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The beaches of Orissa, India is home to one of the natural wonders of the world. Every year, between November and May, hundreds of thousands of Olive Ridley turtles congregate and mate in the coastal waters, before the females struggle up the beach in their tens of thousands to nest en masse, a rare phenomenon called the arribada (Spanish for arrival). The Olive Ridley turtle is famous for this mass nesting behaviour (explanation: the Kemps ridley also exhibits mass nesting behaviour) and Orissa is one of only three places in the world where it happens.

But over the last decade instead of the beaches bringing life and a new generation of turtles, the beaches have become a mass graveyard, with over 100,000 washed ashore, dead. They are victims of illegal fishing in no take zones and the thousands that die every year are just a fraction of the total, as most are not washed ashore. Industrial development and mega projects that are in the pipeline, particularly large ports, pose another danger to the turtles and their nesting beaches, threatening the very existence of this ecological marvel.

In 2006, the Year of the Turtle, Greenpeace has established the Turtle Witness Camp in the Devi region, a former mass-nesting site, bearing witness to the magic and fragility of an entire Olive Ridley season.

Join us in our campaign to protect the Olive Ridleys of Orissa.

Provide your details below and help us tell the Prime Minister of India to take action to protect the endangered Olive Ridleys Turtles:
http://prefs.greenpeace.org/mail-links/clicks/20057.2475012.5409

A message from Eleanor:

Original Message:

AFTER WATCHING A SHOCKING DOCUMENTERY LAST WEEK DONE BY HEATHER MILLS AND PAUL McCARTNEY I WAS ABSOLUTLY DEVASTATED! I HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH CRULELTY IN ALL MY LIFE, IT WAS HORRIBLE. IT WAS GOING BEHIND THE SCENES LOOKING AT WHERE FUR IS COMING FROM, FUR THAT IS ON THE RISE BIG TIME ON OUR HIGH STREETS. FUR IS BECOMING EVEN MORE FASHIONABLE THAN IT WAS IN THE 60'S AND 70'S. MOST FUR IS IMPORTED FROM CHINA. CATS AND DOGS ARE KEPT IN CAGES WITH 6 TO 7 OTHERS ALL THEIR LIFE AND BEATEN AND KICKED AROUND UNTIL THEY MEET THE MOST HORIFIC DEATH EVER IMAGINABLE, THEY ARE PULLED OUT THEIR CAGE AND SKINNED ALIVE!!!!!!

THIS IS HAPPENING TO HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ANIMALS EVERY DAY. I HAVE NEVER EVER SEEN SUCH EVIL, I CANT BELIVE THAT THIS IS LEGAL. PEOPLE IN THE WEST ARE BUYING THSES FURS, SOME MAY NOT REALISE WHAT BUYING THESE FURS MEANS BUT THEY ARE THE REASION THAT THIS IS HAPPENING, THEY ARE TURING A BLIND EYE BECAUSE THEY DONT WANT TO KNOW. IN THIS DAY AND AGE, WHY DO PEOPLE NEED TO WEAR REAL FUR?

PLEASE HELP PAUL AND HEATHER AND THESE POOR ANIMALS THAT DONT HAVE A VOICE OF THEIR OWN AND SIGN THE PETION ON HEATHER'S WEBSITE

http://www.heathermillsmccartney.com/petition.php

PLEASE ALSO SPREAD THE WORD TO EVERYONE THAT YOU KNOW! IF AWARENESS IS RAISED, THEN HOPEFULLY TOGETHER WE CAN ALL PUT A STOP TO THIS

THANK YOU SO MUCH

The moose is a Canadian wilderness icon... but on mainland Nova Scotia, if we don't act now, it's a species that will only live in history books. No more than 1,000 moose are left on the mainland, surviving in the most remote areas. Today, factors such as continued logging road construction and clear-cutting are endangering the recovery, and the very survival, of Nova Scotia's mainland moose population.

