Unfortunately, despite trying to give support to Moroccan animal welfare campaigners by asking His Royal Highness to personally intervene and help animals in his country, we have only just been able to get together 1,000 signatures when we were aiming for a total of at least 5,000.
The petition has been open since September 2009, and in approximately six months 1,000 signatures have been achieved. At this continued rate it will take some two and a half years to reach even our target total; that is two and a half more years of suffering without intervention and action for the animals of Morocco.
So now it has been decided to close the petition.
Despite the probable wishes of some to now contribute their signature to this campaign, it will not be possible. People have had over six months already to put their name into a box – a matter of a few seconds to undertake. So now we move on, and with the petition closed, we have to act to present what signatures we have to the Royal family of Morocco.
Contact will be made with our Moroccan campaigners to ask and decide on what move is next regarding the petition. We would like to thank everyone who did give their name to the petition. It is disappointing to only have reached one fifth of our aimed target, but maybe lessons can be learned with regard future challenges such as this.
A full copy (electronic) of all the signatures will now be made and forwarded to friends in Morocco. In this format, we hope that a paper printout of all the signatures and comments can then be produced. We then envisage that the paper copy of the petition can then be sent to His majesty asking for him to take action on behalf of Morocco’s animals. We will provide further information on events as things happen.
Special thanks to everyone who did sign and put the petition word round.
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Conservatives offer little hope for animals
With over 5000 emails sent to candidates, and thousands of replies received from election candidates, some revealing patterns are emerging about the relative commitment of the parties to animal protection.
So far, we’ve tried to stay as party-neutral as possible, but a comparison of party responses is now showing a clear message.
Most alarming are the Conservative candidates. We have received a miniscule 14 positive replies out of a possible 3774. The Conservatives’ animal protection rating is therefore a pretty nasty 0.37%. Not one Tory out of the 629 surveyed has agreed with all six of our animal protection manifesto points. More Tories than any other party simply aren’t bothering to reply to their constituents’ questions about their stance on hunting and other animal issues.
Labour score 16.3% and the Lib Dems 24%.
As usual, the Green candidates are the most supportive with a 54% agreement rate. In fact 95% of the actual responses received from Green candidates were positive.
The Conservative tactic to hide their intention to bring back hunting could well be working. So please click here to write to the letters’ page of your local paper to alert fellow voters to the barbaric consequences of a Conservative victory.
Posted on April 28, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
There has been press coverage this week of new proposals which are supposed to be introduced by the Serbian authorities, particularly in Belgrade City.
The article link and a Google translation of the article are provided below.
Basically, after all the bad publicity with what happened to ‘Mila’
and all the protests levelled at the Serbian authorities, including demonstrations on the streets (see newspaper article for pictures), one Dr Vladimir Terzin, wants to establish an ‘Animal Police’ unit staffed entirely with animal lovers, who will also receive specific / specialist training for the job.
This police unit will be responsible for making sure that Serbian animal welfare regulations are applied and that perpetrators are punished accordingly.
At the moment, this specialist unit is for the City of Belgrade only, but we (SAV) sincerely hope that positive lessons will be learned from the establishment of this unit which can then be transposed into other cities and towns around Serbia.
We are informed that the city of Belgrade has, in collaboration with the local university (vet ?), been actively engaged in castrating animals around the city for several months now, and that this is being paid for with funds out of the city budget. This can do nothing but help to reduce the numbers of stray animals currently being born into a life of abuse and misery and eventual death on the streets of the capital city.
It must be remembered that it has been common for thousands of stray dogs and cats to be rounded up and killed by shinter teams in the city of Belgrade every year.
Link – SAV presentation to Mr. Alain Hutchinson MEP (Belgium): To Hutchinson
Despite the police unit only initially being established in Belgrade city, we consider that at last there are hopefully some positive changes ahead with regard stray and pet animals within the whole of Serbia. As an NGO which has been campaigning for several years and pushing for much better welfare advances for both strays and roaming (owned) animals within Serbia, we can do nothing but regard this move by the Belgrade authorities as a very positive one.
But this does not mean that we simply sit back now and accept everything we read or are being told. Experience of the Serbian government and local / city authorities and their shinter teams, combined with very negative / non actions from the Public Prosecutors department(s) over the last five or six years has taught us that we take nothing given as a verbal statement as the truth, regardless of who makes it and their political position. We have been fed too many promises in the past, only to never even see them start to materialise or at best, or their implementation simply fade away in a very short time, taking the suffering back to how it was – terrible !
With our animal welfare friends and colleagues in Serbia, Germany and other nations, we will be closely monitoring what actually happens now in Belgrade city by the newly formed special ‘Animal Police’. If we find that there are no improvements, no legislation implementation or no prosecutions of the animal abusive perpetrators during the coming months, as we are informed there will be, then we will scream, shout and take our case directly back to the EU. For our non EU supporters of SAV, we must point out that Serbia is currently NOT a member state of the European Union (EU). In order to achieve EU membership (accession); a state such as Serbia must show that it IS implementing its own national ‘rules of law’ / legislation in order to gain membership of the EU ‘club’.
Possibly, this establishment of the animal police test unit and the promised prosecutions of those who commit serious crimes and abuse against innocent animals is the first step towards enforcement of this ‘rule of law’ by the Serbian authorities. It is far too late, but better late than never !
