Some Good News and Some Victories for Animals in 2012
An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org
FROM
All-Creatures.org
December 2012
THANK YOU for every single thing you did to make a difference for animals
in 2012!!
We know there are many more victories and many more good news items for
animals in 2012. This is a listing of good news/victories, many posted in our
all-creatures.org 2012 weekly eNewsletters
Use this list to honor animal activism, to congratulate yourself for your
contribution, and to inspire you to do even MORE for animals in 2013. Please
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- Humane Research Council 2012 Accomplishments
- California 2012 Legislative Victories for Animals
- ADI'S Top Ten Dramatic Moments of 2012
- COK in 2012: The Power of Compassion
- League of Cruel Sports' 2012 Victories
- Kinship Circle's Updates/Victories for Animals in 2012
- 'Popular Science' Predicts Nonhuman Rights a Top Story for 2013
- 12 Animal Activism Stories That Made Headlines in 2012
- Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN) Campaigns generate 93 news stories across the US and beyond!
- CASH (Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting) Accidents and Violations for 2012
- Saving Manatees Around the World
- Mugaritz Fined, Foie Gras Farm Shut Down
- Cleo the Cat - Rescued From South Korea's Death Markets
- Food Not Bombs 2012 Victories
- My Teacher, My Guru, Nikita
- As a result of a Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! campaign 100 chimpanzees who had been scheduled for transfer to horrific Texas lab retired to Sanctuary!
- Big News! More than 100 Chimpanzees Going to Sanctuary
- Heythrop Hunt Found Guilty Of Illegal Fox Hunting In First Ever Corporate Conviction
- How a Healthy Vegan Diet Can Cure Cancer
- Help Animals India, 2012
- Sport Hunting to be Banned in Costa Rica
- Anti-Diabetes Foods
- Toronto Zoo Elephants Going to PAWS!
- Fetish Animal Torturers Indicted on Felony Charges
- Great Honor Bestowed on Dr. McDougall by the Hawaii Senate
- Humane Animal Traps
- Pigs Spared Torture and Death at SC Medical School
- Shooting SHARK's Remote-Controlled Camera Backfires on Pigeon Shooters
- Chimp owner denied permit by Clark County
- Greyhounds in the Library
- IDA Lawsuit Stalls Plan To Kill Deer
- Sea life wins...California Coastal Commission votes unanimously to deny seismic testing
- NMFS will reconsider exclusion of the captive orca Lolita from ESA listing
- Vegan for the Holidays (book review)
- ISAR's International Homeless Animals' Day® 2012
- Two Councils in Ireland Ban All Wild Animals in Circuses
- Vegan Day 2012 - England, Italy, Spain
- Best Friends leads effort in L.A. to ban sale of dogs, cats, rabbits
- Orangutans Fight Back
- Botswana to outlaw hunting...totally...in 2014
- Wild horse slaughter prompts sixth grader to start petition: Crosses 100,000 signature mark
- Victory for Bears and Buffalo: DOL Helicopter Grounded
- Greyhound Advocates Win Critical Victory, London Mayor Chooses Housing Instead of Dog Track
- Issaquah Salmon Days Festival halts frog sales
- Botswana to outlaw hunting...totally...in 2014
- Breaking News… 29 More Virginia Range Mustangs Rescued from Slaughter
- Cattle Industry Magazine Publishes Editorial Against Pigeon Shoot Cruelty
- California Court of Appeals Says Pets are More Than Inanimate Property
- Kim Sturla, Animal Place
- Schools eliminate cat dissection and use electronic means
- Animal Practice TV Show Abusing Capuchin, Crystal, Canceled
- Along Came a Spider Who Stopped a Highway Project
- Meet Angel, Rescued From The South Korean Meat Trade
- Healing with Plant-Based Nutrition: Interview with Dr. T. Colin Campbell
- Bears and Bobcats in California Protected from "Hound Hunting"
- Lisa's Reaction to Seeing Earthlings
- For Coyotes, It's Till Death Do Us Part
- Conservation Deal Protects Corridor Between Two Key Southern California Wildlife Areas
- Supreme Court Upholds Roadless Rule
- Emily the Cow and Tyke the Elephant: Resistance is Never Futile
- Two Important California Legislative Victories This Week
- Walking Horse ‘Trainer’ Sentenced
- On Picking Up Starfish
- The Amazing Mr. Chen
- Following multiple Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN) fficial complaints, USDA files 10-page complaint against Santa cruz Biotech for Animal Welfare Act violations
- Solo hunting by twelve-year-olds will NOT be allowed in NWS Australia
- Bear bile farming industry put on notice by World Conservation Congress
- My Winning Battle with Breast Cancer: Star McDougaller Jessica Bowen
- Great News in Oregon: Each Animal Counts!
- A Declaration Worth Celebrating
- Am I a Hypocrite for Keeping Adopted Hens and Advocating Animal Rights?
