Watch the video on the following link and see the work of Team Badger and Wounded Badger Patrol:
http://reelnews.co.uk/badger-cull-exposed-as-a-cruel-and-pointless-fiasco/
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Subject: Ban Vicious Wildlife Bloodsports (Penning/Baiting) in the United States – Please sign
http://www.antifursocietyinternational.org/petitions/bloodsport-penning-baiting/petition.php
Subject: URGENT ALERT! Next week: important hearings for wolves! Your presence is needed!
Today I am sending you the most important message if you love wolves.
This may be their last chance and it is so important if you live in Colorado that you take just a couple hours out of your life to possibly save theirs. If you do not wish to speak, you can make a poster in support of the wolves. We need to show Wildlife Services that Colorado wants and needs wolves.
Join us at public hearings regarding wolf delisting and speak up in defense of wolves
If you cannot make the Colorado hearing, then below is a list of the ones in New Mexico, Arizona and California.
If we lose this fight and Wildlife Services wins with their proposal to delist the wolves in the lower 48 states, it is possible that wolves will suffer the same fate that happened with the brutal and irresponsible eradication that occurred in the late 1930’s.
Many scientists and biologists are against this for good reason. There are countless articles about why we need wolves and you can further your knowledge by going to the many credible wolf and environmental sites on the web. Please read what has happened to some of your Yellowstone wolves and how any who cross an invisible boundary can be shot, trapped, poisoned and tortured. There are photos for proof of what is happening and it is graphic and disgraceful.
30Sept2013
Denver, CO
Paramount Theatre
1621 Glenarm Place
Denver, CO 80202
(303) 405–1245
November 19, 2013, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
2 Oct 2013
Albuquerque, NM
Embassy Suites, Sandia Room
1000 Woodward Place NE
Albuquerque, NM 87102
(505) 245–7100
November 20, 2013, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
4 Oct 2013
Sacramento, CA
Marriot Courtyard Sacramento Cal Expo, Golden State Ballroom
1782 Tribute Road
Sacramento, CA 95815
(916) 929–7900
November 22, 2013, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
4 Oct 2013
Pinetop, AZ
Hon-Dah Conference Center
777 Highway 260
Pinetop, AZ 85935
(3 miles outside of Pinetop at the Junction of Hwy 260 and Hwy 73)
(928) 369–7625.
December 3, 2013, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Please do your very best to attend at least one of the hearings and speak up for the wolves.
We encourage you to make short notes and keep track of what everyone else has to say, so that your comments are relevant.
Bring your friends along and please share!
Thank you!
~ Project Wolf team
http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=32f0b46ebbe6e40bb7bbfbfcb&id=ce358f7cb2&e=e979caac0d
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Date – November 17, 2013
Jon Swaine
Hardcore huntress: The photograph of a smiling Melissa Bachman and the slain lion that has outraged people around the world. Photo: Twitter
An American television presenter has prompted outrage after boasting online that she killed a lion in South Africa.
Melissa Bachman, a keen hunter who produces programs on the American outdoors, posted a photograph on Facebook and Twitter of her holding a rifle and smiling beside the corpse of a male lion.
”Incredible day in South Africa,” the self-styled ”hardcore huntress” said of her pursuits at the Maroi Conservancy. ”Stalked inside 60 yards on this beautiful male lion – what a hunt!”
A furious online reaction led Bachman to deactivate her Facebook and Twitter pages within hours.
It also prompted an online petition asking the South African government to bar her from returning.
”She is an absolute contradiction to the culture of conservation this country prides itself on,” said Elan Burman, of Cape Town, the author of the petition that quickly gathered 3000 signatures.
”You, lady, are what is wrong with the world,” said Richard Robinson of Maryland, who was among the signatories.
”Take with no consequences. Shoot, kill, consume, destroy.
”You didn’t kill a lion, you stood behind a machine and pulled a little trigger, you pathetic, sad excuse of a human.”
While the African lion is rated ”vulnerable” on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List, it is not officially an endangered species and hunting them is legal in a number of countries, including South Africa.
”The main threats to lions are indiscriminate killing,” the organisation said.
The photograph was in keeping with Bachman’s past activities.
Her official website displays pictures of her posing beside dead alligators, turkeys, moose, geese and bears, among other quarry.
She was axed as a contestant on the National Geographic program Ultimate Survival Alaska last year after 13,000 people signed a petition protesting against the inclusion of a ”heartless trophy hunter”.
Bachman could not be contacted for comment.
The most recent study on lion numbers, led by a scientist from Duke University in the United States, shows that as few as 32,000 are left in the wild, which makes hunting a controversial issue, particularly in Africa.
Supporters say it brings in money to communities and can help to reduce illegal poaching.
But critics say it is a cruel practice that brings in little revenue to local people.
Last year, Botswana banned all commercial hunting of wild animals, and Zambia outlawed all hunting of lions and leopards from January.
”Tourists come to Zambia to see the lion, and if we lose the lion we will be killing our tourism industry,” said the country’s Tourism and Arts Minister, Sylvia Masebo.
Telegraph, London
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Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 