McKee Project Helps Latin America's Strays

This is a good group. Check them out.

http://www.mckeeproject.org/

Support Island Dog Inc.

I really like this group and donate to them. Puerto Rico's animal welfare is pathetic. It's not that different from the rest of Latin America, but Puerto Rico is part of the United States. There's no excuse for them not to be on par with at least the worst US state.

Smithsonian Magazine Spotlights Wildlife Trafficking

HUGE article in the Smithsonian Magazine about wildlife trafficking out of Ecuador.

Farmed Fish Are No Easy Solution

Many believe that the solution to our wild fish problems is to promote farmed alternatives. But, as with any kind of mass production, this is filled with all kinds of risks.

Here's an article spotlighting farmed fishing in Chile.

It's really damned if you do and damned if you don't. Eat wild runs and cause their extinction. Eat farmed fish and create other environmental perils.

Best not to eat either.

Smugglers Go to Extremes with Argentinian Parrots

They are dying them to look like Amazonian species which are more valuable on the black market.

Gobal Smuggling Ring Uncovered in Brazil

Thanks to animalblog.co.uk for this big story.

Brazilian federal police arrested 72 people on Wednesday on suspicion of running an international smuggling ring that traded half a million wild animals, including jaguars and monkeys, each year.

Police said it was the biggest single operation in the past decade against rampant illegal wildlife traffic in the South American country. Brazil is one of the world's hotspots for animal smuggling because of its rich diversity of animals.

McKee Project Expands Work into Guatemala and Other Latin American Countries

This is a great group that I've spotlighted before. At the end of 2007, the World Society for the Protection of Animals selected the McKee Project to work on spay/neuter programs in Guatemala. Although they are best known for their work in Costa Rica, they also work in Mexico and Panama.

I recently subscribed to their newsletter which comes out in both Spanish and English versions.

New Web Site for McKee Project

Well, it's not exactly a new address, but it's a friendlier, more engaging design.

They do great work in Latin America.

We are a US non profit 501(c)(3), with Foundations in Costa Rica & Panama. Mckee approaches the suffering of companion animals at the root, in the community. We do not use euthanasia, because it does not work, likewise, we do not spend limited community resources on shelters, which do not solve the issue of overpopulation and which are inhumane storage and killing facilities.

What Mckee does is build sustainable community solutions by teaching local veterinarians, governmental veterinarians & university veterinarians in advanced spay neuter techniques (safer for the animals and faster for high volume campaigns), and, also trains the respective community to be pro-active using spay neuter, and community support versus shelters and euthanasia (or massive poisonings – which has been developing nation’s governmental “solutions”).