PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS (PETA)

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), is an animal rights organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. With two million members and supporters worldwide, it says it is the "We can use this as an effective instrument of economic diplomacy, something that was done years ago by the then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, who used to gift animals, including elephants, to friendly countries as part of diplomacy," largest animal rights group in the world. Ingrid Newkirk is its international president. Founded in 1980,. It focuses on four core issues: factory farming, fur farming, animal testing, and animals in entertainment, and also campaigns against fishing, the killing of animals regarded as pests, the keeping of chained backyard dogs, cock fighting, dog fighting, and bullfighting. It aims to inform the public through advertisements, undercover investigations, animal rescue, and lobbying. Its slogan is "animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment." OUSSUDU LAKE One of the popular places in Puducherry, Oussudu Lake which was declared a sanctuary last year, Home to hundreds of migratory birds, the Oussudu Lake was declared a sanctuary by the territorial administration during the end of 2008.
"The lake measures 390 hectares. Sixty per cent of it is with Puducherry, while the rest is in TamilNadu. COASTAL ZONE DRAFT WILL BE ALLOWED TO LAPSE Bringing relief to the fishing community which feared displacement, the government on Friday announced that the draft Coastal Management Zone (CMZ) Notification, 2008 would be allowed to lapse on July 22. Instead, the existing Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification, 1991, will be amended to take into account the challenges likely to arise from climate change-induced sea level rise, and the growing pressure of population on coastal resources.
Prof. Swaminathan drafted the CMZ document in 2005 and now recommended that it be abandoned as it had failed to address the issues of fishermen.
"The lives and livelihood of nearly 25 per cent of our population living within 50 km of the shoreline, as well of the nearly 10 million fisher-folk, will depend upon the decisions we take now to develop enforceable regulations for integrated attention to both ecological and livelihood security," WORLD BANK ANNOUNCES TIGER CONSERVATION PROGRAMME World Bank initiates a new international Tiger conservation programme. The partnership with the Smithsonian Institution is a personal project of the bank’s president, Robert Zoellick. The initiative will seek to strengthen and expand a patchy system of tiger reserves across the 13 countries, including India, Indonesia, Thailand, China and Russia, that are home to the world’s rapidly diminishing tiger population.
Experts believe there are only about 3,500 tigers left. A century ago they were thought to number 100,000.
But their survival is threatened by the illegal trade in tiger parts, which are used for traditional remedies in Asia, and intense pressure on land for development.
The joint Smithsonian-World Bank conservation effort will begin by training hundreds of forest rangers in new anti-poaching techniques at the Smithsonian’s centre near Washington, and strengthen ties between countries where tigers live. Environmentalists see tiger conservation as crucial to saving Asia’s remaining forests. Without the prestige of the tiger, they argue, it will be harder to prevent the destruction of forests for development.