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New Petition For Serbian Stray Animals – Please Sign Now and Do Not Let the Government Return From ‘No Kill’ To A ‘Kill’ Policy By Law.

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Hi all;

Very Important:

on 17th April 2013 in Belgrade the Serbian government may try to change existing legislation on the protection (No Kill) of stray animals. They may try to return to legislation which DOES allow the killing of stray animals.

We need to try and stop this happening.

Petition Link:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Serbia_Implement_Existing_Animal_Welfare_Legislation_To_Protect_Strays/

Please give your support to the above petition which is asking the Serbian government to better enforce existing animal welfare legislation, rather than revert back to a policy of stray killing as they have always done – and not in agreement with existing Serbian legislation.

We also call for a public education programme to inform irresponsible pet owners that they should have their animals sterilised, microchipped and vaccinated.

Sterilised owned animals DO NOT mate with stray animals and produce yet more strays !

Stray animal killing is big business in Serbia, despite good existing national legislation to give No Kill protection to stray animals. Unfortunately, big business and money makes it a profitable task for many, despite a No Kill law, verified by the Serbian Constitutional Court in 2005.

Constitutional Court directive reference as follows:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2010/01/25/serbia-constitutional-court-of-serbia-says-that-the-killing-of-stray-dogs-and-cats-in-serbia-is-forbidden-from-02102005/

The Constitutional Court of Serbia says that the killing of stray dogs and cats in Serbia is forbidden from 02/10/2005.

Prior to the Veterinary Law of 02/10/2005, there was an old law dating from 1991 for the health protection of animals.

In agreement with the old law of 1991, the authorities produced their own other ‘underlaw’ (extra law) regulation – named ‘Pravilnik 29/94’, which was intorduced to allow the killing of animals after they were held in pounds for 3 to 7 days.

From 02/10/2005, the new Veterinary Law Article 168 effectively destroyed everything that was written in Pravilnik 29/94, because the 2005 law demanded the care of animals.

The new petition started on 7/4/2013 is:

Serbia- Implement Existing Animal Welfare Legislation To Protect Strays! Its power grows with every additional signature.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Serbia_Implement_Existing_Animal_Welfare_Legislation_To_Protect_Strays/

Please sign it now and be a voice for Serbian animals !

Thanks – SAV.

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Tanzania: Stop the Maasai from Being Evicted to Make Way for Tourist Hunters – Please Sign the Petition.

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

1,227,719 have signed. Let’s get to 1,500,000

Petition Link:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_the_maasai_loc/?cl=2678789281&v=23733

To President Jakaya Kikwete:

As citizens from around the world, we call on you to oppose any attempt to evict Maasai from their traditional land or require them to relocate to make way for foreign hunters. We are counting on you to be a champion for your people and stop any attempt to change their land rights against their will.

Dear friends,

Within hours, Tanzania’s President Kikwete could start evicting tens of thousands of the Maasai from our land so hunters can come and kill leopards and lions. Last time Avaaz raised the alarm, the President shelved the plan. Global pressure can stop him again. Click to help us urgently:

We are elders of the Maasai from Tanzania, one of Africa’s oldest tribes. The government has just announced that it plans to kick thousands of our families off our lands so that wealthy tourists can use them to shoot lions and leopards. The evictions are to begin immediately.

Last year, when word first leaked about this plan, almost one million Avaaz members rallied to our aid. Your attention and the storm it created forced the government to deny the plan, and set them back months. But the President has waited for international attention to die down, and now he’s revived his plan to take our land. We need your help again, urgently.

President Kikwete may not care about us, but he’s shown he’ll respond to global pressure — to all of you! We may only have hours. Please stand with us to protect our land, our people and our world’s most majestic animals, and tell everyone before it is too late. This is our last hope:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_the_maasai_loc/?cl=2678789281&v=23733

Our people have lived off the land in Tanzania and Kenya for centuries. Our communities respect our fellow animals and protect and preserve the delicate ecosystem. But the government has for years sought to profit by giving rich princes and kings from the Middle East access to our land to kill. In 2009, when they tried to clear our land to make way for these hunting sprees, we resisted, and hundreds of us were arrested and beaten. Last year, rich princes shot at birds in trees from helicopters. This killing goes against everything in our culture.

