Serbian Petition – Can You Get Us to 3,000+ Signatures Before the 17th April ?

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

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Dear all; we have had a great week with the petition for stray animals prior to the meeting on 17th April.

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2013/04/07/new-petition-for-serbian-stray-animals-please-sign-now-and-do-not-let-the-government-return-from-no-kill-to-a-kill-policy-by-law/

At the time of writing we have collected over 2,480 signatures from around the world in less than one week, which is brilliant !

Although we are hearing of some more positive news from sources regarding the meeting on 17th, we need to keep the pressure up right until the day.

It would be great if we could achieve 3,000 signatures by the day of the meeting – Wednesday 17th.

Can you help us do this ?

Can you please pass on the link to all of your contacts and friends before the 17th, and ask them to give their support to the petition.  The more signatures we have from around the world, the better things will be.  Although we are confident that the meeting will be positive, we must not drop our guard now; we need to keep the campaign going up until the last minute.

Please do what you can to help us reach 3,000 signatures, or even go beyond.

Post meeting news will be posted on this site once we have accurate information on the outcome of the meeting.

DIRECT Petition link =

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Serbia_Implement_Existing_Animal_Welfare_Legislation_To_Protect_Strays/

Or alternatively, you can go via the SAV site link which is given at the start of this post.

Thank you all for your help and support.

SAV.

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Please get everyone you know to do it NOW !!

 

 

 

 

 

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Thailand: SOI DOGS – Can You Donate To Provide Shelter for Dogs Rescued From the Meat Trade ?

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

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CRISIS FOR RESCUED DOG MEAT TRADE DOGS!

Soi Dog Foundation Appeal: https://www.soidog.org/en/donate-today/08-04-2013-appeal/default.aspx

Your support is needed now to help build the shelters so that more dogs can be saved. Your donation of $100/€75 will provide 4 square meters of shelter for rescued dogs, a generous donation of $200/€150 will provide 8 square meters. Each shelter will be 1,500 square meters and 100% of all donations will go directly to this vital project.

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A Crisis Looming For Dogs

Rescued From The Illegal Dog Meat Trade…

Dear Friends and Supporters of Soi Dog,

Last month over 1,000 dogs were rescued during arrests of dog meat traders. Had these dogs not been rescued they would have been transported to Vietnam and faced a slow and terrible end.

While it is wonderful that the lives of these dogs (such as those pictured here) have been saved a considerable challenge lies ahead and this will only be overcome with your help.

The recent interceptions of dogs destined for the dog meat trade has seen over 1,000 dogs saved in March alone. The shelter at Nakhon Phanom is now bursting at the seams.

After pressure from Soi Dog, the Department of Livestock Development agreed not to send 500 dogs to the Livestock center at Thong Pha Phum which itself is hopelessly overcrowded and is in effect a dumping ground far removed from public scrutiny.

300 dogs have recently been sent to the Khemmarat Livestock center, a much more suitable facility, however it is also already overcrowded.

The Department of Livestock have no budget to care for the dogs and have requested Soi Dog to help build additional shelters at Buriram in central Thailand. It is a matter of urgency that the first of these shelters be completed by the end of this month as otherwise additional arrests cannot occur, no dogs will be rescued and instead the dogs will suffer a horrifying fate on the dinner plates of Hanoi.

The video below (which contains no upsetting footage) gives a good overview of the situation and I encourage you to watch it.

Buriram is an ideal location as it is situated well away from any houses and covers a vast area of woodland. Yesterday 738,815 Thai Baht (about 25,000 US dollars) was transferred for over 30 tons of food.  Soi Dog will continue to do all that can be done to stop the trade and save the dogs but expenses are currently outstripping donations and that cannot continue for long.

Each of the 9 shelters will cost approximately 1 million Thai Baht (34,000 US dollars) to build. Soi Dog has authorized funding for the first of the shelters and is working with the Department of Livestock towards completing the shelter. Please do not stand by and allow the dog traders to win!

Your support is needed now to help build the shelters so that more dogs can be saved. Your donation of $100/€75 will provide 4 square meters of shelter for rescued dogs, a generous donation of $200/€150 will provide 8 square meters.

Each shelter will be 1,500 square meters and 100% of all donations received will go directly to this vital project.

I cannot emphasize too strongly that this is an emergency situation! Although natural disasters such as the 2011 Bangkok floods tend to grab people’s attention the situation here is far more grave. Owing to the recent interception of over 1,000 dogs the situation at the shelters has indeed reached crisis proportions.

