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Innocent stray dogs are being skewered alive and being dragged behind boats as shark bait. Help Animal Rights and sign a letter to the French government to ask for an end to this inhumane practice in Reunion Island (French-controlled). We are asking the government to make sure this never happens again. You can WATCH THE VIDEO that shows the poor dog being rescued — see below. Here is the petition:
http://tinyurl.com/SaveDogs

Here’s how YOU CAN HELP:

1. Invite all of your friends to this group and ask them to do the same – you can do that here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34948192471#/groups/edit.php?members&gid=34948192471

2. Sign the Animal Rights petition if you haven’t done so already: http://tinyurl.com/SaveDogs

3. Add the application to send along to your friends to sign: http://apps.facebook.com/fightabuse/

Here is a piece of the National Geographic article:
“Live and dead dogs and cats are being used as shark bait by amateur fishers on the French-controlled island of Réunion, according to animal-welfare organizations and local authorities.

The small volcanic island off Africa’s east coast is bursting with stray dogs—upward of 150,000, says Reha Hutin, president of the Paris-based Fondation 30 Millions d’Amis (the Thirty Million Friends Foundation).

Hutin sent a film crew to Réunion this summer to obtain proof that live animals were being used as shark bait. The goal was to expose the practice on the animal rights group’s weekly television show.

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Bravo mi amico Nick. Right you, you bunch of tight bastards and invited guests reading my blog just for entertainment – read this:

This Easter a group of seven cyclists will be riding the Lon Las Challenge in five days. That’s three mountain ranges and 250 miles of cycling. It is known as one of the toughest long distance routes on the UK cycle route, starting in Hollyhead and finishing in Chepstow.

And like certain people I know that weekend, they are not going to stay in bed ’til 1pm, be off in the Alps snowboarding, nor drink beer all weekend (am I right in saying that Nick?), and they are all doing it out of the kindness of their own hearts for children they don’t even know!!!

So show them A BIT OF RESPECT please – YOU can donate any amount you want (no amount is too large OR too small, and it takes just two minutes).

You even get your name and comments on their website – FAME

Donate NOW at http://www.justgiving.com/lonlaschallenge

The crazy cyclists too skint to go snowboarding, and with nothing else better to do are:

Cenydd Richards
Natalie Hemingway-Main
Juliet Milne
Nick Tallis (anything to get out of decorating)
Ffion Hayley Liles
Steve Heyes
Nerys Evans

“BRAVO!”

So don’t forget, you can donate NOW at http://www.justgiving.com/lonlaschallenge

They kindly ask that you donate what you can to sponsor them, otherwise they will all have extremely sore arses for nothing (haha Nick). Your kind donation will go to a charity called LearnAsOne who are working towards a sustainable education for children in Africa.

Please, donate NOW at http://www.justgiving.com/lonlaschallenge

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On Tuesday, three hundred and forty concerned citizens gathered in Brussels to block the exits of the building where European finance ministers were discussing funding for climate change. We wanted to keep them inside until they came up with money to tackle climate change in developing countries.

Eoin, Agnes & the entire Climate Team
Greenpeace International

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Free Land? Greenpeace is out to stop a third runway being built at Heathrow and has bought a piece of land that they are dispersing amongst thousands of people to prevent the land being sold for the runway. You can get a plot of land for free by clicking the following button:

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Did you know that Saturday is the Global Day of Action for climate? If you’re not going out to a demonstration in your area, you could maybe join us online instead.
We want YouTube’s important “most commented videos” page to be all about climate change on Saturday. This can’t be bought. But it can be won! Here’s how: If thousands of people comment on a handful of climate videos in the next few hours, we can break onto that page, where many more people will see them, and the climate message will spread from there. It all starts with you. Are you ready?
Watch these videos, leave a comment under each one, and keep clicking to watch related videos until you’ve seen them all (there are 12 so far – from different groups campaigning on climate change).

Video from Friends of the Earth UK (watch it, leave a comment)

Video from the Woodland Trust (watch it, leave a comment)

Video from Compassion in World Farming (watch it, leave a comment)

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In just a few days, leaders from all over the world will gather in Poznan, Poland to decide on next steps to tackling climate change. At last year’s meeting, governments pledged that by December 2009, they would nail down an agreement to achieve the global emission cuts required to keep climate change in check. We’re half way to that deadline and it’s time for our leaders to get make good on their promise.

Join activists from around the world and let government leaders know that the World is Watching. We’ll project your photos along with thousands of others during the meeting in Poznan. With your help, we can show real support for action on the climate crisis from citizens around the world.

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Two Greenpeace activists who exposed a whale meat embezzlement fraud in Japan — Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki — have been themselves arrested — for allegedly stealing the whale meat that they turned over to police as evidence.

Demand the Japanese government free the activists
This is the backlash. We’ve uncovered a scandal involving powerful forces in the Japanese government that benefit from whaling, and it’s not surprising they are striking back.

What is surprising is that these activists, who are innocent of any crime, would be arrested for returning whale meat that was stolen from Japanese taxpayers. Theirs are, to date, the only arrests that have been made in the Tokyo public prosecutor’s investigation into the embezzlement we documented of millions of yen worth of whale meat.

This was not a police action — it was an intimidation tactic by the government agencies responsible for whaling — and the kind of harassment of whistleblowers that a modern democracy should not allow. Our first news that an arrest was imminent came from Japanese television stations. Someone leaked the information to ensure images of Greenpeace activists in handcuffs appeared on news reports in Japan.

More than 40 police officer raided our offices and the homes of the activists, and spent 10 hours seizing cell phones, documents, and computers, despite the fact that we had documented every step of how we obtained the whale meat, turned the full dossier over with the evidence, and made ourselves available to police to help with the investigation at any time. A simple phone call could have brought Junichi and Toru to the police station. Instead, the government made a public spectacle of shutting Greenpeace down.

Don’t let Japan shut down the truth. Demand the release of Junichi and Toru and demand an end to the whaling programme in Japan. The corruption of a few bureaucrats who profit from whaling should not be an excuse for harassing those who have exposed it. The domestic and international shame which this scandal is bringing on the Japanese agencies responsible for whaling is just one more reason that Japan should stop its sham scientific whaling programme in the Southern Ocean forever.

Please, take action now and pass this message along to your friends. Let’s get Junichi and Toru back with their families, and demand the real criminals go to jail.

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Surely you can’t import illegally logged timber and sell it in Europe, right? Wrong.

There’s an important EU vote on July 23rd, which should close this illegal logging loophole. The European Commission has ignored the need for a new law for almost five years. Even now European Commission President José Manuel Barroso is being lobbied by companies who profit from illegal timber to reject legislation.

We need European Commissioners to vote “YES” to stop illegal logging on July 23rd.

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Greenpeace has always been one of my favorite organisations along with SurfersAgainstSewage, any party arranged by Chris Grayston, Glastonbury and North Devon Festival. If you are in anyway unsure of who Greenpeace are or what they do or if you would simply like to make a donation or support them in some other way (as I am doing here) then GO TO THEIR WEBSITE NOW and read it.

They don’t do anything that is shit; full stop. These are issues that are important and need resolutions NOW! If just for me, please go, have a read and help???

And I’m even going to leave the Google Ads off this post too…I’d rather you helped Greenpeace.

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