Posted on July 25, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Committee Against Bird Murder e.V.
Italy: eBay and Amazon remove bird traps from the range!
Bird traps and fishing nets can often be found on online platforms and classified ads, although you cannot use them anywhere. The problem is that almost everywhere the use of such devices is prohibited, but not possession and sale!
The situation is different in Italy, where the possession of bird traps and fishing nets is illegal.
And until recently, you could still buy them anywhere on the Internet.
This is now over because the Italian office of the Committee Against Bird Murder has uncovered the extent of the trade-in illegal bird traps in an online search and reported it to the responsible authorities on the online platforms.
Amazon and eBay have governed in an exemplary manner and quickly removed dozens of offers from the Internet.
Now we are concentrating on smaller platforms and also checking whether the providers are pushing back onto the market with some tricks.
The great success has the downer that it is limited to Italy – in Germany and almost all other EU countries you can continue to manufacture, sell, and own prohibited bird traps.
Comment and Information: As “traveling bird conservationists”, the activists of the “committee against the bird murder” are particularly affected by the COVID 19 pandemic. There was no deployment in the spring as originally planned.
Nevertheless!
They can look forward to some successful assignments:
-From 9 to 31 March, the activists in Malta were able to document a total of 18 cases of illegal bird trapping with blow nets and report them to the authorities, as well as two cases of poaching with firearms.
The evidence produced by the committee will lead to a series of criminal proceedings
-In Italy, there was a single mission, almost regular: the hawk-eagle protection campaign on the Italian island of Sicily.
The birds are sought after by pet dealers and animal collectors because they cannot breed them.
Many chicks used to fall into the hands of poachers – in spring 2020, not a single nest was robbed.
-Even if the actions of the team in Calabria (southern Italy) were much shorter than planned, the activists, with four convicted poachers, still had a good result!
-The spring operation in Lebanon could not take place, but the partners of the committees SPNL and MESHC carried out inspections several times in April and May and, together with the police, shut down a number of fishing systems.
A total of 300 running meters of illegal fishing nets for songbirds such as reed warblers, flycatchers, and warblers were mined, and dozens of birds were released.
Foto: NABU/Andreas Hartl
We would particularly like to thank the tireless activists for their successes and the highly professional work that they achieved despite the adverse circumstances!
My best regards to all, Venus
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Posted on July 25, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
WAV Comment:
One of the first meetings Pompili granted while in her new role was with the president of the French National Federation of Hunters.
Well what a surprise !!
`Minister of Ecological Transition`, – for animals, birds, wildlife; that means simply from ‘living’ to ‘dead’ we would assume.
France set to shoot 18,000 turtle doves this Autumn.
Barbara Pompili, the French government’s new Minister of Ecological Transition, has presented a draft decree that would allow the killing of some 18,000 European Turtle Doves this autumn:
France set to shoot 18,000 turtle doves this autumn
Barbara Pompili, the French government’s new Minister of Ecological Transition, has presented a draft decree that would allow the killing of some 18,000 European Turtle Doves this autumn.
Pompili only assumed the role at the start of July but, on Wednesday [22 July 2020], a directive to allow the hunting of the Threatened species was put up for consultation on the website of the Ministry of Ecology. Despite the decree acknowledging the worrying status of European Turtle Dove, it also lays out the plays to ‘take’ 17,460 of the birds.
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France set to shoot 18,000 turtle doves this autumn
Barbara Pompili, the French government’s new Minister of Ecological Transition, has presented a draft decree that would allow the killing of some 18,000 European Turtle Doves this autumn.
Pompili only assumed the role at the start of July but, on Wednesday [22 July 2020], a directive to allow the hunting of the Threatened species was put up for consultation on the website of the Ministry of Ecology. Despite the decree acknowledging the worrying status of European Turtle Dove, it also lays out the plays to ‘take’ 17,460 of the birds.
In 2015, the IUCN Red List upgraded European Turtle Dove from Least Concern to Vulnerable, on the back of a wretched 78% decline since 1980. In western Europe, the species has suffered a particularly profound range retraction and drop in numbers. France sits on an important migration route for the dove.
To set this quota, the ministry relies on the advice of a committee of experts, who recommended that, temporarily, no European Turtle Doves were shot, in order to maximise the chances of a population stabilisation, or that half the estimated population be killed – some 18,000 birds – which is allegedly ‘sustainable’ based on demographic models.
One of the first meetings Pompili granted while in her new role was with the president of the French National Federation of Hunters.
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Posted on July 25, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Coronavirus: Vietnam bans wildlife trade over pandemic risk
Vietnam has banned the import of wildlife and wildlife products to reduce the risk of new pandemics.
The move also bans wildlife markets for such items, including online sales.
Vietnam has previously been accused of turning a blind eye to the sale of products such as pangolin scales and rhino horns often used in traditional medicine.
The origins of the current Covid-19 pandemic are thought to lie in the wildlife trade, with the disease emerging in bats and jumping to people via another, as yet unidentified, species, which could include rats, civets and pangolins.
“The prime minister orders the suspension of imports of wildlife – dead or alive – their eggs… parts or derivatives,” said the order released on Thursday on the Vietnamese government website.
“All citizens, especially officials… must not participate in illegal poaching, buying, selling, transporting… of illegal wildlife.”
