Uk: Videos To Watch and Enjoy – British Wildlife (BBC)

 

 

 

Beautiful wildlife on and around the British Isles.

Every year the BBC, which is world famous for its wildlife programmes, produces a series for Uk viewers relevant to the time of year.

The last series, ‘Autumnwatch’ presented a range of programmes, each dedicated to specific wildlife issues and animals around the Uk.  The programmes were presented by Chiris, Kate and Simon, have some excellent wildlife footage as well as being very educational.

The quirky, mad, nutty, have a good laugh side of the British and their humour is also shown in all of the programmes.

Click on the following link to get the ‘homepage’ video;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/autumnwatch/

then further select from a series of video clips underneath this, which include:

Pine Martens

Autumn Montage

Musical Montage

Best Bits

Cairngorms Ptarmigan

Dawn Rooks

Using the tabs along the top of the homepage, there are a host of other articles, issues and photographs all relating to British wildlife in the Autumn.

Enjoy !

SAV.

And finally:

http://video.telegraph.co.uk/services/player/bcpid1529569286?bctid=5524339001 

 

 

Serbia: New Information of Terrible Suffering at Smederevo City Pound

 

Contact e mail addresses:

kabinet@smederevo.org.rs ;  s.celebicanin@minpolj.gov.rs ; tuzilasstvosd@gmail.com ; Predsednik skupstine ; zoran.micovic@minpolj.gov.rs ; zoran.marinkovic@minpolj.gov.rs ; vetuprava@minpolj.gov.rs ; Vlada Terzin ; Dragan Djilas ; budimir.plavsic@minpolj.gov.rs ;

Smederevo city, Serbia, is known to us as a place in the past where live dogs were simply left on the city dump; sometimes wrapped up alive in plastic bags or even sometimes put into plastic sacks and left on the dump. They were known as the ‘Living Garbage’ – See the photographic evidence ‘a’  following:

Photographic Evidence – ‘Living Garbage’ on Smederevo city dump:   click on the link ‘a’

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Smederevo city is near to Belgrade.  The Serbian alliance have now been provided with yet more evidence from a citizen of Smederevo, who writes that dogs in the city pound are extremely tiny, literally just skin and bone.  Cannibalism is present in the dogs living at the pound.

Allegedly, there are only two workers; dogcatchers at the facility.  These people allegedly take the food which is supposed to be given to the dogs and instead sell it themselves.  The dogs have virtually nothing in the way of shelter, as can be seen from the photograph.  The yard is covered with wet mud and dog excrement.  All the dogs get to eat is some parts of old, mouldy loaves of bread.  The dogcatchers when asked say that the dogs do not need to be given water because it is raining !

Dogs at the facility, which can hardly be called a city ‘shelter’, are never vaccinated, they receive no veterinary care. 

The public garbage collection firm who is responsible for the facility, ‘JKP Komunalac, Smederevo’, allegedly receives around 5 MILLION Dinar every year for this ‘shelter / pound’ to be operated.

Serbian activists have just filed a charge to the Public Attorney of Smederevo, to the police and also to the Republic of Serbia Veterinary Inspection, through Mrs Sanja Celebicanin, who is the chief of all Serbian Republic veterinary inspectors.  Charges have been made under both the Serbian Veterinary Law and also the Serbian Law for Animal Welfare.

Mrs Sanja Celebicanin has all the mechanisms in her power for immediately demanding change and for implementation of existing Serbian animal welfare legislation.   Mrs Sanja Celebicanin appears to be failing in her duties if we are witnessing ‘animal welfare’ in Serbia such as the photographs show.

This current situation is not acceptable.  Therefore this information, including all the photographs, and the name of JKP Komunalac, Smederevo will be provided to EU authorities and commissioners demanding that action is taken against those concerned with this blatant animal abuse. 

We have written to the EU Commissioners about the situation in Macedonia this very week;

Link:   https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/macedonia-sav-now-supports-eu-eurogroup-for-animals-by-formally-writing-letter-to-eu-commissioners-expressing-concerns-about-conditions-and-animal-suffering-at-vardariste-holding-facility-skopje-ma/  

If now we have to write yet again to EU Commissioners about Serbian animal cruelty, then it will be done.

