Posted on August 31, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
One of my pictures of calves being exported from the UK in the past. Note lower rear animals sucking the trailer bars; the need for milk ! – is this not what we hear from the CIWF investigations team today in Israel and Gaza ? – please click on the photo to be able to enlarge and see more detail.
Fortunately no longer the process, but the old method – a (UK ?) calf restrained in a Dutch veal crate.
Their statement says:
Strasbourg – At today’s meeting of the Intergroup on the Conservation and Welfare of Animals, Members of the European Parliament heard about the consistent failure of member states to enforce Regulation EC 1/2005 which causes millions of animals every year to suffer unnecessarily during transport. This is compounded further with the export of live animals to the Middle East, Turkey and Africa.
Intergroup President, Janusz Wojciechowski MEP who chaired the meeting suggested: “Despite legislation governing live animal transport being in place for ten years we are still seeing animals undertaking extremely long journeys without any respect for their welfare and the Commission has a duty to pursue Member States that continually flout this legislation and cause immense suffering as a consequence.”
The invited speakers spoke about the failure to enforce regulation EC 1/2005 and the consequences this has for animal welfare. They also raised the issue that animal suffering is being exported to third countries especially at the time of slaughter and this is totally unacceptable.
Peter Stevenson, Chief Policy Advisor at Compassion in World Farming stated that; “The EU exports two million cattle and sheep a year to the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. These animals experience great suffering at slaughter in this region. Not only is the slaughter cruel but it is in breach of the international standards on welfare at slaughter of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).”
He added: “We have informed the Commission and the exporting Member States of this problem but they refuse to halt the trade or to take effective steps to ensure that EU animals are slaughtered in accordance with the OIE standards. This trade is in breach of Article 13 of TFEU which requires the EU to ‘pay full regard’ to animal welfare. Compassion in World Farming calls on the EU to urgently halt this trade.”
Dr Alexander Rabitsch presenting the findings of his latest report stated: “The European Commission is turning a blind eye to the issue of live animal transport. It is essential that the Commission acts today to ensure that the serious shortcomings witnessed on a daily basis across the EU are addressed immediately and that Member States are brought to task to ensure the highest levels of animal welfare are respected at all times on all transports.”
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Our Action –
Today; 31st August 2015, I have written to all of my EU Members of Parliament for my region – the South East of England.
My letter mainly involves the very recent expose by Compassion In World Farming (CIWF); also based here in England – http://action.ciwf.org.uk/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=119&ea.campaign.id=41392&ea.tracking.id=05bb9ddb and the issue of very young calves being exported for slaughter from locations such as Lithuania and Romania (in the EU) to Israel and Gaza (non EU).
Journeys of over 2,600 miles; with the guarantee that they will end in a terrible death for these very young and innocent, sentient animals.
Basically, the EU; complete with its so called ‘regulations’ and its so called ‘politicians’ make me just want to vomit. I and many others; including Philip, the CEO at CIWF, have personally been involved with live calf export investigations and campaigning for around 25 years. See more at https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/about-us/ We have witnessed British calves being exported live to the Netherlands by a British Conservative government (like we have now under David Cameron) for incarceration into a veal crate system; while they have had the audacity to tell the UK public that they have banned the veal crate in the UK !. What is their way of dealing with the issue ? –export British calves to other countries to be shut in a box until their deaths ! – this is what makes me sick with politicians and their yukspeak, Party led spin to assure us all that we can sleep safe at night.
In the past, I have witnessed tens of thousands of UK calves heading for crates of the Netherlands; I have followed them on the roads; I have produced a series of reports about it all for the EU, I have photographed them (see picture here), I have smelt them; and most upsettingly, I have heard them crammed onto the trucks; their only wish to be fed fresh milk from their mothers who they were wrenched away from days before; never to see again.
As I say, it makes me want to puke now just as much as it did when I first encountered it 25+ years ago.
So this letter to my MEP’s does not praise them; quite the opposite. It is people such as this who are failing the good, caring citizens of the EU who want change for animal welfare to be better; and most importantly, they are failing the animals of Europe who remain silent but want them to be their voice.
