Monday
Jun062011
Tuesday
Jan252011
BWF Featured in HollywoodPatch
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 
By Sarah Keech
More than 100 rescued rabbits at Hollywood's Bunny World Organization are waiting to be adopted.
Bunny World Foundation president Lejla Hadzimuratovic doesn’t give names to the bunnies she rescues, but it’s not because she doesn’t care about them—it’s often that there are just too many to name individually. Instead, she refers to them as “lucky bunnies.”
Currently, there are more than 100 “lucky bunnies” available for adoption through the World Bunny Foundation, and Hadzimuratovic is eager to find safe, loving and qualified homes for them all.
Tuesday
Jan042011
Rabbits Need Rescuing Too
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 
By Jared Morgan
The founder of Hollywood-based Bunny World Foundation says people should adopt rabbits that need homes rather than buying them from breeders or pet shops.
You see them in pet stores—cute and fuzzy bunny rabbits hopping around scraps of lettuce and carrots. They're almost begging to be bought, right?
For Lejla Hadzimuratovic, founder and president of Hollywood-based nonprofit advocacy group Bunny World Foundation, getting a bunny from a pet store is just as bad as buying one from a breeder. Instead, people should adopt rabbits that need a home.
Saturday
Aug212010
Black Market Rabbits Rescued by 'Bunny Lady'
Saturday, August 21, 2010 
By Lindsay William-Ross
Everyday, illegal vendors sell baby animals in the Fashion District, and many sicken and die soon after they're taken home. But some are rescued by Lejla Hadzimuratovic, founder of Bunny World Foundation, who is profiled today by abc7.
Sick baby rabbits, many contaminated with salmonella, need to be cared for in their infancy, but are often taken from their mothers too soon to be sold on a black market. Hadzimuratovic has been nicknamed "The Bunny Lady" because "she's put her life on hold, taking in some 800 baby bunnies confiscated by police on the streets of L.A. over the past two years."
Friday
Aug202010
Rabbits Suffer Animal Cruelty on Black Market
Friday, August 20, 2010 
By Leslie Sykes
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It's a crime that's committed every day in downtown Los Angeles: animal cruelty. Baby bunnies just a few days old are sold on street corners by illegal animal vendors. The bunnies are kept in filthy conditions. Many are sick or dying when they're sold. Police and animal activists trying to stop this practice.
A baby bunny draws its last breaths, dying because it was taken from its mother too soon.
It's a scene that plays out over and over again, a story that begins on the streets of downtown L.A.
Performing a raid, Los Angeles Police officers arrest an animal vendor. The haul? Twenty-two bunnies, 10 birds and 40 baby turtles.
"The rabbits will be lucky if they live past four days," said LAPD officer Matt Shafer. "The turtles, some of them live, some of them die, but the majority of them are all covered in salmonella."
"Their eyes start getting open when they're seven days old, and you can see they're barely open right now," said Lejla Hadzimuratovic, founder of Bunny World Foundation.