URGENT, YOUR HELP WILL TURN THE TIDE.(8/6/2001)

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URGENT, YOUR HELP WILL TURN THE TIDE.(8/6/2001)

 

 

Dear Caring friend,

 

Your efforts has made some good progress in the the Congress.

The US Senate passed Humane Slaughter Resolution introduced by

Sen. Peter Fitzgerald on July 31 unanimously to halt the cruel practices

in the slaughterhouses.

The Senate vote also gives initial victory on Anti-Cockfighting Bill.

However, the more efforts is needed.

The Huntington Life Science Activist Prisoners are ALL OUT

with $500 bail each instead of $25,000 each. Thanks for your help.

In this Email, we have several urgent issues need your help for

animals plight. :

 

ISSUE 1: STOP NUTRIA ERADICATION,

PUBLIC COMMENTS : AUGUST 6, 2001

ISSUE 2: WRITE TO EXXON FOR THE LAST 100 WESTERN

GRAY WHALES .

ISSUE 3: URGE CONGRESSMAN LARRY COMBEST TO LEAD

EFFORTS TO PASS ANTI-COCKFIGHTING

BILL. H.R. 1155.

ISSUE 4: PUBLIC COMMENTS ON MANATEE SURVIVAL :

DEADLINE: AUGUST 9th

ISSUE 5: Letter to Editor : 50 DEADLY CONSEQUENCES OF

LAB ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS .

ISSUE 6: AN IMPORTANT " FARM ANIMAL " WEB SITE.

PLEASE JOIN . THANKS.

 

All of the issues are separated with " @@@@@@ " .

Thanks so much for your urgent help .

 

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ISSUE # 1 : STOP NUTRIA ERADICATION

PUBLIC COMMENTS : AUGUST 6, 2001

 

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is planning to

eradicate the nutria population on Maryland's

eastern shore, including the Blackwater National

Wildlife Refuge, home to many birds of prey,

migrating wading birds, and native mammals.

Nutrias (small muskrat-like rodents) were

introduced in the 1940's for the fur trapping

industry. They are now being blamed for marsh

loss because they eat vegetation.

 

The methods proposed to kill them are poison bait

(zinc phosphide), trapping/drowning using

conibear traps (traps the animal around the body

and drowns it) or colony traps (animals swim into

a trap through a funnel, cannot swim out and

drown).

 

Public comments are being accepted until

August 6, 2001.

 

Please write and oppose the killing of nutria by

writing a letter or email to:

 

CONTACT INFORMATION :

 

Maryland Nutria Partnership

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Chesapeake Bay Field Office

177 Admiral Cochrane Drive

Annapolis, MD 21401

Email: nutria (@fws.gov)

 

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SAMPLE LETTER :

 

Subject : Please do NOT eradicate the nutria population!

 

To whom it may concern ,

 

Please count my voice AGAINST the plan to eradicate the

nutria population on Maryland's eastern shore.

 

The area, including the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge,

is home to many birds of prey, migrating wading birds, and

native mammals, who will be " accidentally " killed if this plan

moves forward.

 

The methods proposed to kill nutrias are extremely cruel.

They include poison bait (zinc phosphide), trapping/drowning

using conibear traps (traps the animal around the body and

drowns it) or colony traps (animals swim into a trap through a

funnel, cannot swim out and drown). Such methods are morally

unacceptable.

 

Nutrias are being blamed for marsh loss because they eat vegetation,

yet other marsh loss issues are not being addressed adequately

(pollution, chicken farm runoff etc).

 

I urge you to vote against this plan.

 

Sincerely,

Your name,

Your address,

City, State, zip.

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(Above references sources :

BanFurNow (@aol.com), Barbara Biel, )

 

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ISSUE # 2 :

 

SENATE VOTE GIVES PRELIMINARY VICTORY ON

ANTI-COCKFIGHTING BILL:

 

URGE CONGRESSMAN LARRY COMBEST TO LEAD

EFFORTS TO PASS ANTI-COCKFIGHTING BILL. H.R. 1155.

 

Animal activists have won an initial bout against cockfighting, after

the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed the Allard amendment to the

Emergency Agriculture Assistance Act (S.1262). Although this is a

great victory, the battle is not over yet.

 

We still need to either pass this bill in a conference committee or

in the full House to prevail.

 

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

 

Please CALL the Chair of the House Agriculture Committee, Representative

Larry Combest (Tel: 202-225-4005) and urge him to lead the effort in

the House to pass H.R. 1155.

 

(References source: HUMANElines --- Issue 155--- August 2, 2001 )

 

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ISSUE # 3 :

 

VERY URGENT, WRITE TO EXXON FOR THE

SURVIVAL OF THE LAST 100 WESTER GRAY WHALES .

 

Fewer than one hundred individuals remain of the western gray whale

population, which lives in the waters off Russia and Japan. In the

summer months, western gray whales (not to be confused with their

more numerous kin, eastern gray whales) feed off the east coast of Russia,

including areas around northeastern Sakhalin Island in the Sea of Okhotsk.

 

However, a new oil exploration project, spearheaded by Exxon Co.,

is being undertaken off Sakhalin Island, only 10 to 20 km from the whales'

primary feeding grounds. Seismic exploration is scheduled to begin

sometime in early August, despite the International Whaling Commission's

Scientific Committee's strong recommendations at its 2001 meeting in

London that no seismic surveys be conducted while whales are on

their feeding grounds.

