Posted on August 4, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Two New Litters of Wolf Pups Confirmed in Oregon
Oregon wolves have been gripped by pup fever.
Wildlife officials just released photos confirming that Oregon’s famous wolf “OR-7” — who founded the Rogue pack in the Oregon portion of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest near the Oregon-California border — has fathered his third litter of pups since the pack’s establishment in 2014.
And it just so happens that the Rogue pack’s neighbors in nearby Lake County — a pair known as the Silver Lake wolves — have also produced pups. The female of this pair is known to have dispersed westward from the Mount Emily pack, and the male wolf, OR-3, was born into the Imnaha pack and is OR-7’s brother. This means Oregon’s wolf population has reached the triple digits.
“It’s incredibly exciting that Oregon’s wolves are starting to find their way back to places this remarkable species once called home,” said the Center for Biological Diversity’s Amaroq Weiss. “This tells us how important it is to keep wildlands available for continued safe passage, and to keep legal protections in place for wolves.”
See photos and read more in
The Oregonian.
Iowa Moves to Rein in Turtle Trapping
A win for wild turtles: Iowa wildlife officials have proposed to restrict collection and killing of four species of wild turtles: common snapping turtles, painted turtles, spiny softshells and smooth softshells. If finalized the rules would impose seasons, daily bag limits and possession limits for the animals, which are under tremendous pressure from overcollection for the export market to Asia, where they’re killed for food and medicine. More than 3 million wild-caught, live turtles are exported from the United States each year to feed Asian markets.
Right now Iowa allows year-round commercial collection of the four turtle species without
any daily bag or possession limits. The proposed regulations protect them during their peak mating season by prohibiting commercial collection prior to July 1. But year-round recreational collection of common snappers is still allowed.
“The new proposals are a welcome step,” said Collette Adkins, a senior attorney at the Center, which in 2009 sought a ban on commercial turtle collecting in the state. “But a complete ban on commercial trapping is needed.”
Read more in the
Miami Herald.
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Posted on August 3, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Posted on August 3, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Posted on August 3, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
That’s because they do not even enforce their own legislation
-Regulation 1/2005 on the Protection of Animals During Transport !
Below – Just a few of our past gripes against the EU for NOT enforcing its own Regulation (1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport) when it comes to EU ANIMALS BEING EXPORTED LIVE TO TURKEY:
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Comment:
Of course, England is not alone!
But England was economically powerful and politically stable when it came to “Brexit”.
Therefore, it worked!
Greece voted on 5 July 2015 with almost 62% for a get out of the EU, for a “Grexit”.
What was the result?
A week after the referendum, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras returned demoralized back of a Brussels Summit Marathon, and announced a new three-year bailout program – Including everything, that the Greeks had just rejected by a majority.
Unlike the referendum of the Britten, the “No” of the Greeks was doomed from the start to failure.
Because the government of Athens had other plans and was more corrupt than the British.
Today the unemployment rate in Greece is 52% and the minimum wage 429 euros.
This is the “positive” result for Greece because the country has remained in the EU.
The majority of Greeks dreams of getting a second chance and quit the euro zone.
And get out from the EU at the same time!
People in many countries have this dream today, but unfortunately with dreams alone we achieve nothing.
Neither in politics nor in animal welfare.
I think a “Francexit” would be a very good and powerful blow to the EU.
Because small countries, such as Romania, Ireland, Latvia, Croatia … do not play a significant role for the balance of power in the euro zone.
Those are the cash cows of the EU.
If two great nations, such as Spain or Italy also give a “No -Votum”, that would mean the end of this crime syndicate which call itself EU.
The question is: how do we get to a Referendum?
We cannot make a revolution, and a Turkey-type coup is also not useful!!
We can only start the war against EU by all legal means, which are available to us.
From now on.
By Internet, through demos, by providing information in blogs and web pages.
A war is always associated with risk.
But if you do not risk anything, you have lost in advance.
Venus
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Posted on August 1, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Update 1/8/16.
We have had a very productive day today. We have been operating for 10+ hours so far. This morning we had urgent live export work to complete, but the rest of the day has been involving further research regarding bears which are kept within Serbian zoos etc,
We have been in constant contact with our partners at http://www.freecagedbears.com/ and we have been cross checking independent research and also supplying new links and footage to each other.
Slavica in Serbia has been working very hard as part of the team and she has been giving us additional contact links and addresses for the government etc as we need them. Everything has gone very well today – it has been very productive.
Because of this there has been no time to add any new posts to the site – sorry but we know you will understand our situation.
There are now a few pictures relating to Serbian bears on the site; http://www.freecagedbears.com/#!Belgrade Zoo, Serbia/zoom/c1t1b/i151o4z but after all our work today things should really increase very soon.
We are looking closely into legislation associated with many of the facilities. We do not want to give anything away at present, but there are many questions to be asked !
SAV.
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