Now the government has announced it will clear a huge swath of our land to make way for what it claims will be a wildlife corridor, but many suspect it’s just a ruse to give a foreign hunting corporation and the rich tourists it caters to easier access to shoot at majestic animals. The government claims this new arrangement is some sort of accommodation, but its effect on our people’s way of life will be disastrous. There are thousands of us who could have our lives uprooted, losing our homes, the land on which our animals graze, or both.

President Kikwete knows this deal would be controversial with Tanzania’s tourists – a critical source of national income – and does not want a big PR disaster. If we can urgently generate even more global outrage than we did before, and get the media writing about it, we know it can make him think twice. Stand with us now to call on Kikwete to stop the sell off:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_the_maasai_loc/?cl=2678789281&v=23733

This land grab could spell the end for the Maasai in this part of Tanzania, and many of our community have said they would rather die than be forced from their homes. On behalf of our people and the animals who graze in these lands, please stand with us to change the mind of our President.

With hope and determination,

The Maasai elders of Ngorongoro District

SOURCES

The Guardian: Maasai fury as plan to lure Arabian Gulf tourists threatens their ancestral land
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/30/maasai-game-hunting-tanzania

allAfrica: Land Grab Could Spell ‘The End of the Maasai’
http://allafrica.com/stories/201303290873.html

IPP Media: Maasai villagers frustrate efforts to vacate for Ortelo
http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/?l=52669

The Guardian: Tanzania denies plan to evict Maasai for royal hunting ground
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/15/tanzania-evict-maasai-uae-royals

The Guardian: “Tourism is a curse to us”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/06/masai-tribesman-tanzania-tourism

New Internationalist Magazine: “Hunted down”
http://www.newint.org/columns/currents/2009/12/01/tanzania/

Society for Threatened People: Briefing on the eviction of the Loliondo Maasai
http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/session12/TZ/STP-SocietyThreatenedPeople-eng.pdf

FEMACT: Report by 16 human rights investigators & media on violence in Loliondo
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/58956/print

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Watch the New HSI Animated Canadian Seal Video Here.

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Latest from the HSI – please click on the following link:

http://www.hsi.org/world/united_kingdom/

Watch the very effective animated video on the Canadian seal hunt by clicking on the following link:

https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=seals_2013video_hsiglobal&s_src=hsiuknews_sealsvideo040413

Take further action by clicking on the yellow button underneath the video.

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Thailand: Petition to Government – End Orangutan Boxing Matches – These Primates Are More Intelligent Than You !

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Petition Link: http://forcechange.com/62904/end-orangutan-boxing-matches-in-thailand-now/?utm_source=ForceChange+Newsletter&utm_campaign=8ae41217ba-NL3874_2_2013&utm_medium=email#gf_1

End Orangutan Boxing Matches in Thailand

By Christopher Baranowski

Target: Government of Thailand

Goal: Stop inhumane orangutan boxing matches at the Safari World theme park

At the Safari World theme park in Thailand, orangutans are forced to put on gloves and fight each other in “fake” boxing matches as an attraction for visitors. Despite attempts for years to shut down the operation, this outrageously inhumane event continues to this day. Demand an end to this brutal spectacle by asking that the government of Thailand close Safari World for good.

Since 2005, over 22,000 apes have been sold, killed while being hunted or died in captivity as a part of the illegal trade of primates that still continues to this day. Huge profits are made selling illegally captured primates to zoos and other attractions around the world at the cost of biodiversity in places like Africa and southeast Asia. One of the destinations for these captured animals is the Safari World theme park in Thailand. Safari World drew harsh criticism as early as 2004 when evidence of orangutan boxing matches set up for tourists began to circulate among animal welfare groups. That year, the government seized 48 orangutans and returned them to their native country of Indonesia. But in 2010, images of kickboxing orangutans once again began to surface and animal rights activists renewed their charge against Safari World. Just last month, citizens in Indonesia donned monkey masks to protest the boxing shows that continue to go on.

According to reports, the orangutans at the theme park are dressed in traditional boxing gear and “pretend” to knock each other out, though animal activists insist the chances of the heavy animals knocking each other out is very real. Winners are awarded food and other rewards but ultimately both primates return to the dark cells where they are illegally kept. It is time to stop this disgusting display of animal brutality; orangutan boxing certainly stands as the most shameful symptom of the illegal primate trade. No operation that has repeatedly been cited for such flagrant abuse should be able to continue to exist. Demand that government officials put an end to the orangutan boxing matches by closing Safari World for good.

