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England / USA: ‘Banksy’; English Street Artist Visits New York and Does His Bit Against the Live Animal Transport Campaign.

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Very famous but totally unseen British Street artist ‘Banksy’ was in New York over this last weekend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy

He got a guy to set up a small stall on the street selling his pictures (originals) for $60 each.

Each one is probably worth over $10,000, so it was a good investment.

Few people responded, but one guy purchased 4 for $240 – and now he probably has $50,000 worth of pictures !

Click here on the Banksy site to see a video of the New York city sales stall. http://www.banksy.co.uk/

This was a one off – it will not happen again !! – a chance to make a good profit !

Whilst he was in New York, Banksy released a piece of art in New York, one element of which is designed to highlight the cruel way we transport animals around.

Watch it here – New Yorkers and SAV supporters, did you see it ?

If Banksy is doing something to support the campaign against live animal exports, then we must be getting our message across ! – Cheers Banksy !! – very effective.

Watch the New York animal transport video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WDIz7mEJOeA

There has been a lot happening over this last week re live sheep exports from the UK to mainland Europe. This is to meet the demand for live sheep for the Muslim festival of Eid this week. Animals will be killed by ritual slaughter. The exporter is a Dutchman called Johannes Onderwater. Last week at the shipment, all vehicles taking animals were Dutch; today (14/10) all but one were Dutch registered. He contributes nothing to the UK economy and expects British people to pay for policing so that his trucks do not get any trouble at Dover, Kent, the harbour from which they are exported.

British people hate this trade in live animal exports, but the coalition (Conservative / Lib Dems) government has not got the guts to take any action to stop it. So we will probably have to wait until 2015 and then vote for other political parties in the UK General Election. This coalition is also killing the badgers in the UK at present.

British Prime Minister David Cameron and all his ministers hate environmentalist and people who defend animal welfare, and that includes KAALE, the anti export organisation I am also involved with – check is out. www.kaale.org.uk

All effective campaigns take time to win; but we will win the tussle with Onderwater in the end – even if costs the next UK government, and it probably will. We want Cameron and all his animal hating cronies out, the sooner the better.

Mark – SAV founder (and live transport campaigner / investigator).

A few pictures from KAALE photographer and good friend Valerie, taken at the export consignment at Dover (England) this morning by Dutch exporter J. Onderwater – 14/10/13. More to be added later.

All trucks are carrying live sheep for ritual slaughter at the festival of Eid. The people wearing yellow tabbards (see photos below – apart from the odd policeman also wearing yellow) are all anti-export campaigners – obtaining vehicle details with a potential view to prosecutions with non EU transport regulations.

All photos below by Valerie C. at KAALE – http://www.kaale.org.uk

The white 3 door box trailer shown above is actually full of live sheep !

A major issue we are fighting to get stopped as drivers (under EU law) should be able to inspect their animals at all times and obtain access for emergencies and to supply additional fluids if required.

How does a driver monitor his sheep in a trailer like this ?

Another reason to STOP LIVE ANIMAL EXPORTS.

Visit KAALE at http://www.kaale.org.uk for lots more news and pictures of ALL sailings.

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Swedish MEP Carl Schlyter, Honorary President of the EU Animal Welfare Intergoup; Talks About Mass Dog Killings In Romania.

Posted on October 12, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Video link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfJgy1PmR3I&feature=em-uploademail

MEP Carl Schlyter , Honorary President of the EU Animal Welfare Intergoup (Greens, Sweden) speaks regarding the third MEPs open letter to President Basescy (of Romania) and the impact of the animal cruelty in Romania on the image and status of country in the European Union,

Interesting issues about the situation in Romania and what the EU can and possibly will do next regarding Romania.

Filed under: CAMPAIGNS - Global Animal Welfare Issues, GENERAL NEWS - International / National / Regional, Romania - Stray Animal Killings 2013, VIDEOS | Leave a comment »

China: Circus cancelled in China as citizens protest animal performances that occur despite ban.

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Circus+cancelled+China+citizens+protest+animal+performances/9013870/story.html

Circus cancelled in China as citizens protest animal performances that occur despite ban

By Louise Watt, The Associated PressOctober 9, 2013

BEIJING, China – A Chinese circus featuring animal performances was cancelled after citizens called for a boycott and tipped off authorities, in what activists billed a victory for a growing animal welfare movement.

