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March 13, 2014
HSI UK Welcomes MP Vote in Favour of an End to Badger Cull
HSI/UK's executive director issued a statement welcoming the favorable voting of MPs to end the government’s failed badger cull.
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March 11, 2014
Beauty Bloggers Unite for Be Cruelty-Free Video Appeal to End Cosmetics Animal Testing
Cruelty-free beauty bloggers came together to create a fun, unique video in support of HSI's Be Cruelty-Free campaign to end cosmetics animal testing.
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March 10, 2014
Celebrity Make-up Artist Justine Jenkins Becomes Be Cruelty-Free Beauty Ambassador to End Cosmetics Animal Testing
Celebrity make-up artist Justine Jenkins was named Be Cruelty-Free Beauty Ambassador for animal protection organisation Humane Society International in March 2014.
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February 28, 2014
FOI Request Reveals Animal Suffering and Biosecurity Breaches During Pilot Badger Cull
A set of ‘Compliance Reports’ from Natural England’s badger cull monitors provides disturbing insight into 2013's pilot culls in West Somerset and West Gloucestershire, including mention of badgers shot in the wrong body area or wounded and shot a second time.
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February 7, 2014
Adopting a Sochi Street Dog
Tips for adopting and transporting animals internationally.
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February 7, 2014
U.S. Declares Iceland in Defiance of Global Trade Ban on Whale Products
Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell issued a formal declaration that Iceland is undermining the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and its prohibition on international commercial trade in whale products.
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February 7, 2014
Olympian Tom McMillen Says “Nyet” to Street Dog Slaughter
HSUS Board member and former Olympian Tom McMillen sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee urging them to help stop mass dog extermination programs as part of Olympic preparations.
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February 7, 2014
Former Olympic Athlete Urges IOC to Stop Sochi Street Dog Cull
Former Olympic basketball medalist, Rhodes Scholar, Congressman and Humane Society of the United States board member C. Thomas McMillen sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee urging them to stop the street dog cull taking place in Sochi, Russia ahead of the Winter Olympics.
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February 7, 2014
HSI UK Welcomes News of Funding for National Wildlife Crime Unit
HSl/UK welcomed news that government funding for the UK's National Wildlife Crime Unit has been guaranteed until 2016. The NWCU works to detect and prevent wildlife crime, assisting police forces in wildlife crime investigation and identifying local or national threats.
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February 5, 2014
No Medal for Sochi When It Comes to Animals
Authorities undertook the mass killing of street dogs in a misguided effort to “beautify and sanitize” Sochi as they welcomed Olympic athletes and visitors to their city.