I don’t really know what else to say apart from the fact that the EU and all its cronies; including its many MEP’s; are in reality doing nothing to improve animal welfare. They speak the EU speak, have committees for this and that; an EU animal welfare Intergroup / Eurogroup; and still we see very young (EU) calves being shipped from Lithuania to Israel and Gaza for terrifying deaths. If animals have to be slaughtered; then it should take place as near to their point of origin as possible; greatly reducing their stresses during long transport and the terrible deaths they experience in nations such as Turkey and Gaza. You export locally killed meat on the hook; NOT on the hoof !
I can understand it; campaigners can understand it; I think you can understand it; so why not the self important’s of the EU ? – this is where the EU fails its citizens. It lives in a rose colored bubble of everything is ok; there are guarantees, regulations and assurances that things are always dealt with correctly; so hey; what are we griping about ?. Wrong Mr and Mrs MEP – you are failing the people and animals of Europe. Calves being exported and your false promises of alleged EU enforcement and EU regulations for animals undergoing long distance transport are something I have had to endure from the EU for the last 25 years. Today the animals are no better off than they were then thanks to the EU.
I am sick to death of these people and their ‘yukspeak’ of legislation and rules – some kind of EU ‘fairyland’ where politicians think they can bullshit citizens off with their false verbals of ‘high standards’, monitored’ and spared unnecessary suffering’, to name but a few !. They are failing the calves and other animals of Europe. Please write to them and show them your disgust for their blemished approach to sentient beings. Lots more details of how to write to your MEP(s) can be found in the ‘European Union’ section of ‘About Us’ on this site – https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/about-us/ . The campaigning goes on until the EU does see sense and actually moves to better things – I have covered veal calf exports for 25 years so another 25 does not deter me – It is not me who has to worry; but as for the Uk and the EU, well !
Please write to be a voice for the suffering calves; and politicians – wake up to the real world !!
Thanks – Mark.
Above – Veal Calf Crated – Photo CIWF.
Below is my letter to the EU MEP’s for SE England. If they respond then the responses will be reproduced on this site.
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Dear Sir / Madam;
I am writing with regard the export of live animals from within the EU to non EU nations.
A recent investigation by CIWF (England) showed very young Lithuanian calves being first sent by road to the port of Koper in Slovenia. A distance of approximately 1030 miles. Many of them were to weak to stand, but they were still loaded at the point of origin for departure to Koper.
Upon arrival at Koper they then had to endure a further sea journey of approximately 1600 hundred miles to Haifa port in Israel. Other calves which have also been sent to Israel from other EU nations such as Romania, first endured a road journey to Midia port (Romania) of some 690 miles; then enduring a further sea journey of 1530 miles, again to Haifa in Israel.
Many of these young animals were highly stressed by the time they reached their export port within the EU. As they endured such poor conditions during their loading, it is not uncommon for many of them to die during the journey.
For those that do survive the terrible sea crossing toIsrael, conditions upon their arrival are no better. At many facilities filmed by CIWF in Israel, there was no bedding on the floor for the animals and in many cases they were left to lick bare concrete floors in their pitiful search for food after enduring such a journey. These facilities are known as ‘lock up and leave’; where just this procedure is undertaken; animals are left to fend for their own survival before they are slaughtered.
Eventually some of the animals will go to Israeli slaughterhouses; where they will face inhumane slaughter without stunning. Others will be driven further across the border into Gaza for even more terrifying and painful deaths.
A recent European Court of Justice ruling said that EU laws on animal transport still apply when animals leave Europe. The very sad situation is that there is absolutely no enforcement of animal transport regulations to stop exporters from breaking the law.
Thus you, elected MEP’s, the people that EU citizens are allegedly supposed to look up to HAVE dramatically FAILED the animals of Europe seriously. So why should we have any respect for you ? You have failed dismally in your work to ensure that regulations are adhered to.
