Sri Lanka: Animal Welfare Bill Not Yet Enacted After More Than A Year – Lets Get It Enforced !

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

 

The Animal Welfare Bill was approved by the Cabinet on 13 January 2016, but one year later it has not yet been enacted by Parliament.

Let’s get it enforced!

Background:

After almost a decade of tireless campaigning, and several appeals from animal welfare groups and 30,000 citizens including you, the Animal Welfare Bill was finally approved by Sri Lanka’s Cabinet on 13 January 2016. The Bill was originally presented to Parliament by Ven. Athuruliye Rathana Thero in 2010 as a Private Member’s Bill in an attempt to persuade the then government to take it up as government business, but there was no progress. In 2012, through a court case, animal welfare groups were able to draw the attention of the government to this Bill, yet the progress was slow and after a campaign in October 2014 where over 30,000 citizens signed an appeal to the President and Prime minister, the bill was finally passed.

Current status:

12 months later the Bill continues to languish within the political and bureaucratic process without much interest or urgency to present it in Parliament for enactment. 

What can you do about it?

We feel enough time has passed now. Let’s raise our voices once again to urge the government to get the much needed Animal Welfare Bill  enacted so that we will have laws in Sri Lanka which protect our animals from the horrendous acts of cruelty they are increasingly being exposed to.

What we advise is for you to please write in to the below officials and request they expedite the process so that the animals of Sri Lanka can be protected by law. We believe all sentient beings deserve the right to live without cruelty and suffering in Sri Lanka which is their home as much as it is ours.

Writing directly to the below mentioned officials will ensure that our collective voices will be heard. Please ensure you write to all 3 parties below. You can use the same email messaging below and simply update the ‘Salutation’ to ‘Honorable President’, ‘Honorable Prime Minister’ and ‘Honorable Minister’.

President : ps@presidentsoffice.lk
Prime Minister : info@pmoffice.gov.lk 
Rural Economic Affairs Minister : secretary@reco.gov.lk

You can also message them directly on Twitter with the following message:

“I am disappointed that the #Animal Welfare Bill has still not been enacted in parliament. I urge you to speed up the process.Thank you”

President : @MaithripalaS
Prime Minister : @RW_UNP

Here is an example of the letter / email you can send:

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Honorable Sirs;

RE: THE ANIMAL WELFARE BILL

As you are aware, Sri Lanka’s Animal Welfare Bill which received Cabinet approval on 13 January 2016 is yet to be passed by Parliament, giving it the force of law.

Today, our animals –  stray, captive, domestic or wild, face many  difficulties at the hands of humans. They are beaten, abused, exploited, stoned, shot, trapped, killed, neglected  and exposed to many other forms of cruelty daily.

We are a compassionate nation and our government claims to be a compassionate government. But compassion needs to be demonstrated through action rather than just words.  There is no more time to lose. The time to act is now.

I humbly request that you do what is needed to speed up the process so that the long outstanding Animal Welfare Bill is finally enacted in Sri Lanka so that it becomes law. Any nation and especially one with our heritage must show commitment to animal welfare and there is no better way of demonstrating that , than by ensuring  that this Bill is enforced without further delay.

I along with many of Sri Lanka’s citizens would like to create an environment where animal lives are protected by law so that they too have the chance to live their lives in peace in our beautiful country.

Yours sincerely,

<Your name>

 

 

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Russia:  ‘I have no sympathy for the animals…’

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

 ‘I have no sympathy for the animals… I feel a deep satisfaction’:

Barbarity of Russian fur farms where thousands are slaughtered to make $1m coats and blankets then left to rot in stinking corpse mountain

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3572756/Barbarity-Russian-mink-farms-thousands-slaughtered-make-1m-sable-coats-blankets-left-rot-stinking-corpse-mountain.html

Further Information on Fur:

This is not related to the above, but for great anti fur campaigning, visit Respect for Animals (Nottingham England) at 

  http://www.respectforanimals.co.uk/home/  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Tax This !

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

Dear Mark, I send you my thoughts on the results of popular vote in Turkey. My central idea is: when a people decides for its dictatorship, the whole world is stirring up, but the people do it voluntarily. If we decide for the dictatorship of the animals every day, nobody cares.

Best regards Venus

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When the folk decides… Actually I am not active for human rights. I would even say: I left that to other people, they do it better, and I have full respect for them. I do not write about the result in the popular vote in Turkey because I want to comment on it politically.

I see this only as a just tighten for a people that abolish their own rights, as always have done with the animal rights. But this result has sparked great joy for me also for another reason: Turkey is finally out as an EU candidate.

A country with the worst illegality in the transport of animals in Europe, a country of brutal slaughterhouses, remains permanently out of the EU. I do not want to say that if Turkey got soaked, it would have improved. Many countries, however, with similar crimes in animal transport are nevertheless in the EU. But at least the country will not receive any subsidies from the EU.

Strangely, the new dictatorship was chosen according to the will of the people. The same thing we recently had with the democratically elected Trump. By this I will say: a people can vote for (example Turkey) or against (example UK vote) its dictatorship.

These results in Turkey have raised the following question for me: what would be the result of a popular vote in Germany for meat tax. Because mass animal farms produce so much CO2, every meat consumer has to pay tax for the environment and animals.

