Huntersclaim to hang dead animal heads on the wall because they are ‘beautiful’.
My mum is very attractive, but I have a photo of her on my wall ! – Mark – SAV.
Dear Mark — Founder ‘Serbian Animals Voice’,
Cecil the lion’s six-year-old son, Xanda, has been killed almost exactly on the second anniversary of his own death, which caused international outcry over the cruelty of trophy hunting.
Just like Cecil, Xanda, a young father himself, was lured away from the safety of a national park in Zimbabwe. Also like Cecil, Xanda was wearing a research collar and was an important part of a long-term study on lions.
Killing Cecil and Xanda shows a shocking display of disrespect for these imperiled animals and the unnecessary killing of these majestic creatures just for bragging rights and a head-hunting exercise.
The tide is turning against trophy hunting around the world as a result of Cecil’s death—and the killing of his son will only add to that momentum.
Andrew Rowan
President and CEO
Humane Society International
Can we rely on President Trump to be a voice of the USA against this trophy hunting ? – NO; he supports the hunting and killing of any beautiful animal by sons ‘dim and dimmer’.
Above – ‘Dim and Dimmer Trump’ proudly display their
efforts as such ‘superb hunters’;
– fully supported by environmentalist father Donald naturally !
Posted on June 21, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
It seems like a lifetime – Joanne, Mark and Trevor were out campaigning about this slaughter back around 19990 / 91. Very sadly, in this modern age, it still continues, some 27 years or so after they hit the streets.
Animal rights campaigners have reported details of the the latest Grindarap – an annual event in the Faroe Islands where locals round up and massacre huge families of whales.
The sea turned red as the blood of an estimated 150-200 mammals were sliced to death by hunters from the Danish islands, located in the Norwegian Sea.
The Grindarap is believed to date back as far as 1584. It is a method of whaling that drives entire pods of whales and dolphins towards beaches by trapping them with small boats and missiles.
The prey, typically short-finned pilot whales migrating through the Norwegian Sea in the summer, are then set upon other hunters armed with knives and lances.
There are usually a series of hunts in close succession to one another at this time of year. The whale meat is eaten by locals.
Various campaign groups have demanded that the practice, which is legal, be stamped out.
“The animals slowly bleed to death. Whole families are slaughtered, and some whales swim around in their family members’ blood for hours.
“Whales and dolphins are highly intelligent creatures and feel pain and fear every bit as much as we do,” PETA said.
Posted on June 18, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Posted 14th June, 2017
Updated: 15th June, 2017
Author: Eduardo Gonçalves
Elections can be curious affairs. For political junkies, the polling, the projections, and the posturing are their bread and butter – but away from that there is something much deeper. Elections have a way of distilling how a nation feels and what it values.
This was supposed to be the Brexit election, but in the end, that wasn’t a major issue. To everyone’s surprise, it was usurped by a different issue: hunting.
In Conservative manifestos past, the party has committed a free vote on repeal of the Hunting Act. Previously, when only a handful of Conservative MPs supported the ban, this was barely commented on. But we know that prior to this election, more than 50 Conservative MPs supported the ban. More than that, we know that the vast majority of the British public support the ban. So it came as something of a surprise when Theresa May affirmed her own support for hunting, and a repeal of the Hunting Act. What happened next was little short of remarkable.
Like never before, fox hunting became an election issue.
That’s not my just view. Buzzfeed analysed what was being shared online during the campaign. Throughout the campaign, hunting was the fourth most-shared topic, ahead of Brexit. It wasn’t just online that it was making a stir, either. BritainThinks ran focus groups with swing voters in marginal constituencies. After social care, the most commonly mentioned manifesto commitment was the Hunting Act. YouGov said that the words brought up most during the campaign were “social care” and “fox hunting”.
Candidates – both Labour and Conservative – spoke time and time again about how fox hunting repeatedly came up on the doorsteps. Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston said Theresa May’s comments on hunting were a “turning point” in the campaign. Another Conservative MP, Michael Fabricant, said that raising the issue was “very foolish”. The victorious Labour candidate in Canterbury – held by the Conservatives for decades – said it was fox hunting that swung it.
