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NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In January 2013 a top US lifestyle magazine named Nadja Atwal the "Sexiest Power Woman of all Time," topping celebrities like Gisele Bundchen, Heidi Klum and Ivanka Trump. Now, Atwal is the one in front of the camera again and the result is a powerful photo featuring the NY business woman with her statement "Only Freedom is exotic." (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130207/NY55058 ) "I was totally taken by surprise from the...
Report shows knowledge of overcrowding, disease publicly denied by Cayman Turtle Farm for more than five months NEW YORK, Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In an Independent Veterinary Assessment document recently made available to the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) from July 2012, the popular island and cruise line attraction Cayman Turtle Farm, or CTF, has had knowledge of animal health and endangerment problems on their property for more than five...
Of around seven land vertebrate species whose survival in the wild is threatened one is also kept in captivity. These and other data on the protection of species in zoos and aquaria have now been revealed by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock. Writing in the journal Science, the team of researchers and the International Species Information System (ISIS) advocate the establishment of targeted captive breeding programmes to supplement the...
BOSTON, Dec. 6, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As cheerful images of reindeer appear on TV and in shopping mall displays this holiday season, an investigation by the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) exposes a grim counterpoint: reindeer suffering as they are rounded up in large numbers, transported and slaughtered in Sweden and Finland. Footage from the investigation, released today, shows the extreme distress experienced by reindeer at every stage of the commercial...
YARMOUTH PORT, Mass., Nov. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare) is moving three tigers from a closed sanctuary in San Antonio, Texas to Pittsboro, North Carolina. The tigers will be transported on a 36-foot rescue trailer and cover more than 1,300 miles to their new life-long home at the Carolina Tiger Rescue sanctuary. Unfortunately, due to the economic downturn, WAO, the Wild Animal Orphanage, decided to close their doors. Working together...
Elephants living in zoos have shorter lives than their wild counterparts, according to a new study that will most certainly stir debate about their captive situations. Researchers compared the life spans of elephants in European zoos with those living in Amboseli National Park in Kenya and others working on a timber enterprise in Myanmar. Animals in the wild or in natural working conditions had life spans twice that or more of their relatives in zoos.The new findings were published in the...