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USA: Help Protect the Wolves of the United States – Before Man the Almighty Does the Wrong Thing Yet Again and Destroys Them All.

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

I am in favor of animal rights as well as for human rights. That is the way of the whole human being.
— Abraham Lincoln

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
— Abraham Lincoln

(Please take the two actions that appear in this email. Reading this email without TAKING ACTION accomplishes nothing for wolves.)

Demonizing, persecuting and slaughtering wolves is not acceptable any more. This sick and criminal behavior has nothing to do with science but is rooted in hatred, brutality, cruelty, selfishness, a dysfunctional culture and an evil tradition. But such evil traditions can and do change and we are going to throw this sick tradition on the trash heap of history where it belongs. The people of Michigan have begun the process of doing exactly that! And an accomplished wolf biologist in Montana has stepped forward for wolves in his state!

PROTECTING WOLVES IN MICHIGAN: POWER TO THE PEOPLE, THE HUMANE MAJORITY!!!
The state of Michigan has under 700 wolves and a fifty year tradition of protecting wolves. But Governor Rick Snyder, state legislators and the state’s corrupt wildlife MIS-management bureaucrats were more than ready to throw it all away to serve a bizarre minority of sport killers, selfish hunters, sadistic trappers and other strange humans who get off on killing innocent animals. Just as in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Minnesota and Wisconsin, an immoral, undemocratic and corrupt state political system was poised to give the finger to the humane majority and serve a bunch of animal abusers and twisted killers.

Not this time!! Michigan has a ballot initiative process that allows all citizens to vote and decide such important issues at the ballot box, for themselves. This democratic ballot initiative process places the power in the hands of the people and takes it out of the hands of corrupt governors, corrupt legislators and corrupt wildlife bureaucrats.

A coalition of over 2,000 Michigan residents volunteered for Keep Michigan Wolves Protected, a fantastic coalition of animal welfare groups, Native Americans, veterinarians, conservationists and faith based leaders. In just 67 days, often in sub-freezing temperatures, they gathered 253,705 signatures to place this measure on the ballot in November 2014. After the signatures are certified (161.305 valid signatures are required), it is the people of Michigan who will decide whether to protect the wolves there, not the animal abusers, not the anti-wolf killers, not the governor or legislators, not the corrupt state wildlife bureaucrats, not the NRA, not the energy companies. The people of Michigan will decide.

TAKE ACTION FOR WOLVES IN MICHIGAN:

Please support this wonderful endeavor at: http://www.KeepWolvesProtected.com
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PROTECTING WOLVES IN MONTANA: A NEW AND POWERFUL EFFORT
There is a new and wonderful initiative to protect wolves now under attack in Montana, led by Montana-based wolf biologist Jay Mallonee. Jay recently wrote: “For over twenty years I have researched and taught about wolves. Having had the longest running behavioural study of these animals in Montana’s history, outside of Yellowstone National Park, my interaction with wolf management agencies has been extensive. I have found that managers have an appalling lack of knowledge about these animals, along with a disregard for science.”

Unlike the very strange wolf biologist David Mech, who has used his credentials in an immoral and perverted way, to enable the persecution and massacre of America’s vital and innocent wolves by those who demonize and hate them, Jay Mallonee and other accomplished, honest and ethical wolf biologists are coming to the defense of America’s wolves with knowledge, science, respect and decency. Please support his efforts!

TAKE ACTION FOR WOLVES IN MONTANA:

Sign and share wolf biologist Jay Mallonee’s petition at:
http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-unjustified-killing-and-hunting-of-montana-s-wolves-use-science
(When you click on this link, please take the time to read what Jay has to share. He has studied wolves in the wild for decades and knows these beautiful and innocent beings very well. Knowledge is power.)
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Thank you for America’s ecologically vital, innocent and beautiful wolves,
Robert Goldman
Protect America’s Wolves! petition and action campaign
http://signon.org/sign/protect-americas-wolves?mailing_id=10862&source=s.icn.em.cr&r_by=4977271

P.S. We are approaching 20,000 signers from around the US and the world.

Please share this entire Action E Mail with everyone you know who cares, so they can help fight for wolves, too.

