News About Animals - July 28, 2011

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July 28, 2011   Thank You For Responding For The Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute Monkeys And Beagles Earlier this week, we sent you an alert about monkeys and beagles at Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. So many of you e-mailed and called LRRI on the animals' behalf that LRRI President and CEO Robert W. Rubin called IDA headquarters, had a long conversation with our founder Elliot M. Katz, DVM, and then sent us a written statement. Thank you for your swift, powerful, and encouraging response, which no doubt caused LRRI to engage in dialogue about the animals with IDA. We are in the process of assessing LRRI's statement, and will report our conclusions to you soon. In the meantime, please stop calling or e-mailing LRRI. Thank you for your quick response and for the difference you make for animals everywhere. We would not be able to help so many animals without your continuing commitment, activism, and support. Agony And Ivory - Help Wild Elephants Now July's Vanity Fair features a must-read article by investigative journalist Alex Shoumatoff detailing the current state of the ivory trade and its deadly affect on the wild elephants of Africa. His travels take him from African wildlife preserves and the brave conservationists who fight for elephants, to Asia, where ivory is highly prized by China's booming "suddenly wealthy" class, which is as numerous as the entire population of Japan. Until a ban on ivory sales in 1989, the global ivory trade threatened to wipe out Africa's elephants in the 1970s and 1980s, reducing the continent's population of elephants from about 1.3 million to fewer than 600,000 today. At the height of the slaughter, it is believed that 70,000 elephants a year were killed continent-wide. Today it is estimated that in their 37 African range states, elephants are being killed at the rate of 100 a day, and their ivory illegally exported to Asia. Though that's about half the number killed in the '70-'80s, Shoumatoff reminds us that today there are only half as many elephants left. You can help by making a donation to IDA's Elephant Protection Fund. In addition to advocating for elephants in captivity, IDA acts for their wild kin, including providing direct assistance to the Amboseli Trust for Elephants with a grant for anti-poaching efforts; funding radio collars for calves who were rescued from the cruel elephant-back safari trade and reintroduced into the wild; and mobilizing our supporters to successfully fight the export of young elephants and other wildlife from Zimbabwe to a zoo in North Korea. Read Agony and Ivory in Vanity Fair, then take a stand for elephants by donating to IDA's Elephant Protection Fund. Together, we can help elephants survive. IDA Funds South Korean Activists Protecting Dogs And Cats IDA's partnerships with South Korean activists are creating very effective outreach for the dogs and cats of South Korea. With your donations, we helped fund a bus to travel the streets of Seoul during “the dog-eating days” in July and August. Your donations are also helping transform a vehicle into a large rescue van to travel the country. So you are helping fund two vehicles - one for education, one for rescue. Click here to read more, see photos of the outreach bus, and get involved on August 16, the International Day of Action for South Korean Dogs and Cats. IDA Offers $2,500 Reward To Catch Kitten Torturer In Oregon IDA has pledged $2,500 to a reward fund for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individual or individuals who tortured and abandoned four kittens in McMinnville, Oregon. Click here to read our news release and see more photos. Ride To The Light Bike Ride To Benefit Three Sanctuaries The third annual Ride to the Light is a 100 mile bike ride in Oregon to benefit Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary, Out To Pasture Sanctuary and IDA's Hope Animal Sanctuary. The ride is on September 24, 2011. You don't need to be near Oregon to help! Visit the Ride's Facebook page to learn more, or go straight to the pledge page if you're ready to pledge a few bucks for these heroic bikers for animals.     IDA women's fitted t-shirt, ultra-fine organic cotton, more colors available!   New Guardian hats, shirts, mugs, and more! Click here to see them all.   Click here to view lots of IDA merchandise including this stylish travel mug.       Support IDA with custom greeting cards from CardsDirect!    Click to view IDA's exclusive Four Star Charity Navigator ranking. 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. In Defense of Animals is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization. We welcome your feedback and appreciate your donations. Please join today! All donations to IDA are tax-deductible. In Defense of Animals 3010 Kerner, San Rafael, CA 94901 Tel. (415) 448-0048 Fax (415) 454-1031 idainfo@idausa.org To unsubscribe, please click here.

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