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NARN depends on YOU for our survival. Without your support we will not be able to continue fighting to stop the suffering of all animals.
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Along with a need for campaigns aimed at enacting change in the policies and practices of our governments, schools and businesses, NARN also realizes the importance of providing support for the individual looking to live a life of compassion. Visit our Northwest Resources page for more on these efforts.
Bamboo, an Asian elephant in Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo, was once a gentle elephant, docile enough to be walked on zoo grounds and touched by zoo visitors. After decades of living in a small zoo habitat, Bamboo began displaying stereotypic neurotic behavior of constant pacing and head-shaking. She also, at times, became aggressive toward handlers and baby elephant Hansa.
In response to her symptoms, Woodland Park Zoo (WPZ) transfered Bamboo in August 2005 to Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium (PDZA) in Tacoma, another small habitat zoo which specializes in "troubled" elephants, where she paced in circles and shook her head almost constantly.
After nine months of being unable to integrate her with the other elephants at PDZA, they have sent Bamboo back to WPZ, where she must also been kept separated from one of the other elephants. They will now search for yet another zoo to send her to.
Because we recognize that Bamboo's suffering needs to be relieved, rather than relocated, we are working to have Bamboo moved to a place where she can truly heal: The Elephant Sanctuary (TES) in Tennessee. TES has generously offered to transport and care for Bamboo at its own expense.
If you are inspired to help Bamboo, please visit www.FreeBamboo.org.
NARN believes that fur's time has come, and in fact that the entire notion of killing animals for their skins is obsolete. Over 40 million animals die every year for fur and fur-trimmed garments. Most often they are gassed, anally electrocuted, or drowned; this preserves the quality of the pelt, but does nothing for the dying conditions of the animal. Not much better are the living conditions of farmed animals, however, which make up 30 of the 40 million. Farmed foxes and mink are kept in small cages and denied any access to natural habitat before meeting their cruel ends.
It is the 21st century and there is no longer any excuse for buying or selling fur. If you simply must have the look, buy fake.
If you think it's an atrocity, contact us at info@narn.org and we'll show you how you can make a difference.
Modeled after a campaign by Compassion Over Killing, a Washington D.C.-based animal advocacy group, NARN's Campaign Humane Northwest is one of the most ambitious efforts to date to help animal sanctuaries and shelters and environmental organizations make the connection between the work they do and the food decisions they make. Aside from the obvious suffering of animals bred and raised for food, there is an associated and devestating toll inflicted upon our environment. Campaign Humane, at its core, asks organizations to encourage their members to take another look at their food choices and how non-vegetarian diets contradict their life's work. Further, participating organizations will take a pledge to server only vegetarian meals at their events.
The University of Washington (UW) is the sixth most-funded animal testing institution in the country, with over $158 million in taxpayer money routed to conducting cruel and ineffective experiments on non-human animals. Further, UW is home to one of eight Regional Primate Research Centers located across the United States. As such, UW confines about 2,000 primates at any given time, while each awaits its personal form of unspeakable and well-guarded cruelty in the name of science. Vivisection (animal testing) has been criticized by countless professionals as shoddy science and wasteful of time and money which could be better spent applying non-animal testing methods. NARN works to increase awareness of these issues and the plight of laboratory animals at UW, with the eventual goal of eliminating animal experimentation in favor of alternative methods.
Current Activity:
Some NARN activists are taking part in a weekly anti-vivisection demonstration at Magnuson Health Sciences Center (1925 N.E. Pacific Street), from 6:00pm - 8:00pm, Monday evenings. You are encouraged to join them. For directions or info, please contact Rachel. You can also read a journal of the recent demos.
Read more on the issues surrounding vivisection and check back here for more info as NARN continues to expand its campaign against UW's cruel practices.
The NARN Speakers Bureau is a collection of experts who are available to make presentations on a variety of topics ranging from humane education to plant-based nutrition to animal testing. We make over thirty balanced, informed presentations a year to middle schools, high schools, colleges, civic groups, and churches. Services provided by the NARN Speakers Bureau are available free of charge to any group with fifteen or more participants, and presentations are limited to the greater Seattle area. Please contact us at info@narn.org to arrange an engagement.
The Holocaust is regarded by many to be one of history's most tragic events, responsible for the deaths of as many as 11 to 12 million people due to brutal abuse and experimentation at the hands of Hitler's Third Reich. Nearly ten billion animals are killed for food (in the US alone) and upwards of 50 million are subject to vivisection every year. It is the purpose of CCC to bring attention to these atrocities and the fact that victims of prejudiced and brutality are not exclusively members of our own species.
Quoting Matt Rossell, who investigated the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center (ORPRC), "I have worked at the ORPRC as an animal technician for more than two years and what I saw broke my heart every day." Matt's investigation aided Dr. Stephen Kelley's forced resignation when two-thirds of his staff signed a formal complaint. Dr. Kelley has now been hired as the chief veterinarian at the Washington Regional Primate Research Center (WRPRC), housed at the University of Washington, and we demand he be removed!
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