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After all, they have to use bullets and guns while standing from a far to kill something for their own odd behavior...
Heartbreaking Moment Trophy Hunters Slay a Captive-Bred Lion

Many lions who are killed for "sport" in South Africa are captive-bred, meaning they are habituated to humans and are ultimately "easier" targets for trophy hunters. PETA has released video footage of a group of hunters ambushing a captive-bred lion resting under a tree. The lion roars and charges after he is shot and wounded by one of the hunters, and it takes four more shots by the hunter and his guides to kill him.

Young Elephant Gunned Down by American Trophy Hunter

PETA has released video footage of an elephant wandering out of the bush into an area connected to Kruger National Park and American trophy hunter Aaron Raby shooting him in the head. The elephant falls to his knees and continues to suffer as Raby—who paid $30,000 for the sick pleasure of killing him—gets multiple instructions from his guides on aiming better and then, without any sense of urgency, shoots four more times, causing him to rumble in distress.

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Their powerful noses don't just detect ivory and rhino horn, they also trace other wildlife contraband like live tortoises and bushmeat. Since 2014, AWF's work with Kenya's law enforcement has raised conviction rates from about 45% to more than 90%.


There's a reason poachers are terrified of our canine detection units: they can sniff out contraband in under two seconds and track poachers with unfailing accuracy! That's called efficiency.

Help us unleash more dog & handler teams by making a gift today. This pandemic has stretched our resources thin – while the need for our canine units grows – so your support is critical to saving Africa's beloved species right now.

Sadly, New Jersey and Alaska are the only trophy hunting states that allow hunters to kill bear cubs.

Thus, New Jersey is a magnet for these hunters from other states, some viral hotspots now, to both enter our state and partake in the heinous practice of cruelly killing baited cubs.



The coronavirus pandemic has shut down bars, closed gyms and canceled sporting events. Now, a coalition of animal lovers is trying to stop this year's bear hunt, in part by arguing that hunters can't safely drag a dead bruin from the woods and to a check station without violating social distancing rules.  The coalition is headed by former state Sen. Raymond Lesniak and includes the Humane Society of the United States, the Sierra Club and the Animal Protection League of New Jersey. They've petitioned Environmental Protection Commissioner Catherine McCabe to repeal two rules contained in the state's Comprehensive Black Bear Management Policy.

Limping Fisher Cat at Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park (G.W. Zoo)

On June 22, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture inspected G.W. Zoo, operated by Jeff Lowe, and found several animals in need of veterinary care, including this fisher cat who was seen limping on the left rear leg and with extreme thinning hair on the tail. Jeff Lowe was cited for numerous violations of the Animal Welfare Act including for failing to consult the attending veterinarian over the fisher cat’s condition and failing to provide treatment to this fisher cat.


Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, the zoo known from the smash Netflix docuseries “Tiger King,” announced on August 18 that it was closed to the public. The park closed after federal officials revoked its license.


The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it suspended the exhibitor license for the park and owner Jeffrey Lowe on August 17. A Facebook post announced the park was closed “effectively immediately.” USDA said it found multiple violations at the park and many repeat violations.


“Our new park will, at least for the foreseeable future, be a private film set for Tiger King related television content for cable and streaming services,” the Facebook post said.


PETA and other animal rights groups have called for the park’s permanent closure. Brittany Peet, PETA Foundation’s deputy general counsel for captive animal law enforcement, said in a statement, “PETA looks forward to seeing every one of the long-suffering animals at the G.W. Zoo be transferred to an appropriate facility.”


“Big cats” that are privately owned, like those previously owned by Tiger King star Joe Exotic, and cared for by Carole Baskin, are in danger across the United States. According to Animal Welfare Institute, “Unscrupulous facilities profit from cub petting or photo opportunities, which fuels a rampant and vicious cycle of breeding and dumping cubs once they are 12 weeks old. Having outgrown their usefulness, these cubs are funneled into the exotic pet trade, sold to another disreputable exhibitor, or end up in the black market trade for wildlife parts.” To help these animals, help us persuade Congress to pass the Big Cat Public Safety Act, to protect big cats from these terrible circumstances.


Ted Danson, Bo Derek & Friends: "Tell Your Senators to Pass a #FinBanNow"
Minks are intelligent, sensitive animals who—in their natural homes—enjoy solitary lives, swimming, climbing, and roaming a vast territory.