Jim Waterson, Political Editor at Buzzfeed, tweeted that “Anecdotally and based on our most-shared data, I really think fox hunting (& ivory ban) cost the Tories some marginal seats”.
At the same time all this was going on, League Against Cruel Sports supporters were contacting their local candidates as part of the Votes for Vinny campaign. Tens of thousands of emails were sent, and in the days before polling day, thousands of people logged in to the League website to see how their candidates responded to the pledges.
Clearly, hunting is not a party political issue. No party has a monopoly on compassion. Along with those many anti-hunting Conservative MPs, over 70% of Conservative voters support the ban on hunting. Party colour was not the vote loser here – the misjudgement was pandering to a vocal minority who want to see a return to a more ignorant time.
Vinny himself was in cities across Britain, spreading the word about animal cruelty. Candidates from all parties contacted their constituents – and us at the League – to say that they opposed repeal. In the final two weeks of the campaign, an additional 30 Conservative candidates, almost all of whom were elected, said that they would vote against repeal.
So, where do we stand now? Well, it is very difficult to see a repeal vote on the Hunting Act being passed. Former Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps says it “stands absolutely no chance” of repeal.
Despite the Conservatives losing seats, the number of Conservative MPs supporting the Hunting Act has increased, and is possibly as high as one third of MPs. The election has made clear how unpopular – not to mention politically toxic – the idea of repeal is.
Yet there is more work to do. The Brexit process may open the door to weakened environmental and animal welfare legislation. That must be stopped. In the last Parliament, good progress was made towards tougher sentencing for animal cruelty. That must be seen through. It is not just politicians that should now be left in no doubt as to how unpopular hunting is. In a couple of months, ‘cub hunting’ – the illegal slaughter of fox cubs – will begin again, and hunting continues under the false alibi of “trail hunting”. Public bodies like the National Trust, the Forestry Commission, and the Ministry of Defence continue to allow this on their land. The British public do not tolerate animal cruelty, and neither should those organisations.
With a hung Parliament, the election may have had an indecisive outcome, but in another way, it was utterly decisive. The idea that the Hunting Act should be repealed has been roundly rejected and the hope now is that we can move on from any notion of repeal or weakening.
The British public believes in compassion and they believe that animals should be protected from persecution. Politicians surely now accept that. It must be time, therefore, that we seek to strengthen and extend those protections.
Posted on June 10, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Well it has been absolutely disastrous for the Conservative Party to hold a (national) election. PM Mrs May wanted to increase her majority so that she could move forward into Brexit negotiations next week with a strong majority. Instead she scored a huge own goal and actually lost many MP’s – not because of Brexit but because the British public could not stand some of her new (proposed) policies
A return to a free vote (as wished by Mrs May) in the House to bring back hunting was one such topic. As a result of this self inflicted own goal – (she did not have to have an election for another 3 years) – Mrs May’s future as the Prime Minister is now in doubt.
See the following article from the Telegraph – which is one of the most Conservative supporting newspapers in the UK:
So hopefully with all this trouble and now less MP’s rather than more (to try and get a hunting supportive majority); it now looks as if hunting will remain banned and that the ‘Vinny’ campaign by the LACS was effective.
See here what the ‘League Against Cruel Sports (LACS)’ views on it all are:
On what is quite a remarkable day for British politics, we just wanted to say thank you.
As someone who cares about animals, you have played a major role in this election campaign.
If you Voted for Vinny to contact your candidates, you were one of many who made sure that those standing for election knew exactly how strong feeling is on our key issues. In fact, around 85,000 emails were sent to candidates! Many of those candidates told us that they received more communication about hunting than any other issue.
Vinny himself toured the country from one end to the other. We understand that some people didn’t really like the campaign – all the best campaigns are a bit ‘Marmite’ in that they are loved or hated! – but it did enable us to reach out to people beyond our normal supporter base. The more people who understand how vile hunting really is, the more will join us in ensuring that it is never made legal again.
Alongside the Votes for Vinny campaign we continued our usual work in the media and in Parliament. Our polling showing that 84% of the public are opposed to legalising fox hunting was published everywhere. We know that some pro-hunting candidates publicly switched their position, potentially because of this work.
