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Urgent call for support and direct action as wildest European valley (Rospuda) goes under axe from 1st August!

Rare species face extinction (including wolves) as Polish authorities declared Rospuda Valley to be destroyed for building an express road despite an alternative route being available. For several years, ecological organisations (Workshop for All Beings, Greenpeace) and environmental scientists have been leading battles to save the valley.

Recently, an EU comittee backed up ecologists saying that the investment is unlawful. Now, government is fiercely rushing to destroy it, as we fiercely should stand up against it. You will yourself want to protect this nature site if you see it, especially if corrupted authorities are going to destroy it forever. Make your mind up before the destruction; afterwards, it will be too late. There is a camp established by Greenpeace and Workshop for All Beings. The camp is between…

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights

Animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the movement to protect non-human animals from being used or regarded as property by humans. It is a radical social movement insofar as it aims not only to attain more humane treatment for animals, but also to include species other than human beings within the moral community by giving their basic interests — for example, the interest in avoiding suffering — the same consideration as those of human beings. The claim is that animals should no longer be regarded legally or morally as property, or treated as resources for human purposes, but should instead be regarded as legal persons.

The Seattle-based Great Ape Project is campaigning for the United Nations to adopt a Declaration on Great Apes, which would see gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees and bonobos included in a “community of equals” with human beings, extending to them the protection of …

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