It's a far cry from their life on fur farms, where they're kept inside filthy wire cages not much bigger than their bodies. Animals on these farms are plagued by disease, parasites, fear, and other hardships on a daily basis—all before they're crudely killed in the cheapest ways possible by workers who break their necks, suffocate them, or genitally or anally electrocute them.


We're making tremendous progress against the dying fur trade. But by peddling false eyelashes made from glued-together bits of mink fur using deceptive labels like "ethically sourced," this vile industry is trying its hardest to market its products of cruelty to unsuspecting consumers.

Although dogfighting is a felony in all 50 states, it still persists all over the country. Our government takes this crime seriously, and federal law enforcement works to bust dogfighting rings and punish this unspeakable cruelty.


However, current federal law still treats rescued victims like other kinds of seized property. Because they’re considered “evidence,” rescued dogs must be held in shelters until the court cases finish, which can take months, or even years. These living, feeling animals need and deserve fresh starts in loving homes.

You can help! Sign our petition urging Congress to pass the HEART (Help Extract Animals from Red Tape) Act, a bill to facilitate faster rehabilitation and rehoming of innocent dogs rescued in federal cases. Please don’t delay—help these dogs start new lives sooner.

You’ve never seen gorillas like this before. Nigeria’s Cross River gorilla is the world’s most endangered gorilla subspecies. Numbering just near 300, it’s rare to spot them at all. Views like these are rarer still: a large group with multiple babies, a sign of the species’ resilience.


These are the first-ever images of their kind. Caught by remote cameras along the Nigeria/Cameroon border, they portray a population in good health—important proof that our on-the-ground efforts to protect them are working.


With the largest ape conservation footprint of any organization, our programs protect nearly 75 percent of the world’s remaining ape species. This long-term work is paying off especially for the Cross River gorilla: none have been recorded or reported killed since 2012.


“There’s a growing sense of pride that Nigeria still has gorillas,” reports Andrew Dunn, Country Director for WCS Nigeria, sharing the local reaction to this conservation success. We’re proud, too—and looking forward to keeping them thriving there.


See these amazing first photos and learn more about this milestone: a sign of the progress we’re making together for the wildlife we love.

Our companies are known for creating products that enhance people's lives. Through Sunset Corporation of America and its companies, we’re equally dedicated to improving lives.  Our commitment extends to helping local communities, fostering better educational systems, supporting the arts and culture, helping disadvantaged youth, protecting and improving the environment, animal welfare, wildlife issues and encouraging employee volunteerism.

The Sustainable Action Network (SAN), A Don Lichterman non-profit organization dedicated to building a global community raising awareness of corruption, injustice and the need for action across a full range of issues impacting people and animal/wildlife welfare around the world, such as conservation, climate change, campaign law, lobbying, government action and rescue work. SAN’s vision is to create safer world, free from political, environmental, and social oppression, where all the inhabitants of Earth can live in harmony within their own natural environments. Our commitment extends to helping local communities, fostering better educational systems, supporting the arts and culture, helping disadvantaged youth, protecting and improving the environment, animal welfare, wildlife issues and encouraging employee volunteerism.

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On The Rampage w/ Don Lichterman discusses the need for the Dem's to talk about the growing economy from when Biden and Obama were in office and leading into the Trump administration, Hard Knocks, Elizabeth Warren speaks tonight at the Democratic Convention, Voting & Poverty, Barack Obama Speech tonight and some Fake News & Link Schemes using Bots (even though its been used as a buffer)....Plus, much more are discussed today!

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"No rights whatsoever": The historical development of the U.S. caste system

In a new book, "Caste: The Origins of our Discontents," journalist Isabel Wilkerson argues that the word "racism" does not adequately capture the historical plight of Black people in the U.S. in its totality. Drawing from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s reflections upon his 1958 visit to India, Wilkerson says the U.S. racial hierarchy is best understood as a caste system similar to the one that structures Indian society. "Caste system essentially is an arbitrary grading, an artificial graded ranking of human value in a society. And it’s one in which there’s a fixed infrastructure that, in our country, predates anyone who’s alive today," says Wilkerson. "This is the hierarchy that we have all inherited, that no one alive created, but we have inherited it, and we live under the shadow of that system."

