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POPSDolphin Murdered by thousands Animal cruelty is animal cruelty, just as cruelty to people is cruelty to people. Some would exclude banning or protesting certain human practices out of respect to cultural difference. My answer is although some sub-cultures still believe it is ok to enslave others, or that forcing sex on women and children or permissible - the global culture will no longer tolerate such practices. Killing, slaughtering dolphins just because you can and have done so is no longer acceptable global behavior!
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POPSSaving Kenya's orphan elephants I used to spend a lot of time at the Sheldrick elephant orphanage at Nairobi National Park. I now no longer live in Kenya, but the plight of African wildlife and the fight against poaching for ivory are still very close to my heart.
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POPSIndus Dolphins, Turtles on the Brink Government counts in much of the third world are notoriously unreliable.. bureaucrats often make up the numbers to meet quotas and targets. For example, when satellite imaging of forests in India was carried out, it showed that the forest cover had been reduced to a mere half of what the reports of the provinces' forest departments had claimed.
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POPSSchools and Libraries to Ban Facebook/MySpace? I think there is a huge difference between "social networking" and using social sites to show how "cool" you are and troll for dates & relationships. Teenagers who are not "networking" for a business related reason have no business NOT having their online activities supervised...because teens have poor impulse control, poor self esteem issues, and can be easily swayed to do ridiculous things just because some stranger thinks they are "hot". Should Facebook & MySpace be banned at libraries for teens? Perhaps yes...for everyone, perhaps not.
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POPSThe Truth About Sarah Palin Sarah Palin - Worse for the Planet Than Even Bush Sarah Palin spent $400,000 of state money to "educate" Alaskans about aerial hunting of wolves and bears. State tax money was used to directly influence the outcome of proposition 2 which would have limited aerial shooting of predators. Since Alaskans had previously voted twice to ban aerial shooting of predators, Palin used state tax money to buy support for aerial shooting. Buying votes with tax money worked - proposition two was voted down on 8/26/08.
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POPSSurvival of California condors hangs on lead ban, study says "But they also noted that humans who ingest meat from game can suffer adverse effects from lead: "Removing lead ammunition is not only right for condors, it is right for other scavengers, and it is right for hunters and their families." The report called on the Fish and Wildlife Service, which oversees the recovery program, to "increase the visibility of its leadership."
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POPSBan on Lead Bullets Will Help Save the California Condor Beginning July 1, lead ammunition will be banned throughout a wide swath of California to further protect the endangered California condor. While some hunters may not be pleased, few people are happier than Assemblyman Pedro Nava, who first introduced the ban, known as the Ridley-Tree Condor Preservation Act, in 2005.
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POPSJapan plans more whaling kills Japan is a disgrace and the insipid posturing of World delegates was such that Japan achieved an ability to carry on whaling. We are being led by whimps!
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POPSDespite 2002 Hunting Ban, Snow Leopard Furs Being Sold As Souvenirs In Kabul U.S. soldiers joke with a snow leopard skin sample during an awareness programme at a military base in Kabul May 25, 2008. Afghanistan's snow leopards have barely survived three decades of war. But now the few remaining mountain leopards left in Afghanistan face another threat -- foreigners involved in rebuilding the war-torn country. Despite a complete hunting ban across Afghanistan since 2002, snow leopard furs regularly end up for sale on international military bases and at tourist bazaars in the capital. Foreigners have ready cash to buy the pelts as souvenirs and impoverished Afghans break poaching laws to supply them. Picture taken May 25, 2008. To match feature AFGHAN-SNOWLEOPARDS/ REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (AFGHANISTAN) AFGHAN-SNOWLEOPARDS/ KABUL Afghanistan 6/27/2008
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POPSCourt rules in favor of Second Amendment gun right riting for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia said that an individual right to bear arms is supported by "the historical narrative" both before and after the Second Amendment was adopted. The Constitution does not permit "the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home," Scalia said. The court also struck down Washington's requirement that firearms be equipped with trigger locks or kept disassembled, but left intact the licensing of guns.
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POPSThe Democrats And Gun Control Mr. Obama's campaign Web site touts his belief in the Second Amendment rights to have guns "for the purposes of hunting and target shooting." Conspicuously absent is the right to have firearms to defend one's self, home and family. A presidential candidate could of course swear devotion to the First Amendment, while declaring that the amendment's purpose is to protect sports reporting and book collecting. And that candidate could still support government lawsuits against publishers, local bans on newspapers, and draconian restrictions on political commentary. Civil libertarians who supported such a candidate because of his alleged love for the First Amendment would be foolish. Civil libertarians who support Mr. Obama or Mrs. Clinton because of their purported fealty to the Second Amendment may be bitterly disappointed.
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POPSS. Africa Will Kill Elephants To Control Population Amid Threaten Tourist Boycotts He said elephants earned about 18.6 billion rands (US$2.42 billion; €1.62 billion) a year from tourists and only 1.14 billion rands (US$148 million; €99 million) in ivory, hunting and sales. "Elephants are worth much more alive than dead," he said. Still, Scholes said, it was "quite likely" that other countries would follow South Africa's lead and using killing to control elephant populations, even eventually in East Africa, once the numbers which have stabilized begin to increase. "I see little alternative to doing so," he said.
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POPSShooting 'canned' lions in South Africa I understand killing and eating. The mind that enjoys depriving another living creature of its life for 'pleasure' is utterly beyond me. I have nothing but contempt for these people. This isn't a sport in any sense of the word.
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