In South Africa, the world’s largest exporter of lion trophies, the animals are raised in captivity and kept in enclosures for ‘canned hunting’. Activists have long called for the practice to be banned, saying it is unethical and has nothing to do with real hunting.
AFTER BEING RESCUED from the streets, some in very bad condition, 33 healthy dogs were flown out on the ‘Freedom Flight’ of Thursday, May 20, to destination Florida, where several have already been adopted into homes there. It is the first collective flight of its kind done by the Vincentian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (VSPCA), and was made possible by the non-profit organisation ‘Wings of Rescue’, …
DOGS BEING PREPARED by volunteers to board Freedom Flight
Photo courtesy Stephan Hornsey Social Share AFTER BEING RESCUED from the streets, some in very bad condition, 33 healthy dogs were flown out on the ‘Freedom Flight’ of Thursday, May 20, to destination Florida, where several have already been adopted into homes there.
It is the first collective flight of its kind done by the Vincentian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (VSPCA), and was made possible by the non-profit organisation ‘Wings of Rescue’, led by Ric Browde.
Other entities that provided assistance to the VSPCA leading up to the flight were: Tito’s Handmade Vodka and the spirits company’s Vodka for Dog People program; Chewy; the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW); The Fleece Foundation, and Dr. Annique Boyle of Unique Animal Care.
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Two of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s most prolific wildlife traders have been handed jail terms this year, in a rare spell of conservation wins for Congolese law enforcement. Salomon Mpay 51, was arrested at a Kinshasa hotel on Jan. 30, following a two-year joint investigation between the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature […]