Helping Them

End The Brutal Treatment Of Sri Lankan Elephant Mihiri – Take Action with In Defense of Animals.

IDA often learns of dire situations for elephants around the world, and with your help we have been able to make a difference for them. We’re now asking you to speak up for Mihiri, a seven-year-old elephant at the Pinnewala Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka, who suffers multiple wounds believed to be the result of brutal training. Recent photos show gaping gashes on her feet and painful lesions on her face and head, likely caused by chaining and use of the bullhook.

We’re working hard to stop bad things happening unnecessarily to beautiful places around the UK. We need a planning system that creates the right development, in the right place. Together we can secure a future for the nature we love.
http://www.rspb.org.uk/savingspecialplaces/index.aspx?

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/dont-build-an-airport-on-the-thames-estuary/

The Thames Estuary forms a home for thousands of birds, mammals, reptiles and insects, including hen harriers and golden plovers. The estuary contains several protected areas, because it forms a vital breeding and over wintering ground for so much wildlife.

Plans to concrete over large areas of the estuary to build a new airport are in motion, with a consultation due in March this year, despite Britain trying to reduce its carbon emissions.

Building the planned airport, referred to as “Boris Airport” because it has enthusiastic support from Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, has been described as “an act of vandalism” by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

For decades our planning system has protected much loved places from harmful development. The Government’s reforms turn this on its head, using it as a tool primarily to promote economic growth instead.
Please sign the following petition by the National Trust and please encourage as many people as you possibly can to do exactly the same thing:
 Details: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-chl/w-countryside_environment/w-planning-landing.htm
 Petition: https://nationaltrust.polldaddy.com/s/developing-for-people-not-profit

Please sign E-Petition calling for these proposals to be scrapped:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/16102

Also write to your Local MP demanding that they vote against these proposals and do everything they possibly can to rigorously oppose them:
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/

Spread the word as far and as wide as possibly can and encourage others to do the same.

Princes: Tinned tuna’s secret catch from Greenpeace UK on Vimeo.

Princes sells about one-third of the tinned tuna in the UK, but it has come last in our tinned tuna league table.

That’s because to catch tuna, Princes uses one of the worst fishing methods around, catching sharks and turtles, and possibly even dolphins in its nets.

Tell Princes to change their tuna and move to more turtle-friendly (not to mention shark-friendly) fishing methods.
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/fishfight?

Following an outbreak of Foot & Mouth disease in South Korea, the authorities have refused to have animals vaccinated and are instead doing a mass cull. Slaughtered humanely? No! They’re burying them alive!

please all sign the petition to stop this

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/5/one-million-pigs-buried-alive-in-south-korea

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/158/433/475/?
Factory dairy farms subject their animals to all kinds of cruelty. The cows are fed growth hormones to increase milk production. Their tails are cut off without anesthesia so they won’t contact auto-milking machines. The poor animals are artificially inseminated continuously. To top it if, they endure all of this in small, filthy disease-ridden stalls.

Now, the UK’s Nocton Dairy wants to create the largest factory dairy in that country — at least 4,000 cows. Shockingly this is only half the number of cows Nocton would like to house.

Public outcry forced the dairy to shrink its original plans, but even this is unacceptable.

We only have until January 11 to tell the North Kesteven District Council to stop this large-scale cruelty. Add your voice — urge the Planning Director to reject permits for Nocton’s super dairy.

A lot more details on the WSPA site http://notinmycuppa.com