Let the premier know that you want moose habitat protected!
http://www.advocacyonline.net/eactivist/user/userJ.jsp

The provincial government is developing a Recovery Plan for Nova Scotia’s endangered mainland moose, and CPAWS is working to ensure that the plan will address habitat loss and fragmentation. CPAWS is asking the Nova Scotia government to protect "core habitat" for moose, and to strengthen special forestry guidelines. If we can protect and restore enough habitat, other major threats to moose recovery, such as disease and poaching, can be alleviated.

You can help! Your letter or email will let Nova Scotia's government know that the public cares about of the plight of moose on mainland Nova Scotia. Let's take action to protect and restore this Canadian icon.
http://www.advocacyonline.net/eactivist/user/userJ.jsp

Read CPAWS Nova Scotia's press release
http://www.cpaws.org/news/archives/2006/04/conservation_gr_3.php

Learn more at CPAWS Nova Scotia
http://www.cpawsns.org/moose

http://www.stopwhaling.org/site/lookup.asp?c=hhLTK0PDLqF&b=1544059

Whales are still not safe! Since a global ban on whaling in 1985, Japan has continued to kill whales in the name of “scientific research.” Yet legitimate scientists agree: there’s no need to kill whales to research them. Harpooned with explosive tips and dragged onto whaling ships in a horribly cruel fashion, the whale meat from this “research” is sold in gourmet restaurants. And now Japan is dramatically increasing the slaughter: doubling the number of whales killed in an international marine mammal sanctuary.

Unless they are stopped now, Japan will launch a return to full-scale industrial whaling; the last of which once drove whales to the brink of extinction. Only the tremendous resources and clout of the United States has a chance to stop Japan from destroying the world's whales — if the President acts now.

http://tinyurl.com/jgxsj



Killing whales to study them?

Watch the IFAW Whale Campaign Kickoff Event
View a recorded version of this morning's media kickoff event and learn about IFAW's national Whale Plane tour!
http://tinyurl.com/2hne5v

Click here to take action
http://tinyurl.com/2xuyfc

Despite a global ban on commercial whaling, the Government of Japan hunts up to 1,200 whales a year using the same explosive grenade heads employed fifty years ago.

Often, the first blast isn’t enough to kill the poor whale. Whaling ships have been filmed hoisting live whales up the side of their huge industrial ships by the tail, leaving the whale’s blow hole underwater. The helpless whale can only thrash against the side of the ship, desperate for air, until it slowly drowns.

Visit the new http://www.stopwhaling.org today to help these magnificent giants.

Japan attempts to defend its whaling program by calling it “scientific whaling,” using an International Whaling Commission (IWC) loophole that allows for lethal whale research. But the reality is that whale meat obtained from Japan’s “research” ends up in fish markets and restaurants. The fact is, you don’t need to kill whales to study them.

This May, delegates from around the globe will gather in Anchorage, Alaska to decide the fate of the world’s whales.

At this year’s IWC meeting in Anchorage we expect to see several new pro-whaling countries brought in by Japan to vote for whaling. A majority of pro-whaling votes at the IWC would be a disaster for whales.

Many people believe that the world’s great whales were saved when a ban on commercial whaling was put in place in 1986. But whales face more threats today than during any time in history.

Industrial development within marine habitat is booming. Navy exercises are sweeping the world’s oceans with high-intensity sonar, injuring and killing whales. A deadly maze of fishing line is clogging whale habitats and ocean vessels are colliding with some of the world’s rarest whales. And global warming now threatens the survival of key whale food sources.

Please visit http://www.stopwhaling.org to learn what you can do now to help prepare for this year’s crucial whale meeting.

For the whales,

Fred O’ Regan
President and CEO

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Shell Urged to Abandon $20bn Siberian Pipeline That Could Drive Whale Species to Extinction
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0425-06.htm

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Bank of America & their subsidiary Columbia Management

How can they be so cold and uncaring when they know beagle puppies will continue to be killed with their investment dollars?

