Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Basinger Fights Sale Of Tigers To Iraq
Campaigning Hollywood star Kim Basinger is battling to save deuce tigers from being sold to a zoo in Iraq. The actress is furious the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Usfws) has sanctioned the exporting of the animals from a zoological garden in Mebane, North Carolina to Baghdad Zoo. Basinger has scripted to Usfws director H. Dale Hall, begging him to turnabout the decisiveness. The longterm People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) campaigner writes, "It has already been shown that the animals at the Baghdad Zoo cannot be properly saved from the country's military conflict. When the warfare began, hundreds of animals in the zoo were killed, stolen, eaten, or let slack by looters. The last two tamil Tigers escaped and were