Bizarre polar bear hotel ’where guests can watch miserable beasts from their rooms is slammed by activists

A new hotel is set to open where guests can watch sad polar bears round-the-clock from the comfort of their rooms.

Billed as the first of its kind in the world, it officially opens its gates for visitors in Harbin Polar Land in the north-eastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang this week.

The £ 11m hotel is being advertised as providing the extraordinary experience of having polar bears as “neighbors 24 hours a day”.

It is equipped with a total of 33 pieces of tempered glass spread across all functional areas of the hotel.

The intensely lit cage consists of artificial stones and icicles and a white painted floor.
Harbin Polar Land is built so that all 33 window rooms face the enclosure.

The hotel management promises visitors on the website: “You can watch the polar bears from every room through the armored glass and  ” sleep together ” with them at night.”

The project cost 100 million yuan, the equivalent of almost 15 million Swiss francs.
“The world’s first polar bear hotel”, as the operators proudly announce, was designed jointly by the famous Russian designer Kozylenko Natalia Yefremovna and the famous Japanese designer of the theme park Shuji Miyajima.

The polar bears can be seen through the glass from any room where visitors can observe the daily life of the animals.

But animal-rights activists have urged guests to stay away from the hotel.

PETA vice president Asia Jason Baker said: “PETA urges patrons to stay away from this hotel and any other establishment that profits from animals’ misery. “

Mr. Baker said the polar bears were active for up to 18 hours a day in nature, roaming home ranges that can span thousands of miles, where they enjoy real life.

Mr. Baker added: “Polar bears belong in the Arctic, not in zoos or glass boxes in aquariums – and certainly not in hotels. The greedy, exploitative aquarium industry, which is out of place in today’s increasingly aware world, is built on the suffering of intelligent, social beings who are denied everything that’s natural and important to them.”

“Gaps in the Chinese animal protection law allow companies to exploit animals without regard to their welfare,” a spokesman for the China Animal Protection Network told AFP.

https://www.20min.ch/story/eisbaerenhotel-eroeffnet-in-china-tierschuetzer-rufen-zum-boykott-auf-486051165674

And I mean… Seriously, there were two famous designers at work? The design couldn’t be more amateurish and unimaginative!

A kitschy aesthetic with science fiction format that is repulsive even without bears and would hardly attract any guest with a taste.

So … China has set up a new zoo.

Zoos in other countries are no better either, with the difference that the prisoners get fresh air and sun.
Polar bears belong in the Arctic and that is a fact that not only applies to China.

It is primitive and immoral to stare at captive animals as objects and anyone who keeps animals in tiny prisons for public entertainment must be classified as cruel animal abusers and should stop doing so.

We’re not just talking about the shameful Bear Hotel in China, which is a shame for this country.

We condemn the captivity of all other animals around the world that are abused and exploited in the cages, terrariums, and enclosures of zoos.

And will fight to have them abolished.

My best regards to all, Venus

 

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Every year, 20 million day-old chicks are thoughtlessly thrown into boxes and shipped as “perishable goods” through the postal service. You have a chance to help stop this horrific practice. All you need to do is take action today!

When allowed to, a mother hen communicates with her chicks through the shell before they hatch. In hatcheries supplying individual buyers or feed-stores, the chicks are born in an incubator with no mother in sight. Within hours of their life, they are sexed, vaccinated, stuffed in boxes, and sent through the mail. According to the United States Postal Service, they are supposed to arrive at their destination within 72 hours. This means, and this is the best-case-scenario, that they are crowded in a dark box without food or water for 3 days. They are shipped year-round, no matter the weather. Chicks endure below freezing winter temperatures and inhumane sweltering summer heat. 

Can you imagine “mailing” your adopted puppy or kitten under these conditions?

Without a doubt sending day-old babies through the mail is cruel, but recently it has become horrific. Thousands of chicks have arrived dead due to delayed shipments and chaos within the United States Postal Service in the wake of Covid-19. Typically 1-2% percent of chicks die during transit.

In August of 2020 entire shipments of chicks were arriving at their destination dead. Farmers in Maine and New Hampshire reported a staggering 4,800 chicks were deceased upon arrival.