The promotional material for the Jinan Animal Carnival Festival suggested the shows would have bears lying on their backs twirling flaming rods, tigers riding horses and a monkey riding a goat.

Chinese regulations ban animal performances, but animal rights activists estimate hundreds of shows still take place each year. They say animals are kept in poor conditions and trained under fear and stress to perform tricks.

A local Communist Party-run newspaper, the Qilu Evening News, reported that citizens had organized an online boycott of the festival that was due to open in late September and tipped off the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, which has responsibility for zoo management. It said the ministry issued an “urgent notice” for the festival’s cancellation and the organizers had refunded tickets.

The ministry refused to comment Wednesday. The organizer, Jinan Municipal Horticulture Greening Administration, and host, Jinan Quancheng Ecological Park, confirmed the show had been cancelled but refused to give details.

In 2010, China’s State Forestry Administration banned animal shows involving cruelty, and in June this year the housing ministry issued regulations saying “animal shows are strictly forbidden.”

Dave Neale of Hong Kong-based Animals Asia, which has been documenting animal shows in China for the past four years, said there has been little enforcement of the regulations and there are still hundreds of animal performances a year.

Even though animal shows are still popular, there is growing awareness of mistreatment of performing animals, Neale said.

“The fact that people were actually phoning the ministry to oppose this particular development was something that we have not heard before for a zoo issue,” he said.

Qin Xiaona, founder of the Capital Animal Welfare Association, said there is still a long way to go before animal welfare enters the consciousness of mainstream Chinese society.

“In China, more and more people are participating in the protection of animal rights, but there are many people and companies still trying to commercialize and make profit from animals,” she said.

Some zoos have stopped animal performances following the official ban, including Nanjing Zoo in east China in March 2011. Zoo press officer Bai Yali said visitor numbers dropped sharply afterward, but the zoo introduced more animal species and educational programs and visitors rose 18 per cent in 2012 over 2010.

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Associated Press researchers Zhao Liang and Yu Bing contributed to this report.

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EU: Add Your Support (EU Citizens Only) Proposing a European Legislative Framework Aimed at Phasing Out Animal Experiments.

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Please click on the following link to add your support to this initiative – you will then be required to give your EU citizen details – name, address, postcode, country etc.

https://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/ECI-2012-000007/public/index.do?lang=en

Alternatively, go via the following link and sign on line: http://www.stopvivisection.eu/

Proposed European Citizens’ Initiative: Stop vivisection

Subject matter:
Proposing an European legislative framework aimed at phasing out animal experiments

Main objectives:
Considering clear ethical objections to animal experiments and solid scientific principles that invalidate the “animal model” for predicting human response, we urge the European Commission to abrogate directive 2010/63/EU on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes and to present a new proposal that does away with animal experimentation and instead makes compulsory the use – in biomedical and toxicological research – of data directly relevant for the human species

Information on this proposed initiative is available in the following languages:
български čeština dansk Deutsch eesti ελληνικά English español français Gaeilge italiano latviešu lietuvių magyar Malti Nederlands polski português română slovenčina slovenščina suomi svenska

European Commission registration number:
ECI(2012)000007

Date of registration:
22/06/2012

Web address of this proposed initiative on the European Commission register:
http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/initiatives/ongoing/details/2012/000007/en

Names of organisers:
Elvers Ingegerd, Molenaar Robert, Flies Daniel, Reiss Claude, Tamino Gianni, Menache André, Querol Viñas Nuria

Names of contact persons:
Tamino Gianni, Menache André

E-mail addresses of contact persons:
substitute.stopvivisection@gmail.com, representative.stopvivisection@gmail.com

Website of this proposed citizens’ initiative (if any):
http://www.stopvivisection.eu

For more information on the rules and conditions for the European Citizens’ Initiative: http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative

https://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/ECI-2012-000007/public/index.do?lang=en

Proposed European Citizens’ Initiative: Stop vivisection

Subject matter:
Proposing an European legislative framework aimed at phasing out animal experiments

European Commission registration number:
ECI(2012)000007

Date of registration:
22/06/2012

Web address of this proposed initiative on the European Commission register:
http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/initiatives/ongoing/details/2012/000007/en

Names of organisers:
Elvers Ingegerd, Molenaar Robert, Flies Daniel, Reiss Claude, Tamino Gianni, Menache André, Querol Viñas Nuria

