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What A Wonderful World ??
Posted on February 5, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Final Push For The Bees – Please Support If Possible.
Posted on February 4, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Hi Mark,
Wow — we’ve never seen anything like this before.
Because of you, we’re almost able to fully cover the Bee Defenders’ final stages of their massive legal battle.
We’re just £4,551 short.
With your support right now, we can fully cover all legal costs — AND show our support at the courthouse alongside the Bee Defenders.
Will you be their hero and chip in the last little bit they need to save the bees?
Donate now
Any extra that’s donated will be directed straight into other actions to save the bees in 2017.
Thanks for all you do,
Wiebke
Original email:
Mark,
A small, brave coalition of beekeeping organisations is taking on pesticide giants like Bayer, Syngenta, and BASF in court to save the bees.
They’re rapidly running out of money at this crucial time and they need your help to win this case.
The Bee Defenders Alliance is fighting to uphold the European Commission’s historic, partial ban on three nasty pesticides that are decimating bee colonies.
The lawsuit’s about to enter its final phase with hearings to start any day now — and lawyers are telling us that right now that it could go either way.
If we lose this, it would mean a world where Bayer and its friends get free rein to sell bee-killing pesticides. That would be game over for the bees.
A donation from you would go a long way towards protecting the bees — paying for top notch lawyers and other resources that the Alliance needs to win.
Will you please chip in to save the bees?
Donate £20 now
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We need to protect the bees: over a billion jobs depend on them, and bees are responsible for a third of the food that we eat.
But the threat of extinction of the bees is looming large thanks to these pesticides called neonics. Just last week, a new report revealed that the harm of neonics is greater than what we thought when the partial ban was first introduced.
The Alliance is key to a defeat of the pesticide lobby — they are the voice of beekeepers and independent scientists.
And they’re up against corporations like Bayer, Syngenta, and BASF — powerful and wealthy corporations that can strong arm the European Commission to get what they want.
You can help defeat the pesticide giants by chipping in to support the Alliance’s people-powered fight.
We may never have as much money as the big corporations, but SumOfUs members like you have shown that when we stand together we punch above our weight.
Hundreds of thousands of you pushed France to become the first country to ban the chemicals responsible for the global bee die-off.
Together, we’ve sent beekeepers to confront Bayer’s corporate executives at its annual shareholder meeting. And we’ve forced big hardware chains across the world to stop selling neonics.
This year, we’re working around the clock to get Canada to join France in banning neonics, extend the European neonic ban, and stop U.S. grocery store giants like Kroger from selling bee-killing products. We’ll also continue to support threatened bee scientists like Jonathan Lundgren and the beekeeper alliance that’s fighting Bayer and Syngenta in court.
And finally, we’ll do everything we can to stop the Bayer-Monsanto merger from hell and continue to fight the biggest bee-killer of them all, Bayer.
Can you please help stop the pesticide lobby from tearing up this historic win for the bees?
Donate £20 now
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Donate £41 now
Chip in another amount
Thanks for all that you do,
Wiebke, Kat and the team at SumOfUs
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USA: Emperor Trump Removes Animal Welfare Reports From USDA Website — Now Welfare Cannot Be Checked.
Posted on February 4, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
USDA removes animal welfare reports from its website – StarTribune …
http://www.startribune.com/usda-removes-animal-welfare…from…/412715773…
9 hours ago – The Agriculture Department has removed animal welfare inspection reports, enforcement records and other information about the treatment of animals from its website, … In place of the online database is a new message from the … actions to remove documents” related to the Animal Welfare Act and the …
Missing: adm
USDA blacks out animal welfare information | Science | AAAS
http://www.sciencemag.org/…/trump-administration-blacks-out-animal-welfare…
7 hours ago – Records have in the past led to the shutdown of subpar research facilities. … The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today removed public access to tens of … animals are being treated humanely under the Animal Welfare Act. Henceforth, those wanting access … Mexican scientists feel the Trump effect.
