Posted on July 28, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
2150hrs GMT London – 28/7/15.
Breaking News – we are hearing today that the Gadhimai Temple Trust agrees to cancel all future animal sacrifice, urges devotees not to bring animals to the festival.
We have a lot of info on this but as this is a very important victory, we need to make a proper post. This will be produced on 29/7.
Please check this site then for further information.
This is confirmed via more than 1 source; so we are certain that it is correct.
More tomorrow ! – SAV.
One of our many previous posts to remind you of the campaign –
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Posted on July 28, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Link and petition:
Romania: stop the assault on Europe’s last pristine wilderness
Bears and wolves still prowl the ancient forests of the Carpathian Mountains. Yet their days are numbered: organized criminals are illegally clear-cutting entire hillsides to supply European timber companies. Tell the Romanian environmental ministry to put a stop to the destruction.
Illegal logging is rampant in Romania. Since the fall of Communism in 1989, no less than 400,000 hectares of forest have been cleared there without permission, mainly for export as parquet, laminate and fuel pellets. “One of the last remaining virgin forests in Europe is cut being down to heat homes in Austria and Germany,” says Alexander von Bismarck, head of the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).
An Austrian company, Holzindustrie Schweighofer, is playing a key role in the destruction of Romania’s forests. Schweighofer has been at the heart of a scandal in recent weeks involving forged delivery notes, bribes and dubious concessions.
An EIA video documents Schweighofer’s practices. In it, von Bismarck negotiated with company representatives posing as a foreign investor seeking to sell timber. The environmentalists concluded that Schweighofer deliberately and consciously buys – and indeed, pays bonuses for – illegally harvested timber. CEO Gerald Schweighofer called the video “misleading”.
By contrast, a leaked letter Schweighofer sent to the Romanian prime minister leaves no room for misinterpretation. In it, he threatens to sue the Romanian government in international courts if it does not amend its forestry laws to the company’s advantage.
Schweighofer is now building a new €150 million sawmill in Reci. Work has gone ahead without an environmental impact assessment and Romanian environmentalist Hans Hedrich therefore considers it to be illegal. He believes that the “Schweighofer system” would collapse if the sawmill can be kept from going into operation: “It would be the first step toward rescuing the forests.”
Tell the Romanian Ministry for Environment, Waters and Forests to deny the Reci sawmill an operating permit and to do everything in its power to combat the illegal timber trade.
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Posted on July 28, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
African elephant, Loxodonta africana, Gary Stolz, USFWS
Dear Mark,
Every 14 minutes an African elephant is killed.
Elephant populations are crashing as a vicious wave of ivory poaching sweeps the continent. Half of the elephant families in Tanzania have been wiped out since 2009. But the Center for Biological Diversity is taking action now to stop the slaughter — petitioning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect elephants as endangered. We are the only U.S. environmental group taking this crucial step of petitioning to save both forest and savannah elephants in Africa.
We will need your help though — getting elephants protected will be a long and costly battle. Your contribution to the Center will help us save these intelligent, social animals.
Elephants desperately need full protection under the Endangered Species Act. Their current status as a “threatened” species clearly isn’t doing enough: The United States is the second-largest market for ivory in the world.
Full protection under the Endangered Species Act will add a powerful arsenal of new tools to the fight to save these extraordinary animals. It will stop elephant parts from being sold in the United States and crack down on the practice of using the legal trade in old ivory as a cover for illegal trade in new ivory. Last month a senior Chinese wildlife official pledged to end the ivory trade if the United States does the same. This listing would do exactly that.
You can support the Center’s work to protect African elephants with a contribution today.
We’re specialists at using the Endangered Species Act to save wildlife — we’ve gotten hundreds of animals and plants protected under the Act, which has a 90 percent success rate in saving species from extinction. By acting now, we can do our best to keep Africa’s elephants from disappearing. We can’t stand by while the brutal ivory trade wipes out 100 elephants every day.
Your gift to the Center will help secure lifesaving protection for Africa’s elephants. They need your help now.
For the wild,
Kierán Suckling
Executive Director
Center for Biological Diversity
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Posted on July 27, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Lets try and start the week with some good news.
KISIRKAYA CONCENTRATION CAMP HAS BEEN CANCELED!
The court has just explained the decision about Kısırkaya animal concentration camp. İstanbul 6th Administrative Court declared to cancel the concentration camp.
Thank you to all activists who have been interested in our case from across the world.
Kısırkaya concentration camp is still active. We will fight until the end.
With solidarity,
Our post of February 2015 on this specific issue:
Reference:
A shelter was against the regulations of the Court Kısırka
The court said it was clearly contrary to the provisions of the legislation Kısırka shelter. Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, lost his lawsuit Kısırka.
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM), which was built in Kisirkaya thousands of denying the request for cancellation of the animals from the shelter capacity projects, was found unlawful. He said that the construction of the shelter is clearly contrary to the regulations.
Joint review of the case to the lawyer concerned, this decision to mean the cancellation of the project.
Animal Welfare and Development Association, which is contrary to the legislation of the shelter project in Kisirkaya have applied for annulment on the grounds IMM, IMM had rejected this demand. Society, he had filed on July 22, 2014 IMM.
