antibiotics to keep them going. Anemia tires the dogs but mushers force them to run mile after grueling mile. At least 126 dogs have died in the Iditarod. No one knows how many dogs die after this tortuous ordeal or during training. On average, 53 percent of the dogs who start the race do not make it across the finish line. According to a report published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, of those who do cross, 81 percent have lung damage. A report published in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine said that 61 percent of the dogs who finish the Iditarod have ulcers versus zero percent pre-race. Tom Classen, retired Air Force colonel and Alaskan resident for over 40 years, tells us that the dogs are beaten into submission: "They've had the hell beaten out of them." "You don't just whisper into their ears, 'OK, stand there until I tell you to run like the devil.' They understand one thing: a beating. These dogs are beaten into submission the same way elephants are trained for a circus. The mushers will deny it. And you know what? They are all lying." -USA Today, March 3, 2000 in Jon Saraceno's column. Mushers believe in "culling" or killing unwanted dogs, including puppies. Many dogs who are permanently disabled in the Iditarod, or who are unwanted for any reason, including those who have outlived their usefulness, are killed with a shot to the head, dragged or clubbed to death. "Dogs are clubbed with baseball bats and if they don't pull are dragged to death in harnesses....." wrote Alaskan Mike Cranford in an article for Alaska's Bush Blade Newspaper (March, 2000). Jon Saraceno wrote in his March 3, 2000 column in USA Today, "He
[Colonel Please end your organization's association with this horrific race. Sincerely, IDITAROD SPONSORS: Cabelas (sporting goods) Daimler Chrysler Coca-Cola Millennium & Copthorne Hotels Wells Fargo & Company Kroger Co. (Fred Meyer Stores) Spenard Builders (Lanoga Corporation) Office Tech (Global Imaging Systems, Inc.) Firstrax (Spectrum Brands, Inc.) (Brands include: 8 in 1) ChevronTexaco Corportation Exxon Mobil Corporation Anchorage Daily News (Mc Clatchy Company) Providence Health System Global Information Technologies Alaska Airlines (Alaska Air Group) IDITAROD SUPPORTERS AND PROMOTERS: TIME for Kids Nike, Inc. NAPA Auto Parts (Genuine Parts Company) The History Channel - USA Holland America Line (Carnival Corporation) Scholastic Corporation St. Martin's Press, LLC (Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck) Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Puget Sound Affiliate Boy Scouts of America, National Council Workman Publishing Company Girl Scouts of the USA Avid Microchips (Avid Identification Systems, Inc.) Microtel Inns (US Franchise Systems, Inc.) STIHL (STIHL Group) EMC Corporaton Quicken Loans Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS) Wellness Community Greater Boston National Association of Collegiate Women Athletes Administration Prevent Blindness America United States Association of Blind Athletes Antigo Middle School Plainfield Community Consolidated School District North High School University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Thompson Elementary School National Center University of Missouri System Avon East Elementary School Massachusetts School Library Media Association MassCUE, Inc. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Foundation for Excellence Bartholomew County Public Library Cesar Chavez Elementary School Education World (EDMIN.com) MUSHER SPONSORS: Morgan Stanley Celeste Pizza (Pinnacle Foods Group, Inc.) Second Wind Energy Snack (S&M NuTec, LLC) - (Makes GREENIES) Burger King Corporation International House of Pancakes (IHOP, Corp.) Gander Mountain Helly Hansen North America Ace Hardware Energizer Batteries (Energizer Holdings, Inc.) The Dish Network (EchoStar Communications Corp.) Packing Corporation of America Sportsman's Wearhouse Jiffy Lube International, Inc. (Shell Oil Company) Louisiana-Pacific Corporation CELLULARONE (Dobson Communications Corp.) Stancorp Financial Group, Inc. Eukanuba/Iams (Procter & Gamble Company) Blockbuster Video McDonalds Restaurants (McDonald Corporation) Ford Motor Company General Motors Taco Bell/Denali Foods (Franchisor: Yum! Brands, Inc.) Outdoor Life Network (Comcast Corp.) UGI Corporation (AmeriGas) Alacer Corp. Polar Max Quench Gum (Mueller Sports Medicine, Inc.) Spy Optic, Inc. Polaris Industries Inc. Tollgrade Communications, Inc. Eyak Tek (Eyak Technology, LLC) Big R Stores Equinox Industries Ltd. NEOS Overshoe National Pet Products Northern Outfitters Eagle Premium Pet Foods/Eagle Pet Products, Inc. Dogbooties.com (a division of Arrowhead Fabric) Grabber Performance Group Blackwood Dog Food (The Blackwood Corporation) Redpaw Feeds Fogtech Edmund Industrial Optics American Dehydrated Foods, Inc. Atta Boy (American Nutrition, Inc.) Wilder Construction Company Adventure Unlimited Ranches Batteries Plus Grossman Chevrolet Royal Canin USA, Inc. Pro Pac Pet Food (Midwestern Pet Foods, Inc. ) Cold Spot Feeds Isis for Women Sleep Diagnostics of Michigan Auburn University Veterinary Sports Medicine Program Lowa Outdoor and Ski Boots Tomahawk Log & Country Homes Timbernet, Inc. Mountain House Freeze Dried Foods (Oregon Freeze Dry, Inc.) Compositech Quick Heat Warmers (Import Merchandisers, Inc.) Independence Excavating, Inc. Deland Middle School Stormy Kromer Mercantile PangoMedia American Longevity Lano Equipment First National Bank - Minnesota Moneydots.com Rocky Ridge Elementary Graytown Elementary Danbury local schools (Ohio) East Bradford Elementary ALPINE ASCENTS INTERNATIONAL WJJQ Radio Murphy Desmond Law Offices Wheelin' Sportsmen Program (National Wildlife Turkey Foundation) OddsOn Recording Metal Magic Building Industry Association of Clark County Nature Cure Bee Caps Northern Outfitters Evaz Group Fotograf Ann Sissel Jenssen Amaize (Marsland Laboratories) Dr. Tim's Pet Food Company
PETITIONS Tell Gale Norton to Do Her Job and Protect Wolves! http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/304300192 Help Save Alaska's Wolves Appeal to protect laboratory monkeys retired http://www.tierbazar.at/cms/front_content.php Starbucks, please stop supporting rodeo abuse http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/787688008?ltl=1130167795 Speak Up for the Lynx End to the Cruel Cavalcade of Cali http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/470908912?ltl=1137023816 India's tigers must be saved in the wild http://www.petitiononline.com/p3e1g291/ SAVE MORE THAN 100,000 ANIMALS! Stop Fur-Farming Complex From Being Built in Norway http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/179421711
Disclaimer: All items published in this magazine were received by us and we pass them on in good faith. We are not responsible for incorrect email addresses, errors, omissions etc. by the originators.
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