Thailand: Mali Has Been Alone Without Care For 40 Years. She Has Been Offered A Sanctuary Home But The Zoo Refuses. Petition Them Here.

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

 

Mali the elephant holds her own tail for comfort. She suffers from cracked nails and foot pads. She has never had proper medical care.

She is suffering, and it is up to us to help her.

Mali has been held in a barren pen at the Manila Zoo for 40 years. Decades spent pacing back and forth on a concrete floor have left her with potentially fatal foot problems. Boon Lott’s Elephant Sanctuary in Thailand has offered Mali a place where she can roam freely, receive the medical care she needs, and interact with other elephants. But the Manila Zoo has refused to let her go.

Please sign this Care2 petition demanding that Mali be retired to Boon Lott’s Sanctuary as soon as possible.

Elephants in the wild spend up to 18 hours a day walking on grass, soil, dirt, and mud. There is no way that elephants living in places like the Manila Zoo are able to get enough exercise to prevent cracked nails, overgrown cuticles, cracked pads, and arthritis.

When captive elephants develop foot and joint problems, it is imperative that they get care immediately before their wounds become infected. Mali has not received the appropriate foot care in the entire time that she has been held at the Manila Zoo. Elephant experts who have observed her recently now fear for her life.

Mali has spent 40 years alone and in pain at a facility that has done nothing to help her. Together we must speak out to make sure she spends her last years in a place that will nurture her back to health, provide her with a natural habitat, and expose her to the company of other elephants.

Sign this petition to free Mali from the Manila Zoo and send her to Boon Lott’s Sanctuary.

Thank you,

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UK: Great News For Dogs – 95% Now Fitted With Microchip – ‘Stray’ Dogs Fall To Lowest Level For 20 Years.

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

 

Stray dogs fall to lowest level in 20 years after compulsory microchipping is introduced

 

Telegraph Reporters

6 April 2017 • 12:01am

The number of stray dogs has fallen to the lowest level in 20 years after compulsory microchipping was introduced, data has suggested. 

Around 95 per cent of UK dogs are now fitted with a microchip with their owner’s details that mean pets can be reunited with their families if they are lost or stolen, data from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs show.

They have enabled thousands of dogs to be reunited with their owners and the Dogs Trust’s annual survey found the number of strays fell last year by 21 per cent to the lowest levels since the survey began in 1997.

It is excellent to see that so many owners have taken action to get their dogs chipped Animal Welfare Minister Lord Gardiner

Now, on the anniversary of the introduction of compulsory microchipping, owners are being reminded to make sure the details on the chips are up to date so they can be easily contacted if their pet is lost or stolen.

Animal Welfare Minister Lord Gardiner said: “Thanks to microchipping, thousands of dogs have been reunited with their owners and the number of stray dogs is now at a record low.

“It is excellent to see that so many owners have taken action to get their dogs chipped – a painless process for dogs which many charities will carry out for free.

“However, still too many are not being reunited where owners have not updated their details when they move home or get a new phone number – heart-breaking for the owner, and easily avoidable with a five-minute phone call.

 

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USA: Earth to Trump: We’ll see you in court.

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

The Trump resistance has hit high gear. The Washington Post has even noticed, running the headline “The Standoff Between Trump and Green Groups Just Boiled Into War.”

In the wake of Trump’s attacks on the environment, the Center for Biological Diversity’s response has been swift and aggressive. Last week we filed two lawsuits in two days: one to take down Trump’s senseless plan to bring back dirty coal mining on public lands, the other to stop him from ramming the Keystone XL pipeline through thousands of miles of wildlife habitat for as many as 20 rare species, including whooping cranes. The next day we convinced the Oklahoma Bar Association to investigate whether EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt lied to Congress under oath.

You can support our actions with an emergency donation to the Trump Resistance Fund. Thanks to a generous Center member’s matching gift, your dollars will go twice as far.

Trump’s revival of some of the world’s filthiest fossil fuel projects would put us back decades, poison our air and water and edge the climate toward a point of no return. He’s also planning to revoke Obama’s Clean Power Plan and hijack the Paris climate agreement — and he just sneakily signed legislation last night allowing bears and wolves to be slaughtered in Alaska’s national wildlife refuges. If Trump gets his way, his industry friends will get even richer — but the price will be steep and severe for the planet.

Please make a matched gift to the Trump Resistance Fund and join our fight.

Since Trump’s inauguration, we’ve already filed 9 different lawsuits and even more legal actions, including one against the EPA for approving a highly toxic pesticide called Enlist Duo and one we launched today to ban Wildlife Services’ use of M-44 cyanide bombs — the same poisonous landmines that recently injured a 14-year-old boy in Idaho, killed his Labrador retriever Casey, and killed an endangered wolf in Oregon. Every move Trump makes will be countered by the resistance: We’ll fight him in the courts, the streets, and the halls of power.

