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April 3rd, 2010
Thank you again to the Culture and Animals Foundation!

Huge thank you, again, to Tom and Nancy Regan of the Culture and Animals Foundation for their ongoing support of We Animals. This year the grant will help to cover part of my extensive travel and research costs. It's an honour to have such amazing people as Nancy and Tom believe in the project. Their financial and emotional support really help to carry the project a long way.

The Culture and Animals Foundation is a nonprofit, cultural organization committed to fostering the growth of intellectual and artistic endeavors united by a positive concern for animals.

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March 24th, 2010
Philanthropic Photog: U of O Graduate Uses Photography to Fight for Animal Rights




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Lindsay Korb is an arts student and writer at the University of Ottawa. Many thanks to you, Lindsay, for bringing light to both We Animals and Sea Shepherd in your recent article.

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March 16th, 2010
Gloria and Sue Ellen at Fauna Foundation




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If I were a rich woman, I'd give all my money to amazing people like Gloria Grow. Really. People like Gloria are a bright and ceaselessly shiny light in the dingy darkness of this world's onslaught of abuse on animals. Dramatic words, but the abuses that primates suffer at our hands while used for entertainment and research warrants dramatic description. When you meet a rescued primate and learn about what they've been through, and how those you meet are among the very lucky few who've escaped their prisons, the gravity of the situation hits hard and it hits home.
Gloria is the founder of Fauna Foundation, which rescues and provides permanent homes for unwanted animals. Hers is also the first sanctuary to accept HIV-infected chimpanzees from a medical research laboratory.
In this photo, Gloria talks with her friend Sue Ellen, a long time resident of Fauna. In her previous life, Sue Ellen had her teeth knocked out with a crow bar so that she wouldn't bite the humans who kept her for use in the entertainment industry. Fifteen years later, she was repaid for her efforts by being shipped to a biomedical research lab where she suffered through dozens of liver biopsies, rectal biopsies and lymph nodes biopsies, as well as being infected with HIV.
Sue Ellen was rescued by Fauna Foundation and now has chimpanzee companionship, huge and safe outdoor islands on which to roam and fresh, delicious food to devour every day.
Never wanting her rescued primate friends to live in cages again, Gloria had three islands built adjacent to the "chimp house", where the chimps can go outside without the confines of a cage. Primates are top-heavy and refuse to swim, so the water provides a natural barrier to their escape.
Please visit Fauna's website open link to read more about their mission, the residents and how to help through volunteering and donations. To Gloria, Derek and all the Fauna staff: YOU ARE AMAZING!


March 4th, 2010
Belgian Eva Magazine features photos from We Animals




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There`s an excellent veggie magazine in Belgium called Eva. This past month`s issue features the amazing work of Gene Baur, Co-Founder of Farm Sanctuary. I had the good fortune of meeting one of the women who works for the magazine, Melanie Jaecques, while she was interning at Farm Sanctuary. She will soon be producing an article about factory farmed meat which will also be published in Belgium, accompanied by some of my factory farming images which were shot in late 2009. I`ll be posting a gallery on factory farming shortly.
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February 26th, 2010
We Animals: McGill Symposium and Exhibit on Animal Law




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Come one come all! The McGill Student Animal Legal Defense Fund is hosting a three-day symposium, starting March 8th, 2010. A We Animals vernissage and reception will be part of this event, held March 10th at 7:45pm.

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