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Bill Status for HB563
HB563-int_2015 Todd Spay Neuter Bill
Bill Status for SB123
SB123-int (Baiting deer and swine)
Bill Status for HB548
Bill Status for SB354
SB354-int_trapper liability only on public lands
Bill Status for HB261
HB261-int_tethering
Bill Status for SB236
Bill Status for SB39
SB39-int_traveling, wildlife exhibitors
Bill Status for SB51
SB51-int_animal census
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Can the right breed help keep both domestic animals and native carnivores alive?
April 23, 2015 — Editor’s note: This story was co-published with High Country News, a nonprofit media organization that covers the important issues and stories that define the American West.
“Farmers are sometimes skeptical at first, but once they see how these dogs work, they’re sold,” says Tom Gehring, a biologist at Central Michigan University who has studied guard dogs in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. “Many people put them out and never have depredations again.”
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For the first time in history, a judge has granted a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a nonhuman animal.
This afternoon, in a case brought by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe issued the writ on behalf of two chimpanzees, Hercules and Leo, who are being used for biomedical experimentation at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York.
Under the law of New York State, only a “legal person” may have a writ of habeas corpus issued in his or her behalf. The Court has therefore implicitly determined that Hercules and Leo are “persons”.
To be clear, this does not mean that the two chimpanzees will immediately be set free. A common law writ of habeas corpus involves a two-step process:
First, a judge issues the writ of habeas corpus, which requires Stony Brook University to appear in court and provide…
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Elephants DC
“We have a duty to treat all animals — as creations of God — with care wherever they roam the earth — and certainly not contribute to their extinction. Let’s continue to move forward for a more humane nation.”
Would YOU support legislation banning ivory and rhino horn sales in Alabama?Please let us know in the comments below!
There is a galvanizing movement underway in America to save elephants from extinction by banning ivory sales. 100,000 wild elephants were slaughtered for their tusks between 2010 and 2012. That equates to 1 elephant killed every 15 minutes.
In February, Vermont introduced a key measure to completely ban its domestic elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn commerce, joining nearly 20 states taking action to eliminate the ivory trade in 2015. With California at the helm, these states are working to pass bipartisan legislation that can have a sweeping impact on…
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ANNISTON STAR READER OPINION
Sunday, April 5, 2015
“The shelter is not to blame; it all falls back on people: the taxpayer.”
In its revised form, HB85 in the Alabama Legislature would have required taxpayer-funded animal shelters and control centers to track intake, adoption and euthanasia numbers and make them available to the public. It sailed through the Senate. The bill’s thunderous defeat in the House was attributable, allegedly, to lack of funds and anticipated harassment from “animal activists.” Regardless of the validity (or not) of these reasons, the House missed an opportunity to bounce a reality check off Alabamians.
Taxpayer-funded shelters aren’t “no kill.” They normally are required to take the unwanted senior dog, the litter of feral cats, the mother dog and puppies dumped on a cul-de-sac, the “leftovers” a backyard breeder couldn’t sell, all animals brought to them. The shelters use adoption and rescue to reduce their…
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Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is asking the Environmental Protection Agency to evaluate the herbicide glyphosate, amidst growing concerns that the chemical in one of the world’s most widely used weed killers “probably” causes cancer.
The United Nations World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) released a scientific assessment of five organophosphate pesticides last week that found that the insecticides malathion and diazinon, and herbicide glyphosate are “probably carcinogenic to humans.” Glyphosate is one of the key ingredient’s of Monsanto’s weed killer Roundup.
IARC also found that parathion and tetrachlorvinphos, found in pet flea treatments, are “possibly carcinogenic to humans.”
In a letter to the EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy this week, Markey requested the agency “quickly complete its pesticide registration review of these substances and consider the new information when determining whether additional labeling or restrictions may be needed to protect public health from these cancer-causing chemicals.”
According…
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Higher Ground for Animals 