#Ukraine : Resources to help animals and people in Ukraine 🇺🇦

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From: NYC Second Chance Rescue <scr@nycsecondchancerescue.org>
Date: Mon, Mar 7, 2022, 3:00 PM
Subject: Resources to help animals and people in Ukraine. 🇺🇦
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Organizations helping in Ukraine.

Hello, We want to take a brief reprieve from our regular updates to share some resources of shelters, rescues, and humanitarian organizations that are working hard to protect our friends in Ukraine as this crisis continues to escalate. As a nonprofit animal rescue, our hearts weep when we see what is happening to parallel organizations in Ukraine. We know many of you see what we see – humans and animals in crisis – and want to help. If you'd like to donate to help the heroic efforts of these people who are facing danger while they protect their communities, two-legged and four-legged alike, please read below: Shelter Ugolyok: a nonprofit animal rescue and sanctuary in Ukraine focused on rescue and rehabilitation of animals. They are collecting donations to build a food supply to sustain the hundreds of animals in their care while prices skyrocket due to shortages. UAnimals: a Ukrainian animal rights organization fighting to rescue animals that have fallen victim in the midst of the ongoing war. They are collecting funds to purchase food to help sustain shelters in need. Happy Paw: a nonprofit organization that helps more than 60 shelters throughout the territory of Ukraine. They are checking in with shelter conditions and building a list of each shelter's urgent needs. World Central Kitchen: an organization serving thousands of hot meals to Ukrainian families fleeing home as well as those who remain in the country  🇺🇦 Share Tweet Forward Stay Connected! Copyright © Second Chance Rescue NYC | All rights reserved. Mailing address: Second Chance Rescue P.O. Box 570701 Whitestone, NY 11357

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ACTION ALERT!

Please sign - U.S. Fish & Wildlife Organizes Full-Day Workshop Declaring War on Cats! Click on link to read time-sensitive alert from Best Friends:

http://capwiz.com/bestfriends/issues/alert/?alertid=53298501 

FROM THE LINK: 

On November 5, 2011, U.S. Fish & Wildlife personnel will be offering an all-day workshop at the Wildlife Society Annual Conference in Waikoloa, Hawaii, entitled “Influencing Local Scale Feral Cat Trap-Neuter-Release Decisions.” This workshop is supposedly designed specifically for the purpose of training “conservation activists” to protest TNR efforts during the decision-making process...

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POSTED IN JUNE 2010
Here is a brief explanation from Gibsons Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in British Columbia why domestic cats are best kept indoors:

http://www.gibsonswildliferehabcentre.org/catswild.html 

It is safer for the domestic cat to enjoy an indoor life rather than be vulnerable to all the dangers of The Great Outdoors. The American Bird Conservancy (http://www.abcbirds.org/index.html) says that "Wildlife predation by free-roaming and stray cats is a serious conservation issue" and the Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) practices are a big flop. I am unsure that they are. The US Fish & Wildlife has laws against harming wildlife. Instead of scapegoating cats for harming wildlife, which they admittedly do, and targeting TNR cat colony manager volunteers as the only human lawbreakers in this scenario, the USFWS should ensure that those people who originally allow cats to become feral are cited by their local jurisdictions for that infraction. Human population is increasing beyond the Earth's carrying capacity which poses a serious conservation issue for wildlife. Humans and their domestic cats should practice family planning. It is only fair to the birds and other wildlife that they be free from harassment by both humans and cats.