Get Baby Paloh Free from Chains

The day that the first human born with a fully exploitative gene in his constitution breathed on this planet must have been a dark phase in the history of life on this planet. And worse would have been the day when humans learnt the use of making chains. Not only will he use this instrument of torture on his own kind but terrorize innocent animals and enslave them. And if that wasn’t enough, take a good look at this innocent baby elephant, named Paloh, who has been chained torturously at the Johor Zoo in Malaysia.

As this post on Free Malaysia Today describes, Paloh feet has been chained so tightly that she can’t sit or lie down for rest, forced to stand in place. When the need to shift position presses too hard on the baby animal, it helplessly tries to make two-footed hops sidewise. Investigators consider Paloh’s torture at the zoo as one of the worst cases of cruelty to animals ever witnessed in the country. It’s the little-seen end of sadism, the sickness that eats away all that crosses its dark path. Paloh’s angst is a reminder that a country like Malaysia, rich in nature’s gift of life, still has to go a long way before making a claim to civilization.

Animal lovers, supporters, and activists are sharing the link to Paloh’s heart-rending story on Facebook and blogs. Change.org has already created a petition page to ask Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to order the concerned management for freeing Paloh. The right course of action of course would be to punish the person(s) responsible for this act of cruelty and make sure nothing of the sort happens in future.

Please take a moment to sign the petition page here in order to free the helpless baby elephant from chains.

With Asbestos from Canada

The business and industrial sector of developing countries eternally suffer from the hunger for growing – in assets and profit-making trade. Very often, the price is paid by its working class, usually with their health, and even with life. An example is the trade of asbestos-containing products exported by developed countries to its less developed client countries where few care about and/or resourceful enough to prevent the damage done to life, mainly by the carcinogenic effect of asbestos. Isn’t it the responsibility of the developed nations to take preventive measures in such cases?

Certainly we have a case here for nations like Canada which export asbestos-containing products to developing countries. Recently, there has been increasing concern over Canada’s asbestos industry and trade of the same with developing nations like India. Care2, in this context, has created a petition page to ask the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to make it Canada’s trade policy telling the truth about the health hazards of asbestos to the countries engaging in trade of asbestos-containing products with Canada.

Please sign the petition to save people from asbestos related deaths sold in the form of commercial products.

Save Sharks, not Soup!

In her breathtaking western novel The Last Cowgirl, Jana Richman showed us through the eyes of a child that a cow is so very different from its pieces sold by a butcher. And that holds true for all living, breathing animals, including sharks that are being recklessly exterminated by some human cultures simply because their followers have a taste for shark-fin soup. Beside others, Singapore is a major trader of shark fins for which millions of sharks are killed brutally each year, their bodies dumped back in the sea after their fins are cut off. What can be more brutal? Yes, relishing the soup that comes from shedding blood.

No wonder then that 180 species of sharks are threatened for existence this year. Sadly, the lay person has no authority to stop this brutality. But they do have the voice, and using it is the moral obligation as a life form that has a right to exist on planet earth. Caring people are raising their voice to ask the Singaporean government to limit or ban shark fin trade in their country. Please take a moment to save sharks from killing by visiting the petition page at Care2 and signing it. Let life prevail against a cup of soup!

The Kimberley and Humpback Whales are in Danger!

Australia’s Kimberley region becomes a nursery for the world’s largest Humpback Whales population every winter due to its natural, unspoiled conditions of the marine and coastal zones. But greed for growing against nature is now heading this heavenly part of the planet too as multinational companies are fixing their ‘commercial eyes’ on the region for mining and drilling projects to exploit the natural resources of the region. In other words, destruction of nature and natural life!

The care2 petition site is gathering caring voices to save the beautiful natural home of Humpback Whales and other life forms from destruction by commercial ventures. An online petition has been created by Care2 to urge upon Environment Minister Tony Burke for saying No to industrialization of the region and protecting the region’s whales and other life from the horrors of industrial expansion.

To sign the petition, visist this page.

Save Seals from Killing!

Killing is usually the first solution that comes to the reason-starved human authorities whenever they face a problem – be it the killing of animals or of other innocent humans. Take the latest case of sea lions for example. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has permitted killing of sea lions that swim up to eat endangered salmon in the Columbia River.

This despite the fact that seals prey on no more than 2.4% of salmon population in the river. And Washington and Oregon states have got the permission from NOAA to kill 85 seals that prey on salmon. Reason would ask “why kill the seals?” Safer solutions of saving salmon without harming the seals can be thought. It seems NOAA, like many other entities, know of only one solution – killing animals to save others, which’s both unnatural an inhuman, given the limited occurrence of seals themselves.

But caring souls speak up against the cruelty and unreason. Care2 has created a petition page asking all caring people to sign the petition that asks NOAA to repeal its decision of killing seals. Please sign the petition and have innocent animals from losing their precious lives. We believe and hope that salmons would be protected by other methods without harming the seals. And you are all, of course, encouraged to send your suggestions to NOAA in your personalized note as the petition’s content.

Thank you all,


PS: I am particularly thankful to our nature-lover friend Caroline Vimla who shared the petition page’s link to the above issue on Facebook.

Save Princess from Death

No matter how loving and caring, dogs continue to face death by humans. And yet, humans are the ones who can save them. Here is another case of caring humans raising voice for a pet dog Princess, a 7-year-old jack Russell Terrier who now faces impending death because she is now more wanted at the house where she was a pet dog. Reason? A new baby is born in that house and Princess has been abandoned to a shelter. Worse yet, she faces euthanasia if somebody didn’t adopt her.

The shy, family-friendly Princess doesn’t deserve t be put to death simply because anther life was born and displaced her. As Martha Jette mentions in her post, Princess does not deserve to be put down simply because she is now in the way. Those who think they can take in a beautiful, caring dog, are requested to consider adopting Princess and saving her life from being killed.

To save Princess, email adoptions@russellrescue.org now. Use the subject line “Pet Inquiry: Princess #110038”.


Thank you all,

Save Life!

Save Australian Camels from Massacre!

Not individuals but even governments would often contrive absurdnale (an absurd rationale) to keep alive the tradition of killing incident life forms. Such is the recent ‘plan’ of the Australian government, which means to allow a shooting massacre of Australia’s feral camels. And the reason? Because, as per the absurdnale, camels belch methane and are adding to the global-warming/greenhouse threat to the environment. It’ hard to find the right words to condemn this ridicule of environment and morality.

Not even bothering to remind about the real culprits of the environmental degradation (read human industries and warfare plus artificial lifestyles), the post clearly tells that the quantity of methane produced by a camel is one-sixth of equivalent greenhouse emissions an average car produces. In other words, six camels – large, living, breathing, animals with every right to live – will have to be killed in order to save the auto-industry and sick lifestyle of contemporary Homo sapiens. Does that make sense?

Camels can be a source of milk and it is very much a need in arid areas in Arabian and African regions. So instead of killing them, the Aussies may exchange them for food or other commodities in areas where camels are needed for making a living. Killing is not the only solution, let alone a good one, as against the blood-shedding inclination of many humans, and governments.

Please write to the Australian government and tell them that killing camels isn’t human. So let the camels be given in trade or just a donation to poor countries where they can be used as sources of transport and dairy.