The Center’s got this — but it’s going to be expensive, and we need you by our side. Resist Trump’s anti-environment agenda with a donation to the Center’s Trump Resistance Fund. Your gift will be matched dollar for dollar.

Earth to Trump: We’ll see you in court.

 

Kierán Suckling
Executive Director
Center for Biological Diversity
@KieranSuckling


 P.S. We’re already in the fight of a lifetime with Trump’s White House and the most anti-environment Congress we’ve ever seen. Help us beat them back with an automatic monthly donation.

Please share this message with your social networks.

 

 

 

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UK travel firm becomes the first to drop zoos. There was “no justifiable reason” to keep animals in captivity.

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

UK travel firm becomes the first to drop zoos

Responsible Travel withdraws trips that include visits to zoos but will continue to work with sanctuaries and rescue centres.

A UK travel company has pledged to stop promoting zoos and laid down guidelines for the kinds of animal facilities it will continue to work with.

Responsible Travel said there was “no justifiable reason” to keep animals in captivity, in an announcement backed by the Born Free Foundation and actor and animal welfare campaigner Joanna Lumley.

It gave four key reasons for its decision:

Issues in animal welfare have long been recognised

There are many ways of educating people about wildlife that don’t involve keeping animals in captivity.

While some zoos do fund worthwhile conservation programmes, on average zoos are only encouraged to spend 3% of their expenditure on conservation.

About 90% of animals kept in zoos are not endangered.

So far, Responsible Travel has removed six trips from its site that include visits to zoos. It is also conducting an “in-depth audit” of all captive animal facilities visited on the trips it sells, which it says incorporates a significant proportion of the itineraries it offers around the world, to ensure they comply with its new guidelines.

The site will still promote legitimate animal sanctuaries and rescue centres for animals that cannot be returned to the wild, as well as rehabilitation centres for animals that will be returned to the wild, as long as no captive breeding takes place in these facilities.

It will also promote “genuine endangered species conservation centres”.

Responsible Travel, which works with 375 tour operators around the world, is the first travel company to make a strong statement regarding zoos, a move that comes as a growing number of tour operators are coming under pressure to take a stand against animal attractions.

In February, Virgin Holidays said it would no longer sell or promote any new attractions or hotels that featured captive whales and dolphins for entertainment purposes (though it continues to sell to around 30 attractions that currently do so), and last October TripAdvisor announced it would discontinue selling tickets for specific tourism experiences where travellers came into physical contact with captive wild animals, such as elephant rides, petting tigers and swimming with dolphins.

In a blog on the issue, Responsible Travel CEO Justin Francis said: “Our conclusion is that zoos are not appropriate in 2017. They are relics of the past, and the arguments to justify keeping animals in captivity no longer stand up.”

He added: “In our view, rather than being self-proclaimed conservation organisations they are in fact businesses that exploit animals for profit. We hope that other travel businesses and tour operators will join us in creating a movement for change that recognises that zoos are outdated, unethical and unnecessary.”

 

 

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EU Citizens: Take Action and Add Your Name To Call for a Ban on Glyphosate Weedkiller.

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Mark,

Wow — An amazing 611,000 people across Europe have already signed the official Stop Glyphosate petition (ECI). Thank you!

For the European Citizens Initiative to have teeth, it has to be backed by at least one million EU citizens, coming from at least 7 out of the 28 member states. Can you please share the link today?

 

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Or you can copy and share this email if you prefer:

 

Dear Friends, 

I signed an official petition (a European Citizens Initiative) calling for a ban on glyphosate weedkiller, a trustworthy pesticide approval procedure, and EU-wide targets to cut pesticide use.

We need 1-million signatures. A successful ECI guarantees us a right to a public hearing in the European Parliament, and compels the European Commission in Brussels to spell out what action it will take in response.

This is a special online petition only for people old enough to vote in European Parliament elections, including the UK.

 

Click here to sign the petition in 2-steps

Mark

Thanks for all you do,

Nabil and the SumOfUs team

 

 

 

 

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April 4th: International Day of Stray Animals.

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

 Deutsch and English

 

  1. 4th April: Internationaler Tag für Streunerhunde

Seit mehreren Jahren ist der 4. April als der internationale Tag für Streunerhunde bekannt und wird den Streunerhunden auf der ganzen Welt gewidmet.