Whatever happens, we are watching and we will not hesitate in informing you all of the (hopefully) great advances or (sadly) the continuing failures for animals which will happen in the coming months and years. Our aim has been and will continue to be a voice for Serbian animals; that will never change, regardless of the political situation, the time and the place.
Now it is down to the Belgarde authorities and their new animal police to ensure that verbal quotations are followed up with real actions.
We are watching !
SAV.
Lets hope that these scenes become history due to the work of the new Animal Police.
Gradska uprava u narednom periodu planira da, u saradnji sa MUP-om, oformi “Policiju za životinje”, rekao je danas zamenik sekretara za komunalne i stambene poslove Vladimir Terzin.The city administration in the future plans, in cooperation with the MUP, form a “police animal,” said the now deputy secretary of Municipal Affairs and Housing Vladimir Terzin.
Keruša Mila: Nasilje nad životinjama kulminiralo je njenim slučajemDog Mila: Violence against animals has culminated in her case
On je u izjavi Tanjugu objasnio da bi ta jedinica radila po ugledu na slične službe u svetu, sa obavezom da vodi računa o svim životinjama na teritoriji Beograda.He told Tanjug news agency explained that the unit worked on the model of similar services in the world, with the obligation to take care of all animals in the territory of Belgrade.
Ta služba, naveo je Terzin, ne bi trebalo da ima više od pet do osam ljudi, koji bi brinuli o životnjama na ulici, ali i onim udomljenim koje, kao je istakao, njihove gazde ne čuvaju na adekvatan način.The service said Terzin, you should have no more than five to eight people, who would care for životnjama on the street, but also those udomljenim which, as noted, their bosses are not maintained adequately.
Pripadnik “policije za životinje” u SADMember of the “animal police” in the U.S.
“Za početak se planira odlazak dve osobe na obuku u inostranstvo, kao i nabavka specijalizovanog vozila u te svrhe”, najavio je Terzin.”For a start we are planning two people going abroad for training, as well as supply of specialized vehicles for these purposes,” said Terzin.
Prema njegovim rečima, grad je pokrenuo i akciju sa Veterinarskim fakultetom u Beogradu za sterilizaciju i kastraciju životinja.According to him, the city launched the campaign with the Veterinary Faculty in Belgrade for the sterilization and castration of animals.
On je podsetio da su gradonačelnik Dragan Đilas i gradski čelnici podržali nedeljni protest više udruženja za zaštitu životinja, pod nazivim “Stop nasilju nad životinjama”, zbog učestalih napada na pse u prestonici.He recalled that the Mayor Dragan Djilas and city leaders support the weekly protest over the association for the protection of animals, called “Stop violence against animals” because of frequent attacks on dogs in the city.
Razmišlja se io uvođenju 24 – časovne SOS linije putem koje bi se mogli prijaviti konkretni slučajevi zlostavljanja životinja, rekao je Terzin.Thinking about introducing a 24 – hour SOS lines through which could apply specific cases of animal abuse, said Terzin.
Đilas na protestu “Stop nasilju nad životinjama”Djilas to protest, “Stop violence against animals”
Protestni skup „Stop nasilju nad životinjama”, koji su organizovala udruženja za zaštitu životinja, održan je danas ispred Starog dvora.Protest rally, “Stop violence against animals, which were organized by the Association for the Protection of Animals, was held today in front of the Old Palace. Protestu su se pridružili gradonačelnik Beograda Dragan Ðilas, sekretar za komunalne i stambene poslove Predrag Petrović i pomoćnik sekretara za komunalne i stambene poslove Vladimir Terzin.
The protest was joined by Belgrade Mayor Dragan Ðilas, Secretary of Municipal Affairs and Housing Predrag Petrovic and Assistant Secretary for Municipal Affairs and Housing Vladimir Terzin. Skup su organizovali Društvo za zaštitu životinja, Udruženje „Evropska inicijativa 17” i Udruženje za zaštitu životinja i građanske svesti „Feniks”. The event was organized by the Society for the Protection of Animals, the Association “European Initiative 17” and the Association for the Protection of Animals and civic consciousness “Phoenix.”
Kako su naveli organizatori, protest je organizovan zbog terora nad životinjama i učestalog ubijanja uličnih životinja, ponekad čak i vlasničkih, što je kulminiralo u slučaju keruše Mile, kojoj su amputirane sve četiri šape.
As stated by the organizers, the protest was organized because of terror against the frequent killing of pets and street animals, sometimes even ownership, culminating in the case of Dog Mile, where all four legs amputated.
– Plan gradske vlasti jeste da u narednih godinu i po dana izgradi tri azila za napuštene životinje.
Plan of the city government is that in the next year and a half to build a three asylum abandoned animals. Azil u Rakovici je otvoren već nekoliko meseci, a ubuduće će ovakvih objekata biti u Mladenovcu i na Paliluli. Shelter in Rakovica is open for several months, and the future of these facilities will be in Mladenovac and Palilula. Takođe, grad je pokrenuo akciju sa Veterinarskim fakultetom za sterilizaciju i kastraciju životinja, au saradnji sa MUP-om biće obezbeđeno specijalno vozilo za dva člana „animal police” čiji će se obuka finansirati u inostranstvu – izjavio je Predrag Petrović. Also, the city has launched a campaign with the Veterinary Faculty of sterilization and castration of animals, in cooperation with the MUP special vehicle will be provided for two members of the “animal police” whose training is financed in the abroad – said Predrag Petrovic.
