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Petition: Help Protect Endangered Rhinos from Poaching

Petition: Help Protect Endangered Rhinos from Poaching

March 15, 2023April 5, 2023 Supertrooper 1 Comment

In the past five years, poachers have killed 138 endangered rhinos in Botswana, which has amounted to around a third of all rhinos in the area. In the five years before that, poachers murdered only two rhinos. Officials have determined this has to do with increased demand in the marketplace. Poachers slaughtered one-third of Botswana’s […]

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Zoo Director Had Four Animals Killed and Served at Christmas Party, Mexico Police Say

Zoo Director Had Four Animals Killed and Served at Christmas Party, Mexico Police Say

February 16, 2023February 10, 2023 Supertrooper 5 Comments

A former director of a zoo in Mexico allegedly killed and served up four of the zoo’s pygmy goats at a Christmas dinner party. Authorities said that José Rubén Nava was replaced as director of the zoo earlier in January after the death of a deer. An investigation into the Chilpancingo city zoo revealed that […]

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Sick couple who gloated as they slaughtered giant bear with seven-foot spear dodge jail

Sick couple who gloated as they slaughtered giant bear with seven-foot spear dodge jail

January 26, 2023January 21, 2023 Supertrooper 1 Comment

A couple exposed by the Mirror after spearing a bear to death have avoided jail, despite being part of one of America’s largest ­poaching rings. But bodybuilders Josh Bowmar, 32, and wife Sarah, 33, were ordered to pay £108,000 in fines, forfeits of items and restitution by a judge. The sick couple were also sentenced […]

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Inside African wildlife park where animals are being slaughtered for ‘cures’

Inside African wildlife park where animals are being slaughtered for ‘cures’

December 10, 2022December 9, 2022 Supertrooper 4 Comments

Piled high in a mountain of pain, these are the poachers’ traps laid to kill wildlife. In the last four years more than 35,000 snares, wires and spears have been confiscated from just one African wildlife park – more per square mile than anywhere else in the world. At this critical time for the planet’s […]

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Canada’s commercial hunting has devolved into the unnecessary slaughter of threatened harp seals

Canada’s commercial hunting has devolved into the unnecessary slaughter of threatened harp seals

April 29, 2022April 26, 2022 Supertrooper 4 Comments

Ocean waves pound on the sides as a lone seal pup sleeps on a frail ice floe. He’s only two weeks old and can’t swim for lengthy periods of time, thus he won’t be able to survive without this ice platform. However, the delicate floe is melting quickly, and storms are hastening its demise. He […]

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Should black bears be slaughtered to make the ornamental headpieces worn by the Queen’s Guard?

Should black bears be slaughtered to make the ornamental headpieces worn by the Queen’s Guard?

March 12, 2022March 5, 2022 Supertrooper 4 Comments

PETA is urging British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ban the use of actual bear fur by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). The fur is utilized for the Queen’s Guard’s ornamental headpieces, while the ceremonial caps are made of beautiful imitation fur instead. The hats are fashioned from black bear fur harvested in Canada. There […]

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1428 Dolphins Slaughtered in the Faroe Islands Sunday Night

1428 Dolphins Slaughtered in the Faroe Islands Sunday Night

September 20, 2021November 28, 2021 Supertrooper 7 Comments

On Sunday night, September 12th, a super-pod of 1428 Atlantic White-Sided Dolphins was driven for many hours and for around 45 km by speed boats and jet-skis into the shallow water at Skálabotnur beach in the Danish Faroe Islands, where every single one of them was killed. Photos by Sea Shepherd. Sea Shepherd believes this […]

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Whale’s head impaled on spike as brutal slaughter returns to green list islands

Whale’s head impaled on spike as brutal slaughter returns to green list islands

June 17, 2021November 28, 2021 Supertrooper 5 Comments

Ten pilot whales were slaughtered in the first hunt of the year in the Faroe Islands, with campaigners worried that 2021 could be a particularly bloody year with whales and dolphins slaughtered with knives on the green list country’s beaches Hundreds of people will be taking part in months of animal slaughter in a green […]

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