People purchase hens because they produce eggs. But, what happens to the male chicks? Most roosters are killed soon after they hatch. Most commonly they endure asphyxiation by gassing or maceration in high-speed grinders. 

This means that they are ground alive. The ones who survive are packaged and shipped with the hens. They may be sexed incorrectly, purchased unsexed, or used as “packing peanuts” to help keep the female chicks warm in transit. When people receive unwanted roosters they abandon, kill, or dump them at a shelter or sanctuary. Animal Place gets multiple calls and emails a day about unwanted roosters. If we are unable to take them in, we try to find a safe haven for them in private homes or with other sanctuaries. 

The shipment of live-day-old chicks is unethical. We must demand an end to this cruelty. You can use your voice to advocate for chickens. Go to animalplace.org/advocacy/ to sign and send a letter to the United States Postmaster General, find sample letters, and learn more. It only takes a few moments of your time. Take action now and demand that this practice come to an end. Join us in making a difference for the 20 million chicks who face the cruel practice every year.

ACTION – Go to:   Animal Place’s Animal Advocate Alliance | Animal Place

 

 

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An undercover PETA investigation into Moulton Chinchilla Ranch (MCR), a huge chinchilla breeding factory in Chatfield, Minnesota that had approximately 1,000 chinchillas confined in wire-mesh floor cages in a shed that stank of ammonia, found that these exotic animals were denied not only everything that is natural and important to them but also the most basic needs, such as effective veterinary care for chronic infections and severe, life-threatening injuries that caused suffering and even death…

Based on PETA’s evidence, law enforcement agents conducted a raid on MCR and launched a criminal investigation.

Without escape

Chinchillas are active and curious animals, who love to run, jump and climb (activities that are extremely important to their physical and psychological health), but at MCR, they remained confined in small desolate, rusty cages with a wire mesh floor.

They had nowhere to take refuge or hide, something extremely stressful and terrifying for these nocturnal prey animals.

Charlene was not treated for this excruciatingly painful foot injury, which resulted in a bloody stump with exposed bones. The PETA investigator rescued her. He took her to emergencies, she underwent surgery and she continues to heal.

The dirty shed was crammed with cages, the walls and ceiling covered with insect debris.

There were feces piled up just outside the shed, and some even entered the shed through a door.

Many of these social animals, who in the wild live in herds of up to 100 individuals in the Andes Mountains, were locked up alone in cages. Others were so tightly packed into cages that they could barely move.

Some only had a piece of wood to sit on or chew on. No toys, no place to lie down, no environmental enrichment.

Deprived of everything that is meaningful to them, chinchillas in these stressful and inhumane conditions mutilated themselves and their cage mates, a sign of severe stress.

One young animal had its ears practically bitten off.

In October 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) sent MCR a subpoena (as it has done more than 100 times since 2013) for inadequate veterinary care for two chinchillas with eye discharge, but this warning was not enough to force the breeder to help the animals (!!!)

For more…at https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2021/03/13/minnesota-mcr-factory-breaks-necks-to-earn-money/

 

And I mean...The USDA has been warning the operators of this concentration camp since 2013.
And that is still active?
Obviously, they know that they have nothing to fear.

If such crimes are demonstrably taking place on a farm, that farm should be closed.
Without ifs and buts!

If I ignore a red light while driving, I will be banned from driving and my driver’s license will be suspended for a certain period of time, depending on the judgment. Although I haven’t broken anyone’s neck!

But the judiciary is criminal-friendly when it comes to breeders, laboratory researchers, and other animal torturers.
That is the principle of this system: stick together

My best regards to all, Venus

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WHO and UN leaders condemned by animal welfare charity for ignoring root cause of Covid pandemic a year on

 

The letter says high-risk practices, such as the commercial wildlife trade, the dog and cat meat trade, and fur, must be phased out if we are to prevent another crippling global pandemic

 

Upon the first anniversary of the World Health Organisation declaring Covid-19 a pandemic, a leading animal-welfare organisation has accused governments of “not addressing the actual issues around animal abuse” which lead to zoonotic pandemics.

