The report shares its methodology with Good On You, a website that ranks fashion brands across three areas – people, planet and animals.Īccording to Good On You CEO, Gordon Renouf, to calculate each brand’s score on animal welfare, the platform rates brands based on publicly available information across five key areas: whether or not the brand has a welfare policy and how good this policy is what materials they’re using and whether or not they’ve committed to banning exotic skins and fur what certifications the brand is working with how transparent and traceable their supply chain is and how strong their governance model is. The model measures welfare based on the animal’s mental state, which is affected by its nutrition, physical environment, health status and behavioural interactions. The report drew on the Five Domains Model to assess brands, which was created by David Mellor, a professor of Animal Welfare Science at Massey University. The report calls for brands to reduce the use of animal products, refine animal-based supply chain choices to encourage higher levels of welfare, and to replace animal products with sustainable alternatives. Photograph: Nils Jorgensen/REX/Shutterstock
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The Audubon center isn't treating any sea turtles from this winter's strandings but is ready to do so if needed, spokeswoman Annie Kinler Matherne said.Sustainability focused luxury brand Stella McCartney received the highest score in Four Paws’ Animal Welfare in Fashion report – but other luxury houses were listed as some of the worst performers on animal welfare. Thirty were sent to the Audubon Species Survival Center in New Orleans, 25 to the Mississippi Aquarium and 20 to the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport.
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Last year, 75 turtles that stranded in Massachusetts were treated in Gulfport and New Orleans. The Boston aquarium had asked the Gulfport aquarium to take them to make room for this year’s injured, officials said in November. The aquarium was already caring for two turtles rescued last year in Massachusetts, one with a severe lung infection and the other with a shoulder infection that restricts movement. This group of turtles was flown to Gulfport on Friday after the New England Aquarium in Massachusetts ran out of room and appealed for help, Mississippi Aquarium spokesman Jeff Clark said. Some experts believe climate change is increasing the number of turtles afflicted off Cape Cod each winter. It can also lead to pneumonia, shock and frostbite. Sea turtles can become lethargic when stunned by water that chills down around them before they can swim to warmer waters. Most showed signs of pneumonia and would be treated with antibiotics, she said. “All 40 of the Kemp’s ridleys are pretty small,” as little as 1kg, said Alexa Delaune, the aquarium's vice president of veterinary services.
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GULFPORT: Forty endangered sea turtles that were injured when the water off Massachusetts cooled down so quickly that they couldn't swim away are being nursed back to health at the Mississippi Aquarium, flown there by a volunteer pilot group known as Turtles Fly Too.Īll are Kemp's ridleys, the world's smallest sea turtles and the most endangered of the six species found in US waters, the aquarium said in a news release Monday (Dec 6).