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environment

Appalachian Trail In Danger

Sierra Club has created a petition urging the United States Forest Service to stop the building of The Mountain Valley Pipeline, which is set to carry high-pressure fracked gas across the Appalachian Trail, the Blue Ridge Parkway, and the Jefferson National Forest. "From explosions to landslides, to slashing through our wild forests and ruining back country hikes, this pipeline could bring unprecedented changes to our Appalachian...

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Animals Suffering at Wilson’s Wild Animal Park

Wilson’s Wild Animal Park, a roadside zoo in Winchester, Virginia has various animals: lions, buffaloes, reptiles, bears etc. And they are all suffering! The bears there are confined to a concrete-floored cage, left without water, which is bad anytime, but especially dangerous during summer and the hot weather. They bears were seen panting. One bear was eating water- and urine-soaked food, and another repeatedly...

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animal welfare

UPDATE: Ban Ivory Trade in The UK

The general election in UK was held on June 8. One of the important questions that the political parties were deciding on is whether to support an ivory trading ban or not. This would follow bans by China, the US and other important ivory trading countries to end domestic trades in ivory by the end of 2017. The Conservative party has initially decided...

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UPDATE 5: SKELETAL SUN BEARS BEGGING FOR FOOD IN INDONESIAN ZOO

A lot has happened since I posted an update regarding this action. I apologize for that, I will try to be more frequent with the updates. I think this campaign is very important and that it can help animals in Indonesia. To remind ourselves, it all started with P Holmes, who has created a petition regarding the malnourished bears in the Bandung Zoo,...

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