Posted on September 27, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Hi Mark,
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s misleadingly named Wildlife Services program kills more than a million wild animals every year, typically at the request of Big Ag. Scattering public lands with cruel traps and indiscriminate poisons, the program targets carnivores like coyotes, bears, beavers, otters and foxes. Even rare species like grizzlies and wolves are caught in the crosshairs.
We’ve been working for years to shine a light on the feds’ wildlife-killing and have succeeded in gaining protections for wildlife in several states.
The presentation will feature our Carnivore Conservation Director Collette Adkins and Andrea Zaccardi, a senior attorney in our Northern Rockies office. In addition to talking about Wildlife Services, we’ll discuss the latest news on grizzly bears and wolves, including the expected loss of wolf protections nationally and the importance of state-level wolf work if that does occur.
The hour-long webinar starts at 4 p.m. PT / 7 p.m. ET.
Posted on September 26, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
suddenly you realize that you are in the middle of an indescribable crime,
and you are horrified that almost everyone around you wants to hold on to their complicity.
Posted on September 26, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Report of the organization against animal transports Animals ` Angels
Animals ‘Angels are in Bulgaria at the weekly markets in Haskovo and Raskovski.
In addition to all sorts of things, cattle, horses and donkeys, sheep, goats, rabbits, and poultry are sold here.
Image: Animals`Angels
We have already complained several times to the Bulgarian authorities about the way the animals are treated, housed, and transported here – and about their poor state of health.
The ministry then presented us with a comprehensive plan to improve the situation in the markets. We now want to review the implementation of this plan – and we will be bitterly disappointed.
Nothing has improved for the animals.
Once again, the Bulgarian official veterinarians have made empty promises.
Image: Animals`Angels
Calves are sold from the trunk of a car with their legs tied together. Emaciated sheep with respiratory problems are hoisted onto closed delivery vans without lights or ventilation.
Nervous foals are tied to vehicles and dealers beat horses and cattle who do not know how to get on vehicles without ramps.
My comment: “…Most of the trade takes place illegally in front of the marketplace, where the animals are traded directly from the cars.The handling of the sheep that are traded directly in front of the market entrance is particularly bad. They are tied by three legs, the fourth is used for pulling and carrying”(Eyes on Animals)
There are still around ten markets in Bulgaria where animals are offered for sale every week.
Cattle, sheep, goats, Equidae, rabbits, and birds are sold here.
Young pigs and piglets are also offered in illegal markets.
The conditions in the animal markets in Bulgaria do not in the least correspond to the requirements of the EU (No. 1/2005) and are reminiscent of relics of the past century.
Posted on September 26, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Read at the “animal liberation press office”
When we first read about the Carcase Management System(CMS) website back in February after a leak from the NFU, we knew the secrets it held would be priceless to the anti-cull movement.
All of the cage trappers, free shooters, and assorted badger cull helpers all log, all of their badger killing information onto a single website.
Locations searched for badger setts are logged, like kill, who did the killing, what time… etc, etc.
Since that discovery back in February we have been gaining regular access to the site, pushing deeper and further into huge piles of data including crime reports, shooters identities, locations of kills, and email addresses of those involved.
On Tuesday, the NFU IT people finally spotted us and have since made some minor adjustments to try and protect the site.
But unfortunately for them, it is too little, too late, we are in the system and will continue to edit and scrape data, we were also changing records (including crime reports) as they come in.
This year’s data on kills sent to Natural England will be based on our false reports, making the continuation of the cull completely pointless.
Posted on September 25, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Malta. The “Committee Against Bird Slaughter” (CABS) has released further video evidence of the indiscriminate killing of protected migratory birds in Has-Saptan valley (Birzebbugia).
The footage published on YouTube shows a European Honey Buzzard and a Blue Roller being shot down in the area on Wednesday and Thursday.
Blue Rollers are a type of international nature conservation problem that is experiencing rapid population decline in large parts of its European range and is extremely endangered.
“Our teams deployed in the Birzebbugia area observe and report severe wildlife crimes on a daily basis yet the police needed more than an hour to arrive after our team reported the Roller being killed yesterday”, CABS spokesperson Karl Heinz Kreutzer said adding that this delay gives plenty of ample time for the poachers to hide their illegal prey and escape with impunity.
The NGO said that the primary motivation behind the shooting of protected birds is private collections and illegal taxidermy.
And I mean…At least 50 internationally protected birds died from hunting in Malta in 2019.
In Malta, people shoot pretty much anything that moves in the sky.
Hunting in Malta is pure bird hunting and a popular sport. Allowed in 34 species but exercised on an extremely larger list of birds.
In the case of Malta, the problem is exacerbated because the island is at the heart of the central European migration route. Millions of birds have to go over there – and their killers lurk.
With gigantic trapping facilities of over 5,000 square meters, birds are caught in many places on the island. Gigantic facilities, some of which are several hectares in size, can be found directly on coastal cliffs or on hills in the interior of the island.
An incident reported by “Birdlife” activist Geoffrey Saliba shows how natural hunting is in Malta: “A hunter shot down a marsh harrier – over a schoolyard. Nobody took much notice of it”, he says.
The hunters rarely shoot the birds for pots and pans, but mostly out of pure lust for murder – or to stuff them.
Even legally murdered birds like song thrushes are mostly left to die in the field.
The fact that bird hunting remains possible and legal in the middle of Europe is the surrender of civil society to a criminal elite.
Posted on September 24, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Cyprus: Attack on committee volunteers.
Yesterday morning two participants of the committee bird protection camp- not far from the city of Agia Napa / Cyprus– were attacked by armed poachers.
The two perpetrators had posted illegal liming rods on bushes around their hunting grounds and provided them with an electronic decoy.
When our members – a young man and a young woman – tried to sneak up to the trapping site to investigate the situation for a game warden, they surprised the hunters, who attacked without warning.
They pushed both bird conservationists to the ground, threatened to kill them, strangled the young man, and destroyed his cell phone. Before the game guards arrived, the perpetrators fled.
The brutal attack was preceded by a newspaper article launched by the Cypriot hunters, in which the committee against bird murder was vilified and xenophobic sentiment against us was stoked.
We filed a complaint against the attackers, the limes were collected. Both of our members got away with bruises and a real shock.
The picture comes from the archive – it shows the fishing method with liming rods, birds caught with them. Also in Cyprus!
According to my information…In the committee’s bird protection camp in Cyprus, committee activists are confronted with such “finds” every day.
If they find the animals early enough, they can usually free them safely. If the birds hang around for hours in the Mediterranean.
Bird hunting with liming rods and fishing nets have been banned in Cyprus since 1974.
But illegal bird trapping is big business, involving gangs that are also involved in drugs and prostitution.
“There are many indications that this is an organized crime”.
In fact, networks are now available almost for free on Internet portals. Liming rods also cost nothing.
Bird protection organizations have calculated that a hunter catches up to a hundred birds per net and night in the high season, which he can sell for four euros each. In total, the songbird trade is expected to bring in 15 million euros annually for the 3,000 Cypriot poachers.
“There’s a mafia behind it, and the police are playing along”.
Once the hunters have been reported, they can be left alone for money.
Since the mission in Cyprus began two weeks ago, the committee has already rendered 642 of the brutal limestones harmless and displaced 10 poachers.
They were able to clean the black cap in the photo with a lot of effort and patience and release it after a night in the hotel.
We bow to the activists of the “Committee Against Bird Murder”.
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 