You probably already know that other parts of our animal world and

our environment are in trouble, great trouble. Serious enough to when the

only time we may ever see the endangered again is in books or at zoos...

if even then. This issue concerns "all" of us. It will continue to happen unless

drastic changes are made. It is just the beginning of the cycle of man's self

destruction to our planet and everything involving it, including man itself.

So many, already, are on the list of disappearances and future fatalities

of our animal kingdom. I wanted to supply this page as some of the issues

that concern me the greatest and found it necessary to share some of my

findings here with you.

FACT

We are currently losing species to extinction at the rate of one species

every 12 hours. By 2000, we'll lose one species every hour.

Despite the Bush Administration�s rhetoric on protecting endangered species,

this new policy is the equivalent of a declaration of war on endangered wildlife

worldwide. It opens the floodgates for the legal trade of endangered species

in the United States and will hasten the extinction of some of our most

threatened and vulnerable species.

SOMETHING TO PONDER

It is estimated that 10% of the world’s Tiger population is disappearing

each year. That means that in 10 years, there won’t be any more

Tigers in the wild. Habitat loss and pollution are the two biggest problems that

endangered animals face. This is followed closely by poaching for fur and

"medicinal" purposes. Pollution affects the food chain when plants are

contaminated from pesticides and fertilizers.

These plants are ingested by herbivore species, which are then ingested by

carnivores such as the big cats. The death and destruction caused by our

pollution goes from its source all the way up through the chain to the top.

We see animals every where who are not living as long as they should,

who suffer from all manner of disease and genetic mutation.

Habitats being encroached upon by population expansion cause more

confrontations between man and animal, and the animals lose,

because people are afraid to co-exist with things they don’t understand.

In all development, worldwide, we need to take into account the entire

Eco-system, and designate safe places for wildlife to exist, to ensure their

continued survival. The problems we are seeing in the animal world are a

warning of what could start happening to us.

We have to start solving the problems now, for the animals, before it is too late.

If we let the animals be destroyed, the same things will eventually happen to us.

CANADA'S MASSIVE SEAL HUNT

Canada�s annual seal hunt is the largest slaughter of marine

mammals on earth. With hundreds of thousands of helpless baby

seals killed senselessly each year for their fur, most no more than

14 days old, pristine white seal speckled shores are turned red by

acts of barbaric savagery as these pups are shot, beaten and skinned.

more...

Stop Canada's cruel seal hunt

Send this letter to end the Seal Hunt: Pass the Harp Seal Bill!

Please sign Care2�s petition to end seal hunting.

Please sign PETA�s petition to urge the

Canadian Olympic Committee to end the slaughter.

EU Parliament is considering a ban on the Canadian seal products.

GABLE'S RACCOON WORLD

These poor animals are so misunderstood and so is the misconception of

rabies. The following statement is one I put into Gable's guestbook and stand

by it strongly... For some reason it seems when some people see a raccoon their

comment is... "it must have rabies". How pathetic.

They have been known to come out in the daytime. They get hungry too.

Does that mean if we're caught going to our fridge in the middle of the night

we should be disposed of because we might have some disease?

Just because we're human does not mean we all have a human disease and

just because they are raccoons does not make them all rabid.

This is the best raccoon link I have seen and very informative.

Some of the issues may surprise you.

A FEW TERRIFIC WILDLIFE LINKS

National Wildlife Rehabilitators

Wildlife Rehabilitation Directory

Shoreline Wildlife Management

CONNECTICUT WILDLIFE REHAB INFO