Thanks to your letters to the European Parliament concerning the seal hunt in Canada last year, the European Union (EU) responded with a landslide vote to prohibit the sale of seal based products. The great news is it goes into effective this year! With that measure in place, we must now continue our focus on [...]
On March 13, 2010, delegates from 175 countries will take part in the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Amongst dozens of proposals concerning imperiled species worldwide, they’ll be considering dangerous petitions from Tanzania and Zambia to sell [...]
A deer massacre took place over two nights, January 7th and 13th, at a 530-acre farm preserve owned by Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. White Buffalo, Inc., a company of “sharpshooters” hired by Vassar, slaughtered sixty-four deer. In order to make it easier to lure the deer, they were conditioned with food over a [...]
A representative from IDA made a statement before the California Fish and Game Commission Thursday in opposition to the expansion of the number of bears who can be hunted in the state of California for the 2010 season. Also in the proposal is an increase in the range of legal hunting territory in the state. [...]