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Viewer Outrage Over Polar Bear Killed on UK Television Show (Video)

12:25 pm in animal rights, animals, conservation, polar bears, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

dead polar bear photo Image via youtube screengrab What makes great nature TV? To Channel 4, it's going inside, quite literally, the animals they're profiling. And that includes polar bears. Viewers, however, are in an uproar over the fact that the Channel 4 show, Inside Nature's Giants : Polar Bear, featured a polar bear (a highly threatened species) being shot, skinned and then analyzed. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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KLM Completes First Biofuel-Powered Scheduled Flight, With Factory Farmed Fuel

12:02 pm in air planes, alternative energy, animal rights, aviation, biofuels, farming, Food & Health, vegan, vegetarian by TreeHugger

KLM plane wing photo photo: James Lin/Creative Commons Definite mixed environmental messages here: KLM has announced that it has completed the first biofuel-powered scheduled flight. Good, no, great. Decidedly less great, bad even: The fuel used on the flight, from the Netherlands to Paris, was made by Dynamic Fuel...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Since Elephants Are As Smart As Great Apes & Dolphins, Isn’t It Time For Elephant Rights?

12:22 pm in animal rights, elephants, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

asian elephant group photo: Lazurite/Creative Commons The news cycle has resurrected an interesting and important piece of research, which TreeHugger original reported on three months ago, on elephants' ability to cooperate with one another and their intelligence. The quick recap is that elephants work together with at least as much ability as chimpanzees and other great apes, and dolphins. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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You Don’t Stand By Watching Whales Getting Killed & Just Hang Banners, Take Pictures: Paul Watson

8:05 am in activism, animal planet, animal rights, Culture & Celebrity, sea shepherd, Take Action, whales by TreeHugger

The new season of Whale Wars has just started on Animal Planet (new episode this Friday...), so what better time to highlight a quick video interview Andy Revkin from Dot Earth just did with Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson. While Watson hits many of his usual marks regarding what his organization and its many volunteers do to protect whales, direct intervention, he was particular...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Egg Carton Labels’ Animal Welfare Claims Not Always Accurate

11:56 am in animal rights, birds, environmental certifications, Food & Health by TreeHugger

cage-free egg carton photo photo: inspector_81/Creative Commons Perhaps this isn't surprising for seasoned animal welfare watchers, but for the novice pay attention: According to a new article in the forthcoming issue of the Temple Journal of Science, Technology & Environmental Law all those labels you see on egg packaging touting 'Read the full story on TreeHugger

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