Showing posts with label animal realm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal realm. Show all posts

Friday, November 4, 2011

Bangkok is drowning

Irwin Loy (TheWorld.org, Nov. 2, 2011)
Climate chaos affects all Earthlings like rescued pets in Bangkok (Irwin Loy/Theworld.org)

Some of those stranded in Thailand’s calamitous floods are family pets. A group of volunteers has been heading into flooded Bangkok neighborhoods, rescuing frantic cats and dogs. Irwin Loy went along with one pet rescue team. Comment

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Jane Goodall live in theatres 9-27-11 (video)


See Jane Live
Join NCM Fathom and MDA Productions for a rare and intimate evening LIVE with Jane Goodall as we take a look at the private person behind the famous icon.

Goodall will appear on Sept. 27, 2011 at 8:00 pm Eastern Time (7:00 pm CT, 6:00 pm MT, 8:00 pm PT tape delayed).

For only one night, famed chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall will appear LIVE in hundreds of select movie theaters throughout the country for an exciting and unique event.
This unique movie theater broadcast will highlight the 50 years of Jane Goodall's most extraordinary observations of the wild chimpanzees in Tanzania. It will also provide rare insight into who Jane is today.

This special LIVE event will be broadcast exclusively to a national audience in nearly 500 theaters and will unveil never-before-seen, 45-year-old, 8 mm film footage shot during her first years in the African forest, just recently discovered in Jane’s home attic in Britain.

Jane and music legend Dave Matthews will talk about their experiences in the field. In addition, other celebrity friends like actress Charlize Theron will look back with Jane at her first day ever in the forbidding jungle as a 26-year-old. She will interact with the national audience attendees. This intimate setting will provide a look at the fun and playful Jane few get to see. More

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Bang Your Own Head, Save a Seal

Take a stand against the cruel seal slaughter by writing to the Canadian government today!



The Agonist Speaks Up for Seals

Chelsi Schriver (PETA2)
One of the strongest drives for a musician is for their voice to be heard. Lyrics provide an undeniable platform to say whatever needs to be said, whether that's about a long lost love, recent heartache, or the current state of the world.



The Agonist is a fiery metal band from Montréal, Canada known for beautiful vocals juxtaposed with deep metal growls [and scathing music]. Lead siren and vocal vixen Alissa White-Gluz isn't afraid to use her voice, and now she's speaking out for seals all across Canada.







Alissa is so adamantly opposed to the annual Canadian seal slaughter that she lent herself -- and her voice -- to PETA for a new ad, insistently stating, "Bang your own head, not a seal's."



The Agonist (Alissa) speaks up for peta2 and compassion

It's time to put Canada's great shame -- the annual seal slaughter, during which hundreds of thousands of harp seals are clubbed and beaten to death -- in the spotlight. Every year at this time, sealers take to the ice to bludgeon migrating seals and their babies, all for the sake of selling fur pelts on the international market.

If there were no demand for fur [thank you, dog fur salesman P Diddy Sean Puff Daddy Combs], there would be no seal slaughter.



Did Puff Daddy really sell dog fur?

We don't understand why people would want to wear a dead animal (and contribute to the devastating environmental effects of fur production), and neither does Alissa.

Watch our exclusive video with Alissa -- a lifelong vegetarian -- to learn why she is so passionate (and compassionate) that she is willing to stick up for seals and why she will always take a stand against animal cruelty. Then take a stand by writing to the Canadian government!

Friday, June 24, 2011

Animal Karma: "One Lucky Elephant" (film)



() What happens to a circus elephant when it comes time to retire? After 16 years in the spotlight, Flora, an African elephant living in St. Louis, must find a new home. And David, the circus producer who has cared for her all these years, must say goodbye. The road to Flora's retirement, however, is a difficult and emotional one. The bond between human and elephant is tested in unexpected ways. Ten years in the making, this touching, thought-provoking film deftly investigates the problems and mysteries posed by keeping wild animals in captivity while never losing sight of the delicate love story at its heart.