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Comment by Paul Westmerland on November 20, 2009 at 4:23am

Wild Horse Update - Comment Period Extended Until Sunday

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has extended the public comment period concerning the latest assault on wild horses - the scheduled removal of 2,500 wild horses from Calico Mountain Complex in northwest Nevada. Please, if you haven't already, take a moment to send in your opposition to the Calico roundup. Public comments will be accepted through this Sunday, November 22.

If you have already responded to this alert, as did more than 7,000 IDA members, please re-visit the alert and use the Tell-A-Friend function at the top to pass it on to your friends and family. Ask them to speak up against the inhumane government practice of removing wild horses and burros.

The fight to stop these roundups is heating up. We will soon call upon you again to help us continue this battle to stop this ill-conceived program. Thank you for speaking up against the BLM practice of removing wild horses from lands which were specifically designated for them by Congress.

The BLM has for decades mismanaged millions of acres of publicly-owned land for the benefit of the private cattle industry and other special interests. Land has been destroyed, and countless wild horses and other animals have died. It's time to to manage the public lands for all Americans who strongly support protection for wild horses and wildlife.

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Comment by Paul Westmerland on November 10, 2009 at 3:18pm

Please Take Action NOW and Pass on to Friends & Family - every comment counts.

The Obama Administration is continuing the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) war on wild horses by proposing to round up an astounding 2,500 wild horses -- fully 80 percent of the wild horses in the Calico Complex in northwestern Nevada -- and stockpile them in long-term government holding facilities. The roundups, which are set to begin December and last three months, will break horse families apart and permanently shatter complex horse society. To learn more about wild horse social and family bonds, see the wild horse series on PBS Nature, "Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies."

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/cloud-wild-stallion-of-the-rockies/video-full-episode/260/

The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) has found that "BLM’s decisions on how many wild horses to remove from federal rangelands were not based on direct evidence that wild horse populations exceeded what the range could support and that removals were often not accompanied by reductions in livestock grazing levels or range management to increase the land’s capacity."

The Calico Complex roundup plan continues BLM policy of removing wild horses, who are supposed to be protected by an act of Congress, for the benefit of private ranchers who graze their livestock on our public lands at bargain basement rates. The plan is an example of BLM's gross mismanagement of our wild horses and public lands.

While the BLM intends to massively round up and remove thousands of horses purportedly over concerns about the health of the range, it refuses to even consider removing any of the more than 2,000 head of cattle currently grazing in the same area. A more cost-effective and long-term solution to preserving range health must include buying back cattle leases on public lands like the Calico Complex, which have been designated to be for the primary benefit of wild horses.

The BLM is accepting public comments on an Environmental Assessment of this devastating plan until Thursday, November 12. Please act today to stop this latest BLM atrocity.

More information on the proposed Calico roundup is here

http://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/wfo/blm_information/nepa0/wild_horse_and_burro/Calico.html

IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS LETTER PAGE .... Here

https://secure2.convio.net/ida/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1337&JServSessionIdr003=607gteeb42.app43b

Universal Love Peace and Harmony

Paul

Comment by alpaca love on November 6, 2009 at 9:02am

The best thing that you can do to help animals is to just enjoy them. When you love them and other people see the joy that you get from them than they start thinking about having animals in their lives too. This is my favorite quote.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Anatole France

Comment by Paul Westmerland on November 1, 2009 at 1:35pm

Short Film: In the Eye of the Whale from MMCTA on Vimeo.

Comment by AwakenedOm-Alexa on October 26, 2009 at 5:34pm

...and after this, I am going to sign the Int'l Day of Climate Action Petition.
Every little thing we do, every petition that we sign, DOES make a difference.
We are still working on the enviro-issues to save the polar bears, but here is some good new for polar bears to celebrate today on another front. Please sign up to support the continuation for this effort. namaste!

Victory Today, and still More to be done through 2010

BREAKING NEWS!

Dear Friend of BioGems,
I have some very exciting news to share with you.

Yielding to pressure from conservationists, including more than 50,000 NRDC Members and online activists, the Obama Administration has just announced that it will support an upgrade in international protection for polar bears.

This is extremely important, because if the world agrees to increase the polar bear's protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), it would help end trophy hunting and stop the global trade in polar bear body parts.

Please take a moment to celebrate this announcement with me, because it would never have happened without the activism of NRDC supporters like you!

And let's give credit where credit is due: I encourage you to send a message right now to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar -- to thank him for doing the right thing for the sake of polar bear survival. (you can do this via the NRDC site below)

But please don't think this battle is over.

Between now and March 2010, when the next CITES treaty talks take place, we will have to expand our campaign to make sure that other key nations line up with America's pro-polar-bear position.

