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Soon We’ll Be Safe My Friend.
Posted on April 30, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Spain: Elephant Killed After Circus Truck Overturns on Highway During Move To New Venue.
Posted on April 29, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Elephant Killed After Circus Truck Overturned on Highway Illustrates the Problem With These Shows
Life for an elephant forced to perform circus tricks is far from natural. These gentle giants are bound by chains and shipped like cargo from location to location. Circus employees tie heavy chains around the elephants’ ankles to limit their ability to move, preventing them from lying down or even having social interactions with other elephants. As you can imagine, transporting wild animals is dangerous for not only the animals themselves but also the people around them.
In yet another wreckless circus accident, a circus truck carrying five elephants in Spain was recently overturned on a motorway.
One elephant has been pronounced dead after they rolled off the road and into a ditch, Sky News reports. The four surviving elephants stood over their friend’s body. Elephants are highly intelligent creatures and will often mourn the death of a fellow elephant.
The motorway was closed off for two hours while fire personnel and concerned drivers tried to help.
Two of the elephants involved in the wreck suffered large cuts to their faces and legs. Is an hour of the circus really all that fun when you consider the expense animals have to pay?
The injured elephants are being treated by veterinarians in a public facility and from there, they will be moved to a clinic.
This latest incident is just another example of why circuses that force wild animals to perform are highly unethical and dangerous for all involved.
“This terrible incident symbolizes all that is wrong with the use of animals in traveling circuses,” said Animal Defenders International President Jan Creamer. “Instead of a life in the wild, these incredible animals are being carted around the country, confined and forced to perform.
Please don’t visit a circus with animals and help stop their suffering today.”
We hope that the circus involved in the crash has the compassion to send the four surviving elephants to an accredited sanctuary, where they can live out the remainder of their days in peace (another circus in Spain retired their animals to a sanctuary just last year, so it’s possible!).
The growing majority of the public agrees that they don’t want to watch captive animals perform silly tricks. Over 40 countries worldwide have banned the use of wild animals in circuses, including Scotland, India, Italy, Iran, Ireland, Romania, the U.K, and the Netherlands, so why are we still forcing animals into this horrific life?
If you are looking forward to the day when animals used in entertainment will be just a mention in history books, SHARE this article to spread awareness about what’s wrong with circuses!
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Australia: Live export ban gains ground with NXT signalling support.
Posted on April 27, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Live export ban gains ground with NXT signalling support
Source: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/live-export-ban-gains-ground-with-nxt-signalling-support/news-story/d246910dfd0eb5df8aeec9c84fe4764d
THE Nick Xenophon Team is pushing for Australian meat to be processed locally and has signalled it will likely deliver crucial crossbench support to a proposal to ban live exports.
Mayo MP Rebekha Sharkie, whose electorate is home to a number of sheep farmers, has written to Agriculture Minister David Littleproud to call for an end to animal abuse in the industry.
Liberal backbench MP Sussan Ley has pledged to introduce a Bill next month to ban live exports to the Middle East despite efforts by farming groups to dissuade her.
Because a ban is not Government policy, for Ms Ley’s plan to be successful she would need support from Labor as well as some members of the crossbench, or for some Liberals to cross the floor.
Ms Sharkie said she would need to see the Bill’s content before making a firm decision.
“However … I believe she is looking at a very measured and logical approach to phasing out the industry,” Ms Sharkie said.
“My preference has always been to have meat processed on Australian shores and exported in a chilled form.
“The meat processing industry in Australia directly employs 35,000 people and indirectly employs 100,000 people. I want to keep these jobs in Australia.”
Acting Labor leader Tanya Plibersek urged the Government to consider a suspension in the northern hemisphere summer trade while a review ordered by Mr Littleproud was completed.
https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2018/04/13/australia-the-real-horrors-of-live-exports-now-exposed-and-a-crap-aussie-government/
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Morocco: Additional Petition Now Added For Moroccan Dogs – Please Ensure You Also Sign This.
Posted on April 26, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Marisol has also put the Morocco petition onto the Care 2 site as another petition.
You can sign this new petition independently of the original, which is at Change.org:
Original petition at Change – still ok to sign:
https://www.change.org/p/king-mohammed-vi-help-stray-dogs-cats-living-in-harsh-conditions-from-morocco?recruiter=451614178&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_for_starters_page
The new petition at Care2 – please sign also, thank you.
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/106/782/927/
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China: Bear Bile Farming To End In China By 2022 ?
Posted on April 26, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Proposal introduced to end Bear Bile farming in China
From Animals Asia
At the National People’s Congress and the Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference meetings in March 2018 (Beijing); a proposal was raised to end bear bile farming in China by 2022 similar to the proposal put forth in Vietnam last year.
7 steps were proposed, including:
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Banning the breeding of black bears by 2022
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Banning bear farming by 2022
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Eliminating everything to do with the bear industry by 2035
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Speeding up research and approval of synthetic bear bile products
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Working with international conventions such as CITES to improve the protection level of the black bear.
It is significant that these proposals are being raised at high level gatherings in China.
The fact alone that the motion was allowed to be made public is very encouraging.
Paws crossed that this will progress into actual legislation now.
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Russia: Stray Dogs and Football Just Dont Seem To Mix.
