Posted on February 3, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Petition Link:
Target: Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer
Goal: Stop allowing ivory sales on Yahoo Japan that threaten the endangered elephant and rhino populations.
Internet company Yahoo is still a participant in the ivory trade that’s devastating populations of endangered animals, including elephants. While Google and Amazon have committed themselves against allowing any sale of ivory through their websites, Yahoo Japan is making millions from it. These sales increased from two million to seven million in the span of just four years.
The ivory market continues to thrive as the material becomes more rare and precious due to the shrinking populations of the animals that grow in on themselves. The western black rhino has been driven to extinction, and the white rhino only has three remaining individuals left, all in captivity. Due to poaching for ivory and habitat shrinkage, elephants could be extinct in just one or two decades.
The more Yahoo Japan fuels the ivory trade, the more they put the last remaining rhinos and elephants in danger. Multiple companies and governments have already been pressured to end their roles in this brutal and devastating market, and we can do the same with Yahoo. Sign our petition to the CEO of Yahoo to demand that she prohibits all sale of ivory through her website.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Ms. Mayer,
Your company, Yahoo, is currently participating in a brutal market that’s responsible for the endangerment and extinction of multiple animal species, including the western black rhino and the African elephant. Yahoo Japan recently saw $7 million in ivory sales, up from $2 million just four years prior. This cannot be allowed to continue.
Poaching for ivory has caused the loss of so many magnificent animals, and participation in the trade of this material is what drives poachers to continue slaughtering them in incredible numbers. Experts estimate that African elephants could be extinct in as little as 10 years, largely due to this practice. The only way to stop poaching entirely is to eliminate the market for ivory. There is no other reason to poach elephants.
Companies like Google and Amazon have already committed themselves against the ivory trade. Consumers across the world are becoming more aware of the realities and consequences of this market and will not stand for your participation in the slaughter of rhinos and elephants. If you want to protect your already faltering profits, you must immediately prohibit all sale of ivory through Yahoo Japan and any affiliated sites.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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Posted on January 30, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Japanese activist start their own protests about the Taiji dolphin slaughter.
Tokyo says no to dolphin hunts:
On January 29, several Japanese activists assembled outside the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Tokyo to protest the killing and capture of dolphins. The demonstration was intentionally timed to coincide with staff getting off work for the day. (See photo above – SAV)
Despite plummeting temperatures, for about 90 minutes, people called for an end to the dolphin hunts. Some held up signs, calling for the release of Ric O’Barry.
Dolphins urgently need protection from further devastation caused by the dolphin drive hunting in Taiji Japan, dolphin slaughter and captive trade. President, CEO and Councillors of Broome Shire, your country is a member of the United Nations; The UN condemns Taiji Japan’s dolphin hunts. Australia also supports local and international efforts to protect dolphins and whales. It is unacceptable to continue as sister city to Taiji. Suspend the relationship and help save dolphins from future hunting seasons. Send Taiji a strong message so the people understand how their cruel business of dolphin drive hunting, slaughter and live capture is unacceptable and must stop now.
While we acknowledge Broome’s historic and emotional ties with Taiji, these cannot hold precedence over such atrocities against these intelligent, bonded and social mammals, who are not only loved by millions of people around the world but extremely vital to healthy ocean biodiversity.
Taiji’s overall business and financial security is not contingent on the continuation of the dolphin slaughter; while approximately 50 hunters participate in the drive hunts, there are approximately 300 fishermen who catch only fish. It is 100% viable for the dolphin hunters to change their activity, attract visitors to see dolphins by tourist boat all year round.
During the hunts, entire dolphin pods (sometimes more than one pod at a time), are driven beyond their limits to exhaustion, and captured in Taiji Cove. Weather permitting, the hunters set out in the boats every day, from September through to March each year. They decimate whole pods, discarding young dolphins, babies at sea with no hope of survival. Doing so reduces the hunters’ quota count, allowing them to later count larger dolphins during captures.
The captured dolphins experience unimaginable horror and heartbreaking ends, witnessing one another’s fate as all are brutally slaughtered. Those poor dolphins selected for a short life-time in captivity, by dolphin trainers in the cove, witness all of this. Researchers are forbidden from recording the dolphins’ screams. Agonizing death can take more than ten minutes.