Further news of this situation will be published as it is obtained.

SAV.

Ministarstvo poljoprivrede,šumarstva i vodoprivrede Republike Srbije

Uprava za veterinu-Sektor veterinarske inspekcije, Beograd   , molimo da postupite i da prosledite područno nadležnoj Rep.veterinarskoj inspekciji  i da tražite izveštaj  od iste

MUP RS, Beograd , molimo prosledite mesnonadležnoj PU Smederevo

Opštinsko javno tužilaštvo, Smederevo

15.12.2009.

PRIJAVA

Držanja velikog broja neobeženih , nevakcinisanih pasa u neuslovnom objektu  koji ne ispunjava veterinarsko-sanitarne uslove te stoga ili nema Rešenje o ispunjenim veterinarsko-sanitarnim uslovima i upisu u Registar objekata  ili je ono falsifikat činjeničnog stanja koje možete videti na priloženoj  fotografiji, jednoj od mnogobrojnih koje su nam dostavljene od strane gradjana Smedereva .

Psi zatvoreni u ovaj objekat  zlostavljani su izgladnjivanjem, nema veterinarskog nadzora niti  radnici  održavaju higijenu, te  psi borave u ekstremno nehigijenskim uslovima  u velikom čoporu ,usled čega su izloženi zarazama i medjusobnom povredjivanju te kanibalizmu .

Ako i postoji kancelarija za rukovodioce ovog sektora u Smederevu-zoohigijenske službe , kao deo ovog objekta- prihvatilišta , sumnjamo da je i ona čista s obzirom na nehigijenske uslove u kojima borave životinje , mada je u ovom slučaju održavanje higijene u prostorijama u kojima borave ljudi  od sekundarnog značaja, jer se radi o milionima dinara  javnog novca namenjenog zbrinjavanju napuštenih životinja tokom proteklih nekoliko godina – gde je onda taj novac ,jer životinje  su na blatnjavoj ledini, gladne, žedne, mokre ,promrzle, nevakcinisane, neobeležene –zlostavljane .

Molimo da područnonadležna rep.veterinarska inspekcija  , kao i policija i ojt  ,  postupe u skladu s važećim zakonima koji se odnose na ovu oblast i svojim službenim dužnostima .

Dostavljamo vam dokaze  krivičnog dela zlostavljanja i pasivnog ubijanja  velikog broja životinja uz zloupotrebu javnog novca – nepoznat je pravac oticanja javnog novca što je potrebno istražiti uporedjivanjem mesečnih  priliva novca sa žiro računa opštine Smederevo na žiro račun  JKP KOMUNALAC-zoohigijena Smederevo , i  računima koji se tiču namenskog trošenja javnog novca namenjenog zbrinjavanju  napuštenih pasa i mačaka , kao i dokaze  prekršajnih dela  kažnjivih  kaznenim odredbama Zakona o veterinarstvu i Zakona o dobrobiti životinja.

Takodje vas molimo da nas izvestite o preduzetim merama nakon uvida u stanje licu mesta . Nečinjenjem se u ovom slučaju postaje saučesnik, koji ometa se istragu i sprovodjenje pravde .

Hvala na  vašem vremenu i pažnji, a iznad svega hvala na postupanju , koje od vas  očekujemo  u ovom  slučaju što je moguće pre, po zakonima Republike Srbije .

S poštovanjem

Prijatelj-EPAR/OIPA Srbija/Alijansa za prava životinja

Graphic Puppy Killing Pictures – But Where From ? – ** WARNING **

With the ‘happy’ little Panda cartton on the left hand side, one would guess China;

The pictures say it all.

*** WARNING *** – GRAPHIC ANIMAL ABUSE ***

http://www.xici.net/b182074/d105509454.htm

*** WARNING *** – GRAPHIC ANIMAL ABUSE ***

We have made several attempts to reproduce the photographs on this site; but without success.

Maybe there is a wish for them not to be shown globally.