Na današnjem protestu snažno je podržana namera da se formira policija za životinje, a predloženo je i uvođenje SOS telefona za prijavljivanje zlostavljanja životinja koji bi bio u funkciji 24 sata.
At today’s protest strongly supported the intention to create a police animal, and proposed the introduction of SOS Hotline for reporting of animal abuse that would function 24 hours. Udruženja su pozdravila gradske vlasti zbog pozitivne reakcije na njihovo pismo povodom uvođenja taksi na ljubimce, u kojem su ukazali na problem evidencije životinja, zbog čega će se uvođenje taksi odložiti do potpunog sređivanja evidencije. The Associations welcomed the city government for the positive response to their letter regarding the introduction of fees for pets, which pointed to the problem of animal records, which is why the introduction of fees will be postponed until the full adjustment records.
Svrha takse za kućne ljubimce jeste, pre svega, da se pospeši udomljavanje pasa i neće je plaćati oni građani koji udome životinje iz nekog azila, a onima koji plate taksu sledeće godine ćemo izdavati vaučere na osnovu kojih će besplatno moći da sterilišu svoje ljubimce, rekao je Predrag Petrović.
The purpose of the fee for pets is primarily to further the udomljavanje dogs and will not pay for those citizens who Udom animals from an asylum, and those who pay taxes next year we will issue vouchers on which the free power that sterilizes their pets, said Predrag Petrovic.
A message of support for the she wolf freedom campaign to the Serbian Orthodox Church has been written on our Comments section by Rev. David Gray – Society of St. Francis.
Thank you Rev. Gray for your support of the appeal.
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Comment:
In our modern world, knowledge increases as our innate human wisdom declines. To take a sentient wolf who has a quality of life relationship with a human being into captivity is an act of fear and prejudice that demans faith and demeans humanity. Has the church and state forgotten so much?
Please, I appeal to your higher nature as people of wonderful physical, mental, emotional and spiritual integrity, do what in your true heart you know to be right and release this wonderful wolf to the life it was gifted to live with its human friends. If you require, I am happy to send you my “Great Apes of Belle Vue” by email, which tells the story of my own encounters with Great Apes in captivity and the faithful and scientific miracle of inter-species communication that crosses our percieved boundaries and opens our minds and hearts to possibilities few dream of yet which, once realised, we can never step away from.
You have the power to make a fearful decision or an enlightened one. How you use that power will have implications for your own soul. Not only wolf, but YOU will be released from a bondage you may not even realise constricts you if you act with grace and compassion and free yourselves and the wolf from the captivity you have allowed to embrace you all.
Please do not dismiss this message as the words of a sentimental mind. I work with deep and dangerous situations every day; with tragedy and sorrow. I know how cruel the world can be – but I also know its inexhaustable capacity to be amazing and enriching.
With deep love to you in the name of Christ and St. Francis.
Posted on April 28, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
**Please, the campaign to stop Brazil from building a large dam in the Amazon needs more participation. Please if you missed this over the weekend, send it now! For Earth, gb
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Brazil’s Proposed Belo Monte Dam Damns Amazonian Rainforests and Peoples
By Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet
April 25, 2010
The Brazilian government continues with plans to build the massive Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River in the Amazon rainforest, despite massive domestic and international opposition.
The 11.2 billion dollar dam will flood an estimated 500 square kilometers of the Amazon rainforest and threaten the survival of tens of thousands of indigenous and traditional peoples who depend on the Xingu River for their livelihoods.
The Kayapó leader Raoni Metuktire, who gained international exposure touring the world with Sting, said indigenous men from the Xingu were preparing their bows and arrows in order to fight off the dam. “I think that today the war is about to start once more and the Indians will be forced to kill the white men again so they leave our lands alone.”
Posted on April 27, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
This is an appeal to help get a wolf in Serbia returned to her home and the person that originally raised her. All of the following video links and newspaper articles are direct copies and translations of recent news from Serbia.
At the moment, over 3,000 people have written to the head of the Orthodox Serbian Church asking that the she wolf is returned to the monastery and the monk who has cared for her from when she was only 15 days old.
If you wish to write also and join in fighting for the release of the she wolf, then please use the sample letter and the mail links given at the end of this post.
This wolf needs to be returned to the man (the monk) who loves and cares for her. She must not be allowed to remain in a city dog cage as she is at present.
The video link (1) given below shows what a beautiful and trusting animal she is.
Please write to all the contacts given in the listings at the end of this post and give your support to gaining freedom once again for the she wolf.
SAV.
The request which was originally sent to us:
Pause for an instant, take a look at this short video and decide for yourself. Please help us and send email to our Goverment and and our church to give back the freedom to this sentient being, ripped from the nature by a cruel act of people. Please help set her free – an act of compassion that might not seem as significant to you, but for her, it’s her whole life, the one and only she has.
This Serbian Monk who moved to this monastery after 200 years of no one maintaining this holy place where there is only wild animal friends… he adopted the wolf when she was only 15 days old and this is their friendship after 6 months…Monk named her Alfa – he was saying that she is bit skittish from people but when they are alone she is cuddly with him …other man was saying that he never see this miracle before saying that this is only Gods work.