I guess, and I’m even betting, that about 80% of the interviewees would be against taxation, and they would practically decide further for the dictatorship of the meat barons and the misery of the animals. The animals experience a dictatorship every day according to popular decision: we have decided to torment them, kill, to slaughter, eat, bear, enslave them.

I am therefore against popular decisions, which serve as safeguards of the ruling class. And I am now glad that this people and not only the animals will experience a dictatorship. Although still with a difference: the people has decided for this, the animals have not.

Venus

 

 

 

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The Visitor Map Is Back – And Updating !

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

Well you should be able to see now that we have re introduced our visitor map to the site.

We did this on 18/4/17 and we are now letting things get started.

Currently the map shows that we have had 25 visits between 18th March and April.  This is not correct as we have access to daily view figures regardless.  Figures are updating by the minute. For example, for each day of 14th, 16th and 17th April for example we have had over 120 visits on each individual day.  Sometimes we hit 250+ visits in a day – so we are currently unsure if the system is just trying to do ‘catch up’ or if these are figures for 18/4 1700 GMT onwards, which was when we re established the system.

We are going to let it do its own thing for a few days and see what happens.  We will be making any changes as necessary.  Regardless, it is nice to have our visitor map back so that we can see where all our visitors are coming from.

The map is on the left hand side below the long list of monthly archives.

If you click on the map you can see the locations and national flags of all the visitors. No names are given, just the town or city of the visitor – ‘New York’ for example.

Enjoy ! – SAV.

 

 

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Ex Bile Bears Bazan and Wendles have arrived safely at the new sanctuary home.

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Another brilliant job by Animals Asia.

Bazan and Wendles have arrived safely at the new sanctuary home.

Now after some time in quarantine and a full health check; they can be moved out to make new friends at their forever home.

 

See many clips and videos on the live tracker –

https://twitter.com/AnimalsAsia

https://twitter.com/AnimalsAsia/status/852805231981109248/video/1?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjc18y&refsrc=email&iid=0ef03904852a445b917e1e1b8a7baa52&uid=3003466684&nid=244+272699402

 

 

 

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Four Paws – Mosul Rescue Update 13/4/17.

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Further great news relating to our recent post –

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2017/03/31/uk-four-paws-team-brave-it-in-mosul-to-rescue-remaining-zoo-animals/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2017/02/03/heartbreaking-photos-reveal-suffering-of-mosul-zoo-animals-including-a-lion-and-a-bear-left-to-starve-to-death-by-isis/

Dear Mark,

After a long and complicated mission, we are overjoyed to announce that Simba and Lula have safely arrived at the New Hope Centre in Amman, Jordan. Our dedicated and exhausted team released the two animals yesterday morning.

Mark, your overwhelming support has not been overlooked. We simply can’t thank you enough for your kindness and generosity over these past few weeks. Thank you.

This mission began on 28 March when the FOUR PAWS team entered the Mosul zoo for the first rescue attempt. The animals were examined, anaesthetised, loaded onto a truck and headed to the border out of Mosul. However,  the team was unexpectedly prevented from leaving Mosul with the animals.

The Iraqi military returned the animals to the zoo while the team was forced to head back to Erbil to regroup and decide on the course of action. Lengthy negotiations followed and two days later, the team entered Mosul for the second rescue attempt. Once again, they were stopped at a checkpoint near the border out of Mosul.

Despite the difficulties, we never gave up hope. 

Finally, after nine days of waiting, the team was given clearance to cross the border with the animals and the following day departed in a cargo plane from Erbil airport to Jordan.

Simba and Lula have since moved into their temporary enclosures where they have felt grass under their feet for the first time in their lives.

There, they will be given the time they need to adapt and recover from these past stressful months at the bombed-out Montazah Al-Morour zoo in Mosul. And once they have adapted to their new surroundings, they will be released into their large, permanent homes.

We look forward to updating you on Lula and Simba over the coming months. In the meantime, please visit our website or follow us on Facebook or Twitter for updates.

Once again, thank you for making this mission possible!

Kindest regards,

Saige Jennings
FOUR PAWS UK

 

 

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Breaking News – Taiwan Bans Slaughter of Cats and Dogs for Human Consumption!!

Posted on April 12, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

Taiwan bans slaughter of cats and dogs for human consumption!!

BBC reported on April 11, 2017

that the “Taiwan’s parliament has approved a bill banning the slaughter of cats and dogs for human consumption.

The bill also prohibits those using a car or motorbike from pulling their pets alongside them on a lead as they travel. Anyone caught breaching the order faces a large fine or up to two years in prison – and having their names and photographs made public.

The measures were introduced to improve the country’s animal protection laws. The move on Tuesday is a landmark amendment to Taiwan’s Animal Protection Act, and is the first of its kind in Asia.”

Click HERE to read the entire article.

Click HERE to learn more from the World Dog Alliance.

Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, is the first female president of that nation and she used her leadership role to bring this important change to her country – to ban the slaughter of dogs.

What a contrast to South Korea’s first female president, Park Geun-Hye, who abandoned her pet dogs – 9 Jindo dogs and puppies, when she was impeached for corruption and moved from the presidential palace.

South Korea must follow the example of Taiwan and stop the cruel dog meat consumption. South Korea is giving other Asian nations such as Taiwan, a negative image to the world, because many people mistakenly believe that all Asian countries eat dogs.

 

 

 

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