Born Free USA Blog
by Will Travers,
Chief Executive Officer
What can you say about a big-hearted bloke who has rescued dolphins, tigers, elephants and more and whose parents once helped a lion cub from a department store by caring for him in their backyard and engineering his rightful return to Africa? You can safely say that he's got great animal instincts! In 1984, Will Travers joined his parents — "Born Free" film stars Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers — to form what became The Born Free Foundation. With knowledge, passion and compassion dripping from his every word, Will's blogs are sure to make you embrace our crusade to Keep Wildlife in the Wild ®.
Canadian Student Raises Awareness about Protecting Animals from Cruelty and Exploitation
Noah, right, goes above and beyondfor wild animals!
You don’t have to be an adult to make a difference. Our friend Noah, who is only in the fifth grade, recently helped animals worldwide by raising awareness about their suffering and even raising money for Born Free to continue fighting animal cruelty.
Justin Bieber’s Boa Boo-Boo
Born Free USA turned its attention to reptiles this week in having our Action Alert team members urge President Obama to approve a ban on the interstate transport of nine types of snakes. The Florida Everglades, incredibly, is now home to some 100,000 Burmese pythons — which have been known to swallow deer and alligators whole — thanks to some having been dumped there by snake-weary exotic “pet” owners.
Guess Who’s Got a New ‘Pet’?
Michael Vick has a pet parrot.
Yes, that Michael Vick, the Philadelphia Eagles star quarterback who spent 18 months in federal prison on dog-fighting charges. The same Michael Vick who admitted he drowned or electrocuted dogs who lost in the ring. The man who gives many animal lovers the shivers with the mere mention of his name.
Ohio Tragedy Shows Wild Animals Belong in the Wild
Exotic animals should live in the wild, not be exploited in profit-motivated zoos — or worse — as "pets" or backyard oddities by people who have a deeply misguided sense of dominion or ownership.
Trapping Apologist Makes a Wrong Turn
Tom Venesky wrote last Sunday in The Times Leader of Wilkes-Barre, PA, that:
- Trapping keeps animals from being hit by vehicles.
- Traps are “the best tool to manage furbearer populations.”
- Trappers were misrepresented by Born Free USA in its recent undercover investigation.
- He knows best.
It doesn’t, they aren’t, they weren’t, and he doesn’t.
When Living a Long Life Might Not Be So Grand
If you were told that you would live to be 95 years old, you might very well be pleased.
If you also were told that your entire life would be spent in one small house, with no excursions anywhere for any reason, and if you have mates you’ll have no say in who they are or how long you will be together, and you’ll be ordered around and punished by members of an entirely different species, and tourists will pay to stare at you every day, you might very well be discouraged.
Famous Black Bear Cub Killed — for Mere Fun
The idea that bears are being farm-raised and permanently embedded with devices that remove their bile, until they die young, perhaps gratefully because of their horribly painful and restricted lives, just so that some person with an ailment fancies it will make him feel better, appalls me to no end.
To have a wild bear shot for fun seems … if not worse, no better.
A Pool for Fools
If a video were to be filmed of me after watching the YouTube video “I Just Swam with a Siberian Tiger Cub,” it would be titled, “I Just Got Nauseated Watching Animal Mistreatment.”
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