Newspaper article followed by translation (Google Translate):
Скоро три хиљаде људи преко Фејсбука упутило молбу патријарху Иринеју да у манастир Ковиље врати Алфу, која се тренутно налази у азилу у ЂурђевуNearly three thousand people filed through the Facebook application Patriarch Irinej to return to the monastery Kovilje Alfa, which is currently in the asylum in St. George
Вучица Алфа у игри са Амвросијем (Фото Д. Урошевић) Alpha female wolf in the game with Ambrose (D. Urosevic Photo)
Готово 3.000 људи преко Фејсбука замолило је ових дана патријарха Иринеја да вучицу Алфу, која се тренутно налази у азилу у Ђурђеву, врати у манастир Ковиље, подно Јавор планине, где је као бебу прихватио и припитомио игуман Амвросије Алимпијевић. Almost 3,000 people through Facebook asking these days is that of Patriarch Irenaeus Alpha female wolf, which is currently in asylum in Đurđevo, Kovilje back to the monastery, under the maple mountain, where, as adopted and tamed baby Abbot Ambrose Alimpijevic.
Група „Вратимо вучицу монаху Амвросију” као профил слику има фотографију фоторепортера „Политике” Добривоја Урошевића која је у репортажи „Игуманов пакт с вуковима” објављена у нашем листу крајем јуна прошле године. The group “Let monk Amvrosova she-wolf” as a profile picture of a photograph photographer “Politika” Don Uroševića which is in the reportage “Igumanov pact with Wolves” was published in our list at the end of June last year.
Администратор ове групе на Фејсбуку Саша Вулфман Вуловић, дипломирани правник и директор Бироа за безбедност Групе „Застава”, објашњава нам да је аутор писма које је прошле недеље упућен патријарху његова супруга Маја, иначе доцент на Медицинском факултету Универзитета у Крагујевцу, и да су на идеју дошли и због сопственог искуства с вуком који је четири године живео с њиховом бебом и спавао с њима у кући у центру Крагујевца. The administrator of this group on Facebook Sasa Vulfman Vulovic, lawyer and director of the Bureau of Security Group, “Zastava”, explains that the author of the letter that was sent last week, the Patriarch of his wife, Maya, or assistant professor at the Medical Faculty in Kragujevac, and that the idea came because of personal experience with the wolf who is four years lived with their baby and slept with them in a house in the center of Kragujevac.
– Наша осамнаестомесечна ћерка се играла с вуком. – Our osamnaestomesečna daughter played with the wolf. Животиња се веже за онога ко ју је припитомио. The animal is tied for the person who has tamed. То је једна чиста душа. It is a pure soul. Алфа ће тамо живети „у мраку” и, одговорно тврдим, патиће за младим монахом док је жива јер никакав прихватни центар не може да замени љубав и слободу коју је она имала. Alfa will live there in the dark ‘and’ responsible hard, will suffer while the young monk is alive because no detention center can not replace the love and freedom that she had. Њен живот ће се свести само на узимање хране и спавање – каже Вуловић и с тугом додаје да је њихов Вучко умро од можданог удара прошлог септембра. Her life will be reduced to eating and sleeping – Vulovic said with sadness and added that their Vučko died of a stroke last September.
Професорка Маја Вуловић каже да је после репортаже о чистој и наjискренијој љубави вучице и монаха доста људи први пут посетило манастир Ковиље. Professor Maja Vulovic said that after the reports of pure love and najiskrenijoj she-wolf and the monks a lot of people first visited the monastery Kovilje.
– Међутим, вучицу су по наређењу владике жичког одвели у азил. – However, the she-wolf by order of Bishop Zica taken to the asylum. Разлог је био „да ће она да доведе чопор вукова који ће да поједу неку бабу из села”. The reason was that “it would lead pack of wolves that will eat a grandmother from the village.” Ако је неко иоле упознат с ћудима вука знаће да ће вучица, што је у овом случају, када достигне полну зрелост, с две године, сама отићи на територију мужјака а неће довести чопор. If someone is possibly aware of the miracles of the wolf will know that the she-wolf, which in this case, when you reach sexual maturity, with two years alone to go to the territory of a male will not lead pack. Друго, с обзиром на то да је она одрасла с људима врло је велика вероватноћа да никада неће напустити манастир и „свој чопор” чији је вођа монах Амвросије – тврди професорка и додаје да из ње не говори само сва могућа светска литература о вуковима, већ и искуство. Second, given the fact that she grew up with people is very likely that they will never leave the monastery and its pride “, whose head monk Ambrose – a professor says, adding that the it does not say just any possible world literature on wolves, but and experience.
Подсећања ради, прошлог јуна, „Политика” је објавила репортажу о младом монаху који је након 200 година паузе обновио манастир подно Јавор планине, а за који народ тврди да је старији и од Студенице. As a reminder, last June, “Politika” published a story about a young monk who was 200 years after the break restored monastery at the foot of the mountain maple, and for which people claim that the elderly and Studenica. У време када је наша екипа посетила Ковиље, монах је живео сам, а друштво су му правиле вучица и лисица. At a time when our team visited Kovilje, monk lived alone, and society rules him she-wolf and fox.
