TAKE ACTION: Thousands of Dogs Brutally Slaughtered - Whales Threatened by Speeding Cargo Ships

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IFAW Alert: Thousands of Dogs Brutally Slaughtered

Thousands of Dogs Brutally Slaughtered

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International Fund for Animal Welfare August 15, 2006

 

IFAW Alert:

Thousands of Dogs Brutally Slaughtered

 

 

Please donate to help dogs like these.

 

 

It seems almost impossible to believe.

 

Imagine your dog being pulled from your home by local police and

then beaten to death in front of you. There's only one way to spare your beloved

pet: kill your dog yourself (and receive 63 cents from the government!). A

horrific choice.

 

Yet thousands of dog owners in China recently faced such a decision

when a county in southwestern China killed as many as 50,000 dogs in a

government-ordered campaign to stop the outbreak of rabies. And now it is about

to happen again in the eastern city of Jining, the southern city of Futian and

many more cities across China; putting hundreds of thousands of dogs at possible

risk.

 

Please take action now to stop the next mass dog slaughter in China.

 

Sadly, this is not a unique event in a country without animal

welfare laws. These types of dog killing campaigns spring up in China

frequently, often in reaction to rabies control failures by local governments.

 

The cold-blooded massacre could have been avoided if the government

focused on preventing the disease through vaccination and education. But dog

population control in China rests with municipal governments, most of which have

no management system to regulate dog ownership and disease prevention.

 

Many of these dogs died slow, agonizing deaths before the eyes of

their owners who are helpless to protect them. Killing dogs that have rightful

owners is also a violation of the basic rights of a citizen in China, whose

Constitution calls for the protection of personal property, including companion

animals.

 

Help IFAW prevent another dog tragedy before it's too late

 

IFAW has successfully convinced some municipalities in China not to

carry out mass dog killing campaigns in the past. China is very sensitive to

international pressure on this issue. Please send a letter today to the Chinese

Ambassador in your country urging China to immediately stop the inhumane dog

culls.

 

Please also make a contribution to IFAW so that we may continue to

push for animal welfare legislation to prevent the cruel treatment of animals in

China and around the world. Only animal welfare legislation at the central

government level can stop such a cruel event from taking place in China again.

Let's make it happen.

 

For the animals,

 

Fred O'Regan

 

P.S. Please forward this email to as many friends as possible. The

more people who speak out against the outrageous and unnecessary dog culls in

China, the greater the chance we have to stop it from ever happening again.

 

 

IFAW © 2006.

 

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Whales Threatened by Speeding Cargo Ships

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Whales Threatened by Speeding Cargo Ships

Support a New Rule to Protect the Endangered North Atlantic

Whale

This summer, another rare right whale was run down and killed

by a ship along the Eastern seaboard. In late July, a young whale was found

floating in the Bay of Fundy north of the U.S.- Canadian border. It was one of

the 350 remaining North Atlantic right whales left in the world. The whales

summer in New England and Canadian waters and return to Georgia and Florida to

breed in winter.

 

Collisions with ships are the number one cause of death among

North Atlantic right whales.

 

Please help end the right whale's slide toward extinction.

Take action now.

 

Collisions can be prevented by slowing down cargo ships that

crisscross whale feeding and breeding grounds along the East Coast. Researchers

have discovered that right whales can avoid a collision if a ship is not going

faster than 10 knots (about 11 mph).

 

Finally, after years of delay, the National Marine Fisheries

Service is proposing a new requirement that all ships over 65-feet long slow

down to 10 knots in right whale habitat.

 

We need your help to make sure that the whales get this new

protection as soon as possible - and that the shipping industry does not squelch

it with demands for faster movement of ships in and out of ports.

 

Please send an email to the National Marine Fisheries Service

supporting speed limits for ships.

 

Comments are due before August 25, 2006

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

Lisa Grob

Online Communications Manager

Friends of the Earth

 

 

 

 

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