The situation is no different for EU animals being shipped to Turkey for slaughter. My friend Lesley is the founder of Eyes on Animals in the Netherlands – http://www.eyesonanimals.com/ . She has just returned from one of her many visits to the EU / Turkish border, where she witnessed EU cattle transporters standing in extreme temperatures for many days to cross the border. Lesley says – Our inspection team has just come back from Turkey, where we checked on cattle transports at the Bulgarian border. We came back upset, disappointed and angry. Not a lot has changed compared to five years ago. We did accomplish a few things, but still everyday dozens of cattle transports are waiting for hours and sometimes even days, in the burning sun, to be allowed into Turkey.
Working personally in the EU aerospace industry involved with ‘Tornado’ aircraft for some 24 years https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/about-us/ , I have always been a pro-EU person. Unfortunately now; with the failures of animal welfare regulations right across the EU, I am in a position where at the referendum promised for the UK citizens by David Cameron; I will be voting for the UK to get out of Europe.
You may tell me that this will not help the animals of the EU – I reply by asking what actual help are you and your so-called ‘Parliament’ rule makers when we are currently witnessing the vast suffering of young calves being shipped all the way from Lithuania to Israel ? – the EU is failing the animals and animal welfare big time; and I personally hold people like you responsible for not enforcing the so called regulations that exist – 1/2005 et all on the transport of live animals.
Also, lets take the situation for stray animals in Serbia – for which my organisation was founded. https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/ As you can see from the many photographs https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/category/photographs-warning-animal-suffering/ and reports on my site; again the EU is not really doing anything regard animal welfare. The EU Enlargement Commission under Hahn makes all these statements about enforcing the ‘EU Rule of Law’ – a fundamental which must be shown by all accession states. And yet, for the last 11 years at least, Serbia has never enforced any of its rules of law regarding stray animal welfare. Here are a few samples from my site to show this:
And how does the EU reprimand Serbia for non enforcement of the rule of law ? – it hands out over 1 BILLION Euros to them as a sweetner for becoming a member of the almighty club !
What with this hunting illegally in Serbia, EU live animal trasnsport to not EU nations and so many other issues in the EU at this preset time; I think it fair to say that the EU has dramatically failed / is dramatically failing EU citizens. MEP’s such as yourselves are not ensuring that as ‘our representatives’, rules that currently exist are being enforced. Thus I ask what the point of MEP’s actually are ? – you are failing EU citizens by failing to enforce existing rules with current and new accession states; or even introduce into your little club new regulations which ban the export of live animals outside of the EU. In other words I question if you really care about any of it at all !
We all know that the Conservative party (badger killers, fox hunters, bee killers etc) does not actually care about animal welfare, despite their weasel words; but I at least expect better from some other parties. I appreciate the help that Catherine Bearder has given to live animal transport campaigning; and Mr Keith Taylor for his help and support with Balkans stray animals; but sadly there is very little action to help live animals being transported outside of the EU. As EoA investigators say – Not a lot has changed compared to five years ago.
I thus deduce that the EU MEP system has failed. Is there any reason to have people in jobs when they do not act to reflect the wishes of the citizens of Europe ?
For me personally and the UK supporters of my organisation; you have until the UK referendum on Europe to do something and stop the long distance transportation of live animals and to make your voice heard with Commission Hahn regarding Serbia NOT enforcing its own legislation – or its own rules of law. Animals should be slaughtered as near to their point of origin as possible, then with meat exports only being on the hook, not the hoof. The EU is failing animals and putting finance above welfare; and I personally am sickened by this and this approach.
Please enforce changes now or be prepared to walk out of the EU come the UK referendum. The people of the UK want action from people like you, not false ‘forever in the future’ promises that will happen many years down the line; if they ever happen at all.
Yours truly,
Mark Johnson
Founder ‘Serbian Animals Voice’
Date – 31st August 2015.
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Venus has left a comment on the site; here is the full transcript as sent. Thank you Venus.
We hope that people take note of what is said.
Dear Mark,
I’ll try to respond to your letter, as if I were an honest European Parliament Member.
Not one that was elected by EU citizens to earn 12,000 euros a month (at least) without bringing any benefit for it.
The European Union is the Lobby-factory of the agricultural industry.
These agribusiness knows no other purpose than to maximize their profits. It is active, where the profit is greatest.
