Posted on January 28, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Impact of Climate Change – A picture of a dead polar bear completely out of its environment with no ice anywhere near it’s body.
The poor animal traveled far away from its own environment and starved to death. – “Among the most alarming changes is the disappearance of native species” – Polar bears are moving farther north because they need the shelter of pack ice to give birth to their young.
It’s called crushing – a practice inflicted on wild elephants to make them carry tourists on their back.
It’s a way of deliberately breaking the spirits of animals so humans can use them. Crushing involves tying up and literally beating an elephant into submission.
“Tourists may think activities like riding an elephant do no harm,” Dr. Jan Schmidt-Burbach, senior wildlife and veterinary adviser at World Animal Protection, told The Dodo in a May 2015 feature on this kind of cruel tourism. “But the brutal truth is that breaking these animals’ spirits to the point that they allow humans to interact with them involves cruelty at every turn.”
The “training crush” often involves taking young elephants away from their mothers and then caging, starving and beating them. Crushing also involves making the constricted elephant stay awake for days.
The practice feeds the tourist industry’s demand for tame elephants, as well as other forms of captivity, like circuses and entertainment. (And, by the way, “training” captive elephants in the U.S., which can involve hitting elephants with painful bull hooks and tying them up with ropes, isn’t any less cruel or debasing.)
While capturing wild elephants is supposed to be illegal, this law is often hard to enforce, and once an elephant has been forced into submission, the laws shift – the elephant is seen in the eyes of the law as a captive animal, no longer wild, and any protections no longer apply.
And once broken, their spirits can never fully be repaired.
To learn how you can help Elephant Nature Park, a sanctuary for abused elephants in Thailand, click here.
What happens if we use the keyword “fox hunting” in Google?
Comes a horror result: half a million foxes kill 381,821 hunters annually, hunters who I call psychopaths of the forest.
Torture and murder against foxes has a long tradition in Germany.
And it starts again now. Nationwide, the hunters blow these days again to massive hunting for foxes. There are corresponding “action weeks” in almost every city, where every primitive and unrestrained “Huntsboy” of the German hunter gang can participate in the planned bloodbath these days.
The cruel “hunter” souvenirs of the massacred animals, which are proudly and “traditionally” posted on every hunting blog, remind one of the Holocaust.
The one who proves most fox tails is the shooter king.
To this bloody spectacle belongs the horn blowing and the schnapps in front of it, in between and afterwards.
What remains of the animals is decoratively laid “on track”. Arranged in series and limb, the carcasses are “pretty” next to each other.
Many of them badly messed up with cracked pines and barrels or gushing guts.
We have to imagine one thing: the animal shown in the photo is only the top of the iceberg.
Because if the death gets the male dog after mating, which plays an important role in the later rearing of the boys, then later on the boys will die, and the mother will often die at the same time.
Never had our hunters easily massacred their potential victims than in those days. The otherwise shy and suspicious foxes are now in mating season, walking carefree, unaware and investing all their attention in actions that serve their survival.
Which on those nights cost thousands of their heads.
Now almost every remedy is right in the murder of the fox. In North Rhine-Westphalia anyway, where the new state government sets completely new, worse standards for nature conservation.
One has to be morally and ethically quite degenerate to enjoy such pictures of the massacred animals.
But the most of the 381,821 German sham owners with the license to kill, have proudly preserved this “ability” or even “cultivated” it!
In all parts of Germany the so-called “Fox week” will take place from the 28th of January to the 2nd of February.
Which is nothing but the terror of a minority of 0, 46% sadistic murderer against innocent and defenseless animals.
And a population of over 80,000,000 Germans makes this terror possible with their “tolerance” which is nothing else than cowardice.
That is today’s civilized Germany.
And from this country other European countries expect understanding and empathy for the animals.
From this country (EU dynasty) we have been waiting for years the 8hours limit of animal transport, the control of animal welfare laws in the EU, the anesthesia for the castration of piglets, the ban on transport of pregnant cows, the abolition of wildlife in the circus, the abolition of hobby hunting. …
And we are still waiting.
But with good news, I can already complete my contribution. More than 40 organizations and initiatives in the field of nature conservation and animal welfare are calling for Luxembourg’s role model to be followed and the cruel and pointless fox hunt to be stopped.
We hope and fight all together farther.