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Bulgaria: UPDATE 31/03/13 – My Name is ‘Borko’, a Year This May I was Beaten so Badly That My Spine Was Broken. Please Take Action for Me and My Friends.

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

INFORMATION UPDATED 31/3/13

BORKO

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Video =

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=589874617690272

My name is Borko, a year this May I was beaten so badly that my spine was broken.

I was taken in by a loving family, my Daddy is a Bulgarian Doctor and a very kind man. Now my Daddy is being vilified in our village because he helps the poor… strays like me.

The people want my family and me out and there was a mob sent to our home with a film crew. I was attacked and beaten again in my own garden.

PLEASE share for us and let the world know that the Government in Bulgaria are not enforcing acts of cruelty and that they are allowing the kind people who help animals like me to be persecuted and removed from their home.

Watch my video here, please don’t ignore my CRY for help ♥

Video =

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=589874617690272

http://www.occupyforanimals.org/bulgaria–lynch-mob-enters-private-property-and-beats-defenseless-crippled-doggy-while-tv-reporters-film-the-scene-and-the-police-does-nothing.html

A message shared by K9 Rescue Bulgaria:

Thank you so much everyone for your incredible support of Borko and his family.

Borko is much loved by his family and he loves them too, so we do not want to take him away from them, yet of course, they also want his safety, and this is the purpose of our appeal – to finally have legal protection for Borko and all the other animals in Bulgaria. This is why we want to gain as much publicity as possible, so that it is picked up by the international media and the Bulgarian Government are embarrassed into finally taking action against animal abuser.

Bulgaria has an excellent animal protection act, yet it is totally unenforced and this is what we want to see change, to stop the mob culture like this, that we keep seeing time and again happen against animal advocates in Bulgaria, who are targeted daily for feeding, helping, rescuing and accommodating strays.

The fact that the TV crew think it’s acceptable for the ТTV 7 Film Crew to simply film and report this atrocity as the most normal thing in the world, without criticism of Borko’s abuse, only criticizing that the village doctor has animals on his property and patients have to put up with them, speaks volumes about the culture towards animal abuse as being normal and acceptable in Bulgaria.

It’s time for change, and maybe, just maybe, Borko can be the voice of that change…

Please help Dr Litov and Borko to grab the international media’s attention to embarrass the Bulgarian government into finally enforcing their Animal Protection Act.

Please send this video link: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=589874617690272 or the You Tube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCnRYYxzaro to:

The President of Bulgaria,
Rosen Plevneliev
priemna@president.bg

The Prime Minister of Bulgaria,
Marin Raykov
GIS@government.bg

Secretary General of Bulgaria,
Liliya Ivanova
liliya@esu-online.org

with each email copied to the Bulgarian Press:
editor@sofiaglobe.co
editor@novinite.com

and to the following news channels and newspapers:

Major news-channels:
kelly@foxnews.com; americasnewsroom@foxnews.com; bullsandbears@foxnews.com; cash@foxnews.com; cavuto@foxnews.com; forbes@foxnews.com; friends@foxnews.com; fncspecials@foxnews.com; fns@foxnews.com; newswatch@foxnews.com; foxreport@foxnews.com; atlarge@foxnews.com; hannity@foxnews.com; happeningnow@foxnews.com; huckmail@foxnews.com; glennbeck@foxnews.com; jer@foxnews.com; ontherecord@foxnews.com; redeye@foxnews.com; special@foxnews.com; studiob@foxnews.com; oreilly@foxnews.com; warstories@foxnews.com; cavuto@foxnews.com; mediainquiries@msnbc.com

British Media:
ITV news yourstory@itv.com
BBC news worldhaveyoursay@bbc.co.uk

British newspapers:
letters@guardian.co.uk
letters@independent.co.uk
letters@the-times.co.uk
dtletters@telegraph.co.uk
letters@observer.co.uk (subject field of email should say “Letter to the Editor”)
letters@dailymail.co.uk
letters@mailonsunday.co.uk
express.letters@express.co.uk
letters@the-sun.co.uk
mailbox@mirror.co.uk
your.letters@news-of-the-world.co.uk
newsdesk@notw.co.uk
letters@liverpool.com
reporters@dailyrecord.co.uk
reporters@sundaymail.co.uk

Germanmedia:
chefred@taz.de
explosiv@rtl.de
info@bild.t-online.de
info@center.tv
info@zdf.de
mail@vox.de
news@rtl.de
nachtjournal@rtl.de
news@rtl.de
post@express.de
Punkt12@rtl.de
Redaktion.extra@rtl.de
redaktion@jungewelt.de
redaktion@wdr.de
userpost@taz.de
zuschauerredaktion@rtl.de
zured@daserste.de
zuschauerservice.n24@n24.de
redaktion@radiokoeln.de
redaktion@koelner.de
online@welt.de

and/or to any other media outlet that you can think of. Please can you also contact the offices given below and tell them of your disgust.