Како нам је испричао, вучица је имала само 15 дана када су му је донели, тек је била прогледала… How we are told, she-wolf had only 15 days when he was brought, it was only a sight … Хранио је на свака четири сата, прво млеком, па млевеним месом. Is fed every four hours, the first milk, and minced meat. Назвао је Алфа, јер су му рекли да је била најкрупнија у леглу и вероватно предодређена за алфа женку. Called the Alpha, as they told him that it was biggest in the litter and probably destined for alpha females. Алфа је имала свој бокс, али је Амвросије често пуштао, па су заједно лутали по шуми. Alpha had its box, but is often played Ambrose, and together they wandered in the woods.
Вуловићи нам кажу и да су у контакту са Амвросијем и да он зна за овај апел. Vulovic we say and that is in contact with Ambrose and that he is aware of this appeal.
Писмо које из часа у час електронски „потписује” све више људи, послато је на много адреса, не само у Београд, већ и нашим црквама у свету, у Аустралију, Лондон… A letter from hour to hour electronically “signed” more and more people on the many address, not just in Belgrade, but also to our churches in the world, in Australia, London … али, кажу нам Вуловићи, да до сада није било одговора. but tell us Vulovic, so far no response.
За оне који ће можда прочитати овај текст, а имају моћ да нешто ураде, поновићемо речи младог игумана Амвросија из наше репортаже прошле године: For those who may read this text, and have the power to do something, will say the words of a young Abbot Ambrose from our coverage last year:
„Оном кога волиш мораш дати слободу… “Love the one where you have to give freedom … То је права љубав. It’s true love. Тешко ми, људи, то схватамо, али се учимо… Difficult for me, people, to understand, but we learn … полако”. slowly.
Сандра ГуцијанSandra Gucijan
[објављено: 24/04/2010] [Posted: 24/04/2010]
Another Newspaper article followed by translation (Google Translate):
Politics: Appeal to the she-wolf patriarch monk returns
24. 24th april 2010. April 2010 12:29 > 12:33 12:29> 12:33
Skoro tri hiljade ljudi preko Fejsbuka uputilo molbu patrijarhu Irineju da u manastir Kovilje vrati vučicu Alfu, koja se trenutno nalazi u azilu u Đurđevu.Nearly three thousand people filed through the Facebook application Patriarch Irinej to return to the monastery Kovilje Alpha female wolf, which is currently in the asylum in St. George.
Patrijarh se moli da se vučica vrati u manastir Kovilje, podno Javor planine, gde je kao bebu prihvatio i pripitomio iguman Amvrosije Alimpijević, piše ” Politika “.Patriarch prays that the she-wolf back to the monastery Kovilje, at the foot of Maple Mountain, where the baby adopted and tamed Alimpijevic Abbot Ambrose writes, “Politics . ”
Administrator grupe na Fejsbuku pod nazivom „Vratimo vučicu monahu Amvrosiju”, Saša Vulfman Vulović, diplomirani pravnik i direktor Biroa za bezbednost Grupe „Zastava”, objašnjava nam da je autor pisma koje je prošle nedelje upućen patrijarhu njegova supruga Maja, inače docent na Medicinskom fakultetu Univerziteta u Kragujevcu, i da su na ideju došli i zbog sopstvenog iskustva s vukom koji je četiri godine živeo s njihovom bebom i spavao s njima u kući u centru Kragujevca.Administrator group on Facebook called “Let monk Amvrosova she-wolf, Sasha Vulfman Vulovic, lawyer and director of the Bureau of Security Group,” Zastava “, explains that the author of the letter that was sent last week, the Patriarch of his wife, Maya, or assistant professor at the Medical Faculty University of Kragujevac, and that the idea came because of personal experience with the wolf who is four years lived with their baby and slept with them in a house in the center of Kragujevac.
“Naša osamnaestomesečna ćerka se igrala s vukom.”Our osamnaestomesečna daughter to play with wolf. Životinja se veže za onoga ko ju je pripitomio. The animal is tied for the person who has tamed. To je jedna čista duša. It is a pure soul. Alfa će tamo živeti „u mraku” i, odgovorno tvrdim, patiće za mladim monahom dok je živa jer nikakav prihvatni centar ne može da zameni ljubav i slobodu koju je ona imala. Alfa will live there in the dark ‘and’ responsible hard, will suffer while the young monk is alive because no detention center can not replace the love and freedom that she had. Njen život će se svesti samo na uzimanje hrane i spavanje”, kaže Vulović is tugom dodaje da je njihov Vučko umro od moždanog udara prošlog septembra. Her life will be reduced to eating and sleeping, “said Vulovic sadness is added to their Vučko died of a stroke last September.
Profesorka Maja Vulović kaže da je posle reportaže u “Politici” o čistoj i najiskrenijoj ljubavi vučice i monaha dosta ljudi prvi put posetilo manastir Kovilje.Professor Maja Vulovic said that after the stories in “Politika” of pure love and najiskrenijoj she-wolf and the monks a lot of people first visited the monastery Kovilje.
“Međutim, vučicu su po naređenju vladike žičkog odveli u azil.”But the she-wolf by order of Bishop Zica taken to the asylum. Razlog je bio „da će ona da dovede čopor vukova koji će da pojedu neku babu iz sela”. The reason was that “it would lead pack of wolves that will eat a grandmother from the village.” Ako je neko iole upoznat s ćudima vuka znaće da će vučica, što je u ovom slučaju, kada dostigne polnu zrelost, s dve godine, sama otići na teritoriju mužjaka a neće dovesti čopor. If someone is possibly aware of the miracles of the wolf will know that the she-wolf, which in this case, when you reach sexual maturity, with two years alone to go to the territory of a male will not lead pack. Drugo, s obzirom na to da je ona odrasla s ljudima vrlo je velika verovatnoća da nikada neće napustiti manastir i „svoj čopor” čiji je vođa monah Amvrosije”, tvrdi profesorka i dodaje da iz nje ne govori samo sva moguća svetska literatura o vukovima, već i iskustvo. Second, given the fact that she grew up with people is very likely that they will never leave the monastery and its pride “, whose head monk Ambrose,” said professor, adding that the it does not say just any possible world literature on wolves, but also experience.
