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"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you came to me . . . . Whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me."-- Matthew 25: 35-40


ARK 2

Long ago it was given unto Noah by the Creator of all things, and entrusted to his charge, the responsibility and honor to save and protect all life on earth from the coming flood. Now again we must act to save life on our planet, this time, from ourselves. And we shall call our undertaking 'ARK 2', in remembrance of that other time.
Sometimes the enormity of the problem seems overwhelming: Cruelty in the meat and fur industries, animal poachers killing endangered species, dog-eating in Indonesia, boiling (juicing) cats alive, frying living fish in Japan, and other horrific happenings are constantly the norm in many places. The pet overpopulation problem, the destruction of habitat in developing countries, the bushmeat hunters who kill endangered great apes to sell for human consumption, the sad lives of "pariah" dogs in South America and Africa.

Help me! Take action to Help the Dogs being used for 'experiments'.

The millions of cries from suffering animals are deafening, yet many choose not to hear them, or refuse to be bothered with such horrors. In the face of so much cruelty, ignorance and apathy what can be done? Can an individual really make a difference?

If you care, even alittle, about the way animals are being abused and destroyed all over the world, we urge you to get involved, even if in a small way. If you see an abuse, report it; confront ignorance with education; speak out to everyone you know and invite them to join you. Get involved in your local government to strengthen animal protection laws and penalties for offenders. Encourage spaying/neutering and responsible pet ownership. Raise funds and volunteer for your local animal shelter. Not one of the above actions will cost you a penny. Thousands are involved in this work. Please check out the links below to see what other people (all "individuals") are doing! Thank you.

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Please visit these sites, email them to your friends, see what each of us can do, no matter what country we live in, in the global fight to save animals in need. We hope these links will be of use to you and your family as an educational tool, a source of ideas about how to get involved, and also as a call to action. Some of the material is very sad, even horrible. Many turn away rather than learn the truth. Some people, thank Heaven, get angry enough to work for change. They endure frustration but also experience victories, and when all is said and done, have the satisfaction of knowing that they "fought the good fight". Please don't turn your back on the helpless victims of mankind. They desperately need all the help they can get!

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Links to Organizations Helping Animals

  • People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
  • Fund for Animals
  • Kenya’s Meru National Park - Working to save the rare white rhino
  • Ark2 - Helping animals - one by one.
  • World Wildlife Fund
  • Books for sale about animals
  • Caught in a Trap: A painful end
  • Poultry Abuse - Before you order scrambled eggs again, read this.
  • Save the Planet Action Center
  • PETA Campaigns
  • Links tO Conservation organizations worldwide
  • The Hidden Lives of Chickens
  • The Holocaust on your Plate
  • International Rhino Foundation
  • African Wildlife Foundation
  • The sad story of little Patch
  • Swim with the Whales Animation - Kids will enjoy this too.
  • Meet Singles who Love Animals
  • The Nature Conservancy - Protecting Habitats by Buying & Managing them
  • Defenders of Wildlife
  • Barry Kirshner Wildlife Foundation
  • Animal Welfare
  • Save Sumatran Rhinos - Less than 300 remain! Is the most critically endangered of the three Asian rhino species.
  • Save the Black Rhinoceros - Less than 10 left in Cameroon
  • Javan Rhinoceros - Fewer than 70 individuals probably survive in the wild, and there are none in captivity.
  • Circus Animals
  • The Fur Industry
  • Cow Milk is for cows- not kids!
  • Scared, Stunned, Skinned, & Skewered
  • Your Lucky day in Hell
  • The Rainforest Alliance
  • The Bushmeat Project - Stop the Slaughter
  • Eating Apes - The African bushmeat trade
  • The current news about Bushmeat
  • The Congo Basin Project - Stop the poaching of wildlife for bushmeat.
  • Center for Captive Chimpanzee Care - Help move 266 chimpanzees (rescued from the Coulston Foundation primate-testing laboratory ) to protected natural habitats.
  • On tortoises, monkeys and men - Don't miss this wonderful testament to animals.
  • Imported dog and cat fur
  • Fox fur coats
  • Battling the Evil-doers
  • Animal Rights Links
  • Chimpanzee Guardian Program - Save a chimpanzee
  • The Jane Goodall Institute
  • Koko, the Signing Gorilla
  • Michael the Gorilla - Koko's friend, his life and death
  • Spay/Neuter your Pets
  • Animal Rights Coalition, USA
  • Slaughterhouse reality
  • IFAW International Fund for Animal Welfare - Join the campaign to stop Canada's Seal Hunt NOW
  • End Cruelty to Animals
  • World Wildlife Fund - Good Information
  • Leading Endangered Species Organizations Links:
  • Last Chance for Animals
  • Birds, mice & rats in labs need your help now! - U.S. Gov't won't classify them as animals! So what are they?
  • Factory Farming - the truth hurts
  • Save the African Elephants in Cameroon
  • British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection - Learn the truth here.
  • RDS - An Attempt to justify animal research"
  • World Society for the Protection of Animals
  • The International Association for Bear Research and Management (IBA)
  • Bears Of San Francisco (BOSF)
  • Bear Trust International
  • International Bear Foundation
  • Pain and Suffering in Labs
  • The Humane Society of the United States
  • London Wildlife Trust
  • ASPAC American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
  • Sheepdog Rescue
  • Center for Biological Diversity
  • Endangered Species Coalition (ESC)
  • What's New at Predator Conservation Alliance!
  • The Endangered Species Program, US Fish & Wildlife Service
  • League of Conservation Voters
  • Sea Turtle Survival League/Caribbean Conservation
  • Endangered Species - popular Links:
  • National and International Endangered and Threatened Species List
  • (UNEP) World Conservation Monitoring Centre
  • Endangered Animals of the World Hot Site!
  • Stop Commercial Whaling by Japan & Norway
  • Information on Rare, Threatened and Endangered Mammals
  • National Wildlife Federation
  • Lists - Extinct Species Information Links
  • (IUCN) The World Conservation Union
  • International links to threatened and endangered species projects
  • Farm Sanctuary***
  • Stop farm animal cruelty - Be kind to Chickens
  • (IFAW) Emergency Relief for Animals - In Disasters, Wars, Oil Spills
  • The National Environmental Directory - a directory of more than 13,000 organizations in the United States concerned with environmental issues and environmental education.
  • Links to Conservation Organizations worldwide
  • The Current Mass Extinction
  • The Late Pleistocene Extinctions