These are the addresses of the mayor of Devin municipality and the mayor of the village of Selcha, as well as the address of the public prosecutor’s office in Smolian.

Mr. Cvetalin Vasilev Penkov
Kmet OBSHTINA DEVIN Ul.
Druzhba No 1
DEVIN PK
4800 BULGARIA
Tel: 359 (0)30412174
e-mail: obshtina@devin.bg

Venelin Velizarov Opov
Kmet Selo Selcha Obshtina Devin Obl.
Smolian PK 4814 BULGARIA
Теl: 00359 (0)30476/223
Mobile: 00359 (0)889536600

Public Prosecutor’s Office
Smolian Bul. Bulgaria No 16
Smolian BULGARIA
Email: rprok_smolyan@sm.prb.bg

Use the following link to see all Bulgarian MEPs.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/performsearch.html?action=0&webCountry=BG&webTermId=7&name=&politicalGroup=&bodyType=ALL&bodyValue=&type=&filter=

Below is a block listing of ALL Bulgarian MEP contact details.

Please mail them and tell them how disgusted you are with what you have seen on the video and the photos of ‘Borko’.

Send them a copy of the video: link: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=589874617690272 or the

You Tube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCnRYYxzaro

Tell them that Bulgaria wants to be in the 21^st Century, and yet mob rule allows animals and their protectors to be targeted like this. They are MEPs, European Politicians – and they need to act with their government and act hard and fast.

Otherwise we do not want Bulgarian MEPs if they do not take action.

BLOCK BULGARIAN MEP CONTACT LIST:

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Update on Borko, Danny & Jako

Here are some photos’s of Borko and his brothers Danny and Jako taken today, March 30, 2013.

All three dogs are well and safe for now.

These sweethearts are the “so called dirty vermin” that the villagers object to being in their doctor’s house!

For updates on Borko and his family, please follow the Facebook-page of K9 Rescue Bulgaria.

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UK (England): Live Exports Update Latest News – 20th March 2013.

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

UK Live Exports Update – 20/03/2013:

Please see our post of 18^th March (link as follows) for an overview of events leading to this report.

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2013/03/18/uk-england-the-story-continues-live-export-ship-due-at-dover-on-19th-march-for-berthing-trials/

Latest – Tuesday 19^th March 2013 –

Today the MV Joline owned by the consortium of Johannes Onderwater, Tom Lomas and Peter Ziolkowski arrived at Dover at 11-30am to start her berthing trials prior to returning to this port after protestors have made events too hot for her at Ramsgate.

If she does return to Dover, we view this as a victory that through perseverance we have stopped her using Ramsgate, as the stringent tests and inspections she is facing at that port makes the trade less profitable even though her berthing fees are less than a third what they will be at Dover.

The ship took nearly two hours of manoeuvring before she could get onto berth No. five within Dover harbour, time we very much doubt she will have / be given by the port authorities when in operational mode. She then attempted berth No. two, with even less success. It was later revealed that the trials were inconclusive and more modifications would be needed on the Joline before further tests could be carried out.

The ‘Joline’ arrives at Dover for berthing trials (Photo: KAALE)

This was in good weather with light winds, no swell and a rising tide in the harbour. The large and regular cross-Channel ferries (UK-France and return) were also affording her courtesy by producing only minimum wash as they entered and exited the port; usually their wash is much higher as they put on speed to exit the harbour because of their fast turnarounds.

After the tests we thought she was to lay over until Wednesday (20^th) on the Eastern Arm in the harbour; but a contact advised us that she had asked to stopover, but when told the price, she decided to move out of Dover port. She proceeded to Ramsgate harbour where we understand she is to lay off until Friday (22^nd) morning, when they intend to sail with live animals to Calais. The sailing is scheduled between 7.30am and 11.00am, but as we all know they can change their mind and we will update everyone should events change.