Prošlog juna, „Politika” je objavila reportažu o mladom monahu koji je nakon 200 godina pauze obnovio manastir podno Javor planine, a za koji narod tvrdi da je stariji i od Studenice.Last June, “Politika” published a story about a young monk who was 200 years after the break restored monastery at the foot of the mountain maple, and for which people claim that the elderly and Studenica. U vreme kada je naša ekipa posetila Kovilje, monah je živeo sam, a društvo su mu pravile vučica i lisica. At a time when our team visited Kovilje, monk lived alone, and society rules him she-wolf and fox.
Kako nam je ispričao, vučica je imala samo 15 dana kada su mu je doneli, tek je bila progledala…How we are told, she-wolf had only 15 days when he was brought, it was only a sight … Hranio je na svaka četiri sata, prvo mlekom, pa mlevenim mesom. Is fed every four hours, the first milk, and minced meat. Nazvao je Alfa, jer su mu rekli da je bila najkrupnija u leglu i verovatno predodređena za alfa ženku. Called the Alpha, as they told him that it was biggest in the litter and probably destined for alpha females. Alfa je imala svoj boks, ali je Amvrosije često puštao, pa su zajedno lutali po šumi. Alpha had its box, but is often played Ambrose, and together they wandered in the woods.
Vulovići nam kažu i da su u kontaktu sa Amvrosijem i da on zna za ovaj apel. Vulovic we say and that is in contact with Ambrose and that he is aware of this appeal.
Pismo koje iz časa u čas elektronski „potpisuje” sve više ljudi, poslato je na mnogo adresa, ne samo u Beograd, već i našim crkvama u svetu, u Australiju, London…A letter from hour to hour electronically “signed” more and more people on the many address, not just in Belgrade, but also to our churches in the world, in Australia, London … ali, kažu nam Vulovići, da do sada nije bilo odgovora. but tell us Vulovic, so far no response.
Za one koji će možda pročitati ovaj tekst, a imaju moć da nešto urade, ponovićemo reči mladog igumana Amvrosija iz naše reportaže prošle godine: For those who may read this text, and have the power to do something, will say the words of a young Abbot Ambrose from our coverage last year:
„Onom koga voliš moraš dati slobodu… “Love the one where you have to give freedom … To je prava ljubav. It’s true love. Teško mi, ljudi, to shvatamo, ali se učimo… Difficult for me, people, to understand, but we learn … polako”. slowly.
SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
Belgrade
Information Service of the Serbian Orthodox Church
11000 Belgrade, Kralja Petra no.5 | +381 11 3025 101 info@spc.rs
Dear Sir Irenaeus, and all respected that keep the Serbian Orthodox Church
We write to you regarding news that VUČIĆ Kovilje taken from the monastery in the reception center Đurđevo.
After reports of truly clean and najiskrenijoj love she-wolf and the monk Ambrose lot of people came to see this God’s work. Thanks to this truly rare and unusual love many of our fellow citizens were first heard, and visited the monastery Kovilje.
However, due to human malice and stupidity, the she-wolf by order of Bishop of Raska and Prizren taken to the asylum.
The reason was, that it will lead a pack of wolves that will eat a grandmother from the village. “If someone is possibly aware of the miracles of the wolf will know that the she-wolf, which in this case, when you reach sexual maturity, with two years herself to go to the territory of a male will not lead pack. Second, because it is grown with people is very likely that they will never leave the monastery and, his pride, “whose head monk Anvrosije. I am writing this to you as someone who has studied all possible world literature on wolves and wolf as an owner who has lived for 4 years with our baby and slept with us in the house in the center of Kragujevac.
Great sin was made to God’s being innocent because no detention center can not replace the love and freedom that she had. Her life will be reduced to eating and sleeping. While the living will suffer for his monk. Wolves are animals that live and die for your pride, and her pride and her head is just the monks. I am writing you this from personal experience and from the experience of the world’s best experts on wolves.
As the Lord said that we are all God’s creatures by the will of God and Vucic, unspoiled, pure of heart. Saint Sava and his was the wolf, raven Sveti Ilija. Why the Serbs and the monastery Kovilje would not have their VUČIĆ?
We’re writing with a request to restore the monastery VUČIĆ Kovilje and return God’s love and light in her heart, because it will be the only way to live. Thus, in the asylum, in her soul will be only darkness. Note that one will not hurt and will not lead a pack of wolves. In the worst case will go to the forest and will not be back. We do not doubt that the Lord has given you enough strength to get this good work.
Can you restore luster in the eyes of God helpless Attachment create? – Believe that you can and more, and we believe that our Lord sent just such a temptation and you and us and to you and we can deal with them.
