Welcome to ARC (Animal Responsibility Cyprus)

You have reached the website which gives information of the only Cyprus NGO that aims to be the voice of all animals: captive animals, wild creatures, animals used in farming, experiments etc. They follow an animal rights philosophy: humans do not have the right to kill or make other animals suffer. They do not have the right to eat other animals.

How animals predict earthquakes

The team’s findings are published in the Inter-national Journal of Envi-ronmental Research and Public Health. In this paper, they describe a mechanism whereby stressed rocks in the Earth’s crust release charged particles that react with the groundwater.Researchers began to investigate these chemical effects after seeing a colony of toads abandon its pond in L’Aquila, Italy, in 2009 – days before a quake.

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How animals predict earthquakes

Crack Down on Online Puppy Sellers ! PLEASE SIGN ! !

Puppy mill operators who sell online often exploit a loophole in the Animal Welfare Act regulations to operate without any federal oversight or inspections. They churn out hundreds of thousands of puppies for the pet trade each year, often in shockingly poor conditions, without any inspection or even basic humane standards. Many of these dogs are sold over the Internet to unsuspecting consumers who think they are dealing with small family breeders. The USDA must take action to close this loophole in the Animal Welfare Act regulations.

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Crack Down on Online Puppy Sellers ! PLEASE SIGN ! !