Please write a polite letter to Creations and Collections at the following link, and voice your dismay at the hideous bat paperweight they are selling. A sample letter is provided below: creationsandcollections/ContactUs.aspx ------------------- Dear Creations and Collections, The bat featured at this URL (creationsandcollections/Vampire Bat-Paperweight) is not a vampire bat, it is a big brown bat. These bats roost in caves in large numbers, making them easy targets for unscrupulous wildlife dealers who harvest them by the hundreds while they very much alive. When these bats are purchased from these wildlife dealers it only increases the trade. By buying and selling these specimens, you are not only causing the deaths of individual animals, you are contributing to the vast decline in wild bat populations as it encourages this continual killing by wildlife poachers. Additionally, Creations and Collections may be operating against Animal Welfare Act (AWA) regulations governing the sales of dead animals. As primary predators of vast quantities of night-flying insects, including serious crop pests, big brown bats are important to the agricultural interests of our country. This North American species is already in rapid decline due to white nose syndrome, a disease that is wiping out millions of bats across N America. As a purportedly ethical society, it is time we moved beyond the practice of sacrificing bats and other healthy wildlife. Making these beneficial and valuable mammals into grotesque paperweights and novelty items is unjustified, unsustainable, and morally repugnant. Please remove this item from your website as well as your catalog. Until then, I will encourage my friends and family to avoid shopping at Creations and Collections. YourSignature
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:55:55 +0000
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