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NWHS Member Newsletter #13
Welcome members of National Wildlife Humane Society (NWHS) to our E-Newsletter #13.
Millions of wild animals have been poisoned in Africa. Join our NWHS sponsored internet community, Wildlife Community Network (WCN), to find out more about this very serious problem and see how you can assist. Members who donate $30+ receive a gift (an NWHS DVD) and all donors are eligible to win a nice NWHS sweatshirt at the conclusion of this fundraiser. No donation is too small.
Or, visit WildlifeDirect's Stop Poisoning Wildlife web page, if you would like to donate without joining WCN. Look for the orange donation box.
Please help NWHS grow. Invite friends to join NWHS. Forward this E-newsletter. Together we can build a true "wildlife conservation movement".
Patrick D. Webb
President - National Wildlife Humane Society
Founder/Director - Top Of The Rock Wildlife Sanctuary
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Young whale freed from entangling rope
Source: Guardian.co.uk
Officials said Monday they successfully cut loose hundreds of yards of plastic rope that had been caught in the mouth of a young humpback whale off Hawaii. Ed Lyman, the marine mammal response manager for the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, said the rope could have killed the yearling whale because it may have interfered with its feeding over time.
The whale, believed to have been born last year, would have also grown into it if not removed. "We saved a whale from a life-threatening entanglement," Lyman said. During the rescue,,,
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Tiger, lion and bear form unusual friendship
Source: Telegraph UK
Baloo the bear, Leo the Lion and Shere Khan the tiger have the most unusual and unlikely friendship between them.
Rescued eight years ago during a police drugs raid in Atlanta, Georgia, the three friends were only cubs at the time and barely two months old. They had been kept as status symbol pets by the drug barons.
Delivered to the Noah's Ark animal rescue centre in Locust Grove, Georgia, the decision was made to keep the youngsters together. "We could have separated them, but since they came as a kind of family, the zoo decided to keep them together," said Diane Smith, assistant director of the Noah's Ark zoo. "To our knowledge, this is the only place where you'll find this combination of animals together, they are our BLT, (bear, lion and tiger).....
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How a lonely lioness found love with a little help from her friends
Source: MailOnline - By: Amanda Cable
It was a cry of such loneliness and despair that everyone who heard it that night vowed that they had to act - and act fast. The lioness named Lady Liuwa was so lonely that she had come to humans, camped in the Liuwa National Park in Zambia, looking for company.
The gutteral roar was the unmistakable call of friendship. She was the last surviving lioness in Liuwa - and her loneliness was enveloping her - her dreams of belonging to a pride and of motherhood long gone.
The extraordinary story of how Lady turned to humans for companionship and love - and how they, in turn, fought to find her a family - has become one of the most moving wildlife films of all time. It began in 2004, when Namibian filmmaker Herbert Brauer arrived at the National Park to make a wildlife program...
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