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Investigators infiltrate the dog and cat meat mafia in China (by Animal Equity)

Investigators infiltrate the dog and cat meat mafia in China (by Animal Equity)

Animal Equality and Last Chance for Animals present unedited images from our joint investigation we carried out in the dog and cat markets in Wuhan, Taiping, Cong Hua and Nanhai, as well as images from two dog breeding and fattening farms, located in Jiaxiang and Jining, and a slaughterhouse in Zhanjiang.

    Sign to ban the cruel…

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Amazing Resources to teach #kids about #water conservation (by wateruseitwisely.com)

I found this amazing resource to teach children about water and water conservation.

  Please click the water drop icon below to view all the amazing Activities, Links  and Games made available for children on water use it wisely’s website

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The 100 most distinct and rare birds (by Matt Walker)

The 100 most distinct and rare birds (by Matt Walker)

The world’s 100 most distinctive and endangered birds have been determined.

  Scientists in the UK and US chose the birds based on their rarity, but also how distinctive their appearance, behaviour and evolutionary history was.

  The list of birds contains several of the world’s largest and most striking, as well as other unusual species threatened with extinction.

Included are the tooth-billed…

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How our oceans became the world's garbage dump (by wastewiseproducts.com)

How our oceans became the world’s garbage dump (by wastewiseproducts.com)

As the search for missing flight MH370 focuses in on the Indian Ocean, this incomprehensible human tragedy is bringing attention to an environmental tragedy… the massive amount of trash in our oceans.

Many are shocked to discover there is so much refuge floating freely and especially so far from shore. And it’s not just in the Indian Ocean. There are large gyres of trash in all of our oceans;…

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Stop Animal Cruelty in Kurdistan Region (by Bahari Kurd)

Stop Animal Cruelty in Kurdistan Region (by Bahari Kurd)

Maybe God will forgive…

Help stop stop Animal Cruelty in Kurdistan Region KRG.

    See more at http://www.baharikurd.com

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[Video] "Hope", a film featuring Sir David Attenborough (by Craghoppers) #gorillahope

[Video] “Hope”, a film featuring Sir David Attenborough (by Craghoppers) #gorillahope

Hope is a powerful film, which revisits the plight of the critically endangered, mountain gorillas in Rwanda and the team of people who are responsible for their survival.

    Produced by Craghoppers and voiced by Sir David Attenborough, Hope was filmed in the Volcanoes National Park 47 years after Dian Fossey began her life’s work…

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[Photos] Naked Ladies of PETA! 17 Stars Who Strip Down For Animal Rights (by wetpaint.com)

[Photos] Naked Ladies of PETA! 17 Stars Who Strip Down For Animal Rights (by wetpaint.com)

Stars Who Have Stripped Down For PETA Many celebs have clauses in their contracts that state they’ll never get naked onscreen. Other stars, however, have absolutely no problem stripping down — so long as it’s for a good cause!

  Click through our gallery to see the A-list crowd that have bared it all in the name of animal rights.

  Khloe Kardashian For PETA

Khloe Kardashian would rather go naked…

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Shark Kill Series (by Johan Botha)

Shark Kill Series (by Johan Botha)

The dark side of the shark industry coin.

  Sharks are still deliberately targeted and killed from the small Overberg, fishing town of Gansbaai. This is particular sad as less then 5km away a multi-million Rand industry is based on shark tourism in the form of Great White Cage diving and viewing in what is now known as the Shark Capital,of the world. This was a sad and a very emotional…

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[Video] Bottlenose Dolphin Rescue (by Keller Laros) A Bottlenose Dolphin needed my help to get a fishing hook and line of it's left pectoral fin.

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Shoot to kill: Kenya loses another Eastern Black Rhino (by Prof. DR Wolfgang)

Shoot to kill: Kenya loses another Eastern Black Rhino (by Prof. DR Wolfgang)

‘Shoot to kill them’

  was the almost unanimous response of what poachers deserve when pictures emerged yesterday afternoon of an emotional Dr. Paula Kahumbu next to the body of the latest Eastern Black rhino kill in Kenya. Paula, who launched the global campaign ‘Hands off our elephant’ in Kenya last year will not mind to see that also extended to the rhinos of Kenya and East Africa, as in…

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These Animals Prove The Endangered Species Act Really Does Work (by The Huffington Post)

These Animals Prove The Endangered Species Act Really Does Work (by The Huffington Post)

For over 40 years, the Endangered Species Act has been saving plants and animals from extinction.

  Co-administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1,400 domestic species of plants and animals and 600 foreign species are currently protected under this law — and less than one percentof those species have ever been delisted because of…

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Trophy Hunting Pushing Marco Polo Sheep Toward Extinction (by Alex Felsinger)

Trophy Hunting Pushing Marco Polo Sheep Toward Extinction (by Alex Felsinger)

A rare species of sheep discovered by Marco Polo in the 13th century is edging closer to extinction due to increased trophy hunting in Central Asian countries, new research reports.

  The species, once prominent in the Pamir Mountains on the border of China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan, now numbers around 10,000, according to George Schaller of the Science and Exploration Program of the…

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Four new ozone-destroying gases found sneaking around the stratosphere (by Amelia Urry)

Four new ozone-destroying gases found sneaking around the stratosphere (by Amelia Urry)

There are things we know that we know, there are things that we know we don’t know, and there are four previously unknown ozone-eating gases that we now know are eating the ozone. (It goes something like that, right?)

  No, we are not back in 1985, when scientists first discovered that the ozone layer had sprung a serious leak. Back then, 40 countries banded together to take unprecedented global…

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11 wildlife experiences that could vanish in your lifetime (by Sarah Reid, for CNN)

11 wildlife experiences that could vanish in your lifetime (by Sarah Reid, for CNN)

Earth is in the grip of the “sixth great extinction crisis,” say some scientists, with up to 2,000 species dying out each year.

These 11 great wildlife experiences could disappear within your lifetime.

  1. Witnessing a great animal migration

Ancient rock art images of animals moving across the African savannah indicate that humans have been marveling at animal migrations for more than 20,000…

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Stunning Pictures: Ten of the Rarest Animals on Earth (by news.nationalgeographic.com)

Found in the Primorye region of Russia, the Amur leopard is a very rare subspecies of leopard: A 2007 census counted only 14 to 20 adults and 5 to 6 cubs.

  That makes the big cat one of about 2,300 species that are considered critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This gallery will highlight some of these animals that are literally on the edge of…

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Denmark bans kosher and halal slaughter as minister says ‘animal rights come before religion’ (by Adam Withnall)

Denmark bans kosher and halal slaughter as minister says ‘animal rights come before religion’ (by Adam Withnall)

New law, denounced as ‘anti-Semitism’ by Jewish leaders, comes after country controversially slaughtered a giraffe in public and fed him to lions

  Denmark’s government has brought in a ban on the religious slaughter of animals for the production of halal and kosher meat, after years of campaigning from welfare activists.

  The change to the law, announced last week and effective as of yesterday,…

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Man Caught On Camera Beating Dog Gets Exactly What He Deserves (by Dominic Kelly)

Man Caught On Camera Beating Dog Gets Exactly What He Deserves (by Dominic Kelly)

“What goes around, comes around,” has never been truer after watching the latest satisfying viral video posted on LiveLeak.com.

In an awesome example of karma, the video, said to be in Mexico, shows a man brutally beating his helpless dog on the street in broad daylight. A random bystander captured the video to show the cruelty of the man towards the animal.

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