 

Unless we can convince Exxon to delay the project, the seismic surveys

may spell the doom of the entire western gray whale population,

displacing them from their vital feeding grounds and affecting their

breeding success.

 

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

 

Time is of the essence--- we must get letters into Exxon.

Key Points in your letter :

 

1: Please asking the corporation NOT to blast the waters off

northeastern Sakhalin Island with explosive noise, at least until

the gray whales have departed the area for their breeding grounds

in late autumn.

 

2: The existence of an entire population surely takes precedence over

a few more thousand barrels of oil!

 

 

CONTACT INFORMATION :

 

Mr. Rex W. Tillerson, Senior Vice President,

Exxon Mobil Corporation,

5959 Las Colinas Blvd., Irving, TX 75039-2298

FAX: 972-444-1350 (sorry, no email available).

Let him know that

 

(References : HUMANElines --- Issue 155--- August 2, 2001 )

 

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ISSUE # 4 : MANATEE SURVIVAL

 

UPDATE ON MANATEE RECOVERY PLANS:

PUBLIC COMMENTS : AUGUST 9th.

 

 

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has released its Final Draft of

the Florida Manatee Recovery Plan, with a request for public comments by

August 9th. Unfortunately, the FWS' plan contains many provisions that

bode ill for manatee survival. Perhaps worst of all is the FWS' complete

disregard of the suggestions made by its own team of experts, the Manatee

Population Status Working Group.

 

The Working Group had outlined a number of criteria that must be met

before the manatee can be downlisted from its current " endangered " status

to " threatened " status. Claiming these standards to be too high, the FWS

has drawn up its own set of arbitrary, much weaker standards that it wants

to use to delist the manatee completely from " endangered " to " recovered. "

The move has led many environmentalists and manatee protectionists to

speculate that these rash, new standards are a product of the

Bush Administration's attempts to hasten the manatees' removal from

the endangered species list ! Altogether, a move that would be

disastrous

for manatee survival.

 

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

 

Send your comments to the FWS by : August 9th.

 

KEY POINTS :

 

1: Asking FWS to adhere to the original criteria for downlisting set

forth by the Manatee Population Status Working Group. Tell them that

to do otherwise would violate the Endangered Species Act, which

requires that the latest and best scientific data available must be

used to make a determination to reclassify a species.

 

2: Tell them that any move to delist the manatee from the endangered

species list is totally unacceptable!

 

CONTACT INFORMATION :

 

1:

U.S. FWS,

Jacksonville Field Office,

6620 Southpoint Dr. South, Suite 310,

Jacksonville, FL 32216

Tel: (904) 232-2580, x104

Fax: (904) 232-2404

Email: fw4_es_jacksonville (@fws.gov )

 

2: Please CC to :

Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton,

U.S. Department of the Interior,

1849 C. Street N.W.,

Washington, DC 20240

Tel: (202) 208-3100 /

Email: Gale_Norton (@ios.doi.gov )

 

 

 

(Read more about the recovery plan at:

http://frwebgate5.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=7782827849

+0+0+0 & WAISaction=retrieve)

 

(References : HUMANElines --- Issue 155--- August 2, 2001 )

 

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ISSUE # 5 : LETTER TO EDITOR :

 

The Harms to Humans from animal Experimentation

 

Please send the following sample letter with your Name, Address

to all of your local Editors. You may write your own letter if you wish.

Thanks.

 

SAMPLE LETTER :

 

The Harms to Humans from animal Experimentation

 

Animal experimentation has misled researchers for centuries,

confounding our understanding of the human body and the diseases

that plague it.

 

Not only does it divert limited resources away from valid science.

By delaying innovation, therapies and cures, it prolongs suffering and

increases mortality. Fallacious data regarding medications, garnered

through animal experimentation, leads to injury and death.

 

50 DEADLY CONSEQUENCES OF LAB ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS

 

http://www.curedisease.com/Harms.html

 

Please urge the legislators and your readers to stop the false,

deceiving Animal tests. Thanks.

 

Sincerely,

Your Name,

your address,

your phone #.

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CONTACT INFORMATION :

 

Please send /email your letter to all of your local media.

You may find your Local and National media by clicking

following site: then enter your ZIP CODE , then click " GO " :

 

http://capwiz.com/wa/dbq/media/

 

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ISSUE # 6 :

 

AN IMPORTANT NEW WEBSITE ON FARM ANIMALS :

 

http://www.farmedanimal.net

 

Farmed animal issues are growing in importance and are increasingly

in the news. Farmed Animal Watch is a free, electronic news digest

which helps streamline these issues for you. Timely information, gleaned

from industry, academia, advocacy and mainstream sources, is concisely

presented with links to the original source. A companion web site,

containing archived newsletters, action alerts, important contacts,

publications, links, and a pending fact sheet section, can be accessed at:

 

http://www.farmedanimal.net

 

To to the newsletter, send a message with your first and last

name to: farmedanimalwatch (@animalplace.org )

 

Please avail yourself to these valuable new resources in your

endeavors to help farmed animals.

 

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Thanks so much for your kindness, compassion and urgent help.