International Fund for Animal Welfare

Another great group: IFAW rescued 50 animals on Friday Sept. 9th from flooded homes in the canal district of New Orleans. Click to view the IFAW photo gallery.

IFAW’s Emergency Relief Animal Rescue team is based in Gonzales, Louisiana, 50 miles outside of New Orleans. Working with state authorities, IFAW is conducting door-to-door search and animal rescue operations in areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina where evacuees were forced to leave their pets behind.

IFAW’s hurricane relief efforts also include helping to coordinate the massive request for pet supplies and shelter assistance, as well as delivering multiple financial grants to help local animal organizations such as the LSPCA and LSU Vet School with the hurricane pet rescue.

IFAW has announced that 100% of all funds raised will go directly towards Hurricane Katrina response efforts, including immediate animal care and the rebuilding of animal shelters destroyed. To make a donation visit www.ifaw.org/us/katrina

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[Juliet Neal-Boyd]

Thank you for this posting. It is greatly appreciated, especially during this tough time.

Warmest Regards,
Juliet Neal-Boyd
The International Fund for Animal Welfare

[MR. NIGEL. ELLIOT.]

ON THE NEWS TONIHJT I HEAR THAT THERE IS TO BE DECIDED THE FATE OF APPROX SEVEN THOUSAND ELEPHANTS TO BE CULLED IN THE KRUGER NATIONAL PARK. THIS IS TOTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE DESPITE THE REASONS FOR THE CULL AS I SEE NO REASON WHY THESE ELEPHANTS CANNOT BE REALLOCATED AROUND THE WORLDS SAFARI PARKS, ZOOS, AND OTHER NATIONAL PARKS. WE ARE ALWAYS BEING TOLD THAT ELEPHSANTS ARE AN ENDANGERED SPECIES AND THEIR NUMBERS DOWN DUE TO POACHING AND OTHER FACTORS SUCH AS ILL HEALTH AND YET THESE CLOWNS AT THE KRUGER NATIONAL PARK ARE GOING TO SHOOT 7,000 OUT OF A POULATION OF 12,000 TO ME IS TOALLY SENSELESS AND IRRESPONSIBLE WITHOUT LOKING AT OTHER FORMS OF ACTION TO ALEVIATE THE PROBLEMS AND DAMAGE THEY ARE CAUSINGTO TREES AND VEGETATION HELL THEY ARE ONLY EATING THE SAME AS YOU AND I IN ORDER TO SURVIVE!! WHY IF THESE IDIOTS WHO RUN THE KRUGER NATIONAL PARK HAD ANOTHER BRAINCELL THEY WOULD BE A PLANT AND AT LEAST USEFUL TO THE ELEPHANTS WHO COULD THEN EAT THEM. THESE IDIOTS AT KRUGER ARE BOUND TO KNOW HOW MUCH THE ELEPHANTS EAT SO WHY DID THEY NOT HAVE A LONG TERM ACTION PLAN WHEREBY BY PLANTING FURTHER TREES AND VEGETATION OVER THE YEARS COULD HAVE AVERTED THIS PROBLEM IT IS KNOWN AS SUSTAINABLE REGENERATION AND I THINK IT IS HI TIME THEY WERE EDUCATED ON THESE FACTS AS CLEARLY TEH TOP BRASS THERE DO NOT HAVE MUCH OF A CLUE! THEIR ANSWER TO SUCH PROBLEMS IS GO SHOOT THE CHIT OUT OF THE PROBLEM END OF PROBLEM BUT THEY ARE WRONG AS THEY FORGET THAT ELEPHANTS BREED AND HAVE YOUNG AND WITH TOIME THEY WILL BE AT THE SAME OLD CROSSROADS YET AGAIN WHERE MORE WILL SUFFER YET ONCE MOREWHICH IS SO POINTLESS FUTILE AND CAUSES SUFFERING TOO AS I SAW ON THE NEWS FILM OF THE LAST CULL WHERE ONE RANGER HAD TO SHOOT THE SAME ELEPHANT TWICE SO IN THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND SHOT THAT ELEPHANT SUFFERED AND IT'S UNACEPTABLE AND TOTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE TO BOOT.THESE IDIOTIC CLOWNS COULD EVEN FEED THE ELEPHANTS THEN THEY WOULD NOT SEEK TO CAUSE AS MUCH DAMAGE IF AT ALL AND THEY COULD GET THE MONEY FROM ENCLOSING THE PARK AND CHARGING TOURISTS TO THE PARK WHICH WOULD EFFECTIVELY FEED THESE ELEPHANTS ABD THEY COULD EVEN LET TOURISTS BUY OR ADOPT THEIR OWN ELEPHANT ALL OF WHICH ALLEVIATES THE PROBLEM AND ALSO FEEDS THESE MAGNIFICWENT ANIMALS WHO WERE HERE ON EARTH LONG BEFORE MAN. I SAY TO AL OF YOU OUT THER READING THIS START PROTESTING BY LETTER LOBBYING THE POLITICIANS OVER THERE AND EVEN THEIR PRIME MINISTER SO THE MESSAGE IS MADE ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT THEY ARE NOT ON ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE ARE OTHER OPTIONS WHICH ALTHOUGH TAKE TIME WILL SAVE THESE ANIMALS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO COME. ON THE SAME NEWS THEY ARE NOT GOING TO CULL THE ELEPHANT WITH THE LONGEST TUSKS IN THE WORLD SO HAS IT NOW BECOME FAVORITISM AS WELL? SO ALL ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUPS FIND OTHER VENUES, START ACTION PLANS NOW, FIND OTHER PARKS, ZOOS.AND OTHER VENUES AND IDEAS BUT START NOW TO ENSURE THESE ELEPHANTS ARE NOT KILLED NEEDLESLEY. TO PREVENT THIS PROBLEM HAPPENING AGAIN THERE IS ONE SOLUTION WHICH WOULD BE TO CASTRATE A GIVEN NUMBER OF BULL ELEPHANTS EVERY YEAR THUS KEEPING THE NUMBERS IN CHECK AND IF THEY WANTED MY HELP I WOULD CONSIDER DOING SO AS HAVING BEEN A FARMER I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THAT

[Siobhan]

What kind of people would leave their pets behind when disaster happens? FRIENDS DON'T LEAVE THEIR FRIENDS BEHIND! I bet your pet will never think twice of not saving you from drowning. I think they would like the same treatment!