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October is the month for Activism !!

October 2009 is a month for Animal Rights activism.
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Animal Activist Lashes Out at Rhino Hunt

THE killing of a white rhino during a hunt at a private game reserve in the Eastern Cape, which an international website claimed is a new world Safari Club International (SCI) record, has been slammed by an animal rights organisation.
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SPCA to help at Zuma's party

Durban - The SPCA will assist the organisers of President Jacob Zuma's party to slaughter 25 cows
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SANPARKS IS HIDING BEHIND INDEFENSIBLE EXCUSES

Sunday Independent, 31 May 2009
It appears that Dr David Mabunda, the CEO of South African National Parks (SANParks), has become an apologist and man for the hunting industry. (Hunting Can Protect Wildlife: Sunday Independent, 17 May 2009).

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TAKE ACTION: Tell Iceland: Stop Whaling Now!

It's a terrifying week for whales. Iceland's whaling season began on Tuesday, despite international outcry against the bloody hunt. Whalers plan to kill up to 100 minke whales this season.
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ARA MOURNS DEATH OF SYBIL

Animal Rights Africa is very sad to announce that Sybil, one of the baboons we rescued from the National Centre for Occupational Heath in Johannesburg in 1996.
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NEW PROCTOR & GAMBLE CRUELTY EXPOSED!

Uncaged recently uncovered further disturbing evidence of the suffering of innocent animals for the sake of P&G's 'Herbal Essences'.
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Bolivia Bans Animal Circus

Animal Defenders International (ADI) is delighted that a ban on the use of animals in circuses is within reach in Bolivia.
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Order to release animal test data

Several universities and major colleges have been ordered to reveal information about their animal experiments by the Information Commissioner's Office.
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Animal Rights Africa on Carte Blanche Sunday 12 April 2009

Monkey Business : Carte Blanche has been looking at conditions at private zoos and the results have been less than satisfactory. This week we look at a zoo in Somerset West.
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GLOBAL BOYCOTT PROCTER & GAMBLE DAY XIII - SATURDAY MAY 16 2009

Please unite with fellow activists for our thirteenth Global Boycott P&G Day on Saturday 16th May 2009 to expose the callous animal testing practices of the world’s largest consumer goods corporation.
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Claws out after dog racing hearings

Government-sponsored public hearings into the possible legalisation of greyhound racing in South Africa have resulted in a war of words between animal rights activists and dog racers.
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Veg-O-Might

Do you need to eat meat to get ripped?
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Political agenda for Animal welfare needed

Article from Maneka Gandhi in The Bihar Times.
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Jamaica Rejects Dog Racing!

The Prime Minister of Jamaica, Bruce Golding, has said that greyhound racing will not be authorized in his country.
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Cruel Cosmetics

Concern over loopholes in European ban on animal-tested cosmetics.
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SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS SAYS IT DOES NOT CARRY PRIMATES FOR THE RESEARCH INDUSTRY

The BUAV have announced that several airlines had stopped transporting primates for the research industry.
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YOUR HELP NEEDED TO STOP GREYHOUND RACING - PLEASE ATTEND HEARINGS

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PETITION : Sanwild needs your help!!

28 May 2008
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Zimbabwe: Paper Claims Ivory Used to Finance Purchase of Chinese Arms

24 April 2008 Click HERE for more.

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The Killing Fields of Zimbabwe

05 April 2008

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The Price of a Rhino's life

04 April 2008
Source : BBC News

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South African Anti-Whaling protesters Target Japanese Embassy

02 February 2008

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Ubuntu Youth and Oprah Winfrey

December 2007

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URGENT : South Africa's elephants in captivity need your help!

November 2007

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Animal Rights film festival

With special guest speaker Keith Mann (UK Animal Rights Activist)
22 - 24 November 2007

Beauty Without Cruelty invites you to the launch of the first South African Animal Rights film festival on Thursday, November 22nd at FURTHER: 21st Century Counterculture Shop, located at 1 Olifants Road, cnr. 5th Avenue, Emmarentia, Johannesburg (next door to Earth2 Vegan Restaurant).

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Listen to an Interview with Michele Pickover and Steve Smit from Animal Rights Africa

25 September 2007

Animal Rights Africa trustees Michele Pickover and Steve Smit were interviewed on Animal Voices - an animal advocacy and veg radio show and podcast from Canada.

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European Union : MEP's starting to back a ban on primate experiments

July 2007

European politicians are backing a campaign to end scientific experiments on monkeys across the EU. ... Read More

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Major Public Protest Against The Namibian Baby Seal Slaughter on July 1

16 June 2007

On the 16th of June, days before the start of the Namibian 2007 Baby Seal Slaughter on July 1, a major public protest was organised outside the Namibia High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa. ...
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Namibia's Commercial Seal Culling "Crime Against Nature" Policy, Alienates Itself Internationally

05 June 2007

Whilst Namibia was forced to "conceal" and confirm the Mass Starvation of its Seals in 2006, Its Largest Commercial Cull on Record ...
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Rediscovery of the World's Most Southerly Elephants

04 June 2007

DNA analysis has revealed the existence of five previously unknown, female Knysna elephants in the southern Cape, South Africa.
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Animal rights in South Africa

A novel way to tempt tourists
IF YOU want to shoot a lion without any risk to yourself, you had better hurry. From June 1st it will be illegal in South Africa to shoot a lion while it is caught in a cage or a bear-trap.
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South Africa, Zimbabwe claim need to cull elephants

ADDO NATIONAL PARK-- South African environmental affairs and tourism minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk on February 28, 2007 announced that culling elephants may resume soon after a 12-year suspension, under a draft policy open for public comment until May 4.
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South Africans Oppose “Canned Hunts”
of Wild Animals

LONDON-New polling data from South Africa unequivocally confirms national support for banning so-called canned hunts, where customers pay huge sums to slaughter captive bred lions confined in enclosures.
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