Pilot Who Saved Animals By Flying Them Out Of High-kill Shelters Receives Award

Bernadette Peters has presented Petra Janney with the Mary Tyler Moore Award.

Pilot Who Saved Animals By Flying Them Out Of High-kill Shelters Receives Mary Moore Tyler Award

Petra Janney who is a co-founder of Amelia Air learned to become a pilot so she could fly animals from high-kill shelters to rescues who have the resources to find them loving families.

Petra graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University with a degree in History and Science and a secondary concentration in Global Health.

After growing up in the wilderness of Maine, Petra fell in love with the natural world and has been doing everything she can to save animals ever since.

In a virtual animal adoption event on Sunday, Bernadette Peters awarded Petra Janney the Mary Tyler Moore Award for changing the lives of homeless animals.

“Petra is a dream come true,” Peters said before the ceremony. “Actually, she learned to be a pilot so she could fly animals out of kill shelter situations where they would end up on the list for euthanasia, and she brought them to safe locations where there are resources to find them loving families ... Mary would love the work Petra is doing to save animals. It's heroic.”

Bernadette Peters has dedicated nearly a quarter of a century to advocating for rescue animals through Broadway Barks.

The actresss hosted Broadway Barks Across America on Sunday. The annual event is on its 23rd year after Peters co-founded the nonprofit with the late Mary Tyler Moore in 1998, during Peters' Broadway run in Annie Get Your Gun.

This year's event featured appearances from Alec Baldwin, Christine Baranski, Glenn Close, Carol Burnett, Lily Collins, Harry Connick Jr., Sheryl Crow, Ted Danson, Gloria Estefan, Calista Flockhart, Whoopi Goldberg, Hugh Jackman, Mandy Patinkin, David Hyde Pierce, Kelly Ripa, Chita Rivera, Mary Steenburgen and more, along with a lineup of adoptable animals.

The event was aired here on Sunday at 7p.m.

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