Please do not let that human stupidity and ignorance destroy this GOD’S work, and this pure love for a few such examples in the world and especially in these times I comfort, especially among the Serbs, who have unfortunately forgotten what a pure heart, honest soul and true love.
Please look into your heart and do not let an innocent being of God, Vucic, life passes in pain, suffering and darkness in the soul of his monks.
Do not forget to have strange ways of God, and that the Lord and by this time the rescue and save his soul saw to it and that love has to live not only in the heart of animals but also in the heart of people.
This letter you are writing on behalf of all people who still believe that good exists, that all the temptations that the Lord sends us to a cause such as this, that we show people how great and pure of heart and how we are all God’s creatures and and this Vucic.
Please return to the monastery VUČIĆ Kovilje, where her friend-monk monastery near her home, her forests and her freedom by her evil or reckless, or lack of dedicated people took to the Lord, and that the Lord intended it.
Please return the kidnapped Vučica freedom, only to be volja.Gospod God does not want to harm anyone, not even this Vucic, her suffering in captivity NOT GOD’S WILL -. Let God’s Will to be achieved. Zle force can be stronger than you, ljzdi good. Thank you.
It is the desire not only ours, but many people initiate action on the internet.
in advance, we thank you deeply.
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SAMPLE LETTER TO COPY AND PASTE IN YOUR E MAIL(S):
“Dear…,
We are kindly asking you to help give back to this wolf her freedom and let her return to the Monastery of Kovilje. We do appreciate that the fate of a wolf may not be an issue of high priority on your agenda. However, there are times when seemingly little things can be larger than those that outwardly appear to be of much greater importance. Relative to our own views, things bear the significance that we ascribe to them. But for someone else, whose fate is at stake, it can mean a whole lifetime, which can be joy or misery, depending on one single decision, seemingly unimportant, but of immense bearing. The greatness of man is the ability to grasp the future, one’s own and of others, and to bring joy into both.
Pause for an instant, take a look at this short video and decide for yourself. Please help us and send email to our Goverment and and our church to give back the freedom to this sentient being, ripped from the nature by a cruel act of people.
Please help set her free – an act of compassion that might not seem as significant to you, but for her, it’s her whole life, the one and only she has.
Animal groups unite on World Day for Animals in Laboratories to stop the construction of an animal testing laboratory in Malaysia.
To mark World Day for Animals in Laboratories (April 24th), a coalition of animal protection groups has launched an international effort to stop the construction of an animal laboratory at the Masjid Tanah Industrial Park in Malacca, Malaysia. The proposal, which has only recently come to light, is a result of collaboration between the Indian contract testing company, Vivo Bio Tech, and the State government-owned Melaka Biotech.
The coalition, which includes the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) Selangor, the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) and the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE), which represents animal protection organisations from 17 countries, has written to the Government urging it not to allow this facility to go ahead on humanitarian grounds. Also to be considered is the impact that allowing such a facility will have upon Malaysia’s international image in the world. A meeting to discuss the coalition’s objections in full has been requested.
Disturbingly, Malaysia currently has no legislation governing the use of animals in research. According to the company’s website (www.vivobio.com), Vivo Biotech carries out extensive animal research, including toxicity testing on a variety of species for a number of purposes, including the controversial use for cosmetic products. It has also been reported that primates could be sourced locally in Malaysia. The government of Malaysia made an important stand by re-instating the ban on the export of primates for research in 2008. Should the animal laboratory be allowed to be set up in Malacca, immense suffering, misery and death will be inflicted on thousands of animals, and potentially facilitate the trade in wild-caught macaques within Malaysia.
The coalition opposes the construction of this facility for both ethical reasons and the lack of scientific validity of using animals in testing. It argues that there is a large range of non-animal techniques that, as well as being a more humane approach to science can also be cheaper, quicker and more effective. These include cell, tissue and organ culture; micro-organisms such as bacteria; molecular research; studies with post-mortem tissues; computer simulations, population studies (epidemiology) and ethical clinical research with human volunteers.
Coalition spokesperson, Christine Chin, SPCA stated: “We are calling on animal groups and others around the world to join us in urging the Government of Malaysia to dissociate itself from a proposal that will not only involve the suffering and death of thousands of animals every year, but also will undoubtedly have a negative and detrimental impact on Malaysia’s image overseas.”
ENDS
For further information, please contact Jacinta Johnson, SPCA Selangor at jacinta.spca@gmail.com or Telephone +60 3 4256 5312/ 3 4253 5179
or Sarah Kite at sarah.kite@buav.org or Telephone +44 207 700 4888 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +44 207 700 4888 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +44 207 700 4888 end_of_the_skype_highlighting. www.spca.org.my www.buav.org http://www.eceae.org/
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Action Alert Please support the international campaign to stop the development of an animal testing laboratory in Malaysia
We are writing to request that you join with us in opposing the development of an animal testing facility at the Masjid Tanah Industrial Park in Malacca, Malaysia. The BUAV has joined with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) Selangor and the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE) to campaign on this issue and we need your help!
The laboratory, which plans to house nonhuman primates, dogs and small animals, will be the result of a RM450 million deal between the Indian contract testing company, Vivo BioTech, Vanguard Creative Technologies, and the Malaysian government-owned company, Melaka Biotech.
