Animal Welfare

Drop deadly experiments...

PETA recently learned that students in an undergraduate neuroscience course at the University of Texas–Dallas drill holes into healthy rats' skulls, destroy portions of their brains with chemicals, and then inject them with amphetamines for behavioral experiments. The rats are then killed once the study concludes. 

Fortunately, an expert-endorsed interactive computer simulator is available as a replacement for the use of animals in this cruel and crude classroom experiment.

PETA is now calling on you to help end these experiments at the University of Texas–Dallas.

Please send a quick e-mail to University of Texas–Dallas Dean of Undergraduate Education J. Michael Coleman, and politely ask him to work with faculty to replace this cruel study on rats with humane, effective alternatives that are available and being used in neuroscience courses at other universities.

Thank you for giving a voice to animals in need.

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Animal Rescue!!!!

Hi, all you animal lovers!

The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting  enough people to click on it daily so they can meet their quota of  getting FREE FOOD donated every day to abused and neglected animals.  It takes less than a minute (about 15 seconds) to go to their site  and click on the purple box 'fund food for animals for free'. This  doesn't cost you a thing.

Their corporate  sponsors / advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food  to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for  advertising.

It is pretty simple.  Click here to donate food for free!!! 

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Appeal from a Little Hedgehog

Hello to all you drivers in Malta and Gozo.  I have come here to tell you to be so very careful when you are driving on the roads, especially at night time.  This is the time of year when I am just learning to walk.  So are my siblings.  So please don't run me over. 

Just look how sweet I am.....

With love to you....Thank you

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Help Save Japan's Dolphins

In The Cove, a team of activists and filmmakers infiltrate a heavily-guarded cove in Taiji, Japan. In this remote village they witness and document activities deliberately being hidden from the public: More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered each year and their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan, often times labeled as whale meat.

The majority of the world is not aware this is happening. The Taiji cove is blocked off from the public. Cameras are not allowed inside and the media does not cover the story. It is critical that we get the word out in Japan. Once the Japanese people know we believe they will demand change. 

Send a letter to urge the immediate address of this issue.

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Your 1 vote = 1 million dollars for the Ocean!

More than 3.5 billion people depend on the ocean for their primary food source.  Whales, dolphin, turtles, sea birds and all ocean life depends on a healthy marine ecosystem to survive.  Like any healthy community, the ocean relies on a varied cast of characters, and each member plays a pivotal role. The loss of any one of them would threaten to disrupt the balance causing the ocean to spiral out of control.

Sharks play a crucial role in maintaining the fragile ocean ecosystem. If we remove sharks from the community, sickness will spread, entire schools of fish will die, and the entire ocean will enter a state of imbalance. These key players are now under threat.  Due to the high market value for shark fin soup, poachers haul the animals out of the ocean and hack off their fins. They then dump the still living sharks back into the sea where they slowly die. This despicable and wasteful practice is pushing many shark species to the brink of extinction.

Thanks to you this can be stopped! Your 1 vote = 1 million dollars for the Ocean.

Here is a step-by-step guide for how to vote:

1. Log on to Facebook and follow this link: http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/462810
2. Facebook will then ask you if you want to “Allow” this application on your homepage. Click “Allow.”  Keep in mind, you can always remove this access immediately after voting.
3. You will then be prompted to the Imaging Foundation Community Giving page.
4. Click the “Become a Fan of this Page” button
5. Once you are a fan, click “VOTE FOR CHARITY”

Use the tools provided at the bottom of the voting page (“Tweet This,” “Post to Wall,” and “Invite a Friend”) to help spread the word!

If you can join this effort between January 15th and 22nd, please send an email to info@imagingfoundation.org with the subject line "I WOULD LIKE TO HELP OUR OCEANS" and you will receive instructions about how you can spread the word.

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American Jaguars need your help to survive! 

Jaguars are native to the southern United States but were deliberately exterminated.  This heartbreaking loss to the species demands swift action to preserve habitat for the majestic cats.  The species need both a recovery plan and a critical habitat, both essential to its long-term survival.

Recovery plans are scientific roadmaps for bringing species back from the brink of extinction; critical habitats are the areas necessary for imperiled animals and plants to recover. Jaguars need both now.

Sign the petition urging swift action to save and recover the American jaguar.

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Stop Ringling Bros. Circus beating elephants!

In 2009, PETA went undercover at "the saddest show on Earth"—Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus—and captured Ringling workers on video as they beat and whipped elephants dozens of times in venues across the country.

The 11 elephants  used in the show—most of whom were captured in the wilds of Asia as early as 1957 and some of whom have spent more than 40 years with the circus—suffer month after month at the hands of Ringling and its crew. PETA documented workers as they struck elephants and tigers on the head, face, ears, trunk, legs, and other parts of their bodies with bullhooks and other abusive handling tools.

Take action about elephant cruelty.

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