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Korea Animal Protection Society (KAPS)/International Aid for Korean Animals (IAKA)

KAPS and IAKA are dedicated to promoting animal welfare and protection in Korea through education, stricter animal cruelty laws and the continued development of the KAPS shelter... In spite of a 1991 law which prohibits the human consumption of dogs and cats, a flourishing industry exists within the markets in Korea. Illegal and unsanitary dog farms are hidden away in the countryside where breeders raise their stock for the butchers.

http://www.koreananimals.org/

(Added: Mon Sep 15 2003   Hits: 146)

Anti-whaling lobby rebuffs Japan

Anti-whaling countries have rejected an offer which could have seen Japan scale back its Antarctic hunting programme (BBC News, 29 May 2007).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6699201.stm

(Added: Wed May 30 2007   Hits: 76)

ARKive

ARKive is the Noah's Ark for the Internet era - a unique global initiative, gathering together into one centralised digital library, films, photographs and audio recordings of the world's species. ARKive is leading the 'virtual' conservation effort - finding, sorting, cataloguing and copying the key audio-visual records of the world's animals, plants and fungi, and building them into comprehensive and enduring multi-media digital profiles. Using film, photographs and audio recordings, ARKive is creating a unique record of the world's biodiversity - complementing other species information datasets, and making a key resource available for scientists, conservationists, educators and the general public.

http://www.arkive.org/

(Added: Thu Feb 09 2006   Hits: 205)

Birdlife International

BirdLife International is a global Partnership of non-governmental conservation organisations with a focus on birds that works together on shared priorities, exchanging skills, achievements and information, and so growing in ability, authority and influence BirdLife International is present in 103 countries and territories worldwide. The BirdLife International Partnership strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.

http://www.birdlife.net/

(Added: Tue Mar 25 2003   Modified: Fri Jan 19 2007   Hits: 377)

FactoryFarming.com

Factory farming is an attitude which regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit. In animal agriculture, this attitude has lead to institutionalized animal cruelty, massive environmental destruction and resource depletion, and animal and human health risks.

http://www.factoryfarming.com/

(Added: Fri Jul 11 2003   Hits: 156)

Gone in an Instant: how the trade in illegally grown coffee is driving the destruction of Rhino, Tiger and Elephant Habitat

Using satellite imaging, interviews with coffee farmers and traders, and monitoring of coffee trade routes, WWF has tracked the illegal cultivation of robusta coffee inside Indonesia's remote Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park all the way through its export routes to multinational coffee companies and the shelves of grocery stores across the US, Europe and Asia. The park is one of the most important forest areas for tiger conservation in Southeast Asia. (WWF, January 2007)

http://assets.panda.org/downloads/goneinaninstantbbscoffeereport2007lowres.pdf

(Added: Mon Jan 29 2007   Hits: 70)

Human-Wildlife Conflict Worldwide: collection of case studies, analysis of management strategies and good practices

This report provides an insight into the Human-Wildlife Conflict (HWC) issue, based on a comprehensive review covering a wide array of the available literature and gathers together the key lessons learned. It highlights common problems and solutions across Europe, Africa, North America and Asia in order to provide a better understanding of the HWC issue worldwide. It analyses the causes and impacts of these conflicts, and provides practical recommendations to better design future HWC interventions and improve already existing techniques. (Elisa Distefano, FAO, September 2004)

http://www.fao.org/SARD/common/ecg/1357/en/HWC_final.pdf

(Added: Fri Oct 13 2006   Modified: Tue Oct 17 2006   Hits: 65)

India's forgotten tribes gain rights over forests

Over 40 million of India's most impoverished and marginalised people live in the country's forests -- including tiger reserves, wildlife sanctuaries and national parks -- but for years have been neglected by the government and left to fend for themselves. The Maldharis have long lived with eviction threats, alleged harassment and extortion by officials who say they are guilty of environmental destruction and endangering wildlife in the sanctuary -- one of the last bastions of the rare Asiatic lion. But a new law will for the first time enshrine their right to live in the forests and national parks. However, conservationists are worried this could hamper efforts to save India's endangered wildlife such as lions and tigers. (Rupam Jain Nair, Reuters Alert Net, 1 January 2007)

