Category: Nature

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Crow & Kitten/Cat friendship.

Fascinating video of a crow – cat friendship. As it happens, here on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, we have a local crow family who are quite friendly (we like crows). A couple of weeks ago crow crept up behind the neighbor’s cat  Phoenix (who comes here for a lot of extra food) and pulled [...]

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Australian live animal export cruelty

Some Australians profit from terrible animal cruelty resulting from live exports. By doing so, they also implicitly condone the behavior of the people shown in the video. And for some reason, the video reminds me of places like Auschwitz. Watch the Video “5 Investigations. 7 Countries. 1 Conclusion. More videos from Animals Australia Animals Australia [...]

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Why you should be careful where you take stray cats & dogs.
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Why you should be careful where you take stray cats & dogs.

Note: Originally written during mid 2008 on an old blog If I find a stray cat or dog I am very careful about where I take it. The reason for this is that many council pounds/facilities and other similar places carry out large scale executions. (They use “nice” sounding words like euthanize, put to sleep [...]

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Birds on the wires – very creative

Here is a very creative combination of a photograph & music, combined into a video for web deployment. Enjoy! Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo. Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact [...]

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Would you eat an animal which had been tortured before it died?

For some years now I have been eating organic meat and eggs, which are farmed humanely and with kindness. One reason organic meat and eggs taste better is that the animals involved are not full of stress related chemicals/hormones which are released into the bloodstream due to inhumane treatment. Check out this video… The expressions [...]

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Cat catches bat in mid air.

Cats are one of my favorite animals. Both big cats and small cats. Here is a video of a cat catching a bat mid air. The expression on the cat’s face afterwards is memorable.

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Will the world end in 2012?

2012 – will it be the year the world ends? Personally I have never worried about it, for lots of reasons. Today I came across a very interesting resource: Ask an Astrobiologist: Nibiru and Doomsday 2012: Questions and Answers

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Pet-Abuse.Com – Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Pet-Abuse.com is in my view a very important website. Animal abuse today is becoming an increasingly serious problem, both in terms of frequency and depth of cruelty. Pet-Abuse.com is doing some very worthwhile work in this area. I quote from their goals: 1. To increase public awareness of the animal cruelty/human violence connection 2. To [...]

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Earthjustice – Environmental Law: Because the Earth Needs a Good Lawyer

Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth, and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment. Earthjustice brings about far-reaching change by enforcing and strengthening environmental laws on behalf of hundreds of organizations, coalitions and communities.

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She describes leaving the animal overnight lying on its side before returning to check it was actually dead the next day.
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She describes leaving the animal overnight lying on its side before returning to check it was actually dead the next day.

She describes leaving the animal overnight lying on its side before returning to check it was actually dead the next day. What a cruel bitch! Dictionary: cru·el   (krū’əl) adj., -el·er or -el·ler, -el·est or -el·lest. Disposed to inflict pain or suffering. Causing suffering; painful. Read more here: Woman poses over magnificent elephant she downed with [...]

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What's in that farm spray?

Here is a very disturbing article about farm spray usage in Australia. When farm sprays go astray It would seem that the bureaucrats have got it wrong and that industry takes advantage of that.

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Give Mom a really wild gift this Mothers Day
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Give Mom a really wild gift this Mothers Day

Mothers Day here in Australia is on Sunday May 10th, as in many other places around the world. This Mother’s Day why not show how much you care by giving her something a little more interesting and memorable than your average gift? WSPA Wild Gifts are a unique way of showing how much you care [...]

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A day to recognize the ecological insight that humankind is a part of Nature
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A day to recognize the ecological insight that humankind is a part of Nature

Today, 21st of April is John Muir Day, which provides us with a day to reflect on the ecological insight that humankind is a part of Nature, and that our well being – indeed our very survival – depends upon an ecologically sound natural environment. By taking some time to appreciate how far we have [...]

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Hero Dog Saves Mortally Wounded Dog on Busy Highway in Chile

This is an incredibly moving video: Hero Dog Saves Mortally Wounded Dog on Busy Highway in Chile It is certainly food for thought along the lines of a dog caring for another in a manner which many humans do not. Rather sobering I think.

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Pathetic creeps who like killing deer for fun.
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Pathetic creeps who like killing deer for fun.

In Scotland a very rare white deer has appeared – it is not an albino, but a rare color mutation. And guess what; a load of bloodthirsty creeps want to stalk and kill it. One German hunter has even offered over £5,400 for the opportunity. Have a read of the article, where you can also view [...]

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