We can provide nothing more except the following link, which does show the pictures.

If anyone can provide us further information, such as the country, then please post under the comments section for this post – we check and publish them all.

Thanks – SAV.

Turkey: The ‘Man’ In the Video – a True Coward

Jenny says it all – SAV.

Keep Turkey OUT OF THE EU.

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Turkish Embasst Links – Contact Them !

http://www.allaboutturkey.com/turkconsulate.htm

http://www.turkish-media.com/en/us_tr_embassies.htm

 

*** WARNING *** 

**Graphic video ** – pause the video if you feel it is too difficult to watch.  

Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 4:45 AM

Subject: Would you want to watch this video or view these pictures?

http://blog.myletsadopt.com/2009/11/27/sacrifice-holiday-the-yearly-shame/

Hello,

Are their any words that can describe the act of this “man”, this coward? How about any words to support this senseless, indescribable, and foolish to the core, custom??? Tradition???? Religious act?????!!!!!!!!

Do you see the way he was approaching the animal? So he was afraid of being hurt? So he was trying to keep a safe distance from a cow, who, was gentle in nature, had no mean of defense, had a robe tied around his neck, was stabbed in many areas by him, and was dying, slowly, as these cowardly sick bastards have intended?

Can you explain this barbaric and cowardly act?

The cow has died in vain, in agony, without a choice, and without committing an evil act that has brought on such horrific treatment.

But the man, the pitiful man, had a choice. He probably has celebrated afterward, and was probably regarded as a hero among those equally ignorant and heartless people. Sadly, he will continue to live his pitiful life, without ever realizing that there was anything wrong in his senseless act, without ever realizing how cowardly his action was, and he will probably pass on his “heroic” acts to his children, as if it was something to be proud of.

I pity this “man”. There is nothing more pitiful than being so purely ignorant!

He would continue to hurt, but only those that he can, those who are gentle, without a voice, and without any mean of defense.  A true coward.

A religious sacrifice? To sacrifice an animal for God?

Why would a all mighty God want that?

An important “religious sacrifice festival”? Sounds like an oxymoron?

Am I wrong with the belief that religions are intended to teach us and to guide us to be better individuals?

No, God of any religion could not have wanted this. This ritual, like many senseless religious rituals of different religions, were created by humans, at some point, for various reasons, many of which for the wrong reasons, but people followed, blindly, without ever questioning. May be they were afraid to question, that somehow they thought they would offend God?!

I believe that most of us have the intelligence, the wisdom, and most importantly, the heart, to make the right choice and to practice what are truly consistence with the intended teachings of a religion.

May you all have a safe and peaceful holiday season!

Jenny

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Albert Einstein

“Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?”  ~Pierre Troubetzkoy
“If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth – beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals – would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?”  ~Attributed to George Bernard Shaw

“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
— Thomas Edison


http://blog.myletsadopt.com/2009/11/27/sacrifice-holiday-the-yearly-shame/

 

Turkish Embasst Links – Contact Them !

http://www.allaboutturkey.com/turkconsulate.htm

http://www.turkish-media.com/en/us_tr_embassies.htm 

 

 

 

Uk (England): Live Animals Attempted to be Exported From the Uk as ‘Boxed Meat’

Uk animal welfare campaigners have finally witnessed great results in their attempts to stop LIVE ANIMAL EXPORTS from leaving Uk shores.

The year 2009 has seen very little in live exports taking place; after years of campaigners gradually closing down Eastern and Southern English ports by way of some excellent campaigns.  2009 has been the first year in over 20 when several months at a time have passed without any live animals being exported from the Uk to mainland Europe for either immediate slaughter or further fattening.

Whenever there has been news of pending new ferry services to carry live animals from English ports, campaigners across the entire country have rallied together and formed a united front of opposition.  In just the last couple of months, campaigns against the live animal trade has seen the ports of Felixstowe and Portsmouth targetted with demonstrations, supoported by meetings with officials and demonstartions often attended by supportive Members of Parliament (MP).