Dolphins are kept captive in small sea-pens in Taiji and immediately must learn to eat dead fish by hand or starve. Trained for months there they are later sold for large sums to marine parks, resorts and other places keeping dolphins captive around the world for display to paying public, US$150,000 – US $200,000 and more. These closely bonded, empathetic, social and incredibly intelligent dolphins are either some, kept for the captive industry, or most, brutally slaughtered in the most horrific way. This whole business is driven by the pursuit of money made from entertaining paying crowds who are largely unaware of the ongoing tragedy behind the dolphin shows.
Given what we know of the high intelligence of dolphins, this slaughter is comparable to murder and to keep them in captivity is utterly cruel. The Indian Government recently acknowledged dolphins as non-human persons; there it is now forbidden to keep them in captivity or interfere at all. In Taiji Japan’s Whale Museum, dolphins are kept in abhorrent conditions, including Angel a beautiful albino dolphin torn from her mother, captured in the hunts while her family was killed.
Dolphins need and deserve the right to protection from human harm and interference. It is unacceptable for Broome Australia to have a sister city relationship with Taiji Japan, as long as the dolphin drive hunts continue. Suspend your sister city relationship with Taiji. Send Taiji a strong message so the people understand how their cruel business of dolphin drive hunting, slaughter and live capture is unacceptable and must stop now.
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Posted on January 29, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Cat Choked With Wire and Bludgeoned to Death Deserves Justice
Target: Nicole Lawrence, Humane Society Police Officer, York County SPCA
Goal: Seek maximum possible punishment against person who tied a wire around a cat’s neck and bludgeoned it to death.
A cat was recently found in the cold after someone twisted a wire tightly around its neck and left it for dead. The calico cat, named Faith by rescue workers, had several lacerations on its head when it was brought to Heavenly Paws Animal Shelter in York County, Pennsylvania for veterinary attention. Faith’s injuries were treated, and a round of antibiotics started before she was allowed to return home with a foster care volunteer.
Over the course of only a few hours, Faith’s condition deteriorated significantly. She began to pace in circles and bump into furniture, showing signs of severe brain trauma. By the time a veterinarian was able to see her, the cat was pronounced brain dead and had to be euthanized.
A necropsy revealed that the cat had a fractured skull and three distinct areas of blunt force trauma. Veterinarians suspect that the blows were caused by a hammer, and that the wire was used to hold the cat in place while someone bludgeoned it. Aside from the obvious signs of abuse, the cat was in otherwise good health, suggesting to investigators that it was someone’s pet.
This crime demonstrates extreme cruelty and is a shock to the entire community of Hanover. In order to ensure that Faith receives justice, it is important that the person responsible is punished to the fullest extent of the law. Sign the petition below to demand a harsh punishment for the person responsible, which will help deter similar crimes in the future.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Officer Lawrence,
A calico cat named Faith was recently found in the cold with a wire wound tightly around its neck. After receiving veterinary care for its wounds, Faith’s health deteriorated quickly due to brain injuries, and she was put down the next day. A necropsy found that the cat suffered blunt force trauma as well as a skull fracture, likely due to blows to the head from a hammer.
This shocking crime shows extreme cruelty toward animals and should be punished to the full extent of the law. We, the undersigned, ask that you work to bring justice to this cat by finding the person responsible and seeking out the harshest possible punishments against them.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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Help Us Set Japik Free
Japik the orangutan spent two long years chained to a tree with nothing but a narrow wooden plank to sit on and no shelter from the hot sun or driving rain. When our team arrived to rescue her all they could see on the plank was a pile of old rags. Or so they thought…
In fact that “pile of old rags” was Japik trying to shelter from the torrential rain under an old jacket. This is how Heribertus, a member of the rescue team, described her:
“Japik was placed beside a tree behind the house, without shelter or a roof to protect her from sun or rain. When we arrived it was raining heavily and she was trying to take cover under an old jacket. We could see that the jacket was soaked through and Japik was cold and shivering. Her neck was also chained and the chain was nailed to the tree. The chain was very short so Japik could go nowhere. The ground under the plank where she was sitting was covered in rubbish.”
Japik was constantly shifting her weight from side to side, perhaps to keep her balance on the slippery plank or to ease the pain of her aching limbs. After two years on the end of that short chain it’s a miracle she could move at all.
Japik’s owner finally realised that it was illegal to keep an orangutan as a pet and decided to surrender her into our care. The minute we knew of her existence, our team set off to rescue her and bring her misery to an end.
As our vet Cha Chaapproached Japik, the desperate orangutan reached out to her. It was as though she realised that after suffering so much misery and neglect, help was finally at hand.
