News About Animals - November 3, 2010

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November 3, 2010   Elephants Tina And Jewel Need You To Contact USDA Today Tina and Jewel are elephants who were removed from their abusive circus handler by the USDA, after we worked for more than two years for their release. Though we pressed the agency to send them to a sanctuary, Tina and Jewel were sent to the San Diego Zoo. At the time, we recognized that these suffering elephants were getting the medical care they desperately needed - we never expected that they would be shipped off to yet another zoo. Yet, little more than a year after they were sent to San Diego, the zoo has announced that Tina and Jewel will be sent to the Los Angeles Zoo – which has stated there is no guarantee the elephants will not be moved yet again. Unfortunately, the USDA cannot make the San Diego Zoo send Tina and Jewel to a sanctuary, but it can create a blueprint for elephant confiscations that ensures traumatized elephants who have endured decades of abuse are retired to a facility that guarantees a permanent home and the specialized care they need. Right now, the only places that assure elephants lifelong homes are the PAWS Sanctuary in California and The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. Please click here to send a fax to the USDA. After all they have endured, Tina and Jewel should not be shipped to another zoo. Tell FDA You Don't Want Genetically Engineered Salmon (FrankenFish) We need your help opposing the first ever genetically engineered animal to be approved for human consumption - AquAdvantage Salmon. This GE Salmon is genetically altered to grow twice as fast as regular farmed salmon due to implanted genes from species of faster growing fish, thus getting to market faster and turning a higher profit. This may be the first genetically engineered animal to enter the market, but it will definitely not be the last. AguAvantage Salmon will open the floodgates for genetic manipulation of the animals many people consume. Please click here to read more and send a quick fax to the FDA! Save 50 Nevada Mustangs From Roundup And Convince BLM To Adopt Humane Standards  The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is proposing a roundup of 294 wild horses in Nevada's Augusta Mountains Herd Management Area (HMA). Unlike other capture plans, the BLM's Winnemucca District Office intends to treat mares with PZP fertility control and release all horses captured from within the HMA back to the range. However, approximately 50 horses living outside of the HMA need your help to stay with their families free on the range. The horses are living in an area that was once designated as wild horse habitat but “zeroed out” for wild horses to accommodate grazing of privately-held farmed animals. The agency is accepting public comments on this plan. Please urge the BLM to cancel the removal of any horses, while making the treat-and-release plan as humane as possible. Click here to submit your comments before the Friday, November 5 deadline. November 26 - Join IDA And Activists Around The World For Fur Free Friday Our annual Fur Free Friday is just three weeks away, but there's still time to take action and lend your voice for this rousing global day of outreach for furbearing animals. Around the world, activists are making strides to forever end the appalling fur trade.  Click here for more information and to get involved. Worldwide Anti-Whaling Day, November 5 Please join anti-whaling advocates across the globe on November 5 for Worldwide Anti-Whaling Day. We'll be at Japanese Consulates, Embassies, and other visible locations to increase awareness and inspire action to end the slaughter of whales. Click here for a list of events. If there's no event listed in your area but you'd still like to help, contact Melissa@idausa.org. Several countries including Japan, Norway, and Iceland continue to hunt whales. Hundreds of years of hunting has devastated whale populations worldwide. Despite a 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling, many species remain in danger of extinction. IDA continues to educate and rally the public to increase support for protection of whales and their habitats worldwide. IDA is a member of the North American Ocean Noise Coalition, the California Gray Whale Coalition, and the Whales Need Us Coalition.     Order customized holiday cards from CardsDirect and help animals.   Great holiday gift book for kids by actor David Dayan Fisher of NCIS - IDA gets 50 percent of all sales!     Anti-fur and other buttons - most only $1.    This button and many more only $1.    Click to enter our Vegan Activist All Star contest.   This message was sent to sweetygirl2002@uol.com.br In Defense of Animals, located in San Rafael, Calif., is an international animal protection organization with more than 100,000 members and supporters dedicated to ending the abuse and exploitation of animals by protecting their rights and welfare. IDA's efforts include educational events, cruelty investigations, boycotts, grassroots activism, and hands-on rescue through our sanctuaries in Mississippi, Mumbai, India, and Cameroon, Africa. 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