Malaysia currently has no legislation governing the use of animals in research. According to the company’s website (www.vivobio.com), Vivo Biotech carries out extensive animal research, including toxicity testing on a variety of species for a number of purposes, including the controversial use for cosmetic products. It has also been reported that primates could be sourced locally in Malaysia. The government of Malaysia made an important stand by re-instating the ban on the export of primates for research in 2008. Should the animal laboratory be allowed to be set up in Malacca, immense suffering, misery and death will be inflicted on thousands of animals, and potentially facilitate the trade in wild-caught macaques within Malaysia.
The coalition opposes the construction of this facility for both ethical reasons and the lack of scientific validity of using animals in testing. It argues that there is a large range of non-animal techniques that, as well as being a more humane approach to science can also be cheaper, quicker and more effective.
There is still time to take action. We understand that as yet, no notice or applications of permits have been made to the Peninsular Malaysia Department of Wildlife and National Parks, or the Department of Veterinary Services.
Further information and a link to a recent article in the Malay Mail, a leading Malaysian newspaper, can be viewed here: http://www.buav.org/a/2010/04/02/309
Please support the campaign and urge the Prime Minister of Malaysia and the Chief Minister of Malacca to put an end to the negotiations between the Indian biotechnology company and the State government-owned Melaka Biotech. Request that they do not embark on the controversial business of animal research and remind them of the negative impact that the proposed laboratories will have on Malaysia’s international image.
Prime Minister of Malaysia
Datuk Seri Najib Razak
Prime Minister
Office of the Prime Minister
Main Block, Perdana Putra Building
Federal Government Administrative Centre
62502 Putrajaya
Malaysia Email: ppm@pmo.gov.my
(cc. the Prime Ministers Secretary at aziz@pmo.gov.my)Chief Minister of Malacca
Datuk Seri Hj. Mohd Ali bin Mohd Rustam
Office of the Chief Minister
The Seri Negari
The State Administrative and Development Centre
Malacca
Malaysia Email: alirustam@melaka.gov.my
You can also request that the government authorities in Malaysia not issue any permits for the facility.
Minister of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry
Datuk Seri Noh bin Omar
Wisma Tani, No 28, Persiaran Perdana, Precint 4
Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan
62624 Putrajaya
Wilayah Persekutuan
Malaysia Email: nohomar@moa.gov.my
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
Dato Sri Douglas Uggah Embas
Level 1 – 4, Podium 2 & 3, Wisma Sumber Asli
No.25, Persiaran Perdana, Precint 4
Federal Government Administrative Centre
62574 Putrajaya
Malaysia Email: uggah@nre.gov.my
Department of Veterinary Services
Dato’ Dr. Abd. Aziz b. Jamaluddin
The Director-General of Veterinary Services
Wisma Tani
Block Podium Lot 4G1
Presint 4
Federal Government Administrative Centre
62630 Putrajaya
Malaysia Email: azizj@dvs.gov.my
Department of Wildlife and National Parks (Perhilitan)
Dato’ Abd. Rashid bin Samsudin
Director-General
Headquarters of the Department of Wildlife and National Parks
Km 10, Jalan Cheras
56100 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia Email: rashid@wildlife.gov.my
Please see attached image “Hinsa vs Ahinsa” after reading the message below.
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24th April, 2010 is World Day for Laboratory Animals
All of us have our own particular favourites when it comes to choosing cosmetics or toiletries. High powered advertising and the glittering facades of gigantic shopping malls, make the prospect of shopping for these items quite exciting and desirable.
But how do these products reach these shelves in the first place? The journey is not easy, especially for all the animals involved in the process. Most cosmetics, toiletries and household products, are tested on animals first, before being cleared and ready for human consumption.
Small cages, cold metallic table surfaces, lethal looking instruments, contraptions to confine an animal completely for purposes of testing and experimentation; this is what a lab animal faces every day and night of it’s terrifying existence in this unnatural setting. Millions of animals are subjected to horrifying cruelty so that we humans can cream our faces, shampoo our hair and even clean our floors as safely as possible. Each product has been tested on animals first.
After undergoing painful experimentation for most of their lives, many are then euthanized so that Scientists can study the effects of a product on their internal organs. This is what an animal, chosen for the lab, faces every day of it’s life; terrible suffering followed by a wretched death.
How can we, as people who really care for the welfare of animals, deal with this type of situation and also avoid being a party to such cruelty? There are ways :
Firstly, as customers, we can refuse to buy any product that has been tested on animals.
Many large cosmetic companies have now abandoned animal testing. This is indicated on the packaging of the product you buy, so read everything carefully before making your purchase. You can also ask sales people or the Manager of the store to help you, though, most of them may not be even aware that products are tested on animals. You can help educate them.
If you are really fond of a particular product and the packaging tells you nothing, locate the contact number or email address of the manufacturer on the same packaging and contact the concerned person directly. Ask if the product has been tested on animals as you do not wish to purchase any item that involves cruelty to an innocent animal. This helps a great deal, as customers are all important, and you are a customer.
If you are in doubt about the safety aspect of products, related to testing on animals, log on to the National Anti-Vivisection Society site and read about the safe alternatives to animal testing.
To make a compassionate and informed choice, you can go to the PETA India lab animals’ site and find out exactly which company tests on animals and which does not. There are approximately 800 which do not resort to animal testing now.
On this one day of the year, when we pause and reflect on the terrible plight of these animals, make a silent pledge to yourself to avoid using any product that involves this type of cruelty. And on behalf of all the animals you will save in this way, we thank you.
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 