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animal rights
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One Of South Africa’s Last Zoo Elephant Freed: A Wild Return After 40 Years In Captivity
22 Aug 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Everyone working on the years-long campaign to free Pretoria Zoo’s last elephant, Charlie, can heave a massive sigh of relief as the old animal is finally back in the wild.
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Alarming Proposal For The First Ever Octopus Farm Receives Major Backlash
14 Jun 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
If ‘My Octopus Teacher’ moved you, then news of this company releasing the first proposal of its kind – to farm and slaughter millions of octopuses with rather cruel methods – will be upsetting.
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Pablo Escobar’s ‘Cocaine Hippos’ Score Legal Win
26 Oct 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
The sentiment about how important the descendants of the hippos once owned by infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar has changed dramatically, from one year to the next.
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PETA Is Coming After Cyril Ramaphosa [Video]
24 Nov 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
PETA has alleged that Ramaphosa and his employees have worked to conceal ties to trophy hunting in South Africa.
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People Freaking Out: Radio DJ Killed Baby Rabbit Live On Air
27 May 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
How does a radio DJ ensure that he has death threats rolling in from around the world? By offing a baby rabbit live on air, which as we all know will have people fuming.
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Yoh! Kim Kardashian Mobbed By Animal Rights Activists During Book Signing [Video]
08 May 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Fur in the fashion industry is a never ending debate and Kim Kardashian sure saw the brunt of it on Tuesday with the launch of her book, Selfish.
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SeaWorld’s Ad Campaign Tries To Deal With Shocking Publicity
24 Mar 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
SeaWorld has received a very public battering ever since the release of the highly critical ‘Blackfish’. Now their PR team is attempting to fight back.
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This Chimp Might Be Classed A Legal Person
09 Oct 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s great to have a pet. But if you’re lacking in space, just settle for a few fish in a round bowl. There’s no need to be keeping large animals in tiny spaces, ever.
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25 Dead Cats Found Hanging From Tree In New York
29 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Wow. So a few things come to mind here: Ritual Satanic sacrifice or a bad acid trip being on the top of the list. Last Wednesday morning a pretty grizzly discovery was made in a vacant parking lot in Yonkers, New York. At least 25 dead cats which had been placed in plastic shopping bags […]
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300 Pit Bulls Saved From Dogfighting Farm In Philippines [PICS]
04 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Over the weekend, roughly 300 dogs were rescued from secret woodland kennels just south of Manila. They were part of an illegal online gambling operation in which players outside the Philippines bet on dogs fighting at a clandestine compound. But this is not the animals’ happy ending, as many of them are too injured or too wild to rehabilitate.
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Lab Dogs See Sunlight For First Time [VIDEO]
29 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
The Beagle Freedom Project rescues dogs that are bred and used for lab testing. These dogs are born in laboratories and live in cages their whole lives. The project recently rescued 40 dogs, between ages four and seven, who have never seen outside sunlight.
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Surfer In Trouble For “Riding” A Sea Turtle
04 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Jamie O’Brien is a well-known Hawaiian pro-surfer. He recently decided to create some awareness surrounding fibropapillomatosis – a herpes-type virus that affects sea turtles. His “campaign” involved posting a picture of himself “riding” one of these turtles underwater. But it turns out he may have instead broken laws against harassing turtles, as well as offended fellow Hawaiians who consider these creatures as ancestral guardian spirits.
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School Cleaner Who Rescued Dog From Being Buried Alive Fired
31 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 27 Comments
Bukelwa Mbulawa, a cleaner at Luhlaza Secondary School in Khayelitsha, is an animal rights hero. On realising a stray dog was being buried alive by two colleagues on the school field, Bukelwa called animal welfare organisation International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to alert them to what was going down. The dog was saved and later called Warrior. IFAW says she’s a hero. But Bukelwa has now been fired.
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PETA – How Vegans Will Invade Porn
22 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The website will be full XXX, but here’s the twist, the porn will be coupled with graphic images of mistreated animals. With previous campaigns seeing the likes of Ron Jeremy and Jenna Jameson, this isn’t exactly shocking. Just weird. Now I can think of a few other words to make with the P, the T and the A.
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One Thousand Dogs Rescued From Being Eaten In Thailand [VIDEO]
15 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
About 1000 Thai dogs – destined to be cooked and eaten in Vietnam – escaped a gruesome fate when they were rescued by police before the weekend. As you’ll see from the video, they were stuffed into tiny cages, stacked high in scores of crates. Even though the story has a happy ending, please be warned that the visuals are very disturbing.
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Amazing Dog Survives Being Bound, Shot In The Head 40 Times, And Buried [VIDEO]
03 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A stray collie named Star has managed to survive despite being bound and shot in the head 40 times before being buried alive. She managed to wriggle her way to the surface of the shallow grave she’d been left in to die. It is near impossible not to judge the kind of “people” responsible for this, but at least the story has a good ending.
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Parasailing Donkey Dies Of Heart Attack
07 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Russian donkey that won worldwide sympathy last July after being forced to parasail has died of a heart attack. The donkey, named Anapka, made headlines when she was attached to a parachute at a Russian beach and launched into the sky for an outrageous promotional stunt. I guess that’s where we’re different, in Russia they use donkeys, and over here we use Trevor Noah.
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US, China State Visit Gets Lost In Translation
20 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The US, China state visit was always going to be a tricky affair. They speak different languages and good translators are so hard to find these days. Nevertheless, they met. Things were off to a good enough start but got testy when Obama straight up told the Chinese head of state they should do something about their human rights record. Whether he heard ‘human’ rights we’ll never know.
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