There's always the emphasis on saving animals, but actually if you don't save the plants then everything will go extinct.

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He, too, is committed to saving animals.

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Because hoarders often believe that they are actually saving the animals, hoarding cases can be difficult to prosecute and treat.

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"They must think they've landed in some sort of donkey heaven, " said Gwen Ware, a British citizen who helped raise funds for their emigration through her charity, Saving Greek Animals.

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"The absurd anti-vivisection agenda of abolishing life-saving medical research involving animals is being systematically shredded before our eyes, " he said.

BBC: Mouse,