Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Petition Link:  http://forcechange.com/62904/end-orangutan-boxing-matches-in-thailand-now/?utm_source=ForceChange+Newsletter&utm_campaign=8ae41217ba-NL3874_2_2013&utm_medium=email#gf_1
  

End Orangutan Boxing Matches in Thailand

By Christopher Baranowski

Target: Government of Thailand

Goal: Stop inhumane orangutan boxing matches at the Safari World theme park

At the Safari World theme park in Thailand, orangutans are forced to put on gloves and fight each other in “fake” boxing matches as an attraction for visitors.  Despite attempts for years to shut down the operation, this outrageously inhumane event continues to this day.  Demand an end to this brutal spectacle by asking that the government of Thailand close Safari World for good.

Since 2005, over 22,000 apes have been sold, killed while being hunted or died in captivity as a part of the illegal trade of primates that still continues to this day.  Huge profits are made selling illegally captured primates to zoos and other attractions around the world at the cost of biodiversity in places like Africa and southeast Asia.  One of the destinations for these captured animals is the Safari World theme park in Thailand.  Safari World drew harsh criticism as early as 2004 when evidence of orangutan boxing matches set up for tourists began to circulate among animal welfare groups.  That year, the government seized 48 orangutans and returned them to their native country of Indonesia.  But in 2010, images of kickboxing orangutans once again began to surface and animal rights activists renewed their charge against Safari World.  Just last month, citizens in Indonesia donned monkey masks to protest the boxing shows that continue to go on.

According to reports, the orangutans at the theme park are dressed in traditional boxing gear and “pretend” to knock each other out, though animal activists insist the chances of the heavy animals knocking each other out is very real.  Winners are awarded food and other rewards but ultimately both primates return to the dark cells where they are illegally kept.  It is time to stop this disgusting display of animal brutality; orangutan boxing certainly stands as the most shameful symptom of the illegal primate trade.  No operation that has repeatedly been cited for such flagrant abuse should be able to continue to exist.  Demand that government officials put an end to the orangutan boxing matches by closing Safari World for good.

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PROTECTING WOLVES IN MICHIGAN: POWER TO THE PEOPLE, THE HUMANE MAJORITY!!!
The state of Michigan has under 700 wolves and a fifty year tradition of protecting wolves. But Governor Rick Snyder, state legislators and the state’s corrupt wildlife MIS-management bureaucrats were more than ready to throw it all  away to serve a bizarre minority of sport killers, selfish hunters, sadistic trappers and other strange humans who get off on killing innocent animals. Just as in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Minnesota and Wisconsin, an immoral, undemocratic and corrupt state political system was poised to give the finger to the humane majority and serve a bunch of animal abusers and twisted killers.  

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A coalition of over 2,000 Michigan residents volunteered for Keep Michigan Wolves Protected, a fantastic coalition of animal welfare groups, Native Americans, veterinarians, conservationists and faith based leaders. In just 67 days, often in sub-freezing temperatures, they gathered 253,705 signatures to place this measure on the ballot in November 2014.  After the signatures are certified (161.305 valid signatures are required), it is the people of Michigan who will decide whether to protect the wolves there, not the animal abusers, not the anti-wolf killers, not the governor or legislators, not the corrupt state wildlife bureaucrats, not the NRA, not the energy companies. The people of Michigan will decide.

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PROTECTING WOLVES IN MONTANA: A NEW AND POWERFUL EFFORT
There is a new and wonderful initiative to protect wolves now under attack in Montana, led by Montana-based wolf biologist Jay Mallonee. Jay recently wrote: “For over twenty years I have researched and taught about wolves. Having had the longest running behavioural study of these animals in Montana’s history, outside of Yellowstone National Park, my interaction with wolf management agencies has been extensive. I have found that managers have an appalling lack of knowledge about these animals, along with a disregard for science.”

Unlike the very strange wolf biologist David Mech, who has used his credentials in an immoral and perverted way, to enable the persecution and massacre of America’s vital and innocent wolves by those who demonize and hate them, Jay Mallonee and other accomplished, honest and ethical wolf biologists are coming to the defense of America’s wolves with knowledge, science, respect and decency. Please support his efforts!   

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