One Green Planet: The Plight of the Hermit Crabs
The below piece was written by me for One Green Planet, where it originally appeared. Every year around this time, shops lining the beach city boardwalks fill their familiar wire cages with curious...
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Tabling for the Hermies!
Summer is upon us, and several volunteers (and many funders!) have helped us put together a table here in Virginia Beach to speak up for the hermies at the Old Beach Green Market. We’ve already spent...
View ArticleNew Jersey’s Courier-Post covers the hermies’ plight!
This article, featuring an interview with Laura Cascada, founder of Plight of the Hermies, originally appeared in the Courier-Post. Hermit crabs need more than food and water...
View ArticleUrge Care-A-Lot Pet Supply to Stop Selling Hermit Crabs!
Care-A-Lot Pet Supply has long been a favorite destination for animal lovers like me around Hampton Roads to find supplies for their companions. That’s why I was disappointed to hear that they are...
View ArticleOne Green Planet: The Plight of the Hermit Crabs
The below piece was written by me for One Green Planet, where it originally appeared. Every year around this time, shops lining the beach city boardwalks fill their familiar wire cages with curious...
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Tabling for the Hermies!
Summer is upon us, and several volunteers (and many funders!) have helped us put together a table here in Virginia Beach to speak up for the hermies at the Old Beach Green Market. We’ve already spent...
View ArticleNew Jersey’s Courier-Post covers the hermies’ plight!
This article, featuring an interview with Laura Cascada, founder of Plight of the Hermies, originally appeared in the Courier-Post. Hermit crabs need more than food and water...
View ArticleUrge Care-A-Lot Pet Supply to Stop Selling Hermit Crabs!
Care-A-Lot Pet Supply has long been a favorite destination for animal lovers like me around Hampton Roads to find supplies for their companions. That’s why I was disappointed to hear that they are...
View ArticleHermit Crab Industry EXPOSED for the First Time!
Just in time for summer, when beach boardwalks erupt with colorful painted shells housing delicate hermit crabs, PETA has released a new eyewitness video, revealing for the first time the horrors...
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VICTORY: Terrifying Mid-Atlantic Hermit Crab Challenge Canceled!
VICTORY!! For the last four years, Plight of the Hermies volunteers have tabled at the Mid-Atlantic Hermit Crab Challenge–an annual event in which sensitive hermit crabs are subjected to crowds and...
View ArticleTell Sunsations: Hermit Crab’s Aren’t Souvenirs!
We’ve just launched the largest campaign for captive hermit crabs ever: We’re urging beach retail chain Sunsations–one of the largest dealers of hermit crab on the East Coast–to keep hermit crabs in...
View ArticleThe Virginian-Pilot covers the hermies’ plight!
Just before our kickoff protest for our campaign urging Sunsations to take hermit crabs off its shelves, The Virginian-Pilot has covered the story. Read and share today! The Virginian-Pilot: “Hermit...
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PHOTOS: Protesters kick off Sunsations campaign in Virginia Beach!
Today in Virginia Beach, protesters lined the street outside one Sunsations store on behalf of the more than 40,000 people who have signed our petition saying hermit crabs are not souvenirs! Check out...
View ArticleBREAKING: Hermit crabs dead, dying at Sunsations — WATCH AND SHARE!
A new Plight of the Hermies investigative video reveals the horrors of the hermit crab trade inside beach chain Sunsations, where crabs were found with missing limbs in filthy, crowded cages–and one...
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New Billboard Campaign Targets Sunsations for Hermit Crab Freedom
With beach season in full swing, four billboards are popping up around Hampton Roads, Virginia, this week calling on residents and tourists alike to join a nationwide campaign urging Virginia...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor: Destined to Die
Our letter to the editor was published by The SandPaper. July 24, 2019 To the Editor: We’ve all seen the colorful shells, painted with football team logos and cartoon characters. Thousands of kids...
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Giant Crab Delivers 50k Signatures to Sunsations
Today, Plight of the Hermies’ giant inflatable crab descended on a Sunsations store in Virginia Beach, accompanied by a 50,000-person-strong petition urging the beach chain to ditch wild hermit crab...
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WIN: New hermit crab book + tank top!
Plight of the Hermies and the Vegan Mermaid Warrior are excited to offer an exclusive opportunity to get your hands on an autographed copy of the brand new children’s book, Squirmy Hermie’s Heroics by...
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