The Joline heads to Ramsgate after leaving Dover (Photo: KAALE)

We thought she would look very different after her modifications in the Netherlands, but the only differences we could visibly see were rubber bumpers round the entire vessel and ropes to grasp if personnel fall overboard. We understand she has also had fitted a bow thruster to make her more manoeuvrable.

The High Court has granted the RSPCA an oral hearing for its legal challenge to ban live animal exports from Ramsgate.

The hearing will be held in open court at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on 10 May. This has now been scheduled for earlier and has started today – Wed 20^th March. In January, a judge refused the RSPCA permission to bring the case to a judicial Review following consideration of court papers. But the charity appealed the decision and has won the right to an oral hearing, which could result in a full judicial review.

RSPCA chief executive Gavin Grant said: “We remain confident in the strength of our case and that we can persuade the court to grant permission for a full hearing”. “Our challenge to the legality of the arrangements which Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) have put in place to regulate this trade deserves to be heard at a full hearing as the implications for animal welfare are very serious.” The RSPCA believes the AHVLA, which is responsible for checking consignments of live animals operating through Ramsgate port, is “acting illegally”. The charity has accused the AHVLA of failing to impose sailing restrictions on the Joline – which it described as an “open-decked, flat-bottomed converted Russian tank transporter” – to ensure that animals were “not injured or caused undue harm while being transported by sea”.

The RSPCA has established a fighting fund to help pay for the legal costs for the case. The fund has in a matter of just a few months received over £160,000 in donations to date. The AHVLA said it would not be commenting on the case while legal proceedings were still active. In December, UK farm minister David Heath announced new, tougher rules for live animal exports from Ramsgate port. AHVLA inspectors have been told to increase inspections and take a “zero tolerance” approach to any breaches of welfare regulations where unnecessary suffering is caused to animals.

Up until now the AHVLA have only inspected around 1 in 3 of all livestock transporters arriving at the port. Whilst not the official ‘competent authority’, the RSPCA inspectors have inspected every truck and its animal cargo, finding many breaches of regulations. The RSPCA have done a much better job of inspections than the government inspectors at AHVLA.

Charges following sheep deaths (at Ramsgate)

3 men and a firm are to face charges following the deaths of 47 sheep at Ramsgate. 3 sheep drowned and 44 were destroyed during an incident at the port on 12 Sept 2012.

The men, based in the UK and France, and a Kent firm are accused of loading sheep which were unfit to travel and transporting them in an inappropriate vehicle.

All defendants are due to appear before Canterbury magistrates (in Kent, England) on 2 April. The maximum punishment, if convicted, is 6 months’ imprisonment and/or a £5,000 fine.

The Farming Minister David Heath announced that every future consignment of live animals that passed through Ramsgate would be inspected (and not just 1 in 3 as has been done up until now). He said there would be tougher enforcement of welfare procedures following a review by the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA). The AHVLA also plans to make sure a vet is within an hour of the port and has vowed to work with transport operators on new emergency contingency measures.

Please visit the Kent Action Against Live Exports (KAALE) web site, for which SAV founder Mark is also the EU and legal correspondent, at www.kaale.org.uk

The Joline loaded with animal transporters crosses the English Channel in heavy sea conditions (Photos: KAALE)

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New Petition For Serbian Stray Animals – Please Sign Now and Do Not Let the Government Return From ‘No Kill’ To A ‘Kill’ Policy By Law.

We need to try and stop this happening.

Tanzania: Stop the Maasai from Being Evicted to Make Way for Tourist Hunters – Please Sign the Petition.

1,227,719 have signed. Let’s get to 1,500,000

Watch the New HSI Animated Canadian Seal Video Here.

Thailand: Petition to Government – End Orangutan Boxing Matches – These Primates Are More Intelligent Than You !

USA: Help Protect the Wolves of the United States – Before Man the Almighty Does the Wrong Thing Yet Again and Destroys Them All.

Bulgaria: UPDATE 31/03/13 – My Name is ‘Borko’, a Year This May I was Beaten so Badly That My Spine Was Broken. Please Take Action for Me and My Friends.

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Update on Borko, Danny & Jako

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