Below – Good try Watson, like the hat and the black top,
but you must do better !!
Holmes.
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Elephants Journey to Pay Their Respect.
Posted on August 16, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The Elephants Knew And some will say there is no Higher Power, try and tell that to the elephants… The Elephant’s Journey To Pay Respect, But How Did They Know?
Lawrence Anthony, a legend in South Africa and author of 3 books including the bestseller, The Elephant Whisperer. He bravely rescued wildlife and rehabilitated elephants all over the globe from human atrocities, including the courageous rescue of Baghdad Zoo animals during US invasion in 2003.
On March 7, 2012 Lawrence Anthony died. He is remembered and missed by his wife, 2 sons, 2 grandsons, and numerous elephants.
Two days after his passing, the wild elephants showed up at his home led by two large matriarchs. Separate wild herds arrived in droves to say goodbye to their beloved ‘man-friend’. A total of 31 elephants had patiently walked over 12 miles to get to his South African House. Witnessing this spectacle, humans were obviously in awe not only because of the supreme intelligence and precise timing that these elephants sensed about Lawrence’s passing, but also because of the profound memory and emotion the beloved animals evoked in such an organized way: Walking slowly, for days, making their way in a solemn one-by-one queue from their habitat to his house.
Lawrence’s wife, Francoise, was especially touched, knowing that the elephants had not been to his house prior to that day for well over 3 years! But yet they knew where they were going. The elephants obviously wanted to pay their deep respects, honoring their friend who’d saved their lives – so much respect that they stayed for 2 days 2 nights without eating anything. Then one morning, they left, making their long journey back home.
Something In The Universe Is Greater And Deeper Than Human Intelligence.
Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Anthony
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Time for a Time Out – Things Have Been Busy and We Need A Laugh.
Posted on August 12, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
We hope you will enjoy these two from British tv.
We love both Victor and Frank.
Time out – we need a short break and to have a laugh.
Here is Victor; loved by the UK people. He says what he thinks is right but he always ends up getting into trouble because he speaks out. UK people love him.
ENJOY !!
Ol Vic does his stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y9NcGIyrEA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfg7aQMowVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wgYPnmMLcY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAWB-y6vLbQ
And here is a classic tv from the UK back in the 1970’s.
Frank Spencer – he is not the brightest button in the box but his heart is very good – he always tries to help others but things always go wrong.
His long suffering wife is called Betty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tulFeVPSb7k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCOW-JLF6W8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlwQVElQcIk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn2BpHc6Pqk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfinxyRaEeY
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China: Chinese Customs Seize 645 Wolf Skins From Greece.
Posted on August 12, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Subject: Chinese customs seize 645 wolf skins from Greece
Source: http://www.enetenglish.gr/?i=news.en.politics&id=1351
Chinese customs seize 645 wolf skins from Greece
Pelts arrived on July 29 flight from Athens
Author: Damian Mac Con Uladh
The 645 wolf skins were concealed in bags that were labelled ‘fur scraps’. It is not clear if the skins are from Greece’s indigenous wolf population, which is estimated to number 500-700 animals
Below – Customs officers check wolf skins at Beijing Capital International Airport, 8 August 2013 (Reuters)Customs officials in China on Thursday seized almost 650 pieces of wolf skins that arrived on a flight from Greece last month.
The pelts, which cover a total area of 200m2 when spread out, were imported into China on July 29 on a flight from Greece to Beijing Capital International Airport, officials said, describing the haul as the biggest case of suspected smuggling of skins of endangered wild animals in China in over a decade.
According to Chinese media, the goods were packed into 30 sacks, each of which was labelled “fur scraps”. The accompanying documentation stated that the total weight of the freight was 1,400kg and was valued at $3,700.
But as that represented a price of $3 per kilo – well below the average market price for fur scraps – customs officials became suspicious and decided to carry out on inspection.
Below – Customs officers check wolf skins at Beijing Capital International Airport, 8 August 2013 (Reuters)After x-raying the consignment, officials opened the bags to find up to twenty pelts in each sack concealed beneath fur scraps on top.
The seized skins are mostly brown in colour but there are also black- and grey-haired pelts.
A trading firm in Beijing is suspected of smuggling the wolf skins and arrests have been made, customs officials told the media. They estimate that the market value of the skins could be in the region of 1m yuan (€125,000) or more.
It is not clear if the skins are from Greece’s indigenous wolf population, which is estimated to number 500-700 animals, or were imported from elsewhere.
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Ukraine: Kiev’s dog hunters go on the attack to rid the city of strays.
Posted on August 12, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Subject: (Ukraine) Kiev’s dog hunters go on the attack to rid the city of strays
Article: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/11/kiev-dog-hunters-rid-city-strays
Creatures slaughtered with poison or a single shot to the head on the grounds of public health
- Oksana Grytsenko in Kiev
- theguardian.com, Sunday 11 August 2013 23.18 BST
Kiev has up to 18,000 stray animals, mostly dogs, the authorities say. Photograph: Anna Voitenko
They adopt nicknames such as hunter, comrade and chemist-amateur. They swap tips on the whereabouts of a target and recipes for poison. And when the moment is right, they strike with doctored food or a simple shot to the head.
