Oceanside CA: Box turtle taped to balloons is rescued.

Perpetrator(s) could face animal abuse charges if apprehended

Photo from 10News.com - The box turtle was photographed shortly after the rescue

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From: linda.furness1
Date: Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Subject: CA....turtle taped to balloons

Fire department called to help rescue turtle after it was taped to BALLOONS and sent flying over neighbourhood

Residents in Oceanside, California, were stunned to find the turtle dangling from nearly two dozen balloons after the reptile had become stuck in a eucalyptus tree.

Full Story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192018/Turtle-rescued-taped-balloons-sent-flying-neighbourhood.html

22 August 2012

www.dailymail.co.uk

Orangutans

4/1/12: Please click to go to 

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 Thanks to LoPelYr ‏ @LoPelYr on Twitter for spotting

Football can HELP save the Orangutans

Online Petition: Enforce the law protecting Tripa Peat Swamp and its Orangutan populations

Demand for survival

Tripa Peat Swamps and their Orangutans being cremated to annihilation:  Government of Indonesia must uphold law or face international shame We, Walhi Indonesia, Greenpeace Indonesia, Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari, Sawit Watch Indonesia, the Coalition Team for Saving the Tripa Peat Swamps, are here today to demand the following: The immediate enforcement of laws protecting the Leuser Ecosystem, including the Tripa Peat Swamps, namely: The Spatial Planning Law (UU 26/2007) and subsequent Government Regulation (PP 26/2008) which establishes the Leuser Ecosystem as a National Strategic Area with an environmental protection function; and the Law of the Governance of Aceh (UU11/2006) which obligates the Government and the Government of Aceh to protect the Leuser Ecosystem.

Dear Ministry of Forestry @zul_hasan you have to make sure JUSTICE is served in Tripa protected forest http://ow.ly/a0kaL#savetripa

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3/30 POST
This is a huge unforgivable crime. From the United Kingdom's Daily Mail, this article was updated March 30th. Hundreds of orangutans have been killed by fires deliberately set by palm oil companies.

"Shocking: Hundreds of orangutans are believed to have died in fires deliberately lit by palm oil companies in Tripa forest on the coast of Aceh province in northern Indonesia"

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2122544/Hundreds-orangutans-killed-north-Indonesian-forest-fires-deliberately-started-palm-oil-firms.html#ixzz1qdonhngO

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Rhinoceros

Katie Falkenberg, For The Times / February 18, 2012

Federal wildlife investigators crack rhinoceros horn smuggling ring in Calif, other states

By Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Federal wildlife investigators have broken up an international smuggling ring that trafficked in sawed-off rhinoceros horns for buyers in Vietnam and China who believe they cure cancer, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
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Devastation

graphic by: http://animals.m-y-d-s.com/

Citizens and politicians in Texas and Florida and all over should be outraged at the poaching and killing.

CBSNews article including video:

Poachers' nets killing sharks off Texas coast

URL: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57326976/poachers-nets-killing-sharks-off-texas-coast/