PETITION: WARD'S NATURAL SCIENCE KILLS BATS FOR PROFIT

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WARD'S NATURAL SCIENCE KILLS BATS FOR PROFIT

Target: Jeff Douglass, Purchasing Supervisor, Ward's Scientific

Bat World Sanctuary

 

 

We were recently alerted to hundreds of bat specimens being sold in jars by

companies such as necromance.com and post mortemstudiorental.com, and traced

the source of these bats to a popular science company used by teachers known

as Ward’s Natural Science. We purchased one of these bats and discovered the

label was shared by both Wards and Science Kit & Boreal Laboratories. Ward’s

Natural Science company and its affiliates, Edmund Scientific, Science Kit

and Boreal Laboratories, provide science education materials for elementary

through college classrooms. Wards is a division of VWR International.

 

On gross necropsy we discovered this bat, a female Mexican free-tail, to be

plump and healthy. She had a full stomach and intestines and was also a

nursing mother. By all appearances (and by Ward's later admission) this bat

was collected live and killed, leaving behind a starving pup. This bat had a

potential life span of 25 to 40 years in the wild and was capable of eating

hundreds of millions of insects during her lifetime. She was sold for $6.25.

 

For the complete story please visit:

http://www.batworld.org/wall_of_shame/wardsnaturalsciencekills.html

 

PETITION:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/842577656

 

Please write a letter to the the contacts below at Wards Natural Science

and voice your dismay over their apparent lack of integrity regarding bats

and other wildlife. A sample letter is provided below. Please also forward

this page to every educator, conservationist and student you know.

President: Jeff Douglass - Jeff_Douglass

Purchasing Supervisors:

Bill Mistretta - BMistretta

J. Bubel - JBubel

Hard copy letters can be mailed or faxed to the following:

Ward's Natural Science

5100 West Henrietta Road

West Henrietta, NY 14692

Tel: 585-321-9422

Fax: 585-321-0372

 

 

SAMPLE LETTER - please feel free to copy and paste the following letter into

the body of an e-mail.

 

Dear Ward's Natural Science,

 

Your name has been listed on the Wall of Shame at www.batworld.org

because you are selling bats that have been collected healthy and alive,

then killed just so your company can make a profit. The fact you also

condone the harvesting of healthy mother bats causing the intentional

orphaning of helpless babies is morally repugnant. This action is as

ethically questionable as the importation of living animals to be killed in

canned hunts for a profit. Despite your excuses, this level of cruelty

cannot be justified scientifically.

 

Bats are in rapid decline across the US. As primary predators of vast

quantities of night-flying insects, including serious crop pests,

free-tailed bats are important to the agricultural interests of our country.

As a purportedly ethical society, it is time we moved beyond the practice of

sacrificing free-living animals for ‘study.’ There are numerous specimens

available at fine museums everywhere and deceased wildlife, which has died

of natural causes, can be easily obtained from wildlife rehabilitators. I am

absolutely sure that every school student in this great country would be

outraged if they knew these animals were being killed just so they could

look at them in a jar.

 

I ask that Ward’s Scientific and all its affiliates stop the sacrifice

of bats and other healthy wildlife on the grounds it is unjustified,

unsustainable, and morally wrong. Until then, I will tell all my friends

about Ward's Natural Science and its affiliates and actively encourage the

boycott of Wards Natural Science products to teachers, students and the

general public across the US.

 

Signed,

 

 

[YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS]

 

 

PETITION:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/842577656