As a last and desperate attempt to continue getting live animals to Europe, hauliers and exporters have even attempted to take live animals out of English ports such as Dover http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover  and Ramsgate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsgate  by trying to declare the consignment as ‘boxed meat’.

Fortunately, alert ferry workers and port officials were able to detect these illegal shipments; primarilty by the smell the was coming from the vehicles !

When they have been detected, trucks have been prevented from continuing their journey and all animals handed over to the Uk Ministry Deafra and its sub department ‘Animal Health’.

It is thought that recent attempts have been made in order to try and smuggle live sheep to Europe in preparation for the Al Adha Eid festival taking place over the weekend of 28 / 29 November.

All attempts to export animals recently have failed, and now things have moved on with Trading Standards from the English county of Kent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent    now launching investigations into the consignments.  Trading Standards  have the power to prosecute those involved through the judicial system, and welfare campaigners are eagerly awaiting the investigation report being produced by TS officials.

As the haulier involved with this illegal shipping of live animals is Dutch and operates from the Netherlands, Uk anit-export groups such as Kent Against Live Exports (KALE) have been working with Dutch animal transport investigators at ‘Eyes on Animals’ to ensure that good information flow of news is maintained and that national pressure can be put on both Uk and Dutch government authorities associated with animal transport regulations.

KALE are now awaiting the investigation report by Kent Trading Standards prior to deciding what further action needs to be undertaken.

KALE EU Correspondent and ‘Serbian Animals Voice’ founder Mark Johnson who has worked on live animal export investigations for 20 years now, has stated that

“KALE and ‘Eyes on Animals’ will do whatever it possibly can to get those involved with these illegal shipments known to the public as well as cross-Channel ferry operators.  KALE has experience of taking over 18 fromal complaints to the EU Legal Affairs team based in Brussels during the last two years, and we have no hesitation to take this case to EU legal affairs also if the Uk and Dutch competent authorities do not act over this, what is effectively animal smuggling”. 

“Transporting live animals across european borders without having Uk pre-shipment health checks on the animals is a massive biosecurity issue for every european country that these animals could potentially (and secretly) be shipped through”.

“If animals were carrying any disease and were also being transported whilst being declared as ‘boxed meat’, then livestock throughout France, Belgium and the Netherlands could be infected as a result”.

This is an issue which goes way beyond the illegal shipment of live animals. 

The following are articles from Kent newspapers relating to the illegal shipments:

http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/southkent/Firm-faces-ram-ifications-sheep-cargo/article-1327587-detail/article.html

To visit the ‘Eyes on Animals’ web site, please click on  http://eyesonanimals.com/

To see a 30 minute video relating to the work of Lesley and Tatjana at ‘Eyes on Animals’ which was specially made for dutch television, please click on  http://player.omroep.nl/?aflID=10058689

Note – the video is in Dutch, but very easy to follow.  It shows the situation of and conditions for livestock being transported by road across Europe.

To visit the Kent Against Live Exports web site, please click on  http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~kale/   – for news of past actions and reports please visit  http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~kale/news/103.htm

Below are a selection of pictures from the demonstrations organised at Portsmouth harbour by organisations including KALE,  CIWF  http://www.ciwf.org.uk/   and SARC, the Southern (England) Animal Rights Coalition  http://www.sarconline.co.uk/  

Mark Johnson says – “Whilst we currently have no live animals being exported from Uk shores, these recent attempts to smuggle live sheep to mainland Europe have made us very aware that we must never take anything for granted, especially in the live animal export business.  20 years as an anti-export campaigner and investigator has shown me that those involved in this trade will do anything they can to make money, even if it involves a lot of animal suffering.  These recent attempts have now turned another corner in the history of live animal exports, and I, KALE, Eyes on Animals and CIWF will do whatever we can to ensure that Uk live exports remain where they belong; only in history books”.

