Archive for November, 2008
People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA India) on Tuesday expressed concern over the death of a pregnant
female black buck last week in Orissa and asked the state government to take necessary steps to protect the endangered animals.
A pregnant black buck died at Dasanapalli in Ganjam district, some 250 km from here Nov 5 after it was hit by an unidentified vehicle.
According to media reports, since May this year, at least four black bucks have died in Orissa in road accidents and one died due to in-fighting among them.
Black buck – a species of antelope found mainly in India, and also in parts of Pakistan and Nepal – is included in the endangered species list in India in Schedule I of Indian Wildlife Act, 1972.
Anuradha Sawhney, campaign coordinator of PETA India, has written a letter to the principal chief conservator of forests of the Orissa government requesting him to give the endangered animals as much protection as possible.
“The highways connected through the forests should have signboards and lights which would definitely help in bringing down the accident rate of these gentle creatures,” Sawhney said.
Due to extensive poaching and habitat loss, black buck populations have been reduced drastically. Their capability to run at speeds of 70 mph makes them the fastest surviving species on the subcontinent and protects them against most predators alive today, she said.
“Due to shrinkage and fragmentation of habitat everywhere, the pressure on existing habitats is quite high. We humans have barged into the forest regions leading them to stray into urban areas and highways,” she said.
Serves him right
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New Delhi, Nov 9 (PTI) If caught, they can get away paying a fine of Rs 50. Those who torture and abuse, however, can be equally dangerous to humans and need to be punished accordingly, feel animal activists.
Animal rights activists in Mumbai actually have launched a hunt for the perpetrator who cruelly tortured a stray dog.
People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has announced a reward of Rs 10,000 to anyone who helps to nab the guilty person who pierced both eyes of a dog with a sharp object blinding it permanently.
The animal rights body is pushing for arrest and conviction of those responsible for the crime. It is offering the cash reward to give information to the Bombay Society for Prevention of Cruelty of Animals (BSPCA), which on account of being a member of the Animal Welfare Board of India has the right to prosecute persons on their own.
“It has been proven many times that serial killers and hardcore criminals have been known to have practised violence on animals. We need to bring this link out in the public before many more crimes are committed,” Anuradhna Sawhney, Chief Coordinator, Peta told PTI.
“People who abuse animals are cowards. They take their issues out on the most defenseless beings available to them. Mumbai residents have reason to be concerned,” says Sawhney.
Peta believes that other animals in the area and even human residents may be in danger as long as those responsible for this crime are at large. The NGO is urging residents not to leave animals outside unattended. PTI”
These idiots are as cruel as the stupids who kill dogs to eat,
dog Meat from bad china
PETA hunts for the cruel sadist with 10,000 Rs reward.
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New Delhi, Nov 9 (PTI) If caught, they can get away paying a fine of Rs 50. Those who torture and abuse, however, can be equally dangerous to humans and need to be punished accordingly, feel animal activists.
Animal rights activists in Mumbai actually have launched a hunt for the perpetrator who cruelly tortured a stray dog.
People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has announced a reward of Rs 10,000 to anyone who helps to nab the guilty person who pierced both eyes of a dog with a sharp object blinding it permanently.
The animal rights body is pushing for arrest and conviction of those responsible for the crime. It is offering the cash reward to give information to the Bombay Society for Prevention of Cruelty of Animals (BSPCA), which on account of being a member of the Animal Welfare Board of India has the right to prosecute persons on their own.
“It has been proven many times that serial killers and hardcore criminals have been known to have practiced violence on animals. We need to bring this link out in the public before many more crimes are committed,” Anuradhna Sawhney, Chief Coordinator, Peta told PTI.
“People who abuse animals are cowards. They take their issues out on the most defenseless beings available to them. Mumbai residents have reason to be concerned,” says Sawhney.
Peta believes that other animals in the area and even human residents may be in danger as long as those responsible for this crime are at large. The NGO is urging residents not to leave animals outside unattended. PTI”
PETA has sent boxes of ape-shaped vegan chocolates to Sega executives in San Francisco–along with a heartfelt “thank you.” That’s because the gaming giant has taken action and pulled an online video that had the animal rights group seeing red. The video, which promoted SEGA’s new release, Samba de Amigo, featured a dancing, maraca-shaking baby chimpanzee.
PETA contacted Sega immediately after learning about the video and engaged in negotiations with Sega CEO Simon Jeffery and Vice President of Marketing Sean Ratcliffe. Following these negotiations, SEGA removed the video from its Web site and pledged never to use great apes again.
PETA pointed out that chimpanzees and orangutans who are used as “involuntary, unpaid actors” are taken away from their mothers–often when they are just days old–and electrically shocked and beaten during training sessions. A primatologist who spent 14 months working at a California facility that trains great apes for the TV and movie industries observed that trainers kicked, punched, and beat chimpanzees in order to make them obey commands that, to the chimpanzees, are confusing and meaningless.
World-renowned chimpanzee expert Dr. Jane Goodall supports PETA’s efforts to end the use of great apes in the entertainment industry. In March, Goodall and other primatologists wrote in the journal Science that the portrayal of chimpanzees in ads undermines efforts to save these endangered animals.
“All chimpanzees who are trained to perform have been torn from their mothers–a traumatic process that scars both mother and baby for life–and the training methods that they endure are abusive and cruel,” says PETA Director Debbie Leahy. “We applaud SEGA for scrapping this ad and taking a stand against the abuse of great apes.”