Bank of America, through their wholly owned subsidiary Columbia Management, owns just under 300,000 shares of LSRI stock (aka Huntingdon Life Sciences or HLS). The value of their investment in animal cruelty is approximately $3 million. For the past several weeks, activists with Win Animal Rights, along with many other groups around the world have been calling on Bank of America and Columbia Management executives to educate them about the suffering and the abuse of the 70,000+ animals imprisoned at HLS. Although some we have called on have been sympathetic and promised to speak to higher authorities, others were callous and dismissive and prefer to turn a blind eye to the graphic photos we have shown them.

Please help us continue to educate the folks at Bank of America and Columbia Management with polite phone calls and letters. The poor, scared beagle in the photo above is no longer with us. Please help prevent others like her from meeting a similar fate.

Join Win Animal Rights, as we deliver this message to Bank of America branches throughout the city: Who: Bank of America & Columbia Management When: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 3:30 PM Where: Madison Avenue (between 43rd & 44th Sts)

If you can't join us in NYC, you can still actively participate in this campaign by downloading our Bank of America flyer here:

http://war-online.org/BofAx2.doc <>You can distribute these flyers at Bank of America branches and ATM kiosks across the country.

<>For Bank of America contacts in your state, you can take the link below and substitute the two letters for your state for the NY which is for New York. This will give you access to contact links for your state.

http://www.bankofamerica.com/contact/?statecheck=NY

For Bank of America branches and toll free numbers in your state, click on the following link and search by state:

http://bankofamerica.via.infonow.net/locator/atmbranch/

Contact Bank of America and Columbia Management corporate executives asking them to sell their death shares in LSRI. Together we can stop the killing.

Kenneth D. Lewis Chairman/CEO Bank of America
100 North Tryon Street Charlotte, NC 28255 Phone: 704.388.5171 http://www.bankofamerica.com

Keith T. Banks Chief Executive Officer Columbia Management One Financial Center Boston, MA 02111 Phone: 800.338.2550

Columbia Management New York City Office
590 Madison Ave. New York, NY 10022
212-893-7200

For more info contact Win Animal Rights at: centcom@war-online.org Call: 646.267.9934 or visit the WAR website at: http://war-online.org


Informant: Ima Vegan

A message from Eleanor:

Target: John Grant, Mr (President of the Council), The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland

Sponsor: Lucy Tripp

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/891920111

A message from Eleanor:

Original Message:

NEED SIGS!! Please forward, and add to your shares, if possible, the numbers are low, and one is at 212 as of April 23, 3:30 am (yes, I am still up) but needs to be at 500 within 2 weeks..thanx, PEN
HUGS TO ALL!!!!!


Original Message:

All written by Author except for the Deadline Statement in RED.
Please Read the Petition, help and sign....!

K. C.


HELP SAVE MY PIT ORDERED TO DIE, NEVER BIT N-E-ONE
MIKE ROWE SUISUN CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS ORDERED MY DOG TO BE EUTHANIZED. OFFICER HAS NO PETS OF HIS OWN, IS NOT A K-9 OFFICER AND DIDN'T EVEN ALLOW A PROFESSIONAL TO EVALUATE HER. SHE CHASED THE NEIGHBOR NEVER HAS BIT ANYBODY. OFFICER HAS DEMANDED A DEATH OF A PIT BULL TO HIM, BUT A MEMBER OF MY FAMILY TO ME
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/619625617
STARTED 4/20/06 URGENT ! Signatures needed in 2 weeks for court date !!! ***AS of 4/23/-6 206 Signatures
THANK YOU VERY MUCH

FEW MORE PETITIONS Below...

PLEASE read & sign,

K. C.

Helping Suffering Horses
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/300422360

Because They're Worth It: Keep the Body Shop Green!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/150268441

NO SWAT MONKEY, No Way!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/838869702

Stop Canned and Trophy Hunts
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/663491876