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  • “Pet” turkey is one of 46 million turkeys killed for Thanksgiving dinner

    On Monday a turkey was killed by two men who broke into his pen at a home in Gulf Breeze. “Tom” the turkey had been a much loved member of the family. “He was so friendly,” the homeowner told the Pensacola News Journal. Upon arrest, the suspects told a [...]

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  • Is there anything natural about a circus?

    Today the Loomis Bros. Circus began three days of shows in Crestview, in northwest Florida’s Okaloosa County.

    The circus features an act during which an 8,000 pound, 40-year-old elephant named Okha is forced to stand with all four feet on a ball and balance in place. In a November 2 article [...]

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  • Animal cruelty found at Max Planck; disturbing violations of federal law

    In June, the Max Planck Florida Institute opened a 100,000 sq. ft. biomedical research facility in Jupiter, created with $188 million in state and local funds. It’s the Germany-based institute’s only facility in the United States.

    Less than two months after employees moved into the new labs, a routine inspection by [...]

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  • “Mystery monkey” captured; his relatives are still in danger

    We have mixed feelings about yesterday’s capture of the “Mystery Monkey of Tampa Bay.” The monkey, a rhesus macaque, first made headlines in 2009. The suburbs of Tampa/St. Petersburg are not the best place for a wild monkey to live, but he was in good health, local residents enjoyed [...]

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  • Firsthand account of cruel tiger cub “encounters”

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    Recently a private zoo in Pasco County called Dade City’s Wild Things has received a lot of media attention, including appearances on Fox & Friends and Good Morning America, for “pool parties” featuring tiger cubs. At Dade City’s Wild Things, baby tigers, monkeys and other animals are shoved into the [...]

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  • Florida’s turtles still at risk from commercial exploitation

    In 2009, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission banned large-scale, commercial hunting of freshwater turtles in Florida. Under the new rules, turtle farmers are still allowed to collect turtles from the wild, but only to establish a breeding population (the goal was to shift the commercial trade in turtles [...]

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  • Belugas belong in the wild

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    In August 1989, despite the best efforts of animal activists, workers from Gulf World (Panama City Beach) captured four dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico. In 1993, activists in boats were again unsuccessful in stopping the capture of dolphins, this time off the coast of California. There has not been [...]

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  • Hunting for profit in Florida: 1903 and 2012

    In Florida in the late 19th Century, herons, egrets, pelicans and many other birds were slaughtered by the thousands by hunters who would sell the feathers to be used in the fashion industry. To protect nesting birds from hunters, in 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt established the Pelican Island National Wildlife [...]

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  • Do profits from shocking cat experiments end up in Boca Raton?

    This week PETA released shocking photos of cruel experiments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (view PETA’s report here). 30 cats are killed each year in the ongoing experiments. The cats are purchased from Liberty Research, a large commercial breeder of cats and dogs in Waverly, New York.

    Liberty Research is [...]

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  • Looking ahead with concern: Cole Bros. Circus

    Number of comments: 10

    The Cole Bros. Circus will return to South Florida in late fall. We need your help to convince past hosts of the circus to reconsider hosting the circus in 2012. Each of the below venues has hosted the Cole Bros. Circus for the past several years.

    Elephants and other animals in [...]

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