All about the animals

Today's actions are all about animal welfare. Please click away.

Help save Africa's lions from extinction here. Can you imagine a world without lions? Mind boggling.

Click here to rescue 9 chimps from a research lab. Did you know humans and chimps share 95% of the same DNA? It's true (we also share 25% of our DNA with bananas, but that's a different post...).

Click here to shop the Animal Rescue page of the Greater Good network. Each purchase helps feed a marine animal in need.

Love them or hate them, sometimes PETA does good work. Click here to tell the Australian government to stop lamb mutilation. (Warning: graphic photo alert)

Check out the work being done by the 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize winner here. He is amazing - after helping get protection for his beloved sea turtles, he has turned to helping ban shark finning and is taking on shrimp trawlers and tuna farming as well. He is inspiring and incredible. You can adopt a shark or sea turtle at the site and take part in helping save the creatures of the sea. I heard an interview with him on The Story yesterday and am enthralled. Having visited Costa Rica - and Tortuguero National Park - I *get* what he's talking about and am amazed at his energy, enthusiasm, pragmatism, and compassion.

Circus Hell

If you hate the circus as much as I do, click here to stop Ringling Bros. from expanding on Coney Island. From Change.org:

New York City officials recently announced that the notorious elephant abusers at Ringling Bros. Circus will be at Coney Island for several months this summer thanks to a land donation from Taconic Investments.

PETA has contacted the city and Taconic to let them know of Ringling's lengthy history of animal abuse, and how animals used in the circus are beaten with bullhooks, whipped, and shocked with electric prods to force them to perform physically painful acts. But the city and Taconic refuse to sever ties with the animal-abusing company.

Please take just a few seconds now to send a message to New York City officials and Taconic Investments' CEO letting them know that you'll be crossing Coney Island off your destination list as long as it's the home of animal abusers.

No matter how you feel about PETA, their investigative team is top notch and their findings are indeed disturbing. Please click now to send the message that animal abuse and elephant "entertainment" is wrong.