- A Declaration Worth Celebrating
- Ben the Bear: From Roadside Hellhole to Sanctuary
- 'Crush Video' Suspects Arrested
- First Ever Fox Cub Hunting Conviction in the UK
- Ben the Bear: From Roadside Hellhole to Sanctuary
- 'Crush Video' Suspects Arrested
- SHARK Milestone: 30,000,000 YouTube Views
- First Ever Fox Cub Hunting Conviction in the UK
- Lucky Coyote Survives being Wedged Behind a Car Bumper
- The Whole Love
- Goat rancher has a change of heart
- Britain’s biggest wild animal circus sells its animals
- East Carolina University (ECU) has ended its use of live ferrets
- Vision Express Ends Use of Wild and Exotic Animals in Their Advertising
- Goat rancher has a change of heart
- Oregon Health Sciences University fined $12,000 for Animal Welfare Act violations following Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN) Official Complaints
- Good News For Indiana’s Turtles: State Says No More Snapperfest
- Activists win legal victory just as the circus comes to town
- Court Finds Sierra Nevada Off-road Vehicle Plan Illegal, Closes 89 Miles
- Cruelty Won't Fly With Air China
- Victory for Kittens at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
- Six South American birds declared endangered
- Idaho Power Withdraws Rodeo Sponsorship
- Word Up?
- Demolished dog tracks become sites for new schools, businesses, housing and more
- Judge Agrees With IDA, Says Los Angeles Zoo Elephants Are Not Healthy, Happy, Or Thriving
- Ringling attendee's amazing testimony
- Better Late Than Never for Minnesota Dolphins
- China’s Shark Fin Feast Over At Official Banquets...in 3 years
- Board game aims to teach children to be kind to animals
- Italy's Green Hill, beagle breeding compound, seized
- South Korea backs down on plans to start whaling
- Richmond CA Becomes 19th Guardian City by Unanimous Vote
- CA Police Develop New Policies After Cougar Killing
- Marketing Versus Reality: The Myth of the Organic Happy Cow
- Penn State Medical School Ends Primate Research
- 4,000 monkeys saved as Colombian vivisector loses wild capture permit
- Era Of Chimp Research Ends At Maryland Lab
- More than a third of health poll respondents eating less meat
- Down with animal testing: Study reveals more people oppose thecontroversial practice
- Oregon Suspends 10 State Forest Timber Sales in Marbled Murrelet Habitat
- Editorials on enforcing SOME regulations at rodeos
- One Farmer's Story: From Pig Farm to Pig Sanctuary
- Mounting Opposition to Vivisection
- The Rise of Vegan Culture in Israel
- Circus Shut Down in California City of Corona
- Exxon Mobile STOPPED from destroying pristine area
- Mayor of Bogota prohibits bullfights in the Plaza de Santamaria
- Tell Geico to End Rodeo Sponsorships... Ride 'em, Gecko VICTORY update
- Settlement in Palm Springs lawsuit will mean improvements in conditions for homeless animals
- Backyard butcher turns himself in
- One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Donkeykind
- 47 Pit Bulls rescued from Bronx fight ring
- El Al Airlines will NOT Transport Monkeys to Laboratories
- Santa Cruz Hatchery Shutdown after Unprecedented Settlement Reached in Cruelty Case
- EVEN Interview with Dan Piraro
- Protections for MANY species of wildlife
- Links to Cruelty-Free Shopping
- Rewilding Animals: Going Home At Last
- Paraguay and Bogota ban animals in circuses
- Kansas dog tracks blocked from re-opening
- Where the Earth Has Legal Rights
- Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN) coordinates release of five monkeys from California lab to Oklahoma sanctuary
- Following Official Complaint by Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN) Penn State University announces end of primate research program
- Bob Barker Donates to Mindy’s Memory; primate sanctuary to give new homes to five California monkeys
- Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of Virginia end the use of animals in medical student training
- Ohio, haunted by slaughter, restricts exotic animals
- No More Waterwork with Killer Whales at SeaWorld!
- Trainer filmed abusing horses banned from show for life
- Ted Nugent Admits to Illegal Alaska Bear Kill
- Activist Groups Sue USDA for Allowing Sale of Diseased Poultry Product...Foie Gras
- Ohio, haunted by slaughter, restricts exotic animals
- Second Vegan Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Ireland Banned Puppy Mills
- Feds Again Deny Permit for Flaming Gorge Pipeline Threatening Colorado's Green River
- Rio Rancho New Mexico Cancels Ringling's Scheduled Shows
- Poachers are now Fair Game in Indian State
- Conference “The Emotional Lives of Animals: What are the Implications? A Comparison Between Researchers and Disciplines”
- Study of 2,068 Vegans Helps Debunk Six of the Most Common Myths
- Vegan Mother and Animal Activist, Doh Driver
- Vegetarianism and Concern for Animals Can Be Found in Protestant Christianity
- Michael Clarke Duncan credits veg lifestyle for improved health and clearer conscience
- Should Animals Be Off the Menu?
