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1. Please see this video from Gravitas - how nature is reclaiming its spaces due to the Coronavirus

   Posted on 2:00pm Friday 10th Apr 2020

   Sometimes you see something on the internet or on television that really hits you hard and makes a point extremely well. I saw this video, this afternoon, and I wanted to share it with you.  Please share it with everyone you can. The ultimate message is that we SHARE this planet.  It demonstrates how dominant the human race has become - and how selfish.   I am not going to tell you anymore about it - please just watch it for yourself.   Here it is: Thank you, Gravitas. Please vow to make a difference today.  Find out how to reduce your impact on the earth's resources here.

2. Help Four Paws rescue the President Bears

   Posted on 9:00pm Monday 23rd Mar 2020

   Can you help Four Paws rescue the President Bears, Leo and Melanka? They were found when they were three months old in 2006 and they've been kept in barren enclosures since they were small cubs.  They live in the president residence of Syniogora, in the south east of Lviv, Ukraine. The conditions around them is awful. They are kept separated. They are in two small enclosures, with concrete floors, and no natural vegetation or enrichment at all!  There's no protection from the sun or rain.  The bears receive food just chucked over the fence.  Their water and food containers are dirty.  And the bears show stereotypical behaviour.   Four Paws want to move the President Bears to the Bear Sanctuary Domazhyr in Ukraine as soon as possible.  Here they can enjoy a new life, full of care and freedom.    The good news is that Four Paws addressed the Ukrainian authorities after the recent change of presidency, and they've given Four Paws the thumbs up to relocate the bears and look after them.   Will you help Leo and Malenka enjoy freedom and the grass between their paws? Make a donation here and make a difference to Leo and Melanka!

    

3. Tell These Big US Banks That Arctic Drilling Is Bad Business!

   Posted on 5:00pm Wednesday 26th Feb 2020

   The Sierra Club (a grassroots environmental organisation in the US) has announced that there’s big, exciting news from a bank! JPMorgan Chase have announced at its annual Investor Day that: It will not finance oil and gas extraction in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge It will not continue financing many coal-related enterprises, including thermal coal mines and coal-fired power plants across the world. The bank is by far the leading US investor in fossil fuels, and environmentalists and indigenous peoples have put pressure on the bank for years trying to move away from projects which threaten the climate. They promised to stop investing in and providing services to companies which derive “the majority of their revenues from the extraction of coal” by 2024, and not to provide financing to offshore and onshore oil and gas extraction in the Arctic Goldman Sachs also made a similar commitment not to financial oil drilling in the Arctic two months ago. Now, it’s vital that we put the pressure on other big banks to follow suit.  I wonder... Could their executives and shareholders live with themselves if there was an accident drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic which they had agreed to finance?  It only takes ONE spill to do unrepairable damage.  As the Sierra Club say, “Clean air, safe drinking water, wildlife and wild places are under attack-and once they're gone, they're gone for good.”  © istockphoto.com Mario Hoppmann Tell These Big US Banks That Arctic Drilling Is Bad Business! The Sierra Club say that banks worldwide are refusing to fund Arctic drilling.  Some US banks are dragging their feet.  But Goldman Sachs have done it;  they were the trail-finders who have ruled out financing Arctic oil and gas drilling, thermal coal mines and coal-fired power projects around the world.  Thank you, everyone at Goldman Sachs. Sierra Club Big banks don’t want to fall behind on industry trends.   The Sierra Club is asking us all to focus our efforts on the other US funders which, they say, are notorious for propping up dirty fuels:  Wells Fargo, Citi, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley. The Sierra Club are asking everyone to: Send a message to the CEOs of the other major US banks, telling them that bankrolling Arctic drilling isn’t just bad business -- it’s a threat to Indigenous human rights and to the climate. Add your name here and you can send a message too, if you want to add power to it. Let’s all fight for wildlife and indigenous peoples and drill hard and deep for change in the right direction.  Let’s put pressure on.

4. More bears needing help - Meet Tuan, rescued by Animals Asia

   Posted on 8:00pm Tuesday 22nd Oct 2019

   Tuan is safe in Animals Asia's Bear Sanctuary Tuan had been a very lonely bear.  He was caged on an intensive bear farm.  For 15 years.  Animals Asia received an urgent call about this bear.  They went to his rescue, 18 kilometres away, within 90 minutes of receiving the call.  What they found was horrible. Tuan was unhealthy and obese. He was living in filthy conditions, with little or totally unsuitable food. He could hear the deafening sounds of pigs squealing a few feet away.  And now he’s been rescued by charity Animals Asia. Animals Asia hope he will live for another 15 years or more at their Vietnam sanctuary.  That means he needs food, medicines, toys and climbing frames for at least 15 years, to give him the life he deserves. He’s been given the name Tuan after the Vietnam Director of Animals Asia, Tuan Bendixsen. It’s the first time he’s been safe in his life – but he doesn’t know he’s safe.  There is a long road to recovery for Tuan.   He’s deeply traumatised.  And you can help him by helping and donating towards his care. He’s Animal Asia’s 210th rescued bear in Vietnam.  All the bears need help, time and care.  They need food, medicine and enrichment activities. Donate to start Tuan on his road to recovery >>

    

    

5. International Animal Rescue's Great Bear Rescue frees captive bears in Armenia

   Posted on 8:00pm Sunday 6th Oct 2019

   October 2019 marks International Animal Rescue’s two year anniversary of the Great Bear Rescue. And they’ve made a film showing their bear rescue team at work.  In fact, the song is written and sun by a member of their team! Back in October 2017, the embarked on the Great Bear Rescue with their partners FPWC.  Their aim was to rescue every single bear being held captive in appalling conditions across Armenia. And since then, they have rescued 30 bears!  (That's according to their email dated 4th October 2019) Gordon was found slumped on a cold hard floor in a tiny, narrow cage with barely room to turn around.  Dasha, who had spent ten miserable years behind bars in a cramped cage half-submerged in water by a riverside restaurant.  Peter, dubbed the saddest bear in Armenia, was found in a tiny cage in a basement, in total darkness.  Thomas was rescued from a filthy, squalid cage on the side of a road But International Animal Rescue won’t stop until every bear has been rescued.  The day they sent an email with news of the film, two more bears were rescued.  They had been kept caged as status symbols.  And after rescue, they headed to the rescue centre to begin a new life. Find out more about the Great Bear Rescue and how you can help here..  All photos copyright to the International Animal Rescue