Names of contact persons:
Tamino Gianni, Menache André

E-mail addresses of contact persons:
substitute.stopvivisection@gmail.com, representative.stopvivisection@gmail.com

Website of this proposed citizens’ initiative (if any):
http://www.stopvivisection.eu

To support a European Citizens’ Initiative, you must be an EU citizen (national of an EU member state) and be old enough to vote in European Parliament elections (18 except Austria where the voting age is 16).
For more information on the rules and conditions for the European Citizens’ Initiative: http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative

Filed under: CAMPAIGNS - Global Animal Welfare Issues, GENERAL NEWS - International / National / Regional, GLOBAL PETITIONS - Anything Animal, Anywhere ! | Leave a comment »

SAV Facebook: Join Up With Us And Explore A Whole Lot More For Stray Animals And their Welfare Campaigns.

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SerbianAnimalsVoice/

We now have 992 members on our SAV Facebook page; so very rapidly approaching 1,000.

Do you want to get even more news about stray animal issues throughout the Balkans and the EU ? – then join up with the Facebook community for free.

Petitions, Adoptions, Donations to help, Latest Shelter news etc, etc – it is all located here.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SerbianAnimalsVoice/

As an example, Enjoy watching all the cats in the following videos from Shelter Felix, Serbia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4bIEwc11r8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BWuPPDz8Fc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ5Tqg9lPAk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Zb32dEtNo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4EcdmUCp4s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH1dDl6cPXU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKqsDvb-ge4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arVkRRgQ4nk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTbJkGoe-Hc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXbc-HWt_a0

Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SerbianAnimalsVoice/

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Romania: 8/10/13 – Subject – (RO) Update re. Situation at Botosani.

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Subject: (RO) Update re. Situation at Botosani

https://www.facebook.com/AsociatiaAdor

Asociatia Ador

6 hours ago near Botosani, Romania

My friends…the meeting with the city hall had place today.

Even if the authorities ware pretty unfriendly against Ador

– they said they will not kill the dogs if there are 2 conditions:

1. the dogs will have food, given only by the animal lovers, the city hall will stop feeding them

2. If the dogs are not adopted and the shelter is full the dogs will be killed.

What we need now, and urgent is this:

– 525 bags of 10 kg/month, for the dogs in the Ps (350 dogs) One dog eats 15 kg food in one month.
– adopters
– a big foundation that will help with an neutering campaign for the dogs with owner, so no more dogs will be abandoned on the streets.

Please start donating as soon as possible for food, in: paypal account: asociatiaador@yahoo.com

Euro account: UNICREDIT TIRIAC BANK:
RO02 BACX0000003480143001
SWIFT: BACXROBU

please mention “food the dogs in Ps”

If you can help us please talk to the dry food producers to donate, please talk to anyone that can sponsor with food!

We need your help urgent to keep these dogs alive.

Please share for adoptions the dogs in the Ps.

THANK YOU.

Bosnia and Herzegovina: BOSNIA ABOUT TO IMPLEMENT KILL LAW – Please Take Action Now – Limited Time !

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

http://inmemoryofvucko.org/2013/10/04/bosnia-about-to-implement-kill-law/

BOSNIA ABOUT TO IMPLEMENT KILL LAW!

Posted on October 4, 2013

BOSNIA IS ABOUT TO IMPLEMENT A KILL LAW THAT REPLICATES WHAT IS HAPPENING IN ROMANIA. TO STOP THIS LAW COMING INTO EFFECT THE NEXT TWO WEEKS ARE CRITICAL.

It is crucial that everyone, especially in Europe, lobby their embassy and MEPs. We need to keep the momentum, with press, meetings, lobbying and letters.

On Thursday the 3rd of October the Bosnia-Herzegovina Parliament held a debate on whether or not to change the existing animal welfare law to allow ‘euthanasia’ of dogs held in shelters for more than 14 days without adoption (see below if you think this is an effective means to curb stray populations).

Those opposing the change in the debate (local representatives from Dogs Trust, various pro-animal NGOs, ordinary citizens, veterinary experts from the Veterinary Faculty, professors, lawyers) took more room and were in all ways more articulate. See this article on Klix.ba (Serbo-Croatian, you can google translate T he problem of street dogs in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The solution is in registration, sterilization, and Punishment.)