Es ist eine bekannte Tatsache, dass Streunerhunde eigentlich Besitzerhunde sind, die jedoch im Stich gelassen wurden. Wo auch immer es solche Tiere gibt, sind sie ein Beweis dafür, dass es keinen konsequenten, erfolgreichen und verantwortungsvollen Plan für sie gibt.

 

Allein in Rumänien hat sich die Anzahl der Streunerhunde  desto mehr vergrössert, je mehr die staatlichen Programme versuchen, sie zu töten. Trotzdem geben die Verantwortlichen nicht nach und verändern ihre Vorgangsweise nicht. Dazu kommt, dass Streunerhunde ein lukratives Geschaft bedeuten, das diejenigen, die daran beteiligt sind, nicht aufgeben wollen. Weder das Leiden und der Tod von Zehntausenden von Tieren jedes Jahr, noch die Unzufriedenheit der Bevölkerung, die ein Programm verlangt, das die Anzahl der Streunerhunde effektiv verringert, noch die Bemühungen von Organisationen und Privatmenschen, die versuchen, so viele Tiere wie möglich von der Straße oder aus den öffentlichen Sheltern (die richtige Vernichtungslager sind, die von uns allen finanziert werden, ob wir damit einverstanden sind, oder nicht) zu retten, noch die Arbeit der NGOs, die mit Kastrations-Aktionen versuchen, dem verheerenden Schaden, den die Stadtverwaltungen anrichten, entgegenzuwirken – nichts davon hat die verantwortlichen Behörden dazu veranlasst, ein effektives und humanes Programm zu entwickeln. Sie verweigern einfach, auf die Experten zu hören, oder sie wollen ihr einträgliches Geschäft nicht aufgeben.

 

Der 4. April ist der Tag, an dem wir über das tägliche Leiden und die Misshandlungen der Streunerhunde nachdenken sollten, und uns klarmachen sollten, in wie weit wir dafür verantwortlich sind. Die einzige Art und Weise, um die Tortur der Tiere zu beenden, ist die Kastration aller Besitzerhunde. Dadurch wird verhindert, dass ungewollte Tiere ausgesetzt werden. Zugleich sollte ein angemessenes Programm für eventuellen Nachwuchs geschaffen werden. Deshalb: Verantwortlichkeit, Ethik und Mitgefühl – diese Eigenschaften machen uns zu zivilisierten Menschen.

 

Ausserdem möchten wir Euch dazu anregen, Streunertiere dadurch zu unterstützen, indem Ihr ihnen Futter, Wasser, Pflege und Schutz anbietet. Wenn nur irgendwie möglich, bringt sie weg von der Straße oder holt sie aus den Sheltern raus – und rettet ihre Leben für immer.

http://www.fnpa.ro/4-aprilie/#deutsch

 

Carmen ARSENE

Präsident

National Federation for Animal Protection (FNPA)

Organisation EDUXANIMA
Rumänien

 

 

April 4th: International Day of Stray Animals

 

In recent years, the 4th of April has come to be known as the International Day of Street Animals and is dedicated to stray animals around the world.

It is a known fact that stray animals are actually owned animals that have been abandoned. Wherever such animals exist is an indication that nothing consistent, efficient, and responsible has been done.

Stray animals in Romania alone have become more and more numerous as the country’s program to kill them has expanded; however, the Romanian authorities do not yield and do not change their approach. Moreover, stray animals have turned into a big business that those in charge have no interest giving up. The suffering and death of tens of thousands of animals every year, the discontentment of the society, who calls for a program to reduce the numbers of stray animals, the efforts of organizations and private individuals to rescue from the street or from public shelters (true extermination camps) that are funded (whether we agree or not) by all of us, the NGOs’ efforts to carry out spay & neuter campaigns in an attempt to offset the havoc played and maintained by the Town Halls have not led the authorities to develop an effective (and humane) program, either because they refuse to listen to the experts, or because they simply cannot renounce the business.

April 4th is the day in which we should become aware of the existence of stray animals and of their daily suffering and ill-treatment as a result of our irresponsibility.

The only way to stop their ordeal is spaying & neutering all owned animals – and thus help prevent any further abandonment of unwanted animals –, or a proper management of their offspring. Therefore: responsibility, ethics, compassion – those qualities that make us civilized humans.

We are also encouraging people to support stray animals by providing them with food, water, care, and protection, and wherever possible, take them off the street or out of the shelters, thus saving a life for good.

http://www.fnpa.ro/4-aprilie/#english

 

 

Carmen ARSENE

 

President

National Federation for Animal Protection (FNPA)

Organization EDUXANIMA

Romania

 

 

 

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England: 3/4/17 – SAV Today Has Update On Issues From The EU. Words That For Animals, Mean Nothing.

