Slaughter of Kenya’s elephants

News has been pouring out of Africa recently about the horrifying surge in elephant poaching, including in Kenya’s national parks.
First we had Dr. Cynthia Moss releasing a report on the escalation in poaching of Amboseli’s famous elephants, now in grave danger of being decimated for the ivory trade.
Today, two articles from the Independent:
Slaughter of the [...]

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Obama on climate change and the hypocrisy of Stephen Harper

During Obama’s visit to Canada, the media cited Harper saying he was optimistic that Canada now has a partner on the North American continent to provide leadership on climate change.
That gave pause to anyone with the brainpower capacity of more than a ballbearing.
Who does he think he is kidding? Based on everything he has said [...]

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Two Hundred Baby Grey Seals in Nova Scotia are slaughtered “for speculation” purposes

Please see this press release from Humane Society International (Canada) on the senseless slaying of two hundred seal pups on Hay Island, Nova Scotia.
It had seemed that these seals were to be spared but as you will read in the release, the blood of the innocent was yet again spilled.
The Eyes of the World are [...]

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Eve Ensler and Dr. Denis Mukwege raise awareness on war on women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Dr. Denis Mukwege, Director and Founder of Panzi hospital in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and V-Day Founder and playwright Eve Ensler are in the United States raising awareness about the war on women in the Congo through V-Day’s TURNING PAIN TO POWER Tour.
The tour is part of the V-Day and UNICEF global campaign: [...]

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Dogs tied outside stores are sitting ducks

I spend way too much of my time standing on sidewalks watching over dogs that have been tied outside stores waiting for their owners to return, whereupon I educate them about how dangerous this practice is.
Mostly the dogs look very unhappy, fearful and highly stressed the entire time the owner is gone.
The reactions I get [...]

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The Dark Side of the Boom: Canada’s Mordor

Please watch this film produced by the Council of Canadians on Canada’s (Tar Sands) Mordor.

This isn’t a Canadian issue. It’s a global catastrophe.
Action Alerts:
Tell President Obama to say no to Tar Sands Oil.
Sign the Petition: Green jobs, yes we can. Tar Sands,  no we can’t.
Related Posts:
Canada: Tar Sands Earth Destroyers
Canada is [...]

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Eyes on Sarah Palin

I love Mudflats’s AKMuckraker, the Alaskan blogger who keeps a bright light beaming into the murky recesses of Sarah Palin’s mind.
Mudflats has just posted Palin’s response to the new site by Defenders of Wildlife called Eye on Palin launched to monitor her reprehensible anti-wildlife agenda. And we all know about Palin’s vile aerial wolf kill [...]

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A Lament

Voltaire  [1694 - 1778]
“How pitiful and what poverty to mind, to have said that the animals are machines deprived of understanding and feeling.”

Plutarch [AD 46 - c  120]
“But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and the light, and of that proportion of life and [...]

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Hay Island in Cape Breton is to become open-air slaughterhouse for the second year

IMPORTANT UPDATE!
from Humane Society International (Canada)
Two Hundred Baby Grey Seals in Nova Scotia are slaughtered, Feb. 18, 2008
Breaking News: Gray seals spared from slaughter
The Anti-Sealing Coalition has just posted this urgent alert. Please take immediate action as this seal pup slaughter is to begin tomorrow.
Nova Scotia’s new Environment Minister, David Morse, has authorized a commercial [...]

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The Wearin’ of the Tee: Ode to the Kenyan Blogger

also dedicated to Mama Maskini

Poem adapted from “Wearin of the Green”
Who knew the lyrics of this old 18th century, anonymous Irish rebellion song would be so readily adaptable to the Kenyan struggle to root out oppression, corruption and hypocrisy. Here is my tribute to the Kenyan blogger.

The Wearin’ of the Tee
O’ UNEP dears, and [...]

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