Missing: adm records
The Trump Effect: USDA Scrubs Animal Welfare Reports from Its …
http://www.mercyforanimals.org/the-trump-effect-usda-scrubs-animal-welfare
3 hours ago – This includes animal welfare inspections and records about the … However, the reports already remove the locations of facilities and other sensitive information … And while the animal welfare act specifically excludes farmed …
Missing: adm
Importance: High
SEE THIS URGENT TRUMP ADM. REMOVING RECORDS ON ANIMAL WELFARE ACT RELATED INFORMATION ON LINE, RESEARCHES, CRUELTY ETC
SEE ENTIRE EMAIL – STORY FROM INTERNET PASS ON
That orange, cheeto-dusted nightmare in the White House is not only going to get us into a war, but he is going to be bad for animals as well. Friday, February 3rd, 2017
Today, without warning, the Trump administration ordered that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service immediately take offline thousands and thousands of records related to Animal Welfare Act-related entities, including research facilities that experiment on dogs and cats.
This database contained inspection reports that allowed the public to see a host of law enforcement records related to the Animal Welfare Act. These records included inspection reports from facilities who were violating the law, annual reports that allowed the public to know what laboratories are experimenting on animals, how many animals are used for research, and other related information. Now the public will have not even any basic statistical information going forward regarding animal use in the United States. The rule also affects other regulated entities, including puppy mills, circuses, and zoos. This new rule from the Trump administration allows those who break the law to evade public scrutiny.
This move makes it IMPOSSIBLE to find out where animals are located, their treatment and any violations, essentially giving carte blanche to anyone to hide animal violations, and violate animal welfare laws, among other things.
Because this information will now be hidden, it also makes it impossible for us to take action against facilities abusing animals, or even reach out to facilities using animals to offer assistance in placing beagles in loving homes.
BFP is looking at legal options to force the Trump administration to reverse course on this decision that destroys transparency.
Please help by contacting your members of Congress here and urging them to change this rule. We need more transparency surrounding animal research, not less.
This move will not go un-noticed.
Animals in laboratories will NOT BE HIDDEN.
Just as has been our mission for the Past 6 years,
Animals in labs will be SEEN,
Animals in labs will be HEARD, and
Animals in labs will be FREED!
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Tibet: From ‘Free Tibet’ London – Tibet remains the second least free place in the world.
Posted on February 3, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
From ‘Free Tibet’ – London:
Tibet remains the second least free place in the world in Freedom House’s annual survey.
Freedom House, the influential American human rights and democracy organisation, published its annual Freedom in the World report (PDF) today. The report assesses political freedom in countries and territories across the world and gives a damning assessment of political rights and civil liberties in occupied Tibet.
Tibet was classified overall as being ‘Not free’. Using a scale from 1 to 7 (with 1 being most free and 7 being least free) Tibet was rated a 7 for both political rights and civil liberties.
Only 13 countries and territories received this lowest possible grade, including North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Sudan.
https://freetibet.org/news-media/na/us-watchdog-tibet-remains-among-least-free-place-world?utm_source=Free+Tibet+email+updates&utm_campaign=2a6f351200-JAN-NEWS-FREEDOM-HOUSE-MUSICIANS-RELEASED_2017&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8b3b75e260-2a6f351200-49881965&mc_cid=2a6f351200&mc_eid=0640490884
Tibetan musician freed after four years in jail
Free Tibet had previously pushed for the release of Amchok Phuljung as part of its Jailed Musicians campaign
Amchok Phuljung, a Tibetan musician who sang about the Dalai Lama, has been freed after serving four years in prison.
Despite official warnings, the Tibetan musician’s family staged a grand welcome for his return home and several videos and pictures circulating on social media show him being adorned with ceremonial scarves. Fellow musicians are seen in the clips celebrating Phuljung’s return while renowned Tibetan poet Nyen is also seen welcoming him home.