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

3/4/17.  Today we have received the following letter from the EU regarding one of our petitions and the question of stray animals in Serbia as well as the long distance transportation of live animals within the EU and to Turkey.

You can see a full copy of the EU response here:

 

We are disappointed but not at all surprised by the wording of the EU letter.  Basically, it does very little apart from pass the blame onto everyone else apart from the EU.  As we have always said, the EU is very good at talking the talk; but when it comes to enforcing its own legislation, then the EU is very much outside the enforcement envelope.

On sheets 2 and 3 of the letter you can see we have identified a few statements in the margin using Orange.

 

Sheet 2 – Notice To Members.

 

“Most of the issues raised in the petition with regard the management of stray dog populations are not under EU competence”.

 

Serbia is currently an EU ‘Candidate Country’; getting ready to become an EU member state.  In order to become an EU member state; any hopeful nation has to show it is in full compliance of the EU requirement of showing that it is enforcing the ‘rule of law’ – that it is enforcing its own national legislation within its nation.  As we have shown for the past 10 years or more, Serbia is NOT applying the rule of law as written in existing Serbian legislation when it comes to the welfare of (mainly stray) dogs and cats.

 

We wanted to make this issue of great importance to the EU Enlargement Commission when considering Serbia’s application to join the EU.  You can see further information about Serbian legislation for stray animals by visiting  https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/about-serbian-animals/

 

But we are disappointed to simply be given the statement that “stray dog populations are not under EU competence”.  We feel that this is action by the EU to simply pass the monitoring game back to individual member states as it always does; who as we have seen in other work (live transport); cannot enforce the EU regulations within their own country.  Why will the EU not introduce stray animal legislation ? – because stray animals do not earn money for member states the same way as meat / live animals do when they are transported to other nations for slaughter.  I guess you could say it is all a question of economics and finance – and stray animals come second !

 

Effectively; this EU letter gives the green light to Serbia to continue killing stray animals in whatever way it wants even thought they should be given protection under existing Serbian national legislation, as decreed by the Serbian Constitutional Court many years ago (2005).  Put simply, the EU will be happy to take Serbia in as a new EU member state; whilst at the same time ignoring the fact that it does not comply with the EU member state rules of adhering to national law; whilst at the same time continuing to kill animals in the most barbaric and illegal ways.

 

Moving on to sheet 3 and the issue of the live transport of animals.  Conclusion – Here we read that the EU ‘has launched a 3 year pilot project to develop and disseminate the best practices for animal transport’.  We are extremely disappointed to read that the EU Commission does not envisage revising the current EU legislation on animal transport but will continue to assist member states in their efforts for its better enforcement.   The words in reality mean nothing.

Please read the excellent report by Animals Angels below – ‘The Myth of Enforcement of Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport’.

As we have said so many times in the past; we have ‘head in the sand’ people like Mr Van Goethem and associated EU Commissioners; who should be changing the regulations regularly to better animal welfare and move away form the continual abuses which has been provided to them in so many forms over so many years.  Here are just a few examples:

Video links – evidence to the EU:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOVtq-M0-Is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udReHkAumrY&feature=youtu.be

A report by Animals Angles evidence to the EU – ‘The Myth of Enforcement

of Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport’.

http://www.animals-angels.com/fileadmin/user_upload/1_DATEN_AB_2014/4_AA_PRESS/Animals_Angels_Myth_of_Enforcement.pdf

So in conclusion, we have a ‘system’  called the EU – it brags; talks loud and posts so much on its internet service to make anyone in the world think that the system is fantastic.  The reality is, as shown by activists out on the road; and when they / we try to relate failing and their non enforcement to EU legislation, the EU authorities turn the other way and put their heads deep down into the sand.  The EU dopes not want to be shown that anything is wrong in its ‘perfect, paper system’.

Last week the UK triggered Article 50 – we are going to get out and away from these people who are paid big salaries to do things; but whom in reality do nothing.  By leaving and going it alone, the UK will show the world (and the EU) that things are much better when you take back control.  It is the UK against 27 other member states – so we shall see exactly how much control the EU masters have on all their members when Brexit negotiations actually get under way.

 

Finally, here is some food for thought – 

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/787069/eu-brussels-may-have-to-pay-uk-14billion-new-brexit-plans-considered-government-cabinet?utm_source=CRM&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=EU_may_pay_UK&utm_campaign=Brexit_email

 

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/787086/EU-s-budget-chief-Gunther-Oettinger-urge-27-members-cover-Britain-s-donations-Brexit-May?utm_source=CRM&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=EU_urge_states_cover_Brexit&utm_campaign=Brexit_email

 

 

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