Examples: piglets are born in Holland, fattened in Spain and slaughtered in Italy.
In this respect, animals are regarded as a profitable source, and therefore the trucks take the living charge to where the money sounds.
No matter how, injured, maimed, bleeding, half-dead or dead, the goods and the money has to be delivered.
Over thousands of kilometers, the EU Commission pays subsidies to support a lucrative business with death and suffering.
As it had promised to the agricultural industry before the elections.
To ensure its voters for the next elections, the EU has introduced some bogus rules: determining the ceiling height, transport breaks, soaking duty, etc. Rules that are never kept, and when they are discovered, the perpetrators come with ridiculous penalties thereof.
No MEP has any interest to improve the transport of animals, to stop the Dog Catcher Mafia in Romania, or to punish the violations of the Serbs against the animal rights before the country enters the EU.
Concerns depend on the highest profits, the business with the transport of animals must be running as well as in all economic sectors.
2,438,306,132 animals are transported annually as a commodity throughout Europe. Humanly seen a disgrace to the 21st century.
For the EU band just a statistic, a number.
And a profitable performance for the agricultural Mafia as promised !!
This is the situation of the EU institution of the 21st century.
By the way, a shame also.
There is an effective method against these two kinds of shame: stop eating meat, and do not go in the EU elections.
No citizen should be used as a useful idiot so MEPs deserves every month what an average citizen earns in the year and with hard work.
Namely, in order to do nothing (at best).
Regards
Venus
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Posted on August 29, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Posted on August 27, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Dear Mark,
The secret ingredient in McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets is brutal animal cruelty.
That’s the finding of a new MFA undercover investigation at a McDonald’s Chicken McNugget supplier—Tyson Foods—that exposed horrific animal abuse, including:
Birds painfully beaten, stabbed, and impaled on makeshift clubs spiked with nails and then thrown into buckets to slowly die
Factory farm owners stepping on the heads of live chickens and then pulling their wings or bodies to break their necks
Chickens bred to grow so fast they became crippled under their own weight and frequently died from organ failure
Hundreds of thousands of birds crammed into filthy, windowless sheds forced to live for weeks in their own waste
After six short weeks, the surviving birds are grabbed by their legs, wings, and necks and violently slammed into transport crates—often suffering broken bones in the process—and trucked to slaughter.
You may remember that last month we exposed unimaginable animal abuse at another Tyson factory farm. As shocking as it is, cruelty and violence run rampant in the poultry industry.
There are no federal laws to protect chickens during their lives on factory farms, and most states specifically exclude chickens from anti-cruelty laws.
That’s why it is so important for McDonald’s to implement meaningful animal welfare policies and oversight at its supplier farms. As the world’s largest fast-food chain and a top customer to Tyson Foods, McDonald’s has both the power and ethical responsibility to prevent egregious cruelty to millions of animals.
Please, take a moment to sign our petition calling on McDonald’s to stop unconscionable animal abuse in its supply chain. Then please share the hidden-camera video with friends and encourage them to take action too.
And remember, as individual consumers who care about animals, the most powerful choice we can make is to leave chickens and other animals off our plates.
Sincerely,
Nathan Runkle
President
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Posted on August 25, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Dear colleagues working in animal-welfare,
Please find attached a letter that we sent to the French Minister of Agriculture. We do not ask that you take any action, but that you are aware of our observations. We hope to hear back from the French authorities in due time.
With best wishes,
Lesley Moffat
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Lesley Moffat, MSc Ethology
Eyes on Animals – Director
More reasons to stop the live transportation of animals over long distances !
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Past SAV posts showing links to Lesley and EoA:
I have had the real pleasure of working with the excellent Lesley regarding live animal transport work in the recent past.
Please also go to ‘About Us’ https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/about-us/ to see our work for the EU regarding an investigation report series into live calf transports.
Mark – SAV.
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Posted on August 22, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Hi Mark ,
I continue with cases : Turtle dove, massacre, North of Serbia, hunting clubs Jazovo.
