Vegan News 5.2.13

By Published On: 2 May 2013Last Updated: 17 January 2017

New York AG focuses on pets, Koala looses home to loggers, UN says wildlife trafficking is serious crime, iPhone/Android app to help bust poachers in Louisiana.

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With Initiative, Attorney General Focuses on New York’s Pets. “Last year, the state attorney general’s office sued an animal hospice center in Delaware County that had been accused of neglect for failing to file required financial reports. Three weeks ago, the office arrested the owners of an auction house in Dutchess County for allegedly offering for sale two footstools made from the feet of endangered elephants. The cases are the early results of an effort by the attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, to focus on an area in which he and his aides believe enforcement has been lacking: the protection of New York’s pets.”

Koala Photo Shows Forest Destroyed By Loggers, Animal’s Heartbreak After Losing Home. “The little guy wandered back to his home in New South Wales, Australia last week only to find it had been cut down and chipped by logging operations. A volunteer with WIRES, a rescue operation licensed by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, said the koala had been sitting on top of the wood pile for over an hour looking confused, the Daily Telegraph reported.”

UN dubs wildlife trafficking ‘serious crime.’ “Environmental groups are applauding a new United Nations decision to officially characterise international wildlife and timber trafficking as a serious organised crime, in a move that advocates say will finally give international law enforcement officials the tools necessary to counter spiking rates of poaching.”

Wildlife & Fisheries offers iPhone, Android app to help bust poachers. “The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is now offering apps for both Android and iPhone users to report outdoor-related violations to Enforcement Division agents through the tip411 program. Users can download the apps from iTunes or Google Play free of charge. Citizens can also send an anonymous tip to LDWF by texting LADWF and their tip to 847411.”

Photo credit: Funchye via Flickr

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