Posted on September 16, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
There is one animal that works 6 months each year to protect you, your family, and your pets.
It does this every night for up to 15 years. During a night flight, it eats more than 1000 mosquitoes.
1000 mosquitos that can be dangerous for you, your family, and your dog.
1000 mosquitoes that can spread western Nile fever, the Usutu virus, skin worms, and heartworms in humans and animals.
More than 1000 mosquitoes every night for 6 months.
That translates to 180,000 mosquitos per year that can bite you or your pets and transmit diseases.
Because the bat lives 15 years, it destroys more than 2,700,000 mosquitos in its lifetime, and it’s only one bat !!!
If one counts a medium colony and 2x offspring per year, this number is over 12,555,000,000 destroyed mosquitoes, which results in a little over 12 tons.
All they ask is that we do not hate these useful animals, that we do not hunt them, that we do not destroy their habitat and their nesting opportunities, and where these are destroyed we give them the opportunity to nest again.
Rabies bats are rare, the chance of being infected with rabies by bats as a human being is less than winning the lottery.
People are not actively attacked by bats, but maybe bitten when they pick up injured animals and try to help them.
Wear thick gloves during rescue operations.
Many people do not like them, out of blind prejudice, even though they do much more for us than we do for them.
A small sample of the welcome the fishermen gave us a few days ago in Brittany.
As part of OPERATION DOLPHIN BYCATCH, we are currently on the move off the coast of Brittany to uncover dolphins being caught in fishing nets.
After we documented on August 30th how five dolphins were killed in one day in the nets of a single fishing boat, fishermen pursued, threatened, surrounded, pelted us, and tried everything possible to hinder our work.
But we don’t let ourselves be scared off, we don’t let ourselves be discouraged and we don’t let ourselves be intimidated … especially not by an ass demonstration!!
Every year 10,000 dolphins die off the French coast from fishing nets.
We’ll keep patrolling and uncovering these deaths until something changes.
The European Union has already asked France to ban fishing methods that are responsible for the unnecessary death of thousands of dolphins.
And I mean…
...”The European Union has already asked France to ban fishing methods that are responsible for the unnecessary death of thousands of dolphins”.
If a court requires a rapist not to rape any more women, can the judiciary assume that the perpetrator has been punished enough?
Is this a sufficiently effective punishment for the perpetrator, so that will keep him from future rape?
Posted on September 16, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
New Zealand 16/9/20
Govt agrees to change law to help protect over 35,000 endangered species
“The changes will be made by amending the Trade in Endangered Species Act 1989 to ban the domestic sale of elephant ivory in New Zealand with some exemptions, and to improve the regulatory system at the border,” said Eugenie Sage.
The Government has agreed to change the law to help protect more than 35,000 internationally endangered species where unsustainable trade threatens their survival in the wild, Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage announced today.
“The changes will be made by amending the Trade in Endangered Species Act 1989 to ban the domestic sale of elephant ivory in New Zealand with some exemptions, and to improve the regulatory system at the border,” said Eugenie Sage.
“This is a big step forward in strengthening the management of international trade in endangered, threatened and exploited species. The Cabinet decisions follow the release of a discussion document in September 2019 and public submissions.
“Currently there are no restrictions on domestic trade in elephant ivory in New Zealand. This is out of step with many countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, France, Taiwan and China which have already banned domestic trade in elephant ivory.”
“I am pleased to announce the proposal to ban the domestic sale of any items made with ivory from elephants killed after 1975, which is when elephants began to be protected from international trade under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
The import and export of all elephant ivory is also proposed to be banned, with narrow exemptions to ensure elephant ivory items can still be traded by museums, for DNA testing and testing to determine age, and that antique musical instruments with correct permits can still be carried across the border.
“The New Zealand market in ivory is small, but banning the sale of post-Convention elephant ivory in New Zealand will send a message that New Zealand does not want to receive elephant ivory that may have been poached or illegally traded,” said Eugenie Sage.
Other planned changes to the TIES Act focus on improving the way the Act is implemented to ensure the regulatory system at the border efficiently and effectively manages international wildlife trade and stops illegal trade.
“Proposed changes to the TIES Act will ensure that New Zealand can continue to protect significant plants and wildlife from around the world to the highest standard.”
Regulate the domestic sale of elephant ivory, with elephant ivory from elephants killed before 1975 exempt;
place further restrictions at the border on importing and exporting elephant ivory;
update the definition of personal and household effects to ensure it functions as intended by not allowing items for commercial sale to qualify as personal or household effects;
include a regulation-making power enabling species-specific exemptions from permitting for personal and household effects;
enable a process to return seized items to individuals where there are permit irregularities in certain limited circumstances;
allow cost recovery for services provided to commercial traders; and
allow DOC to consider cases where there have been irregularities with permits issued by Management Authorities in other countries. There will be a process with strict conditions to consider errors, and decide whether to accept replacement or retrospective permits.
The Trade in Endangered Species Act 1989 will need to be amended to implement the changes. An amendment Bill will be drafted incorporating the proposed changes. It is planned for introduction to the next Parliament after the election to be referred to Select Committee after its first reading.
(With Inputs from New Zealand Government Press Release)
Posted on September 15, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
A study concludes that pressure on networks led to the prohibition of Toro de la Vega.
Eduardo Galeano once said, “Many small people, in small places, by doing small things, can change the world.”