The country will also “resolutely eliminate market and trading sites which trade wildlife illegally”, the order said.
Conservationists welcomed the move.
“Vietnam is to be congratulated for recognising that Covid-19 and other pandemics are linked to the wildlife trade,” said Steven Galster, chairman of the anti-trafficking group Freeland.
“This trade must be banned as a matter of international and public health security,” he added.
However, one group said the ban did not go far enough.
“The wildlife consumption ban mentioned in the directive is insufficient as some uses of wildlife such as medicinal use or wild animals being kept as pets are not covered,” said Nguyen Van Thai, director of Save Vietnam’s Wildlife.
In February, a dozen conservation groups sent a joint letter urging the government to “identify and close markets and other locations where illegal wildlife is on sale”, Reuters news agency reports.
After being hit hard by previous epidemics, Vietnam imposed an extensive, early lockdown and has reported no coronavirus deaths.
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Posted on July 24, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
A week after the reopening of Tönnies, there is apparently another wave of corona infections.
Even the virus is amazed at how quickly it worked.
Regards and good night from Venus
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Posted on July 24, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
After a corona outbreak with hundreds of sick employees (most of them from Eastern countries), the Tönnies plant in Rheda-Wiedenbrück had to close for weeks. Now there is bad news again.
A cold store of Nagel Transthermo GmbH in Dissen, Germany, was cleared due to a rat infestation.
Meat from the Tönnies company was also stored there. The animals had apparently been active and able to reproduce there unhindered for more than 5 months.
Been active?
Transthermos
Yes!! the meat was cut up there, i.e. a real cutting plant.
Local newspaper journalists wanted to know more. The local newspaper asked more closely, and the spokesman for the Tönnies Group admitted that the cold store was “used sporadically (!!) to a limited extent, for example for storing goods”.
In a press release dated July 22, 2020, the Osnabrück Administrative Court announced:
“In view of the photos submitted and according to the findings made by the specialist company for pest control, there is no doubt that the products which were produced therefrom the cut-off date are unsuitable for consumption.
Fecal pills, walking paths, fur remains and signs of nest building in the rats were found to an extent that indicated a very large rat population”.
But it gets interesting when you take a closer look at the data !!
Because obviously this problem had been known since January.
And I mean … “Well, thank God I cover my purchase of meat products in a village shop”, a commentator wrote.
Naturally! Anyone who still consumes meat after all the reports from the recent past cannot be scare off by the few rats …..
The meat scandals are not getting smaller, the greed for profit and the shamelessness are becoming clearer.
Slaughterhouse workers are exploited, consumers cheated and endangered, but the real victims are the animals.
Just stop lying to yourself and don`t support this shit financially. Don’t buy it.
Not to caress your conscience or to make you feel better, but because it’s the right thing to do.
My best regards to all, Venus
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Posted on July 24, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
From CIWF, London:
France launches a referendum for animals.
We joined journalist Hugo Clément and some of France’s most-prominent business leaders in launching the Initiative. Alongside other organisations and numerous high profile individuals, we are attempting to transform animal legislation in France.
The Shared Initiative Referendum calls for six measures to protect animals.
These measures consist of a series of bans on:
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fur farming,
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hound hunting and other “traditional” hunting methods such as bird traps,
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live wild animal shows,
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animal research where alternative research methods can be followed,
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caged farming from 1 January 2025,
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factory farming by 2040. This measure also includes an immediate moratorium on any new intensive animal farms; any new farm planning permissions will have to guarantee animals have outdoor access.
Léopoldine Charbonneaux, our Director of CIWF France said: “We are honoured to be a part of this referendum. Alongside our partner organisations, we could end the cage age in France and become one of the first countries to bring in a ban on the building of new intensive farms, bettering millions of farm animals lives.”
A Shared Initiative Referendum allows citizens to change the law.
It requires four million signatures to be gathered within nine months of its launch, and needs to be endorsed and submitted by at least 185 members of the French Parliament. It’s a participatory democracy tool, similar to the End the Cage Age European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) we launched in September 2018.
With more than 1.5 million signatures, the End the Cage Age ECI has been the most successful ECI for farmed animals. Such a huge wave of support proves that the welfare and protection of animals is a priority for citizens on a national and European level and, therefore, it should also be a priority for national Governments and EU Institutions.
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Posted on July 24, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
How is the exotic pet trade (un) regulated across the EU? Our report has been updated
22 July 2020
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An updated overview of the legislation on exotic pets in the Member States is now available on Eurogroup for Animals’ website.
The report, whose first version was published in 2013, analyses the national legislations regarding the keeping and sale of exotic pets in the Member States, as well as the UK, Switzerland and Norway.
The report exposes the large diversity of legislation between the countries, which leads to enforcement issues and disruptions of the European internal market. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic further highlights the importance of more control of the species present in and entering the European territory.
For these reasons, and because of the exploding trend in the keeping of non-domesticated pets, Eurogroup for Animals is calling for the adoption of an EU-wide Positive List clearly stating which animal species are allowed to be kept and sold as pets. This system has already been adopted in five Member States, four more than in 2013 when the first version of the report has been published. Its adoption at EU level would have a positive impact on animal welfare, human health, EU and global biodiversity conservation, as well as on the functioning of the internal market.
Eurogroup for Animals takes the opportunity to thank our members for their input and support with the publication of this report.
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