Court facility is “partly pasture, will also partially protected area is located on the beach and beach kumull” and said housing permits for the construction of the Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection Board and said that taking views. The decision was made the following statements:
“The dispute, he found the disputed animal shelter construction so that the approval of the relevant 1/1000 scale development plan 1/5000 scale development plan notes the scope of application can not be made, however, but remains in legends meadows and beaches will be protected and coastal kumull areas in the zoning plan Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection Board by decision 1 and the remainder in the 2nd degree natural protected areas and it is clear that about Cultural and Natural Heritage have been made without permission from the Board of Protection of the aspects mentioned above-mentioned legislation and quoted by human activities is contrary to made the policy decision. “
“In the legislation, contrary to animal rights”
Freedom of association is the original earth John, the facilities in which 500 animals should be made available immediately dysfunctional, he said:
“We said from the beginning that this place is contrary to law regulations.
Court whatever it decides, we say that it is contrary to this facility in the first animal rights. Now he sees a violation of the laws of the court in concentration camps. We will also continue to fight until the center becomes a genocide against stray animals.
“The court has given the decision to cancel the 3rd bridge on the route. 3. bridge route is already taking place beyond 3 km of the shelter Kısırka. Natural areas in this two-Kısırka Gümüşdere decision was an important step to protect.
“This needs to stop all the illegal operation. Because animal collection efforts continue for months and now has around 500 animals at the shelter Kısırka.
“The Court’s decision must be rendered useless once this facility.”
They were made by action;
Animal rights activists, exiting Taken from the streets natural habitats of stray animals city against isolation in a remote facility, if the access to the facility, saying it was far from meeting the needs of audit and animals had been opposed to the project.
Shelter construction made against both Kisirkaya in both actions before IMM, CHP and gave parliamentary questions on the subject of HDPE
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Posted on July 25, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Further donations can still be given even if the target amount has been reached.
Cicko, the cat and 10 puppies
Hello!!
As always, no day is boring in the shelter “Alex”.
The summer heat and temperatures above 30C are not easing the work in the shelter.
Two days ago, we we were notified about the cat that is in a poor health state.
We named him ‘Cicko’.
After examination by a veterinarian it was found that the problem with his eye is congenital, so now we are only cleaning and lubricating it. The upper front teeth are broken, and on his back there is an older burn that heals and looks like a cigarette burn.
Cicko is very cuddly, and as soon as someone looks at him, he immediately starts purring and really trusts people despite of everything he has been through. Since he has no upper front teeth, it is difficult to assess how old he is, but according to the veterinarian he has about 1.5 years.
When Cicko fully heals he will be given up for adoption, and we hope someone will come and offer him a home full of love and attention.
About 2 weeks ago 8 puppies (above) were left in front of the shelter in a cardboard box. We took them, cleaned them, vaccinated them and with the food and lots of puppy fun they are really doing well. Since then 2 more pups were found and now we have 10 of them.
They all need good homes and we hope they will find them.
In the meantime we really need your help to buy food (especially canned food and salami) and to buy the building materials for the maintenance of the shelter, building of new dog houses and fixing of kennels. Please, please, share our appeals so that shelter “Alex” can continue in taking care of its 500 dogs.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
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Posted on July 25, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
SAV Comment
What a pity that a large organisation such as this has to put profit before animal welfare. Should they not be using their obvious large global sales influence to put further pressure on the Chinese regarding all their animal abuse legislation ? – including asking them to undertake new Chinese legislation that prevents animal cruelty in order to make women look (allegedly) more beautiful ?
To us this is an ultimate hypocrisy from an organisation that was one given some credit and respect. All this has now been lost by their new actions in China. Maybe they should have a catwalk at the next Yulin festival where all their beautiful people can gorge themselves on the meats of street dogs that have been slaughtered barbarically.
Beautiful people ? – we dont think so.
Keep watching the news to see what happens. We will give any updates we know about this in the future.
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PETA direct link to protest letter (to send):
Victoria’s Secret, a formerly cruelty-free company, recently confirmed that it will now be selling cosmetics in China, a country that requires painful and deadly tests on animals for cosmetics.
Suffering for Victoria’s Secret ‘Beautiful People’ !!
It’s clear that the only “angels” associated with Victoria’s Secret are the sweet animals who will die on the company’s dime.
For all animals,
After years of not testing on animals, the company has confirmed that it will begin selling in China—meaning it will pay for cruel tests on animals!
Although the company fully understands the Chinese government’s requirements for tests on animals for cosmetics, it has chosen to enter this market anyway.
Victoria’s Secret has been removed from PETA’s list of companies that don’t test on animals, and will find itself on PETA’s list of companies that do test on animals until it chooses compassion over cruelty.
Fortunately, PETA has received pledges from other companies—including The Body Shop, Urban Decay, NYX Cosmetics, Yes To Inc., and more—that they will never sell in China while animal tests are required.
Please tell Victoria’s Secret that cruelty isn’t sexy and that you won’t buy its products until the company is 100 percent cruelty-free again.
PETA direct link to protest letter (to send):
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Posted on July 24, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
We all witnessed the suffering of animals at Yulin very recently –
and now we do not want the animal abusers and the abusers of the people of Tibet to be awarded the 2022 Olympics for their cruelty to both the animals and humans. Please support the call to say NO.
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Next Friday, the International Olympics Committee will decide whether to award China a second Olympics.
More than 10,000 people already have joined the call for the IOC to say no to Beijing.
Thank you for your support so far – please help us give this one last push and share the petition now.
When China last hosted the Olympics there was a violent crackdown in Tibet and since then repression in China and Tibet has only worsened.
The momentum against Beijing’s bid is building: just yesterday leading activists representing people across China wrote an open letter to the IOC, saying that “for hundreds of millions of people inside China’s borders, the Games returning to Beijing will be a green light for the government’s ongoing abuse of their rights and denial of their hopes for freedom.”
This is our last chance to show the IOC that it’s a mistake to reward China’s oppression – please help by sharing the petition.
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