However, the government representatives and in particular SDP representative Nermina Zaimović Uzunović (who originally presented a Bill on changes and amendments to the Animal Welfare and Protection Act at the assembly on July 6 2013) behaved as if they heard none of the facts, explanations of the cause of the problem and how to remedy the problem.

It will be hard to keep the law as is. The next 2 weeks are critical.

We are drafting a new petition on change.org but cannot post final up until early next week. There are existing petitions you can sign below.

But what is important right now is to lobby your embassy representative in Bosnia and at home and your EU Member of Parliament.

Write a PERSONAL, POLITE LETTER asking them to strongly urge the Bosnia-Herzegovina government to not change the law but instead to start actually implementing it! (For a full translation of the existing law, please download this PDF.)

A DRAFT LETTER CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE (word document). PLEASE PERSONALISE, ADD YOUR NAME AT THE BOTTOM AND THE NAME OF THE PERSON YOU ARE SENDING IT TO AT THE TOP.

See here to find your Embassy in Bosnia-Herzegovina:
http://embassy.goabroad.com/embassies-in/bosnia-and-herzegovina
There is also a listing of some of the Embassies on the ACTION TO TAKE page.

Find your MEP and write a personal letter to them as well.
See here to find any MEP in Europe – ‘Euromap’.

Also on the ACTION TO TAKE page there are further links and suggestions of particular MEPs to write to. Make sure to end your letter with your name and contact details.

THE NEXT TWO WEEKS ARE CRITICAL.
We need to keep the momentum, with press, meetings, lobbying, letters.

A key member of the animal welfare lobby has stated:

“We need to play this smart, plan good timing for every action and save some ammunition for the days and weeks to come!”

If you are from the UK, you can mention in your letter an incident concerning SDP representative Nermina Zaimović-Uzunović, the Member of House of representatives of Parliamentary Assembly who proposed amendments to the law. Nermina Zaimović-Uzunovi said she was disappointed the discussion focused on Dogs Trust and their project (spay-neuter of 3000 strays in June 2013 in Sarajevo) which was financed by “the Queen” – and that Dogs Trust only worked in their own interest and this interest was financed by the “Queen”. Instead of acknowledging the good work done by Dogs Trust, and at great expense, she dismisses it, and certainly does not acknowledge that if her changes come into effect, the 3000 dogs sterilised by Dogs Trust will probably be killed. What a waste!

If you have been reading this blog (see in particular this post, and this) you will know that to reverse or change the existing law (which, although not implemented, has an excellent basis for a humane management programme) for a kill law will be a disaster for a number of reasons, not least of which:

It will damage Bosnia-Herzegovina’s international image
It will fail
It will allow wholesale murder of stray dogs and cats

We already have documentation of how ‘shelters’ tend to ‘euthanise’ animals: by clubbing, injections of bleach and so on. So you can be sure that if the existing animal welfare law is changed, such means of ‘euthanisation’ will become commonplace.

Also, the studies on management of stray dog and cat population are unanimous in that euthanisation is NOT the most effective way to control populations. Euthanasia deals only with the symptoms and not the cause of the problem. It is expensive, inhumane and will not provide a permanent solution. Studies have shown that TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return) and CNR (Catch-Neuter-Return) programmes are far more effective (and far more humane) than euthanasia to reduce the street animal population. Please read this post for more information.

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Filed under: BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA (Capital - Sarajevo), CAMPAIGNS - Global Animal Welfare Issues, GENERAL NEWS - International / National / Regional, GLOBAL PETITIONS - Anything Animal, Anywhere !, LETTERS, PHOTOGRAPHS - **WARNING** (Animal Suffering) | Leave a comment »

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England / USA: ‘Banksy’; English Street Artist Visits New York and Does His Bit Against the Live Animal Transport Campaign.

Swedish MEP Carl Schlyter, Honorary President of the EU Animal Welfare Intergoup; Talks About Mass Dog Killings In Romania.

China: Circus cancelled in China as citizens protest animal performances that occur despite ban.

EU: Add Your Support (EU Citizens Only) Proposing a European Legislative Framework Aimed at Phasing Out Animal Experiments.

Proposed European Citizens’ Initiative: Stop vivisection

SAV Facebook: Join Up With Us And Explore A Whole Lot More For Stray Animals And their Welfare Campaigns.

Romania: 8/10/13 – Subject – (RO) Update re. Situation at Botosani.

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