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Borneo orangutans saved by wildlife corridors?

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This video is called 16×9 – Jungle Survivors: Saving Orangutans in Borneo.

From Wildlife Extra:

Wildlife corridors could offer new hope for orangutans

Researchers from Cardiff University, University of Adelaide, NGO HUTAN, and Sabah Wildlife Department have been looking at ways to improve wildlife corridors in Borneo as a new method of protecting the endangered orangutan.

According to the researchers, more than 80 per cent of the primate’s habitat has been destroyed in the past 20 years due to demand for agricultural land, leaving the remaining forest fragmented, isolating orangutans from one another and resulting in a major threat to their survival.

The study highlights that establishing wildlife corridors that connect fragmented protected areas will allow animals to move freely from one territory to another. This will be beneficial to gene diversity, as it will minimise the negative impact of inbreeding caused by animals being…

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Oregon Supreme Court recognizes animals as “individual victims”

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An August 28 article on Care2 by Susan Bird, entitiled, “Yes, Animals Can Be Individual Victims of Crime, Says Oregon Supreme Court” reports on two Oregon Supreme Court Decisions:

 

In the case State v. Nix, a defendant charged with starving 20 goats and horses was found guilty in the trial court of only one count of second degree animal neglect, based on the theory that individual animals cannot be victims of a crime, and that the only victim was the state.

 

This ruling was overturned on appeal, with the appeals court finding, on August 7, that animals can indeed be individual victims of a crime. The defendant was guilty of 20 criminal counts, not just one.

 

In 2013, the Animal Legal Defense Fund had helped to draft Oregon legislation stating that “animals are sentient beings capable of experiencing pain, stress and fear.” This was referred to in the Oregon Supreme Court’s decision which upheld the ruling of the Appeals Court. This Oregon Supreme Court finding is being seen as a sign of the evolving legal status of animals, away from being perceived solely as property, towards legal recognition of animals as individual, sentient beings.

 

In a second court case, Fessenden/Dicke, a police officer, with experience in animal cruelty cases, was found to have acted within the law, while seizing a dying horse believed to be the victim of cruelty, without a warrant. The Court applied the ruling specifically to this case, but left open the door to similar findings in the future.

 

These court cases are significant because they lead to a time when animals will be protected by law as individual legal persons, with rights, rather than solely as the property of human beings.

 

To read the original article in Care 2, click here.

 

To read the article on the same topics on the Animal Legal Defense Fund website, click here.

 

Photo: © Darius Strazdas | Dreamstime.com

 

 

 

 

 

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From a Non-vegetarian eating Muslim to a Vegan – Reflections by Faizan Jaleel

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Guest post* by Faizan Jaleel

*Views expressed herein are solely the personal views of the author – Faizan Jaleel, who can be contacted on faizanjaleel@icloud.com

**For those interested in the subject, there is also a website based book titled, “Animals in Islam” by Al-Hafiz B.A. Mazri , which can be accessed by clicking here. 

Being a Muslim has been linked to meat eating and in fact rightly so because many or most of the Muslims (followers of Islam) are non vegetarians. Being a Muslim myself and a non vegetarian till around 2009, I could simply understand that meat was a part of our cuisine and never in the entire time of my being a Non Vegetarian came from any religious guidance at that time. Meat was cooked and we ate it. It was not told to us in any religious sermon that you should eat meat to be a Muslim and yes neither it was the…

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Emergence of sacred forests at Resilience 2014

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A session on community forests, ecosystem services and resilience of smallholder agriculture at Resilience 2014

Handout of talk on emergence of sacred forests: Bhagwat_Resilience-2014_2014-05-06

Description of the session:

Reconnecting culture and agriculture: community forests, ecosystem services and resilience of smallholder agriculture

Do community forests in farming landscapes make smallholder agriculture more resilient? This session will examine the social-ecological system of community forests in the context of resilience of agriculture. This topic is important and urgent because it addresses the relevance of cultural institutions for food security, nutrition and wellbeing of some of the poorest people in the world.

Research thus far has suggested that community forests are ubiquitous in the rural landscapes in many developing countries and due to their cultural significance to local people many of them are considered sacred (Bhagwat and Rutte, 2006). In addition to their cultural role, sacred forests also provide a variety of…

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