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DEL254638.htm

(Added: Tue Jan 09 2007   Hits: 114)

Natural Aesthetes

Wildlife is wonderful. We don't need any other excuse to protect it, writes George Monbiot. The world, if the biologists' projections turn out to be correct, will soon begin to revert to the fourth day of creation. There will be grass and "herb yielding seed" and "the fruit tree yielding fruit". But "the moving creature that hath life", the "fowl that may fly above the earth", or the "great whales, and every living creature that moveth" may one day be almost unknown to us. Last week the journal Nature published a report suggesting that, by 2050, around a quarter of the world's animal and plant species could die out as a result of global warming. To these we must add the millions threatened by farming, logging, hunting, fishing and introduced species. The future is beginning to look a little lonely.

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2004/01/13/natural-aesthetes/

(Added: Tue Jan 20 2004   Modified: Fri Sep 15 2006   Hits: 162)

New WWF Report Finds Wildlife and Humans at Risk from Commonly Used Chemicals (PDF)

Seals, whales, falcons, and polar bears are among a range of wildlife at risk from chemicals used in common consumer products, according to a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) analysis of recent scientific evidence on contamination of wildlife and people. "Products we use every day contain chemicals that can have serious wildlife and human health effects," said Clifton Curtis, director of WWF's Global Toxics Program. "Mounting scientific research is documenting the extent of our exposure to these chemicals." (PDF 446 KB)

http://www.worldwildlife.org/news/displayPR.cfm?prID=93

(Added: Mon Feb 02 2004   Modified: Thu Jan 11 2007   Hits: 255)

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), with more than 750,000 members, is the largest animal rights organization in the world. Founded in 1980, PETA is dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals. PETA operates under the simple principle that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment. PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the fur trade, and in the entertainment industry. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of beavers, birds and other "pests," and the abuse of backyard dogs. PETA works through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and direct action.

http://www.peta.org/

(Added: Fri Apr 11 2003   Hits: 190)

People, parks and poverty: political ecology and biodiversity conservation [pdf]

A recent article in Conservation and Society explores, once again, the parks-people-poverty relationship. In this paper, however, the authors - Bill Adams and Jon Hutton - note that to date this discussion has not been based, to any great extent, on an explicit understanding of the political and economic dimensions of conservation policy. They suggest that one important reason for this is "the disciplinary gulf that exists between predominantly natural science-trained conservation planners and predominantly social science-trained critics of conservation." (Bill Adams and Jon Hutton, Conservation and Society, 2007)

http://www.conservationandsociety.org/cs-5-2-1-147-adams.pdf

(Added: Thu May 01 2008   Hits: 45)

RDS Online

Antibiotics, anaesthetics, vaccines, insulin for diabetes, open heart surgery, kidney dialysis and transplants, treatments for asthma, leukaemia and high blood pressure... these are just some of the major medical advances that have depended on the use of animals in medical research and testing. The medical benefits of animal research are a good starting point for the public debate about the use of animals in research and testing. RDS is the UK organisation which represents doctors and scientists in this debate. The information in RDS Online is based on very thorough research and understanding of the facts, historical and scientific. In this debate there are many single issue pressure groups seeking to abolish animal research completely and immediately. But it would be extremely difficult to develop new medical treatments and cures without the use of animals. So animal research must continue if we are to solve serious medical problems like cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, AIDS, cystic fibrosis, multiple sclerosis, and malaria. Not all medical research needs to use live animals - useful results are also obtained by using computers, studying cells and tissues, and some studies that are done on patients and human populations. RDS Online puts the research processes in context, to explain when animals need to be used. RDS believes that research using animals should be well regulated, conducted humanely and only when there is no alternative. We work with welfare groups and government to promote good practice in laboratory animal welfare and the development of non-animal replacement methods.

http://www.rds-online.org.uk

(Added: Mon Apr 19 2004   Hits: 168)

SAVE THE SAOLA!

the saola, a rare animal discovered just 15 years ago by a team of scientists from WWF and the Vietnamese Ministry of Forestry. It was the first large mammal discovered anywhere in the world since 1936 and scientists are still trying to figure out whether it is a goat, antelope or cow species. Only 11 saola have ever been recorded alive by scientists and fewer than 250 are estimated to exist today.