Further links to PAST live animal export protests in the Uk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaj0C4yZRa4&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn5GMeODrG4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNWzFacaJyg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAGB5UOHSZs&feature=related

** WARNING – EXTREME ANIMAL SUFFERING **

Australian Live Export Links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNplhnjDP28

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuYmAROM1Ek

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o7mp6V7Sn8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-uriV6zoiQ

 

Photo – Animals Angels

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nepal: **WARNING** – More Images of the Animal Killing Frenzy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nepal: Photographs of the Gadhimai Slaughter – 250,000 Animals

 

 

 

 

 

Dutch video link:

http://www.rtl.nl/components/actueel/rtlnieuws/miMedia/2009/week48/Wed13.dierenslachting.xmlOur

SAV post last week:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/nepal-take-action-now-to-stop-the-killing-of-thousands-of-animals-next-week-november-24-25/ 

 

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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:11:52 -0800
Manoj Gautam, Representative of Roots and Shoots Nepal : ‘I am in
total shock after watching the killing of the buffaloes. I have no
words to describe the scene. Thousands of buffaloes were standing in
an enclosure when butchers holding swords started hacking randomly at
the animals. No one was holding the buffaloes – many tried to escape.
Baby buffaloes were bleating and searching for their mothers. Soon
they were walking around in a pool of blood. They were hunted down by
the men. Needless to say, not a single animal survived the blood bath.
In fact, some animals had already died before the sacrifice from the
transport and the lack of food and water. They were left in the same
spot with the living ones. It was a scene I will never be able to
forget. Now I just want to go home and wait for the courage to
continue our campaign.’

Krishna Singh, Programme Manager Animal Nepal: ‘I visited Gadhimai
before the killing started and what I saw made me very sad. There was
a baby goat that died from a lack of food and water. It just lied
there – no one seem to notice it. The baby buffaloes came up to me,
and wanted to be petted. They were scared and needed some comfort.’

Bibi Funyal, photographer: ‘I was assigned to film the festival. At
first I seemed okay but when the killing started I suddenly found my
knees shaking. In the beginning the butchers were able to cut the
heads of the buffaloes in one stroke. Later they seemed to get into a
frenzy and did not kill properly. I would take them a long time to
severe the heads. The buffaloes were mooing – it was a terrible sound.
The babies were searching for their mothers, not understanding what
was going. At some point a baby buffalo came up to me and it touched
my tripod. That was when I felt I would be passing out if I continued
filming. When I left the place I had to step over thousands of bodies
and heads and wade through animal blood. It was something I will never
do again, even if they offer me an award.’


Lucia de Vries, Director Animal Nepal, international campaigner: ‘Now
that I observed the festival I am convinced that these killings are
among the worst forms of animal cruelty in the world
. I pray that when
the images come out the international community will agree that we
have to stop this. To kill thousands of buffaloes without any
humanity, by starving them for 2/3 days, by not tethering them, by
carrying out the beheading publicly by butchers in a frenzy, and by
mixing the dead with the living, is something unimaginable and totally
unnecessary.
I have a sense of failure and feel we have let these
beautiful, loyal creatures down entirely. I appeal to all concerned
citizens to do whatever is in their ability to stop the killings at
Gadhimai.’

Birgunj, November 24, 2009

Statements by Gadhimai Campaigners and Other Observers

Pramada Shah, President of Animal Welfare Network Nepal: ‘After being
at Gadhimai I now have an even stronger determination to continue the
campaign as long as it takes for them to stop. No other country would
allow such a massacre.
I feel the government should have taken a
stronger stand or at least appealed to the people to worship in a non
violent manner. They used the lame excuse that this is an ancient
culture that should run its course.
I don’t blame the innocent
devotees but rather the organizers and the educated who do not seem to
care. We intend to work in coordination with the Indian groups to
raise awareness among the visitors, of whom 60-80 percent are Indian.
We also want to work with the local communities with the hope that the
next Gadhimai will be a different one.’


Lucia de Vries
Freelance Journalist
Nepal – Netherlands

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Stories:
http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/nov2009/2009-11-22-02.asp&hl=en
Photos
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/nov/24/nepal-hinduism?picture=355997372

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Stories: http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/nov2009/2009-11-22-02.asp&hl=en

Photos http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/nov/24/nepal-hinduism?picture=355997372