The more funds raised the more shelters that can be built and more dogs can be saved from the fate of the dog meat trade. Your support is urgently needed today!

Best wishes,

John Dalley

john@soidog.org

www.soidog.org

P.S. Please donate as generously as you can so more dogs can be saved!

For residents of Thailand: A special bank account has been set up with the Kasikorn Bank, Cherngtalay, Phuket branch to accept donations solely for this purpose. The account number is 4862142212.

US Residents – Soi Dog is a registered charity in the USA and your donation is tax deductible to the full extent allowed by US law.

United Kingdom Residents – Soi Dog is a registered charity in the UK and your donation qualifies for HMRC gift aid.

 

 

 

 

 

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Ireland: Join ARAN and CIWF for a National ‘Stop Live Exports from Ireland’ Rally on April 24

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

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IRELAND’S SHAME:

Join ARAN and CIWF for a National ‘Stop Live Exports from Ireland’ Rally on April 24

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Thousands of Irish animals need your help.

Join many others and book just two hours off from school, college, university or yes, even work! There will be inspiring speakers on the day and it’s family friendly so everyone is invited along to this peaceful event.

March saw the resumption of live cattle exports from a Waterford port which will be the first of many shipments from Ireland to the Middle East. This shipment was the first in more than ten years and was a sad, dark day for animals in Ireland – a step back in time. The hardship and blatant suffering many thousands of Irish cattle will face during the grueling journey is one thing, but the horrendous torment and cruelty these gentle animals will endure at point of destination, is only imaginable. When the animals reach Libya they will be slaughtered but generally without the “standards” that are often put in place in Western countries – either way the suffering is wrong and the live export trade from Ireland must be stopped.

It’s imperative if you want this horrendous trade stopped you must take a stand – please don’t leave it to others to do the active job of speaking out. Wherever you live in Ireland we’re asking you to please book just two hours off and attend this most important event of the year.

Thank you,

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‘Fighting animal abuse across Ireland’

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P.S. ARAN is working with CIWF specifically on the live exports campaign as the group is highly experienced and has led the calls to ban the vial trade across Europe.

Click here for an investigation into live exports,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3DbHdBrHvA

ARAN Web Site =  http://www.aran.ie/

 

 

 

 

 

 

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UK: April 24th Is World Day for Laboratory Animals. Data from NAVS (London).

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

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New Petition For Serbian Stray Animals – Please Sign Now and Do Not Let the Government Return From ‘No Kill’ To A ‘Kill’ Policy By Law.

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

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Hi all;

Very Important:

on 17th April 2013 in Belgrade the Serbian government may try to change existing legislation on the protection (No Kill) of stray animals.  They may try to return to legislation which DOES allow the killing of stray animals. 

We need to try and stop this happening.

Petition Link:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Serbia_Implement_Existing_Animal_Welfare_Legislation_To_Protect_Strays/

 

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Please give your support to the above petition which is asking the Serbian government to better enforce existing animal welfare legislation, rather than revert back to a policy of stray killing as they have always done – and not in agreement with existing Serbian legislation.

We also call for a public education programme to inform irresponsible pet owners that they should have their animals sterilised, microchipped and vaccinated.

Sterilised owned animals DO NOT mate with stray animals and produce yet more strays !

Stray animal killing is big business in Serbia, despite good existing national legislation to give No Kill protection to stray animals.  Unfortunately, big business and money makes it a profitable task for many, despite a No Kill law, verified by the Serbian Constitutional Court in 2005.

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Constitutional Court directive reference as follows:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2010/01/25/serbia-constitutional-court-of-serbia-says-that-the-killing-of-stray-dogs-and-cats-in-serbia-is-forbidden-from-02102005/

The Constitutional Court of Serbia says that the killing of stray dogs and cats in Serbia is forbidden from 02/10/2005.

Prior to the Veterinary Law of 02/10/2005, there was an old law dating from 1991 for the health protection of animals. 

In agreement with the old law of 1991, the authorities produced their own other ‘underlaw’ (extra law) regulation – named ‘Pravilnik 29/94’, which was intorduced to allow the killing of animals after they were held in pounds for 3 to 7 days.

From 02/10/2005, the new Veterinary Law Article 168 effectively destroyed everything that was written in Pravilnik 29/94, because the 2005 law demanded the care of animals.

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The new petition started on 7/4/2013 is:

Serbia- Implement Existing Animal Welfare Legislation To Protect Strays! Its power grows with every additional signature.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Serbia_Implement_Existing_Animal_Welfare_Legislation_To_Protect_Strays/

Please sign it now and be a voice for Serbian animals !