Display hunting turtle doves in the North of Vojvodina, near by Kikinda, hunting clubs Jazovo who preyed upon the special nature reserves – “Pastures of great bustard”, in a zone of the reserve, where hunting is forbidden by law to the Decree of the Government of Republic of Serbia on the Protection of Special Nature Reserve, “Pastures of great bustard” Mokrin (Official Gazette of RS No.37 / 97).
The first hunt for which we filed the charge took place 26.08.2010. That same day in the evening, a large flock of turtle doves in migration were attempting to land to feed in the fields of sunflowers, get watered and then move to lands on sleeping in a nearby small forest, which is planted for this purpose.
They were chased and the Italian hunters and a few local hunters took lots of them. For those few hours, in a desperate flocks of turtle doves to feed, water and rest, hunters, according to a report of the hunting inspector killed 420 birds.
It was dark, and many did not see anything; they were not picked up, the dozens of dead birds; and several dozen left wounded on the ground to die overnight.
After the hunt , our associate who lives on the reservation, Joca Jančić, went to the place and saw a horrible scene, the field was covered with corpses of the birds and he also saw many wounded turtle doves that had dragged themselves around after being shot, at least 40 – 50 birds. Several turtle doves who were less injured were picked up and taken home to recuperate from the stress of what they had endured. Unfortunately only one of those rescued and taken away survived, the poison of the hunters lead in the bullets / shot which is absorbed by the blood causing a slow and suffering death. The one dove which survived eventually recovered after about 3 weeks and then was freed to continue its migration because they are smaller flocks that fly further South.
The Hunting inspector who acted according to our report wrote that hunters killed 420 turtle doves and they themselves determine that they can kill 500, so for her it was all right / ok. The fact that they were hunting in a prohibited place was not even considered, so nothing further was done regarding this at all – nothing !
From that whole flocks of doves undertaking a migratory flight, only one survived. A few photos from the scene (and shown here – SAV) show exactly what it looked like. Total shock, our correspondent managed to make a few pictures, the rest of the time was looking for birds in better condition / who were still alive to try to save them. Most were already dead or were facing death due to being shot but not killed by the hunters.
We have a record of hunting inspector on the hunt, but he is archived, and if need be I will find him.
The next year, hunting association Jazovo again organized hunting turtle doves in the same place on 2 occasions; 41 turtle doves were killed during the first hunt on 24.08.2011, and they killed 84 turtle dove on the second hunt. The hunting and mass killings were again undertaken in a place which according to the Serbian law is prohibited for hunting.
We have submitted the application for the other hunt of 27.08.2011. This was interrupted because the reserve guard, who was an associate of us, watched the hunting and reported it immediately, he called the police etc. The guard reserve, Zeljko Reljin, his report is shown at the end of this post, was fired from his work and he does not work any more as guardian of the reserve.
This is the corruption of the system – a reserve guard reports illegal activity by the hunters and he is the one who ends up losing his job whilst the hunting continues !
The report of the hunting inspector is also attached of the hunt from 2011, where you can see that for her it is all OK. It reports the guardian and pretends that he did not know that any hunting, including hunting turtle doves banned in A zone of the reserve called great bustard..
Then we filed a complaint about the work of the hunting inspector Ljiljana Bucalo Latinovic. In her record, according to the Italians, they issued receipt for turtle doves that were killed, birds officially according to EU law they can not take out of Serbia but were somehow presented.
After high alert about hunting turtle doves, 2012. Hunting was prohibited in the reserve, but the migratory birds were hunted elsewhere. This time, the flocks of doves migrating were smaller and smaller.
Thus, as described here, so being hunted turtle dove and quail everywhere in Serbia. Everything else is a lie.
Below is the complaint about the work of the hunting inspector, and we have since back to 2010.all the papers, just all in very large archives, and as I said, if you need, to find them and scan for SAV, we can find.
In the next sending I’ll find some case of quail hunting with decoys, or bird hunting nets. All this is happening now, as I write this, throughout Serbia. We have a lot of information about the poaching received from associates but it is difficult to arrive everywhere at the right time.
Regards V.