Our team immediately took action to free Japik from the tree and remove the chain from her neck. It was so heavy and had been fixed so tightly that there was a deep wound under her chin – had she been left there much longer it would have cut right through her skin.
I can’t begin to imagine how Japik endured those years alone on that narrow plank of wood, cast aside and forgotten like the rubbish on the ground around her. Japik is only four or five years old and should still be living with her mother. She must have been so lonely chained up alone without her.
When Argitoe, the head of our rescue team, took her hand to guide her to the transport crate, her legs were so weak that they shook as she walked.
Japik is in the safe hands of our veterinary team at the centre in Ketapang, West Borneo her recovery and rehabilitation can begin.
But after two years living on scraps of waste food, deprived of all the nutrition that is vital to the physical development of a young orangutan, it hasn’t yet been determined whether any permanent damage has been done to her health. But our expert team will be doing all they can in the months and years ahead to help Japik develop the strength and the skills she will need to survive in the wild. Please contribute to her care today and help us set her free.
Our immediate priority is to check her for any ailments or diseases while she is in quarantine and work to improve her overall health and wellbeing. Having lived for so long in such shocking conditions, we’re amazed that she’s even alive. Let’s hope this means she has a strong constitution and an equally strong will to survive.
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Posted on January 28, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Target: Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
Goal: Develop a plastic waste reduction plan before there’s more trash in the ocean than fish.
Dumping of plastic in our oceans has expanded by a dramatic 1,900 percent in the past half-century. Creation of the material is expected to increase twofold again in the following 20 years. If the world stands by and lets plastic pollution continue at this rate, we will lose one of our natural resources and jeopardize the futures of our children.
More than eight million tons of plastics wind up entering our seas every year, where the pieces can remain for many years. There are expected to be 165 million tons of plastic waste in the sea at this moment.
We’re dumping what might as well be called one waste vehicle’s worth into the sea every moment; that is anticipated to hop to four per minute by 2050 according to a report by the World Economic Forum and Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Furthermore, that report has a dismal cautioning–we’re on track to have more plastic than fish, by weight, in our seas by 2050.
Also, the tossed plastic that doesn’t wind up in the sea is likely be placed in a landfill; those two resting places wind up holding around 70 percent of our plastic and only five percent of plastics are viably reused. It’s not only an issue of contamination, but of reusing these plastics properly. “After a short first-utilize cycle, 95% of plastic bundling material quality, or $80 to $120 billion yearly, is lost to the economy,” the report says.
The plastic waste issue has gotten out of control and now more than ever we need more recycling, reusable packaging, and decompose plastic packaging. Sign the petition below to save the future of our oceans and planet’s well-being.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Secretary General Ban Ki-moon,
The amount of plastic waste in our planet’s oceans has increased tenfold in the last half century. A recent study by the World Economic Forum and Ellen MacArthur Foundation has anticipated we should expect to have more plastic pollution in our oceans, based on weight, than fish by 2050. Only five percent of plastic in landfills is actually reused properly, which raises the issue of reusability versus waste.
I urge you to take action and support the development of a plastic waste risk reducing plan that will help control plastic pollution in our seas, increase recycling, reusable packaging, and compostable plastic packaging. Also, I challenge you and your resources to find a solution for after-use plastics that can be turned into an economically valuable feedstock.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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Posted on January 27, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Dogs are dying during severe winter storms like the East Coast blizzard because owners are allowed to leave their pets outside in the bitter cold.
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Posted on January 24, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
A massive 415,325 people have already signed our petition to tell the European Parliament it is time to End the Cage Age for rabbits.
Can you now help secure over half a million signatures, and make this a petition that Europe’s policymakers cannot ignore.
Please sign and share the above petition on EU breeder guidelines for rabbits – it will support Mr. Eck’s (MEP) efforts for a significantly improved animal welfare agenda 2016-2020 which will be discussed with the EU Commissioner Andriukaitis.
Within the past week Mr. Eck managed to convince 60 MEPs from various political parties to sign the petition.
The ultimate goal however as Mr. Eck declared in a parliamentary session is to eliminate this rabbit breeding business completely.
Relevant sections translated into English below.
Kurzmeldung aus Saarbrücken / 24.01.2016
Rekord: MdEP-Unterstützungsunterschriften für Kaninchen
In der vergangenen Sitzungswoche (18. bis 21. Januar) gelang es dem EU-Abgeordneten Stefan Bernhard Eck einen neuen persönlichen Rekord im Sammeln von MdEP-Unterstützungsunterschriften aufzustellen. Mit der Sammelaktion soll die Kommission auf die Notwendigkeit von verbindlichen EU-Richtlinien hinsichtlich der Haltungsbedingungen in der Kaninchenmast aufmerksam gemacht warden.