The activists created against this barbarian fiesta in Tordesillas (Valladolid) an emotional stigma for the followers of this celebration, constructing them as psychopaths, sadists, or beasts.
And won! After many years of fighting, they won!
It is said that the press is the fourth power.
Perhaps everyone who fights against the lies of the press, the animal rights activists, the protesters, the defenders of animals, is the fifth power.
All these forces have abolished el Toro de la Vega!
Posted on September 15, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
France takes turtledove under protection!
Paris seems to be turning its hunting policy 180 degrees: After the use of limed rods for catching birds was banned only two weeks ago, the Supreme Administrative Courthas now completely stopped lovebird hunting.
The migratory bird has seen a dramatic decline in populations in recent decades – not least because of the completely unrestrained hunting in France and Italy.
In recent years, the Committee against Bird Murder and its partners have used campaigns and actions to draw attention to the dramatic situation with the turtledove in particular – we only submitted a complaint against France to the EU Commission this spring.
Brussels has finally taken the reins and is putting considerable pressure on the countries where endangered bird species are still allowed to be shot en masse.
This success cannot be rated highly enough, because France has so far been one of the great “hunting nations” that have blocked any progress in protecting migratory birds.
We now expect similar restrictions as with the turtle dove for species such as the curlew and the skylark.
Bloodsports exempt from ‘rule of six’ coronavirus laws
Shooting and hunting groups have been exempted from the UK Government’s new ‘rule of six’ coronavirus laws.
The government has made it illegal to “mingle” under the new law enabling the enforcement of the rule in England, which came into force on Monday. But regulations published on Sunday include a number of exemptions, which including shooting and hunting, with both listed under the physical activities people can continue with in groups of more than six.
A statement on the British Association for Shooting and Conservation says: “Shooting has been added to a list of sports that are exempt from the latest COVID-19 restrictions in England. The ‘rule of six’ restrictions brought in today in England could have disrupted game shooting which usually includes eight or more people.
However, the exemption will allow shooting to operate under COVID-safe guidance.”
Ian Bell, BASC’s chief executive, said the decision to allow shooting to continue was “the right one”. “Like other team sports, shooting is able to operate under social distancing guidance, and its benefits to the rural economy and well-being makes its inclusion significant,” he said.
A Cabinet Office COVID-19 Operations ministerial committee scheduled a meeting on Saturday with an agenda item titled: “Exemption: hunting and shooting”, according to the Huffington Post. The meeting was cancelled just hours beforehand and insiders told the publication that the meeting was axed to avoid ministers raising objections.
Former minister Tracey Crouch told the Huffington Post: “Many will find this topsy-turvy prioritisation from government. I’ve had queries about choirs, community bands, addiction therapy groups, all of whom would be worthy of an exemption and instead we are scrabbling around prioritising shooting animals. It’s bonkers.”
Posted on September 15, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Lower Austria, 2020: Pig farming with fully slatted floors – AMA certified and self-marketing (The AMA seal of approval can be used to mark foods that exceed the legal requirements in terms of quality and whose origin is clearly traceable).
But behind the scenes there are sick piglets in the aisle, injured pigs are not treated. Dirt and boredom …
Fully slatted floors are popular in Austria’s agriculture: Concrete slabs with crevices ensure that urine and feces drain off and save farmers so much work (!!!)
60 percent of all Austrian pigs never sleep on straw, but on concrete for their entire life. And that although over 80 percent of Austrians are against this practice. Because life on hard concrete not only causes animal suffering but also diseases in pig farming.
A piglet that was put to death in the corridor between the boxes.
If you ask the Austrian Agriculture Minister Köstinger about keeping pigs on so-called fully slatted floors, she refers to the role of consumers.
She puts the responsibility on the consumer.
They are not prepared to spend more money on meat from animal welfare. The consequence would be that domestic companies no longer meet the demand in the country, instead, they are imported cheaply from abroad.
But how are meat buyers supposed to know how animals live when there is even animal suffering behind the AMA seal – as the Association against Animal Factories(VgT) recently demonstrated?
Only organic farming excludes fully slatted floors.
In 2019, not even 75,000 of the 2.7 million pigs were kept on organic farms – that is just 2.8 percent of all fattening pigs.
One solution to this misery would be the complete ban on fully slatted floors, as animal rights activists have been calling for for years.
A request to this effect was rejected by the government. Only the list “Now” (Jetzt) and the SPÖ (social democratic party of Austria) agreed.
So far nothing has changed in the matter.
Pigs that live on full slits are more likely to have injuries and ulcers.
Pigs smeared with excrement, weak animals lying on the ground, and trampling over each other, pigs attacking each other, open wounds, and fist-sized ulcers.
Image VgT: “Is it really too much if we give animals at least the simplest livelihoods such as some straw?”
…asks the association.
And I mean…Yes! when it`s about corrupt politicians, it is too much.
The Agriculture Minister Köstinger has absolutely no qualifications for this post, she has climbed with connections at this function
If she wants to stay there, she has to do what her country’s meat industry orders.
Therefore, she not only allows these miserable conditions but secures them legally.
She doesn’t give a shit if 50,000 citizens of her country have signed up against this misery.
She knows (and interests) so much about democratic processes as she does about animal welfare.
Don’t forget: She is not elected by the people anyway, but by the Federal Chancellor, who protects her.
The belief that we are ruled by thieves, cheaters, and animal haters grows every day more and more…
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