Thanks – SAV.

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Tanzania: Stop the Maasai from Being Evicted to Make Way for Tourist Hunters – Please Sign the Petition.

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

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1,227,719 have signed. Let’s get to 1,500,000

Petition Link:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_the_maasai_loc/?cl=2678789281&v=23733

 

To President Jakaya Kikwete:

As citizens from around the world, we call on you to oppose any attempt to evict Maasai from their traditional land or require them to relocate to make way for foreign hunters. We are counting on you to be a champion for your people and stop any attempt to change their land rights against their will. 

Dear friends,

Within hours, Tanzania’s President Kikwete could start evicting tens of thousands of the Maasai from our land so hunters can come and kill leopards and lions. Last time Avaaz raised the alarm, the President shelved the plan. Global pressure can stop him again. Click to help us urgently: 

We are elders of the Maasai from Tanzania, one of Africa’s oldest tribes. The government has just announced that it plans to kick thousands of our families off our lands so that wealthy tourists can use them to shoot lions and leopards. The evictions are to begin immediately.

Last year, when word first leaked about this plan, almost one million Avaaz members rallied to our aid. Your attention and the storm it created forced the government to deny the plan, and set them back months. But the President has waited for international attention to die down, and now he’s revived his plan to take our land. We need your help again, urgently.

President Kikwete may not care about us, but he’s shown he’ll respond to global pressure — to all of you! We may only have hours. Please stand with us to protect our land, our people and our world’s most majestic animals, and tell everyone before it is too late. This is our last hope:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_the_maasai_loc/?cl=2678789281&v=23733

Our people have lived off the land in Tanzania and Kenya for centuries. Our communities respect our fellow animals and protect and preserve the delicate ecosystem. But the government has for years sought to profit by giving rich princes and kings from the Middle East access to our land to kill. In 2009, when they tried to clear our land to make way for these hunting sprees, we resisted, and hundreds of us were arrested and beaten. Last year, rich princes shot at birds in trees from helicopters. This killing goes against everything in our culture.

Now the government has announced it will clear a huge swath of our land to make way for what it claims will be a wildlife corridor, but many suspect it’s just a ruse to give a foreign hunting corporation and the rich tourists it caters to easier access to shoot at majestic animals. The government claims this new arrangement is some sort of accommodation, but its effect on our people’s way of life will be disastrous. There are thousands of us who could have our lives uprooted, losing our homes, the land on which our animals graze, or both.

President Kikwete knows this deal would be controversial with Tanzania’s tourists – a critical source of national income – and does not want a big PR disaster. If we can urgently generate even more global outrage than we did before, and get the media writing about it, we know it can make him think twice. Stand with us now to call on Kikwete to stop the sell off:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_the_maasai_loc/?cl=2678789281&v=23733

This land grab could spell the end for the Maasai in this part of Tanzania, and many of our community have said they would rather die than be forced from their homes. On behalf of our people and the animals who graze in these lands, please stand with us to change the mind of our President.

With hope and determination,

The Maasai elders of Ngorongoro District

SOURCES

The Guardian: Maasai fury as plan to lure Arabian Gulf tourists threatens their ancestral land
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/30/maasai-game-hunting-tanzania

allAfrica: Land Grab Could Spell ‘The End of the Maasai’
http://allafrica.com/stories/201303290873.html

IPP Media: Maasai villagers frustrate efforts to vacate for Ortelo
http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/?l=52669

The Guardian: Tanzania denies plan to evict Maasai for royal hunting ground
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/15/tanzania-evict-maasai-uae-royals

The Guardian: “Tourism is a curse to us”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/06/masai-tribesman-tanzania-tourism

New Internationalist Magazine: “Hunted down”
http://www.newint.org/columns/currents/2009/12/01/tanzania/

Society for Threatened People: Briefing on the eviction of the Loliondo Maasai
http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/session12/TZ/STP-SocietyThreatenedPeople-eng.pdf

FEMACT: Report by 16 human rights investigators & media on violence in Loliondo
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/58956/print

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Robin – 5/4/2013 – Take Care Little Man.

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

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5/4/2013 – Rest In Peace dear little Robin.

You were one fortunate little guy to have such a caring and loving mum.

In the end, there was nothing more that could be done to help you and your trouble – you know the world would have been moved by your mum if it meant saving you.

Take care little man.

Thank you for such happy times.

Now gone but forever in thoughts.

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