Animal Welfare Global — September 2020

Despite Public Opposition, NOAA Fisheries Approves A Permit To Import 5 Beluga Whales To Mystic Aquarium But Imposes Restrictions On Breeding, Public Interaction & Training For Performances – World Animal News

https://weanimalsmedia.org/2020/06/05/the-humans-are-back/

Tigers and Football Games Don’t Mix – In Defense of Animals

https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=f762ad2d-26cd-489f-8628-6b44f776f394

What kills elephants at waterholes in Zimbabwe? | Experiment

(1) Anti-Fur Society – Posts

Aging In Animals, helping ZsuZsu – SAINTS Rescue

They rescued me, says pilot who saved lives of 16,000 cats and dogs | World | The Times

Grizzly bear struck and killed by train in Banff National Park – RMOToday.com

‘We’re actually not breaking the law’: Protests continue at Burlington slaughterhouse despite new law | InsideHalton.com

French police arrest a man in probe of horse killings: sources – Reuters

Old elephants hunted for ivory are vital leaders in elephant societies, study claims | Daily Mail Online

Cougar harassed with slingshot in Banff National Park, prompting rare charges | CBC News

How do Southern sea otters use tools? Candid Animal Cam heads to the ocean

Enquête One Voice : plus que quatre élevages de visons en France… Fermons-les !

Survey Finds Subsidies Don’t Decrease Ranchers’ Hostility to Mexican Gray Wolves – Center for Biological Diversity

A Different Horse/Human Dynamic: Loved but Not Ridden

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Scientists baffled by orcas ramming sailing boats near Spain and Portugal | Environment | The Guardian

Orcas ramming boats in Portugal, Spain in unusual display of behavior – Insider

Earth in Crisis – Posts

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Fighting Fires in the Brazilian Pantanal | Panthera

Florida woodrat nests are laced with antibiotic-producing bacteria | Science | AAAS

Rehabilitating the Northeast’s orphaned cubs | Weekend Magazine | rutlandherald.com

Long kept secret, Canada’s ghostly spirit bears are even rarer than thought | Environment | The Guardian

FDA Inspection Report Smuckers Pet Food – Truth about Pet Food

Algonquin community enforces its own moratorium on moose hunting in Quebec wildlife reserve | CBC News

In Brazil’s Pantanal, a desperate struggle to save a hyacinth macaw refuge from fire

New artificial intelligence could save both elephant and human lives

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Starving pit bull rescued, owner charged with torturing dog | Las Vegas Review-Journal

Animals Aren’t It: Pets, Pronouns, and Choices | Psychology Today Canada

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Two new Javan rhino calves are spotted in the species’ last holdout

Bikers Against Animal Cruelty, Inc – BAAC – Posts

Police investigating as threats intensify against Anishnaabe camps blocking moose hunters | Ricochet

At least 28 extinctions prevented by conservation action in recent decades

For the Pantanal’s jaguars, fires bring ‘death by a thousand needle wounds’

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Spots of hope: Some good news for South Africa’s cheetahs

The vanishing trails of Sri Lanka’s sloth bears (Commentary)

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New Bill Requires Creation Of A Dedicated U.S. Department Of Justice Division To Ensure The Enforcement Of Animal Cruelty Crimes – World Animal News

Vietnam creates new nature reserve, possible home to elusive ‘Asian unicorn’

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Experts Warn That 500,000 Sharks Could Be Killed In Hunt For COVID-19

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/under-cover-of-covid-19-loggers-plunder-cambodian-wildlife-sanctuary/

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/illegal-wildlife-trade-jaguars-latin-america-amazon-ayahuasca-a9646911.html

https://sentientmedia.org/britains-largest-food-retailer-hides-behind-high-welfare-claims/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/open-letter-ontario-minister-natural-resources-forestry-cormorant-hunt-1.5708840

https://www.ecowatch.com/groups-saving-bees-from-extinction-2647447321.html

https://worldanimalnews.com/breaking-42-people-more-than-5800-cows-reportedly-perished-during-live-transport-in-the-east-china-sea/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/04/slaughtered-pups-and-maimed-wolves-in-idaho-demonstrate-the-effects-of-federal-delisting/

https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/stop-killing-wolves-protect-habitat-save-bc-s-caribou-from-extinction-1

https://aldf.org/article/rodeo-facts-the-case-against-rodeos/

https://saintsrescue.ca/2020/09/03/aging-in-animals-helping-zsuzsu

https://www.partyfortheanimals.com/party-for-the-animals-pushes-back-against-concealment-of-cruelty-in-animal-agriculture

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/cat-meat-trade-going-full-force-in-vietnam/

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/el-al-bans-shipping-of-hunting-trophies-after-video-of-elephant-killing-641374

https://www.facebook.com/animalmattersinternational/photos/a.1445161349082876/2638725956393070/?type=3&theater

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/global-wildlife-being-decimated-by-human-actions-wwf-report-warns/

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3103587406416364&set=a.310747189033747&type=3&theater

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/threatened-species-caught-in-crossfire-of-ongoing-land-conflict-in-myanmar/

https://action.thebrooke.org/a/donkey-skin-trade-ban

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/exotic-animal-choices-in-fashion-raise-eyebrows-about-ethics-20200911-p55use.html

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/500-years-of-species-loss-humans-drive-defaunation-across-neotropics/

https://www.facebook.com/environmentalinvestigationagency/photos/a.204552795647/10163929531780648/?type=3&theater

https://www.rmotoday.com/lake-louise/jasper-caribou-herd-wiped-out-of-existence-2713961

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/09/wallaby-sexual-development-impaired-by-atrazine-herbicide/

https://ricochet.media/en/3285/anishinaabe-block-roads-to-stop-trophy-hunting-in-northern-quebec

https://sentientmedia.org/taking-on-canadas-horse-meat-industry/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/jasper-national-park-says-one-caribou-herd-gone-two-others-on-the-brink-of-local-extinction-1.5724943

https://www.twincities.com/2020/09/15/federal-officials-reject-extending-protections-for-upper-midwestern-moose/

https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/15/moment-emaciated-lions-bred-to-be-shot-by-hunters-are-rescued-13274071/

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/park-service-finalizes-disastrous-point-reyes-plan-kill-native-wildlife-prioritize-commercial-livestock-grazing-2020-09-18/

https://www.facebook.com/104314077614016/photos/a.111751423536948/362141945164560/?type=3&theater

http://victoriaanimalnews.com/boris-the-bear-shawnigan-lake/

https://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/union-challenges-court-win-by-island-conservation-officer-fired-for-saving-bear-cubs-1.24206526

https://act.biologicaldiversity.org/onlineactions/Q2L8CXAQ4ECcsc41ueryvA2

https://worldanimalnews.com/wan-exclusive-with-the-sergeant-working-on-a-tragic-case-of-illegal-coyote-trapping-in-massachusetts-5000-reward-offered-by-animal-legal-defense-fund/

https://horse-canada.com/magazine/equine-welfare/canadian-musician-jann-arden-on-the-front-line-of-horse-export-protest/

https://www.facebook.com/mercyforanimals/videos/347759829999558/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/online-reptile-trade-is-a-free-for-all-that-threatens-thousands-of-species/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/protestors-decry-shipping-horses-packed-crate-overseas-for-slaughter-1.5744143

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Data for Research, Protest, Boycott, Voting

Animal Welfare Global — September 2020