Trotz eines vollen Terminkalenders mit Fraktions-, Ausschuss- und Plenarsitzungen gelang es Stefan B. Eck, sechzig (60) seiner Kolleginnen und Kollegen aus unterschiedlichen Fraktionen zu einer Unterschriftsleistung zu bewegen, nachdem er jede*n einzelne*n Abgeordnete*n ausführlich über tierquälerischen Zustände in der Kaninchenmast informiert hatte. Die Reaktion und einhellige Meinung der meisten angesprochenen EU-Politiker: Klar, hier muss sich etwas ändern!
Nächste Woche geht die „Jagd nach Verbündeten“ in Brüssel mit Hochdruck weiter, denn der Tierrechtler und EU-Politiker hat sich ein ziemlich hohes Ziel gesetzt. Mindestens 20 Prozent der Abgeordneten sollen auf der Unterschriftsliste einmal stehen.
Dass damit noch eine Menge Arbeit auf den engagierten Tierrechtler zukommen wird, nimmt er gelassen, macht sein bekanntes V-Zeichen (vegan victory) mit den Fingern und sagt nur ein Wort: „Hasenpower!“
Habt Ihr bereits die Petition „End the cage age“ von „Compassion in World farming“, die EU-Kommissar Andriukaitis übergeben werden soll, unterschrieben? Es liegen inzwischen über 415.000 Unterschriften vor.
Lasst uns die halbe Million „knacken“!
Bitte teilt diesen Artikel oder die Petition weitflächig, damit noch viele Unterschriften zusammenkommen!
Bitte unterschreibt und teilt diese Petition, damit ich EU-Kommissar Vytenis Andriukaitis besser überzeugen kann, dass endlich europaweite Richtlinien für Kaninchenmast und Kaninchenzucht in die Tierschutzstrategie 2016 bis 2020 aufgenommen werden und viele Bürgerinnen und Bürger ebenfalls hinter dieser Forderung stehen.
(Please sign the petition and share this to collect a substantial number of signatures that help me convince EU Commissioner Andriukaitis even better that rabbit breeding guidelines must be included in the Animal Welfare Agenda 2016-2020 and that many citizens in Europe are supporting this).
Bitte helft den “Langohren”!
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Kurzmeldung aus Straßburg und Hinweis auf Petition / 20.01.2016
“Diese Tierquälerei muss endlich aufhören!” – Kampfansage an die Kaninchenzüchter und Kaninchenmäster!
MdEP Stefan Bernhard Eck ist auf der „Jagd“ nach Unterstützer/innen im EU-Parlament für die längst überfälligen europaweiten Haltungsvorschriften für Kaninchen-Mastbetriebe.
In den letzten Tagen – zwischen den „Votings“, Ausschuss- und Fraktionssitzungen und den Debattten im Plenum – nutzte der EU-Abgeordnete Eck jede Gelegenheit, um Unterstützungsunterschriften für das Projekt „Kaninchenzucht in der EU: Die Notwendigkeit einer Gesetzgebung“, das er mit „Compassion in World farming“ vorantreibt, zu sammeln.
In nur zwei Tagen konnte der Tierrechtler und EU-Abgeordnete bereits annährend 50 Mitglieder des Europäischen Parlamentes von der Notwendigkeit einer tierfreundlichen Gesetzgebung für die Kaninchenzucht und Kaninchenmast überzeugen. Das ist ein sehr gutes Ergebnis zum Auftakt, denn es ist nicht einfach, während der regulären Arbeit des Parlamentes Unterstützungsunterschriften zu sammeln.
Die MdEP-Unterschriften sollen zusammen mit mehreren Hunderttausend Unterschriften von Bürgerinnen und Bürgern Europas EU-Kommissar Vytenis Andriukaitis bei einem Treffen Ende März oder Anfang April bezüglich der Tierschutzstrategie 2016 – 2020 übergeben werden.
„Diese Tierquälerei muss endlich aufhören!“, so MdEP Stefan B. Eck, der sich seit fast 2 Jahrzehnten für tierfreundlichere Haltungsbedingungen in der Kaninchenmast einsetzt und bereits im letzten Jahr den Kaninchenzüchtern Europas offen den Kampf angesagt hat. Sein „Endziel“ ist nichts weniger als ein komplettes Verbot der Kaninchenmast in der Europäischen Union. (https://www.facebook.com/Stefan.Bernhard.Eck.MEP/posts/1018557891505484).