SAV comment:
Serbian authorities are not enforcing the rule of law as required for new EU membership nations. You do not fire a park / reserve ranger who reports hunters undertaking their blood lust in illegal no hunt areas; but the authorities appear to think this is ok; no doubt in conjunction with the hunts.
We are in the final stages now of our first report to the EU, which will cover several issues including all our hunting information. We will show the EU Parliament and Commission that Serbia is NOT enforcing the rule of law and as such is not worthy of EU membership. If Serbia wants to join the EU, then it has to stop all this government / authority / hunter / police corruption and start to show that they are actually prosecuting people for events which deserve it.
This is just the very start – Serbia is in for one big shock if it even becomes a member of the EU in future. EU animal welfare organisations, who are very strong in Europe, will go ballistic at the current events; and they will be head hunting all those in authority. It has been done in Romania, it will be done in Serbia.
People who call themselves ‘politicians’ and who may consider themselves immune from prosecution will have a change of face the day Serbia joins the EU. Those who currently turn a blind eye to the undertakings of the hunters, including the police; will themselves be hunted and prosecuted through the EU by the EU animal welfare movement.
Not a possibility, but a promise !!
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Posted on August 19, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
We have now formally sent our latest post (including links to our 2 earlier posts on bird hunting to the EU Enlargement Commission. Here is the latest link dated 18/8.
The EU read receipt is as follows:
Your message
To: JANZEN Jan (CAB-HAHN)
Subject: EU fails EU citizens on Serbia
Sent: 19 August 2015 14:16:03 (UTC+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris
was read on 19 August 2015 16:19:28 (UTC+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris.
So now we are formally recording all the information and photographs onto this site so that we have evidence and proof that things have been published; and we can then go back to the EU Parliament (MEP’s) and ask what actually is the EU Enlargement Commission doing in Serbia apart from handing them millions and millions of EU taxpayers money, with, certainly in the case of animal welfare; very little to show in return.
We are EU citizens (UK, Austria etc) and we request action from the Enlargement Commission regarding the ‘rule of law’ enforcement by / in Serbia.
Look please at the following report of today – 19/8/15.
What are the Serbian police doing ? – are they not upholders of the Serbian laws ? – and yet with regard animal welfare issues they always appear to turn the other way.
And the EU dictates that all new member states seeking EU membership must be seen to enforce the ‘rule of law’ – are we wrong or is this what the EU says ? – check it out on the following:
We ask – ‘where is the (EU) rule of law being enforced in Serbia if even the Serbian police (supposed upholders of the law ?) do NOT appear to be capable based on the evidence we present ?’ – this leads one to think that Serbia is NOT enforcing its own rules of law / legislation; and so is NOT a worthy contender for EU membership; despite the EU Enlargement Commission handing over million upon million of EU taxpaying citizens money !! – what an enormous joke !
So here following is the latest news about the bird issue from today (19/8/2015); which again we are formally recording as a post on this site, and which will form a series to be presented to the EU Members of Parliament (MEP’s) when they return in September.
As for the Enlargement Commission; ?? – will they carry on being like the Serbian police – turning a blind eye to all the evidence presented ?
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Hi Mark, 19/8/2015.
Before moving on excessive harvesting of birds, there is still illegal ways of catching wild birds.
In this case, the capture of prohibited tools, sticks coated with glue, cages with live birds as bait, decoys that have voice other birds, capturing birds in order to sell …. everything is forbidden by both national laws and International Conventions to which Serbia has accepted, signed and have been ratified in the Serbian parliament, the law on accepting the Berne, Bonn, CITES Conventions, the Directive on the protection of wild birds, etc ..
The event is from August 18, 2013, Southern Serbia, Sveta Petka, near Klenike, Bujanovac municipality.
Tipped off by locals that at that location every day, day by day, 2 weeks, 2 man catch goldfinch. Our colleagues from the Green Network Pcinja districts went out into the field and see what it does, call the police and inspections that took to the field. One of the criminals escaped and the other remained, and were photographed his car brands Audi, registration VR 011 YR. His name was Mitrovic Nebojsa.
