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More than 70 animal advocacy and conservation groups are calling on the Biden administration to eliminate livestock grazing on any public lands where wild horse populations exist, ramping up the debate on how rangelands should be used across the West, including in Utah.
Animal Wellness Action, the Animal Wellness Foundation, the Center for a Humane Economy, Western Watersheds and The Cloud Foundation joined a coalition of organizations demanding Interior Secretary Deb Haaland put a freeze on grazing permits, much like what was done for oil and gas drilling.
The groups assert that the Bureau of Land Management’s oversight of grazing permits is biased against wild horse populations and mass “roundups” are being driven by pressure from ranchers.
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It’s a good thing fur coats are out of style.
Farmed mink are playing an unfortunate role in the spread of COVID-19, and now scientists, vets, epidemiologists and animal advocacy groups are sounding the alarm.
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Mink are the only animals besides people that transmit, become sick, and die in large numbers from COVID-19. The animals are also identified by the World Health Organization as a top candidate as the “missing link” between bats and people.
An alleged cockfighting ring in rural Oklahoma was recently busted, according to reports.
Deputies with the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office responded Sunday to a reported cockfight at a residence in Noble, about 25 miles south of downtown Oklahoma City.
When deputies arrived, they saw multiple people fleeing into a nearby wooded area, according to FOX 25 of Oklahoma City. Authorities later found roosters and items associated with cockfighting at the scene. Filipinos, spar their game fowls, inside a game farm in a six-day cup of the blood-sport now being broadcasted online, on Feb. 20, 2021, in Sta Cruz, Laguna, south of Manila, Philippines. (Getty Images)
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This bill revises requirements governing the trade of big cats (i.e., species of lion, tiger, leopard, cheetah, jaguar, or cougar or any hybrid of such species). (Image Credit (Pablo Fernández/flickr))
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Susan Collins, R-Maine, Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Tom Carper, D-Del., and Richard Burr, R-N.C., introduced the Big Cat Public Safety Act. The House bill, H.R. 263, introduced in January, has 164 cosponsors, and the same measure cleared the House by an overwhelming margin last year. The group expressed optimism that the Senate, for the first time, would take up the legislation to prohibit the private ownership of lions and tigers and make it illegal for exhibitors to allow public contact with cubs in an enterprise known as cub petting.