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Millions of crabs, lobsters and other decapod crustaceans are still being boiled alive, sent alive in the post, claws removed and torn apart alive to name a few of the cruel practices they endure due to not having adequate protections in animal welfare law.
You can help change that.
We’ve launched our MP postcard action – a quick, powerful way to ask your local MP to support better welfare protections for these sentient animals.
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💥 Together, we can push for compassionate change
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Help animals with @PETAUK’s top five action alerts of the month! It’s one of the easiest and most effective online ways to help #EndSpeciesism. #PETATop5Actions https://t.co/d2dKIZ7oRu
What the Meat Industry Doesn't Want You to Know
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"I once raised pigs. And factory farms raise them today in conditions that are as unconscionable as they are invisible"
For how long can humankind horrifically abuse intelligent creatures behind closed doors?
History will rightly condemn us as cruel & exploitative
WE MUST END IT @CIWF_Global
https://t.co/TTRGvVh3wr
A critically endangered Diademed sifaka hanging on for dear life—but losing grip on existence in this world.
Madagascar is stricken with extreme poverty, so hunting these large sifakas for bushmeat has soared, even in protected areas. Slash-and-burn for timber and sugar cane plantations for illegal rum is destroying their food trees.
Touchingly, they diligently patrol their territory every morning, carefully scent marking their trees to protect it—but they are defenseless against the ravages we inflict on them.
Long-lived and slow-to-reproduce, now also with high infant mortality (50%), wasting in adults and stunting in immatures as we systematically remove their means to exist.
The tiny, isolated groups in the fragmented reserves may already be genetically non-viable long-term.
It will take a miracle—or someone with enormous wealth— to save this spectacular species from extinction within my lifetime.
Dottie's Little Hog Hospital has rescued them, and has seen 5 cases in the past month. Rescuer Rosie Fisher said: "We think it's probably people seeing hedgehogs in their garden and thinking that it's their hedgehog and marking it." This cruel act is toxic, and can be deadly too.
Ahead of #BanLiveExports International Awareness Day, more than 130 charities, celebrities and experts from 33 countries have joined our call for a global ban on live exports.
Add your name to our open letter: https://t.co/pbuRudRpML
We need as many people as possible to email the Port Authority of Las Palmas to reject the application to build the world’s first Octopus Farm. I just did it. Act now! https://t.co/i9VMkKHwuM
I’ve just donated to @ciwf, because every farm animal deserves a life worth living. Will you join me and fight factory farming? https://t.co/KBvVyfGOoD
Protect Wolves From Cruel And Illegal Poison Attacks
At least 18 wolves were found dead in a protected Italian landscape. Poison threatens more wildlife unless officials act fast.
https://t.co/hh8sNKgeEp
💔 THIS IS HEARTBREAKING. COULD DARTMOOR TRULY LOSE ITS PONIES? 🐴📉
A devastating warning has been issued by campaigners who fear that up to NINETY PERCENT of Dartmoor’s iconic semi-wild hill ponies could completely disappear from the moorland.
Over 23,000 people have already signed an emergency petition demanding action to protect them.
New rules drawn up by Natural England mean that grazing limits across the moors are being slashed. But here is the catch: campaigners say the famous ponies are being lumped into the exact same livestock quotas as commercial cattle and sheep.
Because they are competing for the same reduced space, it's feared farmers will be forced to remove the ponies to make way for more financially viable livestock.
The Dartmoor Hill Pony Association warns that numbers have already plummeted from 7,000 to just 900 in the last 25 years. They are already listed as an officially endangered native breed. Campaigners warn that once they are gone from the moor, they are gone forever.
Natural England says they want to ensure "optimal numbers" remain and that ponies are vital for restoring the landscape—but officials confirm they must be included in the total livestock count.
Dartmoor simply wouldn’t be Dartmoor without the ponies. Do you think it’s fair to treat these historic animals the same as farm livestock?
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