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On the spot, they found the 3 cages with live birds that serve as decoys. Sticks that you see in the pictures, the trees were coated with glue, and if stick catches another species that they do not need, it is killed and thrown away. See also a monstrous scene, the goldfinch is probably still alive when taken off the glue and pinned onto the top of the tree, as it stands there and looks injured birds attracts the others birds.
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In addition to sticks and surrounding plants that prefer to land goldfinch, spread with the glue. They using glue for mouse and rats, from which very hard to remove birds, because gentle and thin legs and soft feathers that stick to stick.
So we do not have to go to Lebanon, Malta and Cyprus, we all have in Serbia, but for too long not talking about it. Silence, because they are all connected in the chain of illegal trade in wild birds which brings large profits and any investment.
While an investigation was underway, the police and inspections, we immediately asked to carry out a search of the house and yard Mitrovic Nebojsa from Vranje and another man who escaped, but the police and inspections did not want it to do, and we had a tip that both cellars full of birds are captured in this way.
The second man escaped because he received permission from the Ministry for keeping the bird and after a few months when, on our inspection report went with him, they found about 20 goldfinch and reported a 6, but he said that they had hatched, although no have rings.. For inspection, it is was considered OK!
We’re still not received an answer what happened to Nebojsa Mitrovic regarding the capture of birds because, being caught on the spot with all the gear for catching birds are caught and dead birds that he did not need but are adhered to and killed them.
We have a case of catching bird with netting, police not found these faces and even birds. It’s about the Police Department Nis.
According to the provisions of the Cites Convention, no wild species that has been acquired in violation of the law of our country, which are certainly all wild birds that have been rounded up in an illegal manner and kept in captivity for trafficking, can not be legally or may be placed on the market, but Serbia ignored the Cites Convention and some permitting holding of such birds.
That’s what they are used by catching birds in nature, birds often get hurt taped, torn them with glue, torn leg, wing, many birds suffer in this way and what is even worse, and the birds appear on sale in public places, for example. stock birds and small animals. Countless applications we filed for such black market of birds, the inspection went but rarely managed to saw a bird which has no place here.
p.s. The special case of the hunters LORIST Fair in Novi Sad, at the end of 2011. where she was the exchange of birds and where the inspection had not seen two ravens, who were on the docks and offered for sale. Raven is in Serbia strictly protected species. After that, we could find out who was selling 2 ravens and where are they?
And this is just one more part of the problem, we have a lot of photos from the stock birds. And it shows that our inspection and the police do not respect the law themselves and even less compliance.
I do not see two ravens, should be blind.
Regards , V.
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Posted on August 19, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Here is the latest information from Serbia regarding the mass killing and smuggling of birds back to Italy by Italian hunters.
Please see our previous post for further information:
The EU is currently in shutdown during August for annual holidays; but this is now allowing us some time to prepare information and links which will be sent immediately to MEP’s when they return from their holidays.
We have plenty of information and photographs as you can see here and on the other links to fully support our case. We have direct links with the EU Enlargement Commission who we feel are not doing anything near to what they should be doing re animal welfare in Serbia before it becomes a new member state.
The information below is virtually as provided and has not been edited in any way. This and the information in the other links will form the basis of the data we provide to MEP’s and to the EU Enlargement Commission.
As EU taxpayers, we are handing out Billions of Euros (literally) via the Enlargement Commission to ensure that Serbia is supposed to be enforcing the ‘rules of law’ as required for membership of the EU.
The information below and in our other links above clearly shows that the law is NOT being enforced, and that as always; Serbia is giving in to its hunters and police; whilst clearly failing to enforce regulations and laws that are there supposedly to provide some protection to animals – be they birds, stray dogs and cats; farm animals etc.
The EU is doing very little about this new accession member state – we demand action and we demand it NOW !
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Hi Mark,
I send you photos of 01.09.2012. from a place on the streets in Bujanovac, where police stopped two Italians on the second day of hunting in Serbia in the hunting grounds of Hunting Association “Golub” Bujanovac.
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On the first day they killed about 400 to 450 birds, but birds and police did not want to look.
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About this hunt on the first day, according to us hunters who were sickened because Italians make real massacres and then the bodies smuggled into Italy via the links on the border, customs.
Italians Antonio Dalla Libera and Vau Editeo, from Vicenza and had a permit issued by the br.1666 LU.Golub for hunting quail ..
Birds that can be seen in the pictures did not quail, neither game species except one dove.
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In the pictures you can see:
A. Strictly protected species:
Hoopoe, Upupa epops – 1 individual:
Red-backed Shrike, Lanius collurio- 1 female;
Great Tit, Parus major – one individual;
Forest Pipit, Anthus trivialis – 64 individuals
Stonechat, Saxicola torquata – 1 individual
Whitethroat, Sylvia communis – 1 individual;
Warbler (or birch forest) Phylloscopus sp. (Trochilus – sibilatrix) – 1 individual.
B. Protected non-hunting species:
1. Field sparrow, Passer montanus – 14 individuals
2. Starling, Sturnus vulgaris – 2 individuals
C. closed season protected species, for which they had no permit
1. dove Streptopelia turtur – 1 individual
Under the domestic legislation, the value of these birds were all killed in poaching over 15,000 euros. + Penalty, but the Prosecutor’s Office in Vranje did not want to finish the case to the end. So much for enforcing the ‘rule of law’ that the EU Enlargement Commission demands of the Serbian authorities and government – it is a JOKE !
Regulations on compensation applies for determining the amount of damages caused by illegal action in relation to the strictly protected and protected wild species (“RS Official Gazette”, No. 37/10)./
Hunting rifle the five-no. 561897 is owned by Serbian citizen, Strahinja Nikolic from Leskovac, who now leads the Italians in the hunt in Serbia.
The Jeep, brand ‘Nissan’, registration number LE-037 AP owned by certain Strahinja Nikolic from Leskovac have been found decoys and a large quantity of ammunition in boxes.
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Hunting rifle the five-no. 561897 and Jeep brands of Nisan, as well as everything else is not taken away, as required by law, only the birds were siezed, when submitting the bird warden LU Golub was 88 of birds, see the photo with the numbers of birds, and to find birds after 5 days and on our great insistence and urging, it was 87 birds.
One bird was missing, we assume that it is a rare species, perhaps a young individual crossbill, as seen in the picture on the right, but characteristic beak crossbill, see.
06.09.2012. The inspector said:
“The further control by the OSL PS Bujanovac when you turn the car on the road just some hundred meters from the family home of hunting area was stopped passenger car brands Audi 80 license plates BU 008-LO having Stanojković Dragan where the hunting area is found in the trunk of the same bags with Birds that were the subject of control.
In the presence of the above present officers of the counting of specimens and found that it was 87 dead birds of different birds that are due to poor care already begun to rot.
On that occasion present hunting area manager said that he had forgotten to take out the birds. The birds were confiscated (87 individuals) of Stanojković Dragan issued by the hunting area with a receipt for the same and are placed in cold storage DOO.Razvitak Bujanovac. “
Unbelievable but true !!!
Then continue, we filed a large number of charges to various state bodies, mostly police and Prosecutors as well as complaints about their work.
After more than 2 years we have received the documents from the case where it is revealed that they punished only police officers who are not doing their job, the head of hunting, because she let 2 Italians to hunt without hunting companion, and the driver who was driving them. A symbolic fine of 10,000.00 to 60,000.00 to RSD it to pay in instalments.
About all we have documentation that can scan and submit.
SAV Comment – we aim to be providing this to the EU and the EU Enlargement Commission.
P.S. The affair “Balkans birds” still continues and this is a suspect way in which the crime is still taking place in Serbia and desolation bird fauna, because the first people in the police do not respect the law and the connection is on the verge of releasing the presentation of the slain bird in which the Italians earn huge sums of money, and our local ignorant for petty, personal, short-term interests are destroying the natural wealth of our country.
One of the biggest caught by cases of smuggling of birds killed in Serbia, was caught by customs Slovenia, with 120,000 birds.
Our police said that never heard about the case “Balkans birds”, and there is no investigation, no documentation about it.
Regards, V.
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