- Covance to shutter $150M Chandler testing facility this year
- Foie Gras Ban Upheld in California
- Arizona Victory for the Greyhounds
- Bunnies Rescued from "Urban Farmer"
- Saving the San Diego 10...Laboratory Beagles
- Rescue of 500 Dogs in China by Chinese Animal Activists
- Cole Brothers Circus Pays $15,000 to Settle Abuse Lawsuit
- Holland America cruise line adds all vegetarian menu
- IDA India Installs 1,200 Water Bowls To Help Animals Survive Summer Heat
- New Study: Animal Protection Viewed Most Favorable of Social Justice Causes
- Los Angeles County Fair ends elephant rides
- 1000+ Italian Activists Liberate Beagle Puppies in Daylight Raid
- Growing Catnip
- Wisdom beyond knowledge
- B.C. sled-dog executioner charged
- No more buggy coloring: Starbucks to stop using cochineal extract
- Parental Appeal to Stop Daycare Chick Hatching Project Succeeds
- Fourth Save the Frogs Day schedules over 200 events in 30 countries
- Indian government bans use of live animals for education, research
- Colorful Florida Butterfly Receives Protections at Last
- "71" returns to the wild
- Environmentally Destructive Zoo Bill Vetoed
- Naval Medical Center Portsmouth Ends Ferret Abuse
- Vegan Cooking (book review)
- Deaths at Harvard primate research facility prompts ALDF to demand investigation
- Coal Mine Expansion Halted
- Shine, Imprisoned in the Cellar of a Harlem Bodega for 6 years – Rescued!
- Help for Stray Dogs Arrives in Ukraine
- China’s State FDA has proposed a draft for non-animal testing alternatives on their cosmetics
- Lamb of God: From livestock trailer to rescue
- 300 pit bulls saved from dog fighting ring
- Victory for Ferrets at the University of Washington
- Top Israeli scientist criticizes El Al's refusal to export research animals
- Puppy mill dogs will no longer be sold via Marketplace on Facebook
- Victory: Orange County Fair Board Voted to End Elephant Rides!
- Rare Southwest Frog Wins 10,000 Protected Acres
- Three Elephants Take Flight to PAWS Courtesy of Bob Barker
- Settlement in Clay County Lawsuit Will Mean Dramatic Improvements in Conditions for Kentucky's Homeless Animals
- First
Time in Greece: A Prosecutor for Animal Protection
- Panama
bans bullfights AND dogfights
- Out of
‘Luck’ on HBO
- Tony
the Tiger's Lawyers
- Head of troubled Harvard primate center steps down
- New research halted after another monkey death at primate center in Southboro
- Another Law Enacted To Protect Frogs
- The Torah/Bible Verse That Turned Two Meat Eaters into Beet Eaters
- 3rd Graders Want to See Lolita Retired!
- NCSU Libraries Receives Grant to Shed Light on Primary Documents of Animal Advocacy Movements
- After multiple Official Complaints by
Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN) the head of Harvard Primate
Research Director Resigns
- NIH Prohibits Use of Cats from B Dealers
- Using Dogs to Hunt Deer is Abolished in Kisatchie National Forest
- Workers rescue over 4,000 hens from factory farm
- A Hen Learns to Eat Again
- Big Step Forward for Rights of Dolphins and Whales
- 700 River Miles Protected for Endangered Southwest Fish
- Slaughtering Chickens For "Art" Cancelled in Lawrence, Kansas!
- Stop the return of the diving horse act at Atlantic City's Steel Pier VICTORY update
- Mecosta County Animal Shelter will no longer practice pound seizure after July 1, 2012
- UK Beagle Factory Farm Proposal Turned Down
- Lamb chopped as bishops turn veggie
- Chinese Laundry Removes ALL Fur
- Extraordinary Vegan Lecture
- USDA Fines Elephant Handler Who Was Target Of IDA Complaint
- Greece Bans Animal Circuses
- Georgia Finally Steps Up to Protect Native Turtles
- VICTORY! Tell Air France to Stop Transporting Monkeys
- Virginia Senate Bill 610 is DEAD!
- Tucson Zoo Elephants Won’t Be Split Up...For Now
- 42,000 acres saved from grazing in Arizona
- Supreme Court of Puerto Rico Nixes Monkey Farm
- USDA Acts For Nosey The Elephant
- Illinois pig farm fined for spilling over 200,000 gallons of manure into creek
- The Killing Of Animals In Shelters and Pounds Is An Animal Rights Issue
- Industry News: Egg Consumption Is Declining
- South Vietnam Bear Rescue
- Rabbits Spared From Deadly University Classroom Lab
- Florida's Endangered Wood Stork Recovering
- 2011: A Surprisingly Good Year for Animals
- Grand Canyon's Million-acre Uranium Mining Ban Finalized
- Some Good News and Some Victories for Animals in 2011
- North Little Rock to use dogs against geese rather than hunters
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