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PRESS RELEASE : HUNTING IN SOUTH AFRICA: A BLOODY MESSClick HERE to continue.
ARA joins international call for Tanzania to take cognizance of elephants interests in its National Elephant Management Plan
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WORLD DAY FOR LABORATORY ANIMALS - 24TH APRIL 2010
The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals recently obtained heartbreaking photos showing at least 50 beagles confined to crates and loaded like cargo on a Lufthansa transport plane.
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NEW: Animal Rights Africa Special Report.
Seeking the Path of Least Disclosure: Hunting for Official Answers on Wildlife in South Africa.
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HELP THE BULL !!
Assist Animal Rights Africa in its precedent setting legal challenge to prevent the bare-handed killing of the bull at the Ukweshwana First Fruits Festival.
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Ritual Killing
Animal Rights Africa takes urgent legal action to prevent heartbreaking bull killing ritual where 20 to 40 young men push the bull onto the ground, stab its eyes, yank out its tongue, twist its genitals and then beat it to death.
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Animal Rights Activist Video Production Courses – 2010
Broadcast journalist Hein Ungerer is developing a series of television production workshops aimed specifically at animal activists.
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October is the month for Activism !!
October 2009 is a month for Animal Rights activism.
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NEWAnimal Rescues Unlimited Photo Gallery
Photo Gallery of the Animal Rights Africa Rescues Unlimited Project.
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Chick Culling
Opinion piece by Patricia Glyn.
So the great barn door of a South African chicken hatchery has been prised open – albeit just a chink.
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TAKE ACTION : RHINOS UNDER SIEGE IN SOUTH AFRICA
PLEASE WRITE TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT AND ASK FOR AN IMMEDIATE MORATORIUM ON HUNTING AND TRADE
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RHINOS, RED HERRINGS AND RUSES: ARA RESPONDS TO SANPARKS CEO
"Red herrings and spin-doctoring" is how Animal Rights Africa (ARA) spokesperson, Michele Pickover, reacted to claims made by SANParks CEO, Dr David Mabunda, during a media briefing in Pretoria on July 14, 2009.
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Animal Activist Lashes Out at Rhino Hunt
THE killing of a white rhino during a hunt at a private game reserve in the Eastern Cape, which an international website claimed is a new world Safari Club International (SCI) record, has been slammed by an animal rights organisation.
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SPCA to help at Zuma's party
Durban - The SPCA will assist the organisers of President Jacob Zuma's party to slaughter 25 cows
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SANPARKS IS HIDING BEHIND INDEFENSIBLE EXCUSES
Sunday Independent, 31 May 2009
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Shocking New Elephant Abuse Video From Circus In Greece
Watch the video, then send an e-mail.
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TAKE ACTION: Tell Iceland: Stop Whaling Now!
It's a terrifying week for whales. Iceland's whaling season began on Tuesday, despite international outcry against the bloody hunt. Whalers plan to kill up to 100 minke whales this season.
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ARA MOURNS DEATH OF SYBIL
Animal Rights Africa is very sad to announce that Sybil, one of the baboons we rescued from the National Centre for Occupational Heath in Johannesburg in 1996.
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Animal Intelligence and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism
New essay by Steven Best
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NEW PROCTOR & GAMBLE CRUELTY EXPOSED!
Uncaged recently uncovered further disturbing evidence of the suffering of innocent animals for the sake of P&G's 'Herbal Essences'.
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Bolivia Bans Animal Circus
Animal Defenders International (ADI) is delighted that a ban on the use of animals in circuses is within reach in Bolivia.
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Order to release animal test data
Several universities and major colleges have been ordered to reveal information about their animal experiments by the Information Commissioner's Office.
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UPDATED : Animal Rights Africa on Carte Blanche Sunday 12 April 2009
Monkey Business : Carte Blanche has been looking at conditions at private zoos and the results have been less than satisfactory. This week we look at a zoo in Somerset West.
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GLOBAL BOYCOTT PROCTER & GAMBLE DAY XIII - SATURDAY MAY 16 2009
Please unite with fellow activists for our thirteenth Global Boycott P&G Day on Saturday 16th May 2009 to expose the callous animal testing practices of the world’s largest consumer goods corporation.
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Claws out after dog racing hearings
Government-sponsored public hearings into the possible legalisation of greyhound racing in South Africa have resulted in a war of words between animal rights activists and dog racers.
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Veg-O-Might
Do you need to eat meat to get ripped?
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Political agenda for Animal welfare needed
Article from Maneka Gandhi in The Bihar Times.
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Jamaica Rejects Dog Racing!
The Prime Minister of Jamaica, Bruce Golding, has said that greyhound racing will not be authorized in his country.