So much is at stake: hundreds of polar bears are still being hunted as trophies, and their body parts traded, each year. Canada, which is home to two-thirds of the world's polar bears and includes some of the world's most important polar bear habitat, still allows both trophy hunting and commercial trade.

If the polar bear is to survive, we must end these destructive practices by upgrading polar bear protection under CITES.

Around the world, NRDC has been taking a leading role on this issue. Our team recently traveled to Geneva to discuss polar bear conservation with the CITES Standing Committee, and also reached out to allies in Norway, Russia and the European Union as we build international momentum for increasing protection.

Over the next few months I'll be writing to you again with news and updates -- and asking you to take action to help protect polar bears from trophy hunting and trafficking.

But make no mistake: the Obama Administration's endorsement of tougher polar bear protection was absolutely critical, and I don't believe it would have happened without more than 50,000 NRDC Members and online activists making your voices heard -- loud and clear.

So give yourself credit, and send a note of thanks to Ken Salazar, too, for standing up for polar bears. Tomorrow, the fight continues, but for today you and I have something to celebrate!

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council

Sign Up now at:
www.nrdc.org
www.savebiogems.org

Comment by Paul Westmerland on October 24, 2009 at 6:24am

Make a Difference on International Day of Climate Action!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/775034424?z00m=19799760

On October 24, 2009, thousands of people around the world are taking part in the International Day of Climate Action. December's UN climate meeting in Copenhagen is a critical juncture for the future of our planet and all of its inhabitants -- and we need YOU to show your government's leadership that combating climate change is not only politically possible, it is politically critical!

The coalition 350.org has launched the International Day of Climate Action on Saturday to bring a common goal of reducing the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere to 350 parts per million -- what our world's top scientists say is the safest upper limit for carbon dioxide on our planet.

We're already at 387 ppm. Now we need to make it clear to our world leaders that we must get back down to at least 350 ppm! You can help deliver this message by adding your name and participating in 350.org's International Day of Climate Action.

Do your part, and on this International Day of Climate Action, demand that your country's leading decision-makers go to Copenhagen with a plan to combat global warming!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/775034424?z00m=19799760

# 4,223: 3:17 am PDT, Oct 24, Paul Westmerland, United Kingdom

Global Warming? Global Cooling? Man-made or not? These are the BIG arguments raging in society. Our view is that these are the WRONG issues to be discussing. These issues may be unanswerable, and are irrelevant.
The relevant issues are:
1. The air. oceans and earth are increasingly polluted.
2. Species, whose importance we may not know, are disappearing.
3. Some natural resources are being used without being replenished.
4. The status-quo is not sustainable.
5. To the extent that man has caused problems, man can enact solutions.
6. Science and technology can lead the way.

Comment by Paul Westmerland on October 23, 2009 at 4:51am

SAVE MIRACLE THE BEAR ... Thanks Eloura

We have a Miracle among us, and she is in danger.

The Story So Far

Miracle was born on a breeding farm in the spring of 2006. The farm is run by Mr. and Mrs. Lee, an aging Korean couple. Bear bile farming made them rich, but they are getting old and ill and don’t want to continue the bear bile business. They want someone to buy all of their bears so they can retire. The bile farm is small, filthy and miserable for bears. For Miracle, it was a torture chamber. The couple fed her pig’s food, and sometimes even meat from the flesh of other bears. All day and night she laid in her own filth, locked in a cage that was never cleaned. Next to her, in another cage, a traumatized 3-legged moonbear cub wrestled with madness. One day, no longer able to cope with the pain of bile extraction and agony of mental terror, Miracle escaped and swam across a river, where she found freedom in the wild.

But … Authorities want Miracle back; she’s an issue they do not know how to handle. They set traps for her and sent 30 armed hunters with 10 dogs chasing after her. When that attempt to capture Miracle failed, they sent another 110 hunters with 40 hunting dogs to track her down in May. Miracle has eluded them all. She’s been living off wild honey, farmers’ crops and chickens and the shear will to survive. Current plans to capture Miracle have been suspended until fall, when food supply gets low and the forest becomes thinner. If captured alive, Miracle could end up back on Lee’s bile farm or the farm of another Korean bile broker.

Body Parts

Farmer Lee has admitted to selling bears, regardless of age, to anyone who wants their gall bladders, their meat or their limbs. He doesn’t consider their pain or death. For Lee and his fellow bile farmers, bears are not fellow Earth Beings; they are a commodity, a product to broker for personal gain. He feels free of moral responsibilities.

Another Option

With enough public pressure, it is possible that the authorities will spare Miracle’s life and allow her to live freely in the forest, or, if captured, to be handed over to a bear sanctuary, where she will be cared for by compassionate and loving people. You can help make sure Miracle doesn’t end up dead by ambush or barely alive back on a bile farm.