In an open letter, addressed to the WHO, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), animal charity Four Paws demanded that risky practices be “urgently phased out”, with a ban on fur farms, live animal markets, and the dog, cat meat, and wildlife trade.

It also urged that there is greater acknowledgement of the need to eat less meat – a key driver of the climate crisis and habitat loss – and a crackdown on risks created by factory farming.

The letter said that “pharmaceutical responses are not the sole and long-term solution”, and said it was “deeply concerning” that despite WHO director-general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking a year ago on infection-prevention, the way humans treat animals has not been factored into the pandemic response alongside the development of vaccinations.

Josef Pfabigan, President of Four Paws wrote: “The settings in which a huge proportion of animals globally are raised, traded, transported and slaughtered – cramped and overcrowded environments, poor hygiene, myriad origins, and conditions suppressing immune systems and encouraging pathogen excretion and uptake – create an ideal situation for the exchange, genetic modification and emergence of new pathogens.”

In 2007-2011, the three global organisations, the WHO, FAO and OIE, set up a plan called One Health, which was an attempt to reduce health risks, including animal-human interactions.

Four Paws wants them to add a “One Welfare” plan, stressing links between animal welfare and people’s wellbeing.

Mr Pfabigan said: “The underlying problem is the dysfunctional relationship between us, humans, with animals and nature.

“Only when concrete measures ending animal suffering are introduced worldwide can future zoonotic pandemics be stopped.

“We demand a holistic approach from those responsible, because animal welfare equals environmental health equals human wellbeing.”

In response to the letter, the non-profit organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) raised similar concerns.

Speaking to i, PETA’s Director Elisa Allen said: “PETA wrote to the WHO last year to emphasise that treating animals with disrespect and regarding them as ours for the taking will come back to bite us again, just as it has with the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Animal markets and factory farms – including those that cage animals for their feathers and fur – are breeding grounds for diseases that mutate and spread to the human population. And if we continue to pillage the natural world and kill the other animals in it, we also exacerbate the climate crisis.”

Previously, scientists have said zoonotic diseases – viruses that jump from animals to humans – have become four times more frequent in the past 50 years, with zoonoses causing a billion cases of illness in people and millions of deaths every year.

According to both the WHO and a UN environment report last year, 75 per cent of all emerging infectious diseases originate in animals, and Four Paws is warning of “ticking time bombs all over the world” from practices where pathogens may emerge and spread.

It added: “Our food and farming systems must become more resilient to crises, through a reduced reliance on animal products, and less disruptive to the natural processes that protect us from emerging diseases. To do this we need joint leadership and joint action.”

Mr Pfabigan said: “All forms of wild animal trade are associated with high risks of spreading zoonotic diseases. The Sars outbreak in 2002 has also been traced back to a wildlife market in China.

“These conditions and dangers are not only found in live animal markets in Asia. Pigs and chickens, treated equally dreadfully in factory farms, have succumbed to swine and bird flu worldwide.

“Millions of mink, vegetating on fur farms in Europe, have been infected with Covid-19 and reinfected humans with mutations of the virus. As long as we let animals suffer like this, we humans will suffer the consequences of zoonotic diseases.”

It says the pressure to produce more, and cheaper animal products, leads to increasing numbers of animals being kept in poor-welfare environments, while the resulting land change fuels climate change and biodiversity loss.

Mr Pfabigan wrote: “Multiple zoonotic diseases have been definitively linked to the dog and cat meat trade including cholera. In addition, the dog and cat meat trade itself fulfils many of the conditions for pathogen emergence and spread.”

Ms Allen added: “Governments must act by banning the exotic-animal trade and all factory farms, and until that happens, each of us must take personal responsibility by refusing to prop up these dangerous industries and going vegan.

“We owe it to future generations to act now, or there won’t be an inhabitable planet left for them to live on.”

Carla Drysdale, WHO Communications Officer told i: “Cross-sectoral collaboration is key to understanding and managing public health risks at the human-animal-environment interface and improving global health security.

“WHO works with national governments, academia, non-governmental and philanthropic organisations, and regional and international partners, including with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), to prevent and manage these threats and their public health, social and economic impacts.”