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/SAVE%20THE%20SAOLA.doc

(Added: Tue Jan 15 2008   Hits: 137)

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) is an all volunteer, no-nonsense, grassroots organization dedicated to a full-time campaign to shut down one of the world's most notorious product testing labs. A lab exposed in 5 undercover investigations documenting horrendous animal cruelty, terrible science and outrageous worker conduct. A lab that tortures and kills 500 primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, gerbils, guinea pigs, rats, mice, farm animals and fish ever day to test products like sun tan lotions and sweetener. SHAC has dedicated itself to seeing an end of the lab once and for all.

http://www.shac.net/

(Added: Thu Mar 13 2003   Modified: Thu Nov 30 2006   Hits: 188)

Support a Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare

A Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare would have a real, long-term impact on the welfare of billions of animals worldwide. it would ensure the needs of animals are 'front of mind' when governments formulate and implement policies concerning animals. Improving animal welfare can also improve the welfare of over one billion people who rely on animals worldwide. WSPA's Animals Matter To Me is a global effort to obtain a Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare. Taking part is easy - just add your name to the petition.

http://www.wspa.org.au/animalsmatter/LP_WSPA_un.asp

(Added: Mon Oct 16 2006   Hits: 84)

The Animal Concerns Community

The Animal Concerns Community is a project of the EnviroLink Network, a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental and animal rights/welfare resources since 1991. This community serves as a clearinghouse for information on the Internet related to animal rights and welfare.

http://www.animalconcerns.org

(Added: Fri Jan 09 2004   Hits: 155)

The Animal Rescue Site

Launched in July 2002, The Animal Rescue Site focuses the power of the Internet on a specific need -- providing food for some of the 27 million unwanted animals given to shelters in the US every year. Individuals from around the world visit the site each day to click the "Feed an Animal in Need" button and help feed rescued animals. Over 10 million animals are put to death every year in the US alone because they are unwanted, abandoned, or abused. A click on the "Feed an Animal in Need" button will provide a bowl of food in a warm, caring environment for one of these animals at no cost to you.

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/

(Added: Tue Sep 24 2002   Hits: 148)

Uncaged Action

Uncaged Campaigns is an anti-vivisection pressure group based in Sheffield, England. 'Vivisection' literally means 'cutting while alive', but now signifies any exploitative or painful procedure performed on an animal for experimental research and educational purposes. Our main international campaigns are against Procter & Gamble's animal testing; against xenotransplantation (animal-to-human transplants - see our dedicated website at www.xenodiaries.org); and for animal rights.

http://www.uncaged.co.uk/

(Added: Thu Mar 13 2003   Hits: 178)

Wildlife Expert Persuades Notorious Rebel Army To Join Fight To Save Rare White Rhino

A wildlife expert has told how he convinced an African rebel army, which has fought a bloody struggle with the Ugandan government for nearly two decades, to sign up to a conservation project to save one of the world's rarest animals. The Lord's Resistance Army - the leaders of which are wanted for war crimes by the international criminal court - is to join with scientists to protect the northern white rhino, of which only four are thought to remain in the wild. As part of an ongoing peace process, the rebels have pledged not to harm the animals and to tell wildlife experts if they see one. (The Guardian, September 13, 2006)

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,1871219,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1

(Added: Thu Sep 14 2006   Hits: 66)

World Animal Net

World Animal Net is the world's largest network of animal protection societies with over 2,000 affiliates in more than 100 countries working to improve the status and welfare of animals.

http://worldanimal.net/

(Added: Fri Apr 11 2003   Hits: 178)

World Society for the Protection of Animals

WSPA works with more than 400 member organisations to raise the standards of animal welfare throughout the world. Our vision is a world in which the welfare of animals is understood and respected by everyone, and protected by effective legislation. Through our collaborative projects WSPA is Campaigning Against Cruelty by exposing animal abuse and enforcing stronger laws; our Animal Rescue teams are working to save abandoned or neglected animals or those stricken by disasters; and by Changing Hearts and Minds amongst people living and working with animals, WSPA is forging a safer future for all animals.

http://www.wspa-international.org/

(Added: Thu Feb 20 2003   Hits: 187)