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Alleged rhino poaching gang served trophy hunters as well as Asian medicinal demand

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Rhino industry insiders in the dock JOHANNESBURG––Startling photos of the September 22,  2010 arraignment of 11 alleged members of an international rhino poaching syndicate reached the world despite the officially unexplained efforts of police to keep photographers out. News photographers Werner Beukes of the South African Press Agency,  Herman Verwey of Beeld,  and Lewellyn Carstens […]

Scientists confirm: Hurt crabs feel pain

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And try to avoid it BELFAST–Hermit crabs feel pain when injured and change their behavior to avoid the source of pain,  reported Robert Elwood of the School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University in Belfast,  Northern Ireland,  on March 27,  2009. “With vertebrates we are asked to err on the side of caution and I believe this is the approach to take […]

Russia halts seal hunt

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“This bloody hunting is from now on banned” MOSCOW,  OTTAWA––Russian minister of natural resources Yury Trutnyev on March 11,  2009 told the world that Russia has halted hunting seals under one year old on the frozen White Sea. “This bloody hunting is from now on banned in our country,  as in most developed countries,”  Trutnyev […]

“Operation Foxote” brings chase pen busts in three states

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Foxes,  bobcats,  coyotes,  & cardinals seized BIRMINGHAM,  INDIANAPOLIS,  NORFOLK,  WASHINGTON D.C.–A two-year investigation of “chase pen” hunting businesses called “Operation Foxote” culminated on November 11,  2007 with arrests in three states. The Alabama’ Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division, which initiated Operation Foxote,   arrested 18 people and seized 55 foxes,  25 coyotes,  two bobcats,  and 33 cardinals who were apparently used as […]

Tail-docking dogs & boiling crustaceans

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 Why The Tail-Docking Of Dogs Should Be Prohibited https://onekindplanet.org/uploads/publications/tail-docking-dogs.pdf and Cephalopods & Decapod Crustaceans:   Their Capacity To Experience Pain & Suffering https://onekindplanet.org/uploads/publications/cephalopods-decapod-crustaceans.pdf Advocates for Animals (10 Queensferry Street,  Edinburgh,  EH2 4PG,  Scotland,  U.K.),  2005. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Rule #1 for headline writers is that brevity is the soul of wit. Rule #2 is, […]

Finding the sentience of fish

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  Credit scientific discovery.  Credit People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Credit Finding Nemo,  the latest pro-animal animated production in a 64-year string from Walt Disney Productions. Whatever the reason,  humans around the world are suddenly talking about the suffering of fish as never before. The first paragraphs of previews of Finding Nemo tell the story: *  New York […]

Telemetry testimony, 1998 & 1999

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November 8,  1999 Nehemiah K. Rotich Director Kenya Wildlife Service Fax 011-254-501752 Dear Dr. Rotich:        As promised during our meeting on November 2,  1999,  accompanying are case accounts and other information pertaining to the use of telemetry and radio collaring by poachers to locate prey.        There are two basic techniques involved,  both of which have […]

Michigan stats confirm hunting,  child abuse link

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October 1995       LANSING––Michigan children are nearly three times as likely to be neglected and are twice as likely to be physically abused or sexually assaulted if they live in a county with either an above average or above median rate of hunting participation.       Michigan sells two times more hunting licenses per capita as upstate New […]

Ohio data confirms hunting/child abuse link: Stronger than link to rural poverty

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November 1994       TOLEDO,  Ohio––The number of hunters in a county more accurately predicts the level of child abuse than either population density or median income,  according to a new study of Ohio state statistics  and the findings apply to all four standard categories of abuse,  including physical violence,  neglect,  sexual abuse,  and […]

New York state statistics show link:  Hunters and molesters

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March 1994       ALBANY,  New York––As a team of 165 volunteers shoved snow from the frozen forest floor near Raquette Lake,  New York,  in early 1994,  where hunter Lewis Lent Jr. said he had killed and buried 12-year-old Sara Anne Wood the preceding summer,  ANIMALS 24-7 editor Merritt Clifton confirmed through a county-by-county […]