Read more – https://freetibet.org/news-media/na/tibetan-musician-freed-after-4-years-jail?utm_source=Free+Tibet+email+updates&utm_campaign=2a6f351200-JAN-NEWS-FREEDOM-HOUSE-MUSICIANS-RELEASED_2017&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8b3b75e260-2a6f351200-49881965&mc_cid=2a6f351200&mc_eid=0640490884
Latest Tibet activist news – https://freetibet.org/news
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Canada: Animal Cruelty Will Continue Under Proposed Transport Regulations.
Posted on February 3, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Animal Cruelty Will Continue Under Proposed Transport Regulations.
Read lots more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/olivier-berreville/animal-transportation-regulations_b_14552858.html
SAV Comment – so it is not only the EU that is useless at enforcing its own ‘Regulations’ !
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Heartbreaking photos reveal suffering of Mosul zoo animals including a lion and a bear left to starve to death by ISIS
Posted on February 3, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Photos – Reuters.
Heartbreaking photos reveal suffering of Mosul zoo animals including a lion and a bear left to starve to death by ISIS
These shocking photos reveal the suffering of Mosul zoo animals after they were left to starve to death by cruel ISIS thugs.
An emaciated lioness was found cowering in a squalid cage and lying on exposed cables at Al-Murur public park after the area was liberated from the terror group.
Another heartbreaking image shows a bear looking mournfully through the rusting bars of its enclosure.
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4183300/Heartbreaking-photos-reveal-suffering-Mosul-zoo-animals.html#ixzz4XeTLr35Q Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4183300/Heartbreaking-photos-reveal-suffering-Mosul-zoo-animals.html
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SaveKoreanDogs need your partnership to save the Korean dogs.
Posted on February 2, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
SaveKoreanDogs need your partnership to save the Korean dogs.
SaveKoreanDogs need your generosity to continue their important work of closing down dog farms and caring for the dogs rescued from South Korea’s dog meat industry. Donations have been very low and they are having difficulty paying for the running costs of their 3 shelters – home to 400 dogs rescued from the dog farms they managed to close down. They have just had a successful press conference which was the culmination of a campaign they have been working on over the past few months, which urged the Korean Government to pass the proposed amendment by the National Assemblyman Changwon Pyo for stronger Animal Protection Law. They are planning to launch another press campaign, in around October this year, to put pressure on the new Government, following the election of South Korea’s new President.
SaveKoreanDogs has many plans for 2017, which include:
An education program for senior citizens, to teach them about companion animals;
Hiring of additional staff to manage the shelters and provide better care for the dogs in their sanctuaries;
Hiring undercover agents to crack down dog farms and slaughterhouses;
Working on the Government level to bring about legislation that protects companion animals and to end the dog meat trade.
All of these plans cannot be realized and the good works accomplished without your generous support. So please donate whatever you can afford today – however small. Every penny makes a difference and saves the lives of these animals. Thank you for caring!
SaveKoreanDogs is a registered nonprofit charity in South Korea.
https://www.facebook.com/savekoreandogs/videos/vb.425073497642716/785439308272798/?type=2&theater
http://savekoreandogs.org/donate/?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=Partner_to_SaveKoreanDogs&utm_medium=email
Speak out against the Notorious Gimpo’s “Dog Valley”!
“We found dog valley in Gimpo yesterday. Has an awful feeling being in the saddle of a mountain with about 10 dog farms all in the same small area, most with tall steel fences so you cannot see in, and everyone watching you as you drive in and out. Very odd feeling.” – A source in Korea.
Gimpo, Korea is one of the worst violators of animal protection laws in South Korea with countless dog farms terrorizing and brutalizing the helpless dogs while their government has turned a blind eye. We currently have two Sister City Campaigns targeting Gimpo. Please click below to take action on these campaigns TODAY! Updated Sister City Campaign – Gimpo, South Korea Sister City Campaign – Gimpo, South Korea – Liberty County, Georgia
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