Posted on April 26, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Stray dogs and football just don’t seem to get along.
Photo – Daily Mail (UK)
Please have a look at our recent post re stray dogs being killed in Morocco:
https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2018/04/25/morocco-stray-dogs-are-shot-for-world-cup/
The reason for the shooting of the dogs is an upcoming visit from the FIFA, where the city should deliver a good picture. Namely, Morocco wants the 2026 World Cup to be held in the North African country. Sadly, stray dogs are seen as a blight on the landscape – so Morocco wants to get rid of them – by shooting.
We have a petition link for Moroccan stray dogs – you can visit it here:
https://www.change.org/p/king-mohammed-vi-help-stray-dogs-cats-living-in-harsh-conditions-from-morocco?recruiter=451614178&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_for_starters_page
Unfortunately, Morocco is not the only place where stray dogs and the football elite seem to clash. The World Cup is being held in Russia this year, 2018.
Russia is planning a mass slaughter of stray dogs ahead of the this year’s World Cup; despite assurances this will not happen, animal rights campaigners claim.
Some £1.4million has been assigned to host cities to pay for deployment of ‘canine KGB’ death squads, according to Ekaterina Dmitrieva, director of the City Animal Protection Foundation.
Animal campaigners are furious that FIFA is turning a blind eye to the ‘butchers’ and refusing to press the Russian government over the ‘scandal’.
Deputy premier Vitaly Mutko – Vladimir Putin’s ex-sports minister mired in controversy over the Russian doping scandal – recently ordered host cities to set up temporary animal shelters for the estimated two million strays in these locations.
But Dmitrieva insisted that that cash has been paid already to pay for armed teams – nicknamed ‘canine KGB hit squads’ – and poisons to wipe out homeless dogs and other animals.
Photo – Daily Mail (UK)
She said: ‘The tenders have been signed, the money is sent to contractors.’
Her demands to switch the cash to sterilising, immunising and caring for the animals has been met with silence, she said.
Is this not typical – Serbia being another – cash which could be spent on sterilising, immunising and caring for the strays in properly run shelters is again being used to simply kill animals. Governments and authorities appear to miss the fact that you cannot eradicate every stray dog in an area – and those left the cull will reproduce and gradually bring stray numbers back up to what they were before – or even more. This action by stray death squads does nothing to resolve the long term issue of strays in any location. It is a simple ‘short term hopeful fix’ by the authorities. We predict that many strays will be back on the streets within a very short time. Cities and towns may look squeaky clean whilst those oh so well behaved football fans roam the streets; but shooting strays to clean up any town is a short fix which will not last. It appears that the Russian authorities, just like the Serbian government; are too thick min the head to understand this.
But then maybe they want the corruption associated with a never ending supply of stray dogs to be killed. Some people in high places are getting very rich out of a never ending supply of strays which they can kill and claim back money off the government for. In Serbia for example, just one stray killed can get a government bounty payment of up to 500 Euros paid directly to regional authorities from government funds. And the average wage in Serbia ? – about 300 Euros per month.
Big money to be made by some from endless stray dog killing as we have always said. But the EU, OIE and the rest of the big players just do not really want to listen to us or more importantly, do anything about this corruption that is ‘stray dog control’.
Further reading:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5298099/Russia-spend-1-4m-kill-stray-dogs-ahead-World-Cup.html
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-stray-dogs-culling-killing-world-cup-activists/29076479.html
Open shelters ??
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/12/russia-promises-stop-purge-stray-dogs-world-cup-cities/
http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/24/russia-preparing-slaughter-stray-dogs-en-masse-world-cup-2018-7256182/
https://www.thedodo.com/close-to-home/russia-killing-stray-dogs-cats-2018-world-cup
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Thanks to Alex, James and Lynette for A Great Vegan Food Link – Try Some !
Posted on April 25, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Vegan Faces
We have had a really nice e mail from (Mum) Lynette telling us that the family have enjoyed and tried a few of the Vegan dishes that we have covered on the site.
Lynette says to us:
“My family is making an attempt to go vegan, and we thought your page was really cool. My son’s have been spending quite a bit of their computer time looking at vegan recipes and tips for people trying to adapt- they mentioned how much they enjoyed your page, and I thought you’d like to hear!”
We sure do – that is what the site needs, some positive feedback about some of our posts.
Both Alex and James (Lynette’s boys) have teamed up and sent us another great link which we have said we will share on the site; form them to us to you ! – It is about some really cool vegan recipes that Alex and James have found and are currently checking out.
The site is
https://konikoffdental.com/healthy-vegan-recipes-for-the-family/
Here you can see and make a whole range of great vegan food – the soup list looks really great – we need to try those.
Lynette and the boys tried the Banana Berry Breakfast smoothie at the weekend and the reports back are that “it was great” !
So thanks Alex and James for sending us some more great cruelty free grub; as you can see here we have made a post of your info for the world to see – check it out to see where your info is going at https://clustrmaps.com/site/h5no
The link is really cool – thanks boys and mum; we are sure that with all this great vegan food we can convert a lot more people. There is a great deal of good feedback on Veganism from all over the world – it is ‘the’ business to be involved with at the moment.
Thanks to you all and stick with it !
Regards Mark.
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