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Archive for ‘July, 2010’

  • Introducing the Whale Sanctuary Project

    This blog is taking a break for the next few months so that I can devote my energies to the Whale Sanctuary Project. Here's why.

  • Is the Sloth Sanctuary a Zoo?

    The Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica was the first of its kind for these wonderfully engaging animals, and it was a model for others that followed. But questions have arisen. And…

  • Tafi Atome Monkey Sanctuary

    Tafi Atome looks like a typical forest in Ghana. The monkeys have been revered in this village for two centuries. But being “sacred” is no guarantee of survival.

  • The Great Irony of Animal “Rights”

    The great irony of the animal rights movement is there is still only one species that has any rights at all: humans. But the Nonhuman Rights Project is setting out to change that.

  • Why Mass Extinction Is Part of Human Nature

    Why would a supposedly “intelligent” species behave in a way that’s bringing about a mass extinction – one that will likely take us down along with so many other animals?

    No Bang, No Whimper, No Vote

    Seven years later, climate bill collapses in U.S. Senate It took seven years for a fairly straightforward, not-very-demanding energy conservation bill to die in the Senate…

    Dog Takes Communion (Gasp)

    Just a storm in a wineglass, say churchgoers St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Toronto, Canada, doesn’t like turning people away. So when Donald Keith was told…

    House Crushes Crush Videos

    Bans sale and distribution of videos depicting cruelty to animals. (Senate yet to agree) What brings a deeply divided Congress together? A small act of kindness…

    Pudgie Would Be Barking

    Where it’s illegal to surgically de-bark dogs Pudgie never liked Keith Olbermann. Whenever Olbermann’s news show, Countdown, came on on MSNBC, he would race back and forth between the…