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Federal officials are considering euthanizing wild horses to deal with the growing population on the range and in holding pens, authorities said. Wild horses have overpopulated public lands and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management can't afford to care for the mustangs that have been rounded up, said Henri Bisson, the agency's deputy director, in a news conference in Reno, Nev., according to the Associated Press....

Fix Austin, a grassroots group of animal advocates working to reform Austin’s abysmal shelter system has just released their report on the results of the community’s first year under “Mission: Orange,” the ASPCA’s national No Kill campaign. Austin, TX is a “Mission: Orange” city and its results are key to understanding the program and the implications it has for the rest of the nation....

To everyone who read that Greenspace lost a window to "anarchists" and cringed:...

Another Montana cattle herd was found to be infected with the livestock disease. That's two cattle herds in less than two years, and so Montana's status as being certified "brucellosis-free" is out the window. The source of transmission is not yet known, but it is certain that it's not wild buffalo. The owner of the infected herd, Arthur Burns of Emigrant, MT, had his cattle approximately 30 miles north of Yellowstone National Park....

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 : In India, cows, sacred to Hindus, are dying after eating plastic bags. One solution: don't ban the bags, make them thicker. Robert Krulwich explains....

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society today issued the following official appeal to Greenpeace for cooperation on the issue of Japanese whaling in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary....

On Sunday June 1, activists demonstrated outside of the home of UC Berkeley vivisector Jack Gallant....

From an animal rights to ecological perspective, this report covers the human interactions with our primate cousins and the problems associated with other primate species extinctions from our own carelessness. It questions the methods used by animal researchers when primates are confined to a laboratory instead of their normal settings of their rainforest home. From an anthropological perspective of weaponry and conflict leading up to the present nuclear state, how can the bonobos help save u...

Following is a statement from a person known to EWOK! (Earth Warriors are OK!, formerly the Twin Cities Eco-Prisoner Support Committee). This person was approached by the local JTTF and offered the possibility of being a paid informant. The individual has rejected the offer and now has an NLG lawyer. His statement should both inspire us for his refusal to cooperate, and remind us that he is probably not the only person solicited by the government in such a way and, unfortunately, we have t...

festival Oakland May 31 - June 1, & action links anytime...