    • Procter & Gamble Animal Testing!It's no skin off YOUR back!

    One is Protected by law. One isn't.

    Patch, the lab experiment.Help the Dogs in Labs

    Andalas, the rare baby Sumatran rhinoceros born at the zoo in September, weighs in at a whopping 500 pounds, according to Dr. Terry Roth. Andalas was the first Sumatran rhinoceros to be born in captivity in 112 years.

    Guide to Becoming an ActivistElephant Torture at Carson & Barnes Circus!

    Frightened fox awaits death in a fur farm. He will be crushed to death in a crusher and then skinned so somebody can wear his skin. How sick!

    What a pathetic waste! This is the saddest picture.What's wrong with using Leather? What else is there?

    Urge Mozambique to stop turtle deaths now. Turtles are washing up dead on the beaches of Mozambique in east Africa, often beheaded, or with their throats cut by fishermen.Hey, Lady, are you really so cruel and vain or just plain dumb?

    Elephant Torture at Carson & Barnes CircusTell the Navy to stop killing whales! Send your email from this page.

    Stop Canada from conducting 2003 Seal Hunt!

    Join the Greenpeace cyberactivist community and start making waves.The Hidden Lives of Chickens. Info that may surprise you! Chickens are smart.

    definition - holocaust: a thorough destruction (The Merriam Webster Dictionary)Horses are suffering! Tens of thousands of pregnant mares confined to tiny stalls for months at a time, wearing urine-collection bags that chafe their legs and prevent them from lying down comfortably!Circus Animals

    Carson & Barnes video
    Click above to see video footage of a Tim Frisco training session. (Warning: explicit language.)
    Video showing the routine cruelty involved in raising animals for food, showing each stage of their brief tortured lives.




    Save the Chickens

    Chickens raised for food in the U.S. are denied all their natural behaviors and desires. They are crammed by the tens of thousands into sheds that stink of ammonia fumes from accumulated waste; they are given barely enough room even to move (each bird lives in the amount of space equivalent to a standard sheet of paper).

    Unwanted male chicks are routinely buried alive in pits, crushed or ground up alive, suffocated in trash cans, or killed by gassing.They routinely suffer broken bones from being bred to be top heavy, from callous handling (workers roughly grab birds by their legs and stuff them into crates), and from being shackled upside-down at slaughterhouses.

    Chickens are often still fully conscious when their throats are slit or when they are dumped into tanks of scalding hot water to remove their feathers. When they’re killed, chickens are still babies, not yet 2 months old, out of a natural life span of 10 to 15 years.

    The average American meat-eater is responsible for the abuse and deaths of approximately 2,500 chickens.

    Links for Environment & Habitat

  • The National Environmental Directory - a directory of more than 13,000 organizations in the United States concerned with environmental issues and environmental education.
  • Rainforest Protectors Club
    • -     Forest Action Network
  • Ocean Conservancy
  • Save America's Forests
  • International Rivers Network (IRN)
  • Official Site of the Wildlands Project
  • World Land Trust
  • Why should I care?
  • American Lands Alliance
  • Save America's Forests
  • Forest Guardians - Environmental Activism
  • Save-the-Redwoods League
  • American Forests
  • (EPIC) Environmental Protection Information Center
  • FORESTS FOREVER




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    This article can be found in its entirety at the World Wildlife Fund website. Click here to read the rest of this basic overview of all the problems causing the extinction of animal species.

    THE PROBLEMS THEY FACE


    "Nobody knows how many species are being lost each year, nor even the total number of species that exist. Biologists estimate that there are between 5 and 15 million species of plants, animals, and micro-organisms existing on the Earth today, of which only about 1.5 million have been described and named. The estimated total includes around 300,000 plant species, between 4 and 8 million insects, and about 50,000 vertebrate species (of which about 10,000 are birds and 4,000 are mammals).Yet almost all species (plant and animal) are under threat to some degree from the acivities of man... Habitat loss leads to a loss of species It said by some, if not most, experts that habitat loss is the greatest threat to the variety of life on this planet today. Already, around half of the world's original forests have disappeared, and they are still being removed at a rate 10x higher than any possible level of regrowth. As tropical forests contain at least half the Earth's species, the clearance of some 17 million hectares each year is causing a dramatic loss of biodiversity. Moreover, habitat loss is identified as a main threat to 85 per cent of all species described in the IUCN's Red Lists (those species offcially classified as "threatened" and "endangered").

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