Bitte unterstützt die Petition „End the cage age“ von „Compassion in World farming“, denn mit jeder Unterschrift hat sie mehr Gewicht, wenn der Abgeordnete Eck mit EU-Kommissar Andriukaitis über die Tierschutzstrategie sprechen wird.
Bitte teilt diesen Artikel oder die Petition weitflächig, damit noch viele Unterschriften zusammenkommen!
Bericht aus Brüssel / 05.02.2015
Mastkaninchen-Züchter bezichtigen MEP Stefan B. Eck der extremistischen und terroristischen Manipulation
Am 05.02.2015 fand im Europa-Parlament in Brüssel eine von der Fraktion EFDD organisierte Konferenz zum Thema Kaninchenzucht unter dem Titel „Kaninchenfleisch: Europäische Perspektiven und Probleme“ statt, um mit Kaninchenzüchtern und Vertretern von Zuchtverbänden über geeignete Maßnahmen der EU zu diskutieren, die wirtschaftliche Krise, in der sich viele Mastbetriebe europaweit befinden, zu überwinden.
Die einzelnen Redebeiträge lieferten tiefe Einblicke in die derzeitigen Probleme, mit der die Branche zu kämpfen hat. Der Vertreter der Mastbetreiber in der italienischen Region Lazio (Italien ist der drittgrößte Produzent von Kaninchenfleisch nach China und Venezuela) forderte in seinem Redebeitrag von der EU unverzügliche Hilfsmaßnahmen (EU-Gelder und Schritte gegen die Importe von Kaninchenfleisch aus China), da aus Kostengründen schon jetzt die tierschutzrechtlichen Bestimmungen von vielen Züchtern nicht mehr eingehalten werden könnten. Selbst ein anwesender italienischer Veterinär, der für die Kaninchenzüchter tätig ist, forderte umgehende Verbesserungen hinsichtlich der Kaninchenhaltung, da die derzeitigen Bedingungen in keiner Weise den gesetzlichen Tierschutzansprüchen genügen würden.
Nach den Redebeiträgen ergriff MEP Stefan B. Eck das Wort und erklärte den anwesenden Züchtern klipp und klar, dass er als Vizepräsident der “Intergroup for Animal Welfare and Conservation” alles daransetzen werde, um die Krise in der Mastkaninchen-Branche zu vergrößern und sich für ein Verbot jeglicher Kaninchenzucht einsetzen wird. Die Zucht und Mast von Kaninchen sei eine der schlimmsten Formen von Tierquälerei!
At the end of the parliamentary session MEP Eck took to the microphone and declared in front of the present breeders that as Vice President of EUROGROUP FOR ANIMALS he will do anything to increase the economic crisis of the rabbit breeders and work for a total ban of rabbit breeding. This Business is one of the worst cruelties against animals.
Die anwesenden Kaninchenzüchter waren durch diesen unerwarteten verbalen Angriff eines EU-Abgeordneten so schockiert, dass einzelne sogar verwirrt applaudierten, die Mehrheit jedoch – wie zu erwarten war – mit protestierenden Lautäußerungen reagierten.
Ein Züchter aus der Region Puglia (Mittelitalien) meldete sich entrüstet zu Wort und warf Stefan Bernhard Eck “extremistische und verbal-terroristische Manipulation” vor.
In weiteren Gesprächen nach der Konferenz wiederholte MEP Eck gegenüber den italienischen Züchtern nochmals seinen Standpunkt: KANINCHENMAST – NEIN DANKE!
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Posted on January 22, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Please watch the brilliant ‘Respect’ video on ‘dumb animals’
– click on the following link:
Dear friend,
We’ve just unveiled a new petition, asking the department store Harvey Nichols to stop selling real fur and join our growing list of official fur-free retailers.
Having previously promised not to sell fur from fur farmed or trapped animals, this winter Harvey Nichols (like the last few years) is selling fur from farmed and trapped animals such as foxes, coyotes and racoons.
Animals on fur farms suffer tremendously, as our recent scientific report showed. And the cruelty imposed on animals who are trapped and then killed for their fur is shocking.
Can you help us?
We need as many signatures as possible if we are to make a difference and we need your help. Please sign our petition and then share it as widely as possible amongst your friends and on social media.
Sign our petition and help the animals by clicking here
Thank You.
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