Kiev’s dog hunters are taking matters into their own hands, targeting the city’s thousands of strays in the name of public health. But in so doing, they are stoking a row about animal rights in a country famously blase about the welfare of its animals.
Last year, when pictures of strays lying on Ukrainian streets provoked an international storm in the runup to Euro 2012, the government invited in foreign vets, including the Austrian organisation Vier Pfoten (Four Paws), which offered free neutering and vaccination of stray animals at mobile clinics.
But soon after the football fans went home, the slaughter of stray dogs resumed in Kiev.
Now Vier Pfoten has stopped its neutering programme after death threats were posted on the web. “They said I could be killed exactly like happened to a judge in Kharkiv,” said Amir Khalil, head of the Vier Pfoten project in Ukraine, referring to a judge found decapitated in his flat together with three members of his family in December 2012. “They said: ‘We don’t need foreigners to castrate our dogs!'”
He said because the authorities and police in Kiev had not taken action after the threats, the project had been moved out of the city.
Kiev, which has a population of about 3 million people, has up to 18,000 stray animals, mostly dogs, city officials say. The authorities claim they lack money to keep them all at shelters.
Dog hunters use a website called “Vreditelyam.net?” (“no to pests”) to share information about the dogs’ locations, discuss recipes for poison and post photographs of the dogs they have killed. They call the dogs “flea carriers”, the pieces of food laced with poison “yummy” and the dog’s killing “sending to a rainbow”.
Dead dogs in plastic bags left on the ground. Photograph: Anna Voitenko
Oleksiy Sviatohor, a lawyer, is one of the few who admits to being a dog hunter. “This work is like cleaning up the trash,” he said. “Some may not like it, but we are finding the solution.”
Sviatohor claimed that the neutering by Vier Pfoten was merely mutilating the dogs and did not solve the problem. He said the poison, an anti-tuberculosis medication that is extremely toxic for dogs, causes a relatively fast and painless death.
But Tamara Tarnavska, an animal rights campaigner, finds it almost unbearable to talk about the dog hunters. “An animal takes five or six hours to die in agony,” she said.
Volunteers have seen the hunters giving poison to the dogs and reported them to the police. But they remember only one case of someone being imprisoned for slaughtering stray dogs. In June 2012 a student, Oleksiy Vedula, who tortured and killed more than 100 dogs and posted videos on the web, was sentenced to four years in jail.
Sviatohor said thousands of residents had been attacked by stray dogs and many people supported the dog hunters.
But animal rights activists say family dogs and even children playing in gardens risk eating poison left by the dog hunters.
Serhiy Morozov, a video engineer, was recently bitten on the leg by a stray dog. He said he was lucky to be wearing jeans, which protected him from the dog’s teeth and the risk of rabies.
Morozov said that while he would be more careful around stray dogs, he would never justify the killing of animals by dog hunters. “I would strangle these people with my own hands,” he said.
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England (UK): Another Demo (This Time in London) Against Live Animal Exports.
Posted on August 11, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
There has always been a massive public outcry against the live export of live farm animals from the UK. Things are really hotting up again at the moment, with Minister David Heath MP STILL FAILING to take action and change the 1847 law that was introduced very soon after the Battle of Waterloo, and which is STILL being used today as a law to justify the export of live farm animals from the UK.
There have been protests about the animal exports both at Dover (Kent) on the 3/8/2013 – the only UK port which live animals are exported from, and yesterday (10/8/2013) in London.
Saturday 10th August 2013.
Here below are photographs from the London march against live exports organised by Compassion In World Farming (CIWF). – http://www.ciwf.org.uk/
Photographs below with thanks to our great personal friends at:
Stop Live Exports from the Port of Dover.
Check them out on their excellent Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-Live-Exports-From-The-Port-of-Ramsgate/205331499512961
See the tv footage from ITV Meridian television who covered the march in London for their news programme::
http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2013-08-10/live-exports-campaigners-march-in-london/
On this video you can see campaigners fighting to stop the export of animals through Kent for slaughter in Europe who marched in London on the 10th, calling for a new law giving ports the power to refuse the trade.
John Ryall (reporter) spoke to Pru Elliott from Compassion i World Farming and veteran campaigner Reg Bell.
View our post on the Dover demonstration on 3/8/2013 at:
What is the 1847 Act; and how can I take action to become involved ?
Click on:
Photos from the London march are as follows:
OH YES YOU CAN !
– Don’t give us your ‘blame the EU’ typical UK government
politician ‘yukspeak’ !!
Change the outdated 1847 Act – and NOW !!
