Posted on April 19, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The Canadian seal pup killers have just realised that the world hates them and what they do – and they have just announced the following (on 17/4/15):
Important Notice: CSA Operations
For immediate release: April 17, 2015
The Canadian Sealers Association is facing challenging times in light of restrictive market opportunities worldwide for our sealers and producers to sell their product.
The CSA will be seeking open discussions with any industry stakeholders with ideas how to best advance the sealing industry for the future.
We want current members and supporters to know that we plan to continue operations in a scaled down mode.
Our head office in St. John’s will be closed temporarily till the executive board meet in the summer and decide on a new executive director.
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Posted on February 22, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Hunt news from Germany.
The state of Baden-Wuerttermberg has passed a new set of hunting laws, which come into force in April. Passionately fought by the hunting societies in the last months, at least as concerns animal welfare improvements, it nevertheless contains much that caters to the hunters’ interests.
One being the new law that henceforth fox cubs may be caught (and killed) directly from the den, where a cage sticks in the mouth of the den, and the cubs are then trapped at the upper end, to be killed by the hunters later) WITHOUT extra permission by the authorities.
So far that sort of thing used to be the exception; as from April onwards it will become the widespread rule.
Also, in the Saarland hunters are now targeting mainly pregnant vixens at this time of year.
Legally, of course.
The hunting society of a rural Bavarian community recently withdrew their plans of shooting some 100 foxes on a single weekend (beginning of Feb: mating season) (across several districts) for reasons of “population control”.
They ran into trouble with PETA in Stuttgart, who threatened to take them to court should they persist. However, who knows what happened when nobody was looking ..?
A 50+year old German hunter has been charged for shooting a young man (26) recently, thinking him, in poor sight, a wild boar.
He got away with a suspended sentence of 2 years.
In contrast, a young man who protested in front of a well-known (for selling fur) Austrian clothing retailer, was dragged inside by staff, beaten to the point of requiring hospitalization, and later sentenced to 7 months in prison, effective immediately.
No further comment required – one rule for most; another for hunters.
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