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Criminal charges for the killing of a she-wolf

On the night of February 11, a wolf was killed in the Osnabrück-Emsland region of Lower Saxony (Germany) with the permission of the state (!!!)

According to Lower Saxony’s Environment Minister Olaf Lies, the so-called “Herzlaker wolf pack” based there is said to have torn sheep over a long period of time.

The animal that was shot is a she-wolf.

The exemption, however, related to a male animal (!!!)

At the end of last week, PETA filed a criminal complaint with the Oldenburg public prosecutor’s office against those responsible – including the unknown hobby hunter and officials.

In addition to the current killing of the she-wolf without specific permission, the animal rights organization fundamentally criticizes wolf killings because it only protects the economic interests of the sheep farmers.

“According to the Lower Saxony state government, wolves should die so that shepherds do not suffer any financial losses.
That is a highly unethical motive.
The shepherds are not concerned with the welfare of the animals.

The supposed idyll on the pasture must not hide the fact that sheep are almost always violently killed in the slaughterhouse – with everything that goes with the animal industry: animal transports, failed stunning, fear, and pain.

The shooter’s permission to hunt must be withdrawn immediately, as he is apparently unable to distinguish a female from a male.
There are numerous case studies in which hunters shot away even though they could not make sure that it was the right animal. “
(Dr. Edmund Haferbeck, head of the Law and Science Department at PETA).

Hunters see wolves as “competitors”

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Hi all;

I have put a lot of posts onto WAV but have not had the chance to also detail each one individually here.  So I am grouping many into the following list, which you can review and select as you wish.

Regards Mark

Vietnam – Urgent bile bear rescue – Vietnam: Urgent Rescue – Kept in a basement: Free Xuan and Mo from a life in darkness – Please Give Right Now ! – World Animals Voice

 

South Korea – Great news – NO objections to Bill 7035 relating to dog meat slaughter and consumption –

South Korea: Great News – No Objections To New Animal Welfare Bill No. 7035, Relating to Dog Meat Slaughter and Consumption. – World Animals Voice

China – China announces new cosmetics regulations which need no animal testing –

Great News From Peta ! – China Announces New Cosmetics Regulations Without Animal Testing. – World Animals Voice

China – Science confirms Wuhan wet market is most likely origin of Covid –

China: Scientists Confirm Wuhan Wet Market Is ‘Most Likely Origin’ Of COVID-19. – World Animals Voice

Spain – All animals on the ‘Karim Allah’ have now been murdered after 3 months at sea –

Spain: 10/3/21 – All Animals On The ‘Karim Allah’ Have Now Been Murdered By The Spanish Authorities After 3 Months at Sea. The Reality of Live Exports. – World Animals Voice

Cultivated meat can slash global warming by 92% says new study –

Cultivated Meat Can Slash Global Warming Impacts By 92%, Says New Study. – World Animals Voice

USA  – Minneapolis to get its first vegan burger chain –

USA: MINNEAPOLIS TO GET ITS FIRST VEGAN BURGER CHAIN. – World Animals Voice

USA:  Minneapolis Vegan Butchers are opening shop –

USA: Minneapolis’ Vegan Butchers Are Opening a Fried Chicken Shop. – World Animals Voice

UK – MP to lead 10 minute Bill on prohibiting the use of farrowing crates for pigs –

UK: Positives for Pigs – Sir David Amess MP will lead a Ten Minute Rule Bill on prohibiting the use of farrowing crates. – World Animals Voice

 

England – the secret little chapel in the woods for the animals –

England: The Secret Little Chapel In the Woods For All Animals. – World Animals Voice

Spain / EU – Horsemeat from overseas; animal welfare and consumer protection at risk –

Spain / EU: Live Export and – Horsemeat from overseas: animal welfare and consumer protection at risk. – World Animals Voice

 

England – Vegan Bites –

England: 8/3/21 – Vegan Bites. – World Animals Voice

There was a killing –

There Was A Killing. – World Animals Voice

Continue reading lots more older posts at  World Animals Voice – Animal news from around the world.

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