We also commissioned a poll which showed that half of all voters would switch their vote to a candidate of another party if the local candidate from their preferred party was pro-repeal. That’s quite a devastating figure when you consider how close the election was. This information will help us understand the scale of the threat against the Hunting Act.
Other polling showed that hunting was one of the most talked about issues of the entire election, second only to social care. Hunting was truly a hot topic, and I firmly believe the League can take a lot of credit for keeping it in the public eye.
But to the future – what will the election result mean? Honestly, we don’t know yet!
There is a chance that hunting has become so toxic that no government will touch it for a while. But there is also the threat of an attempt to re-write environmental legislation – including the Hunting Act. Meanwhile, the hunters who continue to defy the law will be out and about– starting with cub hunting season in just a few weeks.
Our work continues, and we continue to rely on your support. This election could be a turning point for animals. But there is so much more we can achieve together in bringing cruel sport to an end –who knows what mountains we can climb.
So once again, from Vinny and all the other animals you’re helping – thank you!
For non UK visitors – we have a General Election here on 8/6/17 to elect a new government.In the UK we have 2 main political parties – Conservative and Labour.The Conservatives are basically the same as Republicans in the US – all about money, their interests and very little else.Labour is a ‘normal mans’ party.The Conservatives are currently the government under the PM Mrs. May.
Labour was the party that introduced the hunting ban around 11 years ago.May and Tories now want to try and bring it back – hence the demo in London on 29 and the several references to ‘May’ – this being T. May, the Prime Minister.
David Cameron (remember him ?) was the Conservative PM before Mrs May.Cameron was a hunter; and the Tories are always really viewed as the hunting party of British politics.Most now ask; with the hunt ban in place for 11 years; why do the Conservatives want to try and bring it back ?
Because Conservatives are looked on as the upper class; the land owners with a blood lust for hunting innocent wild animals.Labour have pledged to fight to keep the ban, and improve legislation even more if necessary.Labour is led by Mr. Corbyn.
So now we are into the last 2 weeks before the election.A few months ago the Conservatives were way ahead, but now Labour are steadily catching up.The Conservatives (Tories) have done a U turn on Ivory for example – https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2017/05/26/uk-conservatives-to-u-turn-on-ivory-ban-please-take-action-before-the-8th-june-election/— and are not at all animal welfare friendly.Labour are the very positive.Hunting of British wild animals is just one of many issues, but an issue that the British public feel very strongly about.It will be interesting to watch how the parties progress over the next few weeks and who comes out eventual winner.Many pundits say it will be the Conservatives, but they are very un popular because of a lot of their views on certain things.
We shall see and will report the result on this site.
London anti hunt demo on 29/5 newspaper links – note that articles may be biased depending on which political party the newspaper supports !
Posted on May 27, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
ENJOY THE MARCH / DEMO, BUT TAKE NOTE THAT AFTER THE BOMBINGS IN MANCHESTER earlier this week, public events security is massive – military and police. Help to make it go well by adhering to a few rules – enjoy but make it safe.
We have a proud democracy here in the UK – this event could easily have been stopped by the police after recent events; but we are allowed to continue. Follow the rules – don’t give the pro hunters anything to use against us antis – they would love that. Follow the simple rules and keep it safe – SAV.
As far as we know, the London anti hunt march is STILL ON – Bank Holiday Monday.
Police and military will be on patrol over the City – so make it all go as good as it could.
Because of the terrible Manchester events earlier this week, security is obviously higher. The UK is at its highest security level post Manchester bombings – so please help to make life easier for all military security and police concerned.
The following has been put out – please take note of what it says.
“MARCH/DEMO GOING AHEAD.
The police have confirmed they will be bringing sniffer dogs into the crowd at the start of the anti hunt protest on Bank Holiday Monday.
The dogs will be searching for explosive devices this is a precaution being used for all public events under the heightened security threat.
The police are also asking all attendees not to bring flares to the protest. These have been used at anti hunt protests in the past, but anyone letting off a flare or attempting to throw one will be putting themselves and other people at risk.
Any loud bangs or smoke could lead to panic by the wider public and a reaction by armed police or soldiers along our march route.
Can I therefore call on everyone attending the march to please not bring any flares with them.”
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 