The Case Against Trump Is “Open and Shut”: Kamala Harris Slams President’s Handling of Pandemic

As Kamala Harris, the first woman of color on a major presidential ticket, hits the campaign trail with Joe Biden for the first time, we play an extended excerpt of her address, in which she blasts President Trump’s handling of the economy, immigration, racial justice and the coronavirus pandemic. “The case against Donald Trump and Mike Pence is open and shut,” Harris says. “Just look where they’ve gotten us: more than 16 million out of work; millions of kids who cannot go back to school; a crisis of poverty, of homelessness, afflicting Black, Brown and Indigenous people the most.”

Public Health vs. Politics: White House Scrapped Nationwide COVID Testing Plan to Hurt Blue States

As the U.S. coronavirus death toll passes 155,000, there is still no national testing program, with widespread shortages and delays hampering efforts to contain the pandemic. This continues months after President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner launched a White House task force with the goal of establishing a national testing plan. We speak to investigative reporter Katherine Eban, whose explosive Vanity Fair report chronicles Kushner's fumbling efforts and the sudden decision to abandon the project on political grounds. "The participants expected that at any moment in early April, the plan would be announced," says Eban. "It vanished into thin air."

"It's Basically a Death Sentence": Hunger Strikers Demand Release as Virus Surges in ICE Jails

People being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement jails are holding work strikes and hunger strikes over the lack of access to personal protective equipment or quality medical care, and to demand their release. We speak with Joe Mejia, an asylum seeker who was among a group of prisoners at Yuba County Jail in California who led a hunger strike while he was held there for nearly 11 months. "That place is dangerous," Mejia says. "It is a death sentence to detainees, especially right now with the coronavirus."

Militarized BORTAC Border Patrol Raids & Ransacks Medical Camp on U.S. Border, Arrests 30 Migrants

In Arizona, heavily armed Border Patrol officers raided the medical camp of humanitarian group No More Deaths and detained 30 migrants whose whereabouts are now unknown. It was the second raid in just two days on the camp, which provides water, food and medical attention to refugees crossing into the United States through the scorching Sonoran Desert. "Immediately after they entered the camp, the first thing they did was round up all of the No More Deaths aid workers and zip-tie them, remove their phones," says Montana Thames, a humanitarian aid worker with No More Deaths. "It was very clear they didn't want any witnesses." No More Deaths also recently published documents revealing the Border Patrol Union, a pro-Trump and anti-immigrant extremist group, had instigated a 2017 raid of the same camp.

Big Tech monopolies need to be broken up and regulated, says business professor Scott Galloway

Business professor Scott Galloway says Big Tech firms have gotten too powerful, crushing smaller competitors and warping the entire technology sector with their control over major platforms. “If you own the rails you’re not supposed to be competing with the end destination," says Galloway, a professor of marketing at NYU Stern. The CEOs of Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple were grilled recently by lawmakers in Washington over their anti-competitive practices, part of a growing chorus of voices demanding antitrust action against the tech behemoths. Galloway says the online companies should be split up into several smaller firms, while Apple needs to be much more tightly regulated.

How the Pandemic Defeated America: Ed Yong on How COVID-19 Humiliated Planet’s Most Powerful Nation

As the world passes a grim milestone of 20 million coronavirus cases, we look at how the pandemic humbled and humiliated the world’s most powerful country. Over a quarter of the confirmed infections and deaths have been in the United States, which has less than 5% of the world’s population. Ed Yong, a science writer at The Atlantic who has been covering the pandemic extensively since March, says existing gaps in the U.S. social safety net and the Trump administration’s “devastatingly inept response” made for a deadly combination.


How did the coronavirus defeat the world's most powerful country? Ed Yong, science writer for The Atlantic, says the Trump administration's "devastatingly inept response" and preexisting gaps in the social safety net combined to make the U.S. the worst-hit country on the planet, accounting for a quarter of cases despite comprising less than 5% of the world's population. Yong says the most glaring problem is the lack of healthcare access, adding that "universal healthcare is a thing we have to fight for" in order to deal with the coronavirus as well as future pandemics.

As Kamala Harris Makes History as VP Pick, Her "Top Cop" Record Faces New Scrutiny Amid BLM Protests

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's selection of California Senator Kamala Harris as his vice-presidential running mate for the November election makes her the first Black woman and the first Indian American on a major party presidential ticket. "It's hard to overstate how historic, how monumental this is," says Aimee Allison, president of She the People, which works to elevate the political voice and leadership of women of color. But in the midst of the largest protest movement in American history against racist policing, Briahna Joy Gray, the former national press secretary for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, says "there's a great deal of frustration" with Harris, who is "known for being the top cop from California."








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