1. Put pressure on the Korean government. Write letters!
The Minister of the Environment -
Attention:
Mr. Lee Maan-ee
KyungGi-do, GwaCheun-si, KwanMun-ro 88
JungAng-dong 1, GwaCheeun complex, (427-729)

Wonju Regional Environmental Office
Attention:
Director-General Mr. Kim, Hyung-seop,
Mr.Shin Sang-yeop/ Nature Environment Section
Kangwon-do, Wonju-si, Myungryun-dong, Dangu-ro 327, (220-947)
Tel : (033)764-0982

Hwacheon Governer’s Office
Attention:
Mr. Jeong, Gab-cheol,
Mr.Ji Mu-ryong/ Environment Planning Section
KangWon-do, Hwacheun-gun, Hwacheun-up, Ahri 239, (209-804)
Tel: (033)442-2855

President Lee Myung Bak
1 Cheongwadae-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea 110-820
Email: foreign@president.go.kr
Phone: 82.2.730.5800

2. Spread the word so others can get involved!

3. If you’re a teacher, our Resources page for lesson plan ideas!

Animal welfare activists are working to develop a strategy to save Miracle’s life. The key element in the strategy is to build a sanctuary on protected land. There are only 16 moonbears left in the wild in South Korea. By contrast, more than 1,600 moonbears are imprisoned on bile farms in South Korea. We can set them free, one bear at a time, one farm at a time. Please help save Miracle’s life, and we can save the life of the other bears that shared her hell on the Lee farm.

*Special thanks to URSA FREEDOM PROJECT Team members for their continual support and fantastic vision. Join http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com today and join the struggle!

You can support Moonbears.org in their struggle to build a sanctuary for all Korean bears. Sign their petition and share your voice!

The fate of “Miracle,” a female Asiatic Black Bear (Moon Bear) that escaped from a Whacheun Province bear bile farm in September, 2007, is currently being deliberated by Wonju District officials.
Unless officials decide otherwise, Miracle will be returned upon capture to a body-sized metal cage like the one from which she escaped, at the same bile farm where she spent her life before escaping. Environmental and animal welfare groups are working to see that this does not occur.

Poorly adapted to living in the wild, Miracle has so far managed to survive while wandering the Chuncheun border region by feeding from farmers’ crops. Miracle had been deemed a potential threat to tourists, and orders had been given to kill her on sight until June 1st, 2009, when the “kill-on-sight” order was retracted and Wonju Office Officials began debating how to manage the bear.

Citizens of Wonju argue that the bear ought to be captured and re-introduced into the Wonju wilderness after research concerning her health status, behaviour, and genealogy are conducted. As a captivity-bred individual, Miracle is significant in that she has successfully introduced herself into a wilderness despite a lack of survival skills education, which would have occurred had she been raised by her mother in the wild.
At present, it is uncertain whether Miracle can be thus reintroduced into Korea’s Jirisan National Park because the presence of hybrids is seen as dangerous to the preservation of pure breeds. Until the appropriate research is completed, it is unknown whether Miracle is a hybrid or a pure Asiatic Black Bear.

Unfortunately, at this time there is no suitable sanctuary or rescue centre for mixed-breed bears in Korea. Options for Miracle may include: granting the wish of the Wonju Villagers to release her deeper in the wild, a temporary placement in a zoo or a private location on farmland where she would be protected from hunters.

The Asiatic Black Bear, or “Moon Bear” named for its distinctive crescent-shaped marking on the chest, is a protected species in Korea. Only eleven (11) moon bears reside in the Korean wild, while an astounding 1600 are barely living under the torturous conditions of bear bile farms in Korea, where they are kept in body-sized metal cages from an early age in support of the bear bile industry.
Ursodeoxycholic acid, or “UDCA,” is the prized ingredient in bear bile and is believed to treat numerous health ailments. There are 54 known herbal alternatives to UDCA, all of which are acknowledged by the scientific community. Nevertheless, bear bile farming continues in Korea, China, and Vietnam.

–>WE MUST STOP THIS MADNESS!


http://bearnecessitykorea.com/

http://bearnecessitykorea.com/save-miracle-the-bear/

Join Miracles Facebook Group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=92263193996

Sign the Petition
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-bears-in-korea.html
Signed ...
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BEAR FARMS IN KOREA - Save Bears!.

You are signer #9931

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Comment by Paul Westmerland on October 22, 2009 at 1:08pm

Almost as woolly as Jouni ***=)

Welcome Jouni ... and I have seen evidence that you do shave occasionally my friend.

Comment by Paul Westmerland on October 22, 2009 at 1:04pm

Beautiful ... From Alpaca Love

Comment by Paul Westmerland on October 21, 2009 at 8:16am

Of ALL the Meditations I have tried .... many brilliant ... this is the BEST ... 2 times in the morning and ... have a gloriously tuned-in day!


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