9 Beagles Set Free!

 

The Beagle Freedom project has recued 9 beagles from a laboratory in Nevada.  These poor animals were born in captivity. The only life they knew was one of needles; cold cages and florescent lights.   These beagles have spent all their life in metal cages, never seeing the light of day and worst of all  the lab identified them by branding them with numbers on their ears. The following video shows the heartwarming story of their rescue. The beagles first experience being loved and not tortured by humans as well as the feel of grass under their feet and sunlight on their faces.  .

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/17/beagles-rescued-from-lab-play-grass-see-sunshine_n_5344590.html

Raja

Raja chained to a tree in need of food.

The Ecologist Film Unit, accompanied by the NGO Elephant Family, was documenting the “environmental genocide” going on in Sumatra. Which was the rainforest deforestation. Which is killing its endangered species like the Sumatran elephant. The film crew stumbled upon a tiny village, where angry local villagers were holding a baby elephant captive for destroying their palm oil crops. The baby elephant; named Raja; was hungry and couldn't find any food. Despite the efforts of the NGO Raja was kept chained to a tree for weeks. No vet could visit and nobody could release Raja. The villagers wanted to keep Raja as leverage because they wanted compensation from the government for their destroyed crops. It's a very sad thing to see and an even more difficult situation for all involved. Holding a helpless animal captive for something they need to do to survive.  The elephants as well as the villagers are only acting as the see fit. They're homes are being destroyed! As much as the villagers are to blame for they're cruelty its the "big corporations" who are truly to blame for the deforestation.
 







Set Free At Last!

The International Animal Welfare charity Four Paws rescued 2 lions (Zac and Donna)  and 2 tigers (Lina and Harun) from a Romanian zoo! When Four Paws walked into the animals' cages they could see two tigers pacing in front of the bars on cracked concrete. The pool was  half-filled with grey-green water, and was so dirty you couldn't see the bottom. The worst part is that was where the tigers drank and bathed. Past them the lions were in a similar cage that smelled of stale urine and mixed with other animals.
“I’m happy to see them go,” says Ovidiu. “They’re in a terrible situation in a concrete cell that’s too dark because there is no access to proper light.
"The cages are too small. They have not been mistreated but in the wild a lion roams a territory of 400 metres squared.
“They are fed chicken which isn’t good because of the small bones, and they lack nutrients and vitamins because in the wild they eat their prey’s organs.
“It just isn’t a proper way to keep wild animals and they are in terrible condition. It is awful to think they’ve been trapped here for so long.”  I agree, it isn't fair for big cats like lions and tigers to be kept in such terrible conditions for so long. They deserve to roam and be free and live the way they want to live. Being cramped up in a small cage wont do them any good.  Four Paws then took the four cats to Lionsrock Sanctuary where they will live out the rest of there lives freely. These lions and tigers have never felt grass before, they have lived on concrete floors for all their lives. But the director of Lionsrock said it was rewarding watching the lions and tigers take their first steps into freedom. "The stench of the Romanian zoo wafts from the crate but, thankfully, that is all that remains of his previous life."