Posted on January 30, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The BBC has, quite rightly, an international reputation for producing excellent wildlife programs. Being English (and not Serbian as the site name suggests) – we can experience a lot of these throughout the year. Every night at the moment we can view ‘Winterwatch’ – which gives an insight into British wildlife in the Winter months. We want to share some of this with you. Foxes, Badgers, Owls, Deer, Birds, etc, etc.
Here is the main link to the Winterwatch website:
and here we are going a little bit deeper – more specific.
Scroll to the bottom and there are 7 pages of clips and special items.
There is lots more via the main link given above.
Enjoy !
We think and hope that this CAN be viewed by international visitors.
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Posted on January 30, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
France overturns ban on captive dolphin breeding
France’s highest administrative court on Monday (22/1/18) overturned a ban on the breeding of dolphins in captivity, a victory for marine parks which had argued the move could put them out of business.
The previous Socialist government ordered the ban, which also applied to killer whales, last May after complaints from animal rights groups hoping to end marine and aquarium shows.
But former environment minister Segolene Royale had tightened the ban at the last minute, and failed to consult the public and others on a measure that could have forced aquariums to close.
Aquariums and parks such as Marineland in southern France—the biggest attraction of its kind in Europe—have faced growing criticism in recent years over their animals’ living conditions.
“This is excellent news for our animals and animal parks in France,” said Pascal Picot, managing director at Marineland, which appealed the decision along with the Parc Asterix amusement park north of Paris and the Wild Planet park in Western France.
The new rules would have banned the captivity of all whales, dolphins and porpoises, except for orcas and bottlenose dolphins already held in authorised aquariums—which would eventually have meant them being phased out altogether.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-france-overturns-captive-dolphin.html#jCp
Marine parks also would have had to increase the size of their pools by at least 150 percent.
Animal rights groups had hailed the measures as a first step toward ending breeding and import programmes for animal shows in France.
But Picot said “significant changes to the rules governing the treatment of our animals should be based on scientific facts, and be carried out as required by law.”
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Posted on January 30, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
11 of the Best Ol’ London Town Places for Vegan Junk Food
All vegans must be skinny right?
All they can eat is salad, so of course they must be super healthy too.
Well actually no, whilst many dairy products are the source of highly calorific foods like cheese and butter, vegans can still roll around in all the oil and sugar they please without compromising their beliefs.
So, read on as we shed some light on some the most indulgent and vegan friendly foods in London.
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Posted on January 29, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Posted on January 29, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The brilliant Chris Packham (see photo below – red shirt on left) – UK naturalist; goes in search of the lost girl which he photographed over 20 years ago; and who lost her entire family, murdered by the Palm Oil industry.
Link:
A haunting programme which shows and explores the palm oil industry of Indonesia / Sumatra, and the people of the rain forests were sold off to the palm oil industry – effectively losing everything they had as a tribe for their original way of life in the forest.
Chris shows the palm oil industry and how it has devastated the people of the forests and their lives.
But 20 years on after he took the original photograph of the little tribe girl from the forest, Chris actually tracks down the ‘lost girl’ – discovering that she is still alive and now has 3 young children of her own.
This link below is for the BBC iplayer system and will probably only be able to be seen by people residing in the UK. All we can do is give the link and hope that non UK residents can also watch it. Maybe in the near future it will be available on Youtube for others to see.
It is an emotional programme which shows the search of an Englishman (Chris) haunted by the palm oil business and also the photograph of a young tribe girl he took over 20 years ago. This excellent programme shows the real devastation now of the rainforest and its peoples by the palm oil business and is a ‘must view’ for anyone who campaigns and fights against the palm oil trade.
Link:
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Posted on January 28, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Impact of Climate Change – A picture of a dead polar bear completely out of its environment with no ice anywhere near it’s body.
The poor animal traveled far away from its own environment and starved to death. – “Among the most alarming changes is the disappearance of native species” – Polar bears are moving farther north because they need the shelter of pack ice to give birth to their young.
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Posted on January 28, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
This Is What Happens Before The Elephant Ride
If you love elephants, just don’t ride them.
It’s called crushing – a practice inflicted on wild elephants to make them carry tourists on their back.
It’s a way of deliberately breaking the spirits of animals so humans can use them. Crushing involves tying up and literally beating an elephant into submission.
“Tourists may think activities like riding an elephant do no harm,” Dr. Jan Schmidt-Burbach, senior wildlife and veterinary adviser at World Animal Protection, told The Dodo in a May 2015 feature on this kind of cruel tourism. “But the brutal truth is that breaking these animals’ spirits to the point that they allow humans to interact with them involves cruelty at every turn.”
The “training crush” often involves taking young elephants away from their mothers and then caging, starving and beating them. Crushing also involves making the constricted elephant stay awake for days.
The practice feeds the tourist industry’s demand for tame elephants, as well as other forms of captivity, like circuses and entertainment. (And, by the way, “training” captive elephants in the U.S., which can involve hitting elephants with painful bull hooks and tying them up with ropes, isn’t any less cruel or debasing.)
While capturing wild elephants is supposed to be illegal, this law is often hard to enforce, and once an elephant has been forced into submission, the laws shift – the elephant is seen in the eyes of the law as a captive animal, no longer wild, and any protections no longer apply.
And once broken, their spirits can never fully be repaired.
To learn how you can help Elephant Nature Park, a sanctuary for abused elephants in Thailand, click here.
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