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UK: Live Animal Exports. See CIWF Undercover Footage. Tell David Heath MP To Change the (UK) Law – He CAN Do It Without Affecting EU Law. But Will He Continue to Hide Behind the ‘Blame the EU’ Curtain ?
Posted on August 9, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
UK Minister for ‘Animal Welfare (Huh !) – David Heath – Photo: BBC.
The man who will not stop live exports – Cartoon – CIWF.
This is David Heath, the UK Minister at the UK Ministry of DEFRA, and who says he cannot stop the live exports of animals from the UK, as the EU will not allow it.
This is incorrect and he does not want to change things; he only wishes to keep blaming the EU saying why his hands are tied. He could take action to change UK legislation, but he will not.
ACTION:
Live exports: Tell David Heath to stop hiding behind EU law
A UK law that is over 160 years old, the ‘Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847’, means that public ports across Britain have no say in whether they wish to accept the trade in live animal exports.
This is pathetic, and is a law passed soon after the Battle of Waterloo !! – we say that now in 2013 it is time for change !
We know that many UK Port Authorities would rather not allow shipments of live animals. But as long as this outdated legislation remains on the books, their hands are tied.
The UK Farming Minister, David Heath MP, needs to have some guts and stand up and take a lead on this issue by amending the 1847 Act. He has the power to make a significant change for farm animal welfare.
But David Heath and his colleagues at Defra, the Government Department that oversees live exports, don’t seem to understand what we are calling for. They believe that amending the 1847 Act would be a ban on live exports – and illegal under EU law.
Yes, current EU law prevents the UK government from banning live exports altogether.
BUT if local authorities were given more power over the trade they allow through their ports (using an updated act of law) this could still end live exports
– and it would be perfectly legal under EU law.
What is the 1847 Act?
The Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act states that all ports must allow the free trade of goods: if someone pays the fee to use the Port, they must be allowed to ship their goods. Astonishingly, live farm animals are still classified as goods.
So, by law all British ports must allow lorries full of animals to pass through, even if the ports don’t agree with the trade. This law is over 160 years old. It’s high time that this law is amended.
Please visit our good friends at CIWF to take further action about this:
If you want to send us (SAV) a caption to go at the end of the above cartoon of David Heath MP, then please do so. Send via the ‘Contact Us’ link.
We will publish those which are good and which are not abusive – anything that is like this will not be shown. Keep it clean but using the above information, keep it accurate.
CIWF Undercover Footage – the EU has NO ‘Ag Gag’ fortunately.
Go to http://www.ciwf.org.uk/ to see undercover footage investigation of calves being exported from the UK to mainland Europe.
Note – investigators voice and identity has been changed for this report.
This is the reason why so many UK citizens have been protesting at Ramsgate port in the recent past; and now Dover, as the live animal exports have now changed to this facility.
View the 3rd August Dover demo at:
KAALE in Kent, England are a major campaign group against live exports. Mark, SAV founder, is the EU and media correspondent also for KAALE.
Visit the KAALE website at: http://www.kaale.org.uk
See some photos of Ye old Historic Kent County – the ‘Garden of England’, at:
The following pictures are all by Val who is the official photographer for KAALE.
They show live animal exports from the UK ports of either Ramsgate or Dover, both in Kent County, England.
The most annoying thing about it all is that NO UK people are involved with the exports. It is run by a Dutchman named J. Onderwater and often involves calves travelling from Ireland to mainland Europe, simply using the UK as a ‘land bridge’. Onderwater operates the vessel ‘Joline’ which is a simple barge; a throwback from the Cold war days with the Soviets when it was used as a battle tank carrier. Now the ‘Joline’ carries live animal transporters from Dover port in the UK (England) to Calais in France. British people in general are outraged at this, and the want the UK government to step in and amend the 1847 Act so that UK ports can refuse the trade in live animals.
But David Heath will not act; and so most British people hate him as he always wants to blame Europe about legislation when in fact he could amend UK law if he wished. He does not have the guts to do it. But people vote, and they will let him know their feelings at the next general election.
Below are Dutch transporters on UK roads – the Dutch have yellow number plates on the front – UK have white.
Below – Live sheep are sometimes carried in ‘sealed box type trailers’ – used in the EU but not the UK
Below – the ‘Joline’ takes on animal transporters
Below – A dutch transporter carrying live sheep enters Ramsgate port
Below – Live sheep being checked by UK authorities inside the sealed box trailer (at Ramsgate)
Below – the ‘Joline’ photographed whilst crossing the English Channel to France.
Note the ‘sealed box trailers’ on the deck.
All photos by Valerie Cameron – KAALE
Please visit KAALE at http://www.kaale.org.uk for all the latest and lots more pictures and reports.
Vita KAALE !!
Some Previous posts:
https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2011/10/20/uk-england-kent-action-against-live-exports-kaale/
https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2013/02/17/uk-england-the-live-animal-export-battle-continues/
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