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Cruel Cosmetics
Concern over loopholes in European ban on animal-tested cosmetics.
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SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS SAYS IT DOES NOT CARRY PRIMATES FOR THE RESEARCH INDUSTRY
The BUAV have announced that several airlines had stopped transporting primates for the research industry.
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YOUR HELP NEEDED TO STOP GREYHOUND RACING - PLEASE ATTEND HEARINGS
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ANIMAL PROTECTIONISTS, CONSERVATIONISTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY UP IN ARMS AT VAN SCHALKWYK’S APPARENT CONTEMPT FOR PRESCRIBED PUBLIC CONSULTATION PROCESSES
An ARA Press Release. Click HERE for more.
PETITION: HELP STOP THE VIVISECTION PRIMATE TRADE IN MAURITIUS
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CITES SANCTIONED SALE OF 51 TONNES OF SOUTH AFRICAN IVORY A DISGRACE
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SILENCES AND SPINDOCTORING: TRYING TO ACCESS GOVERNMENT INFORMATION ON ELEPHANTS IN SOUTH AFRICA
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PETITION: TELL THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT TO BAN THE EXPORT AND SALE OF WILD ANIMALS
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SCANDALOUS CANNED HUNTING STATISTICS REVEAL THAT MINISTER VAN SCHALKWYK IS GUILTY OF DOUBLESPEAK
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URGENT Action Needed Just send an email
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SOUTH AFRICA’S CONTROVERSIAL SALE OF IVORY TO CHINA SPELLS TOTAL DISASTER FOR AFRICA’S ELEPHANTS
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ARA STATEMENT ON SHOOTING OF KWAZULU-NATAL HIPPO
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ARA POSITION ON CAPTURE AND RELOCATION OF VAGRANT HIPPO IN KWAZULU-NATAL SUBSEQUENT TO ALLEGED
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TRADING IN MISERY: THE SOUTH AFRICAN VIVISECTION INDUSTRY'S EXPLOITATION OF INDIGENOUS PRIMATES
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PETITION : Sanwild needs your help!!
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HELP THE ELEPHANTS
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Why “Good Welfare” Isn’t “Good Enough”: Minding Animals and Increasing Our Compassionate Footprint
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Elephant Protest, South African Embassy Dublin
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Zimbabwe: Paper Claims Ivory Used to Finance Purchase of Chinese Arms
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HELP STOP SOUTH AFRICA’S UNJUST WAR ON ELEPHANTS
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"Save the Ellies" Podcast
Michele Pickover from Animal Rights Africa appeared on the 123 Listen 2 Me podcast.
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Animal Rights Africa Video
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Petition : Put an end to Elephant Culling in South Africa
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ELEPHANTS FACE BLEAK AND CRUEL FUTURE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
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ANIMAL RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS WILL TAKE TOUGHER STANCE IF GOVERNMENT DISAPPOINTS ON ELEPHANT ISSUE
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THE AUCTIONING OFF OF 50 WHITE RHINOS: SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS DOUBLESPEAK
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South African Anti-Whaling protesters Target Japanese Embassy
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Ubuntu Youth and Oprah Winfrey
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URGENT : South Africa's elephants in captivity need your help!
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Listen to an Interview with Michele Pickover and Steve Smit from Animal Rights Africa
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R.I.P Nathan
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CITES 'COMPROMISE' WILL SPELL DISASTER FOR ELEPHANTS
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7 Simple things you can do to save animals in the new year
Click HERE for more.Examine what you eat on World Day for Animals: October 4
October the 4th is World Day for Animals. What can you do ? Click HERE for more.Updated Compassionate Shopping Guide
Click HERE to see the Compassionate Shopping guide.
Take Action : Boycott Namibia
80 000 endangered Cape Fur seal pups are being slaughtered right now. Stand up to this and join the Boycott Namibia campaign. Go HERE...
Take Action : Sign the Husky Justice petition now
Do something about horrific animal abuse in South Africa. Go HERE...
Take Action : Elephants Need Your Help
This is an urgent plea for you to help the elephants in Southern Africa. more...
Elephants in Captivity Update (May 2007)
Click HERENEW : Elephant Back Safari Brochure
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Click for more... RITES AND WRONGS: CULTURE, THE CONSTITUTION AND COMPASSION
Presentation given by Michele Pickover (of Animal Rights Africa) at the National Heritage Council Indaba (21 April 2007) in relation to ritual slaughter. Click to continue.Our Mission
Recognising that animals are currently being exploited, vicitimised and abused, with no regard for their inherent value, in a society that sees this as acceptable, Animal Rights Africa aims to changem by means of education and information, the way people think about and act towards other animals...more
