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In our fourteen year history, we have:

  • Educated hundreds of thousands of people through numerous demonstrations, talk show appearances, conference presentations, school visits, newspaper advertisements, billboards, and web sites on a broad range of animal issues – secured extensive media coverage on animal issues, including national coverage on CNN and in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Vegetarian Times, and National Geographic
  • Organized and hosted countless protests and demonstrations throughout Colorado since 1994
  • Hosted and gave dozens of talks, slideshows, movie screenings and other presentations
  • Successfully advocated at the local, state, and federal levels for greater protection of animals
  • Provided telephone and email responses to thousands of animal-related inquiries from the public

Vegetarian Program

  • Created and distributed Compassionate Living – A Colorado Guide to Vegetarianism, and a sister website, VegColorado.com
  • Developed a publication for teens, THiNK! – An Intro to Vegetarianism for Teens
  • Distributed 150 vegetarian meals to Denver-area homeless residents
  • Created and maintained StockShowInfo.com, an exposé of Colorado’s largest stock show
  • Produced and nationally distributed the first U.S. video exposing the abhorrent conditions inside intensive egg farms, Raw Footage, Raw Pain
  • Worked with Wild Oats, at the time the nation’s largest natural foods chain, to remove foie gras (duck/goose paté) from store shelves
  • Provided substantial volunteer and financial support for area animal sanctuaries
  • Promoted a plant-based diet through our innovative HEALTH Program web site and potlucks
  • Organized and staffed the first vegetarian food booth at the Cinco de Mayo festival in Denver

Wildlife Program

  • Halted the illegal trapping of coyotes along Greenwood Village’s Highline Canal
  • Created PrairieWatch.org, an interactive prairie dog-monitoring website
  • Helped establish and worked with the Keep Boulder Wild campaign to persuade the city of Boulder to favor non-lethal control of prairie dogs within city limits
  • Facilitated the rescue of hundreds of wild and domesticated animals, either through direct rescue or via electronic and telephone alerts
  • Led an effort to save nearly 2000 aquatic lives at Boulder’s Leggett Canal
  • Worked with the City of Boulder to enact an ordinance protecting pigeons and other birds from poisoning and harassment
  • Mobilized citizens in communities along Colorado’s Front Range to help defend the black-tailed prairie dog and the associated short- and mixed-grass prairie ecosystems from the continuing threats of development, ranching, and recreational shooting
  • Played the leading role in creating the Prairie Dog Coalition (now its own non-profit) and organizing two national summits on prairie wildlife advocacy
  • Convinced the Boulder Valley School District to abandon lethal control of prairie wildlife and worked with the district to humanely relocate four prairie dog colonies
  • Pursued litigation, including an ongoing case challenging the State of Colorado for its approval of wildlife poisoning
  • Through a sustained campaign of civil disobedience, helped persuade the Colorado Wildlife Commission to severely restrict contest killing of wildlife
  • Produced and maintained PrairieDogs.org and WildlifeCrimes.org

Companion Animals Program

  • Produced and distributed 50,000 low-cost spay/neuter flyers in Denver and Boulder neighborhoods
  • Advocated for the rights of countless companion animals, both in domestic abuse situations, shelters, testing facilities and beyond

Animals in Entertainment Program

  • Played an instrumental role in the successful efforts to prohibit the exhibition of wildlife in the Colorado cities of Boulder and Estes Park, effectively banning animal circuses from these communities and, in Estes Park, stopping a multinational corporation from building a Plexiglas zoo within a few miles of Rocky Mountain National Park
  • Leafleted at nearly every Denver appearance of Ringling Bros. and other traveling animal acts

Animals in Research Program

  • Coordinated a nationwide boycott of Nalge-Nunc (the maker of popular Nalgene water bottles) for selling devices used in animal research
  • Initiated the eventually successful campaign to end the use of dogs in medical school training at the University of Colorado

Awards

Best Boulder County Activist, Runner Up (2006). Inaugural Prairie Dog Coalition Prairie Dog Protector Award (2006). Best Boulder County Non-Profit (2002). Best Boulder County Non-Profit, Runner Up (2001). Best Boulder County Activist (2002, 2001). Genesis Award honorable mention: RMAD’s Estes Park campaign (2000)

 

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