I spent a day, as a volunteer, organized by the WWF, to accompany the children along a fun-interactive path designed to bring greater knowledge of these graceful mammals. Thanks to the efforts of the organizers of the "Centro protezione chirotteri Ticino" we have learned to distinguish these small creatures (only in Ticino there are 20 different …
Report of animal abuse in Moscow
This is a report of severe animal abuse. Attention: the following short reportage contains graphic images and indescribable living creatures' sufferance. It is not suitable for sensitive persons, refrain from watching... but please share within your followers, on FB or using the e-mail. I started a petition on AVAAZ, see link below. I put the names …
Save Andy the Polar Bear
Source: Save Andy the Polar Bear Write an e-mail to: susan.babcock@ualberta.ca derocher@ualberta.ca I saw a petition about the polar bear Andy wearing a collar which is suffocating him. Since this isn't the first time such things are happening, I'm wondering if there is any possibility to avoid sufferance and death of these poor animals. I …
I’m not kidding… there isn’t much time left
Climate change is impacting every part of our world — our health, the economy, biodiversity, forests, agriculture, communities and more. We are running out of time, but not solutions. We ask the World Leaders, when they meet at the Paris climate conference this December, to urge to work for climate action, including a new universal …
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Protecting the wolf… (& the sheeps) * proteggere il lupo… (e le pecore)
(images from the web - interview with F. Maggi responsible of WWF Ticino) Il WWF Svizzera apprende con gioia della presenza di una lupa con i suoi cuccioli in Valle Morobbia. Ora tocca alle autorità: è urgente sostenere gli allevatori e proteggere le greggi. Il WWF saluta l’arrivo della prima cucciolata di lupi in Ticino. …
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Help Stop Cruel Experiments on Monkeys (your Gift Will Be DOUBLED!)
(images taken from the web... there are several... horrible and revolting!) Torn from their jungle homes … trapped and terrified in the cargo hold of an airplane … mutilated, abused, and killed in painful experiments. Thousands of individual monkeys are suffering right now in laboratories for the sake of archaic and ineffective experiments. These and …
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Paris November 29th, 2015 ¦¦ SAVE THE DATE * RISERVATE LA DATA
Dear friends, Sunday, November 29, 2015, will be the largest mobilization for the climate of all time. If you want you can join it! On the eve of the World Summit in Paris (30 November to 11 December 2015, http://www.cop21.gouv.fr/en) hundreds of millions of people take to the streets around the world to ask for …
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about frogs and toads * sulle rane e rospi
. Not only in our country there is this issue! When the rain arrives, this trigger the migration of frogs and toads. Like every year specimens of toads and frogs are on their way to their breeding grounds, usually ponds, but also lakes. After spawning, the batrachians remain few weeks in this places, and then …
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The snow came back last night * ieri notte è tornata la neve
The snow came back and the thermometer's mercury reads O° celsius (32° Fahrenheit). I look around... women in fur coats, young people wearing jackets with hoods decorated with fur, men with thick padded goose down jackets ... Everyone should know the truth behind these items of clothing! . The farmer in this video casually describes ripping the bloody …
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Act before it is too late * agire prima che sia troppo tardi
Every time I sit in front of the PC, I find on the screen a multitude of shocking news and campaigns... We can not reverse the situation, it is true, we can not force the oligarchs to drop with drilling in the Arctic that kill the bears and the rest of the tundra's fauna... we can …
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Claudine Giovannoni 