PLEASE help the bats!
 

I recently became aware of bat sanctuaries and am so impressed. www.batworld.org

Today they posted on FB one of the most awful things I have seen in a while...paperweights with bats inside. Yes, they must kill bats to make these things. :(

Here is what they posted .. there is a sample letter to send to the website selling these horrible items. I hope all of you will take the time to write to them.

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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:
Unique Corporate Gifts | Executive Gifts | Corporate Gift Ideas | Creations and Collections Contact Info

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Dear Creations and Collections,

The bat featured at this URL (Unique Corporate Gifts | Executive Gifts | Corporate Gift Ideas | Creations and Collections 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

Here is a link to the picture of the awful things:

Vampire Bat Paperweight - Creations and Collections

That is just so sad, thanks for sharing this, I'll write the company selling this horrific item.

Thank you. :)

OM_G. Now we have ANIMALS cased in plastic???!!! Makes me furious. What on earth is wrong with people. This is so messed up.

Sent a letter via your contact link. Thanks for posting about this.

I sent an email asking them if they would like me to make a paperweight outta their dead body to sell to some fool who would buy them!! Thank you for sharing this is horrible!!! I love bats....

You're brilliant. Love it.

Awesome! :)

Yep, really sick isn't it? I was floored.