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MEPs buckle under vivisection industry pressure

6 May 2009

PRESS RELEASE For immediate release 6 May, 2009 MEPs vote to support non-animal research but strip away protection from wild caught primates; and remove prior… Read more...

Malaysian Oil Palm Threatens Brazilian Amazon

6 May 2009

By Rainforest Rescue with Ecological Internet http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/ & http://www.climateark.org/ May 6, 2009 TAKE ACTION HERE NOW: http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=amazon_oil_palm Malaysia's government owned and subsidized oil palm cooking… Read more...

Chimpanzee population plummets 90 percent in supposedly strong region

6 May 2009

Chimp populations continue to decline in Africa. A new survey of our closest relatives in the Cote D'Ivoire found that the population fell from an… Read more...

Gibbon Exploited On NBC's 30 Rock and Used for "Pet" Promotion

5 May 2009

A recent episode of NBC's 30 Rock featured a young gibbon named "Little Jenna" dressed in human clothing and toted around like a doll. The… Read more...

Levi Strauss stop using great apes in ads

5 May 2009

Company Sets New Policy After PETA Appeal For Immediate Release:May 5, 2009 Contact:Kristie Phelps 757-622-7382 San Francisco -- After learning from PETA… Read more...

Great apes suffer set backs in EU animal testing vote

5 May 2009

The EU's executive Commission last year proposed a range of measures to improve the welfare of the 12 million vertebrate animals used in experiments each… Read more...

Gibbon Exploited On NBC's 30 Rock and Used for "Pet" Promotion

5 May 2009

A recent episode of NBC's 30 Rock featured a young gibbon named "Little Jenna" dressed in human clothing and toted around like a doll. The… Read more...

Gibbon Exploited On NBC's 30 Rock and Used for "Pet" Promotion

5 May 2009

A recent episode of NBC's 30 Rock featured a young gibbon named "Little Jenna" dressed in human clothing and toted around like a doll. The… Read more...