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Animals Today March 3, 2013 – Brenda Peterson and Bobbi Brink

on March 9, 2013 in Animal Sanctuary, General Information, whales, Wild animals

This show featured two remarkable guests. First, novelist, investigative reporter and advocate for sea mammals, Brenda Peterson joined Lori. The use of extremely loud sonar by the US Navy not only disrupts the communication (and thus the behavior) of whales and dolphins, but can kill them. Clear evidence is accumulating that the exercises and tests [...]

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Animals Today – Oct 7, 2012: Michele Diselets, Orangutan Land Trust

on October 7, 2012 in General Information, Orangutan

On this show, Lori welcomed the Executive Director of the Orangutan Land Trust, Michele Diselets. Orangutans are under serious threat due to habitat destruction from logging and palm oil production, as well as the pet trade. Listen in to learn about these great apes, Michele’s oustanding work with Orangutan Land Trust, and how you can [...]

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Animals Today – December 18, 2011 – O’Regan and Hunter

on December 19, 2011 in Books, General Information, Wild animals

This week, Peter interviewed Fred O’Regan, President and CEO of International Fund for Animal Welfare, IFAW. Fred is a great leader and spokesperson for this large organization and they discussed elephants, seal hunting and the EU ban on seal products, whale hunting, and marine mammal strandings.   Then, Dr. Luke Hunter joined Peter to discuss [...]

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Animals Today, Nov 20, 2011 – Matt Rossell from ADI. The great turkey quiz

on November 20, 2011 in Elephants, General Information, Turkeys

  On this show, Lori discussed a number of news items concerning the welfare of Elephants and other animals with Matt Rossell, Campaigns Director, US office, Animal Defenders International. First, they covered the newly introduced Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act. Then, they discussed ADI’s suit against Have Trunk Will Travel, a Perris California based group which supplies [...]

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Animals Today November 6, 2011 – Galapagos Update

on November 13, 2011 in Cats, Dogs, Environment, General Information

On this week’s show we featured interviews with two fascinating guests representing different groups in the Galapagos Islands. We met up with them at the 2011 FARM animal rights conference. First, we spoke with Tod Emko, who is President of Darwin Animal Doctors. They bring qualified vets to the Galapagos to help all of the [...]

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Animals Today – Oct 23, 2011 Hoffman And Roberts

on October 24, 2011 in Animal Sanctuary, Religion, Wild animals

On this show we spoke with Frank Hoffman, from the Frank T and Mary L Hoffman Foundation. The Foundation hosts a very large series of websites concerning religion, animal rights and veganism. Frank is a former Jewish-United Methodist Pastor, who contends that traditional churches and temples do not take issues of animal welfare seriously. We [...]

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Animals Today Show of June 26 2011

on July 2, 2011 in 2011 Show Archive, Cats, Companion animals, Dogs, General Information, Wildlife rehabilitation

On today’s show, Priscilla Feral joins us to speak about the wildlife sanctuary, Primarily Primates, where she is President of their Board of Directors. Here is the video describing Eagle Scout Joshua and Oliver, the blind chimp he helped. I was hoping to discuss this more but I am sure you will like this video. Bottom [...]

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