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Welfare plan 'may cause poverty'

Ministers should rethink or delay plans to force lone parents, disabled people and the long term jobless into work, a senior government advisor has said.

Child welfare review set to begin

An urgent review is getting under way into child protection procedures in the London borough where a 17-month-old boy was killed after months of abuse.

Primate welfare law could rule out some research

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Animal welfare societies need help

Last October 4 was World Animal Day, and there were blessings of pets in many parts of the Philippines, duly covered by media. But while that was going on, dogs were mercilessly being drowned in the city pound of Cagayan de Oro under the supervision of the city veterinarian, of all people. The veterinarian, Dr. Perla de Asis, and Mayor Constantino Jaraula as well as other city officials should have known better. There are other, more humane ways of putting animals to sleep, such as lethal injection. Every veterinarian knows this.

The Artists' Welfare Project Inc.

There is a sector of society that works without benefit of social security, health insurance or pension benefits yet they contribute significantly to national development. They often bring great honor to the country in the international arena and their work in different fields brings great delight to our people.

Search Engine Seeks to Raise $1 Million for Animal Welfare Group

American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsA search engine hopes to raise at least $1 million for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals through 2009 in an effort to help animal shelters deal with increasing homeless animal populations and declining charitable donations spurred by housing and economic woes.

Call for ban on primates as pets

A loophole in animal welfare laws that allows primates to be kept as household pets should be closed, an MP has urged.

IFAW lauds eBay plan on ivory ban

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) on Tuesday lauded eBay's plan to institute a global ban on the sale of elephant ivory products by Jan. 1, 2009, calling on all other Internet traders to follow their example.

New look for ethnological museum

tribal riches: Minister for the Welfare of Scheduled and Backward Communities A.K. Balan examining a model at the KIRTADS ethnological museum in Kozhikode on Monday.

China moves to counter illegal animal trafficking on the Internet

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW- www.ifaw.org) and Taobao (www.taobao.com.cn), China's largest internet auction site, jointly announced a series of online activities to counter illegal wildlife trade on the Internet.

eBay Announces Ivory Ban in Wake of IFAW Report

CALIFORNIA (Marketwire) - The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW - www.ifaw.org) applauds eBay's decision to institute a global ban on the sale of elephant ivory products by the 1st of January 2009 and calls on all other internet traders to follow their example.

eBay Announces Ivory Ban in Wake of IFAW Report

PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW - www.ifaw.org) applauds eBay's decision to institute a global ban on the sale of elephant ivory products by

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NEWS – I was disgusted by no mention of Animal Welfare Society who take care of by far the largest number of pets. they need support! A. Frost.

IFAW lauds eBay plan on ivory ban

NAIROBI, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) on Tuesday lauded eBay's plan to institute a global ban on the sale of elephant ivory products by Jan. 1, 2009, calling on all other Internet traders to follow their example.

IFAW lauds eBay plan on ivory ban

NAIROBI, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) on Tuesday lauded eBay's plan to institute a global ban on the sale of elephant ivory products by Jan. 1, 2009, calling on all other Internet traders to follow their example.

The growing trade in wildlife on the Internet in China means the battle to curb the illegal practice must be taken online, environmentalists said Thursday.

A recent six-week study by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) tracked 7,122 online auctions and advertisements involving the illegal trade in wild animals and found that the Internet is posing a major challenge to wildlife conservation, with China ranked third after the United States and the United Kingdom among 11 countries investigated with respect to volume of illegal trade.

Foot fault restricts umpires' LBW

BATSMEN and bowlers have often been known to ask after the welfare of an umpire's seeing-eye dog when a leg before wicket decision does not go their way, but a new study suggests it is not the men in white's fault.

The Corrupt Origins of Central Banking by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Central banking has been a corrupt, mercantilist scheme and an engine of corporate welfare from its very beginning in the late 18th century. The first central bank, the Bank of North America, was "driven through the Continental Congress by [congressman and financier] Robert Morris in the Spring of 1781," wrote Murray Rothbard in The Mystery of Banking (p. 191). The Philadelphia businessman Morris had been a defense contractor during the Revolutionary War who "siphoned off millions from the public treasury into contracts to his own … firm and to those of his associates." He was also "leader of the powerful Nationalist forces" in the new country.

Native Birds Might Restock Poultry Industry's Genetic Stock

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- As concerns such as avian flu, animal welfare and consumer preferences impact the poultry industry, the reduced genetic diversity of commercial bird breeds increases their vulnerability and the industry's ability to adapt, according to a genetics expert.

eBay Announces Ivory Ban in Wake of IFAW Report

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 21, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW - www.ifaw.org) applauds eBay's decision to institute a global ban on the sale of elephant ivory products by 1 January 2009 and calls on all other internet traders to follow their example.

Wayward penguins returned home on airplane

Almost 400 lost Magellanic penguins march back to the sea after being rescued by animal-welfare groups.

Japanese therapeutic robots to be employed in Denmark

The Danish Technological Institute will introduce therapeutic robotic seals developed in Japan at about 40 welfare facilities for the aged in Denmark by the end of this year, the DTI said.

eBay Bans Ivory Sales Worldwide

It’s been well over a year since eBay was criticized by International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). At the time, the IFAW found over 2,000 ivory items for sale on eBay.

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