My best regards to all
Venus
NOTE – (for the full list and to view all the posts individually, go to the ‘Search’ bar at the top right and enter ‘Fox Week’ – this should then give you access to all of our past posts, including (WARNING) many graphic photographs.
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Posted on January 26, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Animals at the port of Rasa, Croatia – an EU member state since July 2013.
From the video it is obvious that the people involved in handling the animals are complete and utter incompetents – how so often we are witnessing this now – representatives of the EU and its alleged ‘high animal welfare standards’ !
The careless use of electric goads, tail twisting and abuse to get animals to move – all signs of incompetents who do not have a clue about handling animals.
And then one escapes and takes a tour of the port; pathetic incompetence regarding ensuring that all access routes / gates are secured. What a joke to have to witness the efforts of idiots to try and bring the animal back under control and to get it back loaded onto the ship.
The sad part about all this is that once they reach Turkey; no doubt more clowns will be responsible for the unloading; and the eventual ritual slaughter of the poor creatures.
EU Pathetic Incompetents – From the very top down.
Croatia joined the EU in July 2013.
Watch the video above to see the high standards of animal welfare within Croatia – EU member state !
To really put the icing on the cake; we have also had today contact from the EU telling us how wonderful everything is regarding animal welfare.
Here is their message:
Animal welfare: the Commission adopts a report on the impact of animal welfare international activities
Today the Commission has adopted a report on the impact of animal welfare international activities on the competitiveness of European livestock producers in a globalised world. The report reviews the main international activities carried out by the Commission in the last decade and evaluates their outcomes in promoting animal welfare standards globally as well as in contributing to ensure a level playing field between EU and non-EU operators.
Animal welfare international activities are a long-term investment, based on awareness raising, capacity building and funding. The report highlights that the Commission, together with the Member States, has played a prominent and decisive role in raising global awareness on animal welfare, leading to significant results both at bilateral and multilateral level. The issue of animal welfare is now included in the dialogue with non-EU countries, inspiring a number of voluntary initiatives in this area. The document also stresses that the global promotion of EU standards on animal welfare contributes to the long term objective to improve animal welfare in the world and reduce unfair trading practices, by valorising the added market value of products obtained under such standards.
Posted on January 21, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Dear Mark,
I am sending you good news concerning the further ban on fox hunting in Luxembourg.
I got this just today by mail, from the “Wild Animal Protection Society of Germany”.
Best regards to you and all
Venus
Luxembourg extends hunting ban on foxes
The Luxembourg Government Council has just renewed for another year the prohibition on fox hunting introduced in 2015. The protection of foxes is a successful model: the fox populations are stable; the predicted “stock explosion” by hunters in the run-up to the hunting ban has failed to materialize. A study now shows that the protection of the fox also reduces the risk for humans to contract the fox tapeworm.
“Action alliance Fox”, an initiative of more than 40 German animal and nature conservation organizations, to which “Wild animal Protection Germany” also belongs, calls on the Federal Government to follow the example of Luxembourg.
The Luxembourg Ministry of the Environment banned fox hunting in 2015 because there was no reason to kill several thousand foxes a year. Hunting associations had repeatedly warned against sprawling fox populations by the hunting ban. In addition, they repeatedly tried to exploit the fear of the fox tapeworm in order to overturn the regulations.
Hunting increases the risk of infection by the fox tapeworm
However, there are no signs of higher fox numbers to this day. In addition, a study published in France in November 2017 shows that hunting increases the risk of infection from fox tapeworm.
While the foxes’ infection rate increased from 40 percent to 55 to 75 percent as a result of heavy hunting, it remained constant in a hunting-free control area. Franck Boué, one of the authors of the highly regarded study, presents the results in a lecture on 29.1.2018 in Luxembourg City.
Fox stands need no “regulation” by humans
Again and again, both studies and practical experience in various fields show that foxes need no “regulation”. Hunting losses, for example, increase birth rates and increase immigration from neighboring areas, quickly compensating for losses.
On the other hand, experience from hunting-free areas shows that fewer fox pups are born there and that there is no mass propagation. “Birth control instead of mass misery,” commented the biologist Erik Zimen.
Ban on fox hunting: pointing the way for the whole of Europe
The ban on fox hunting in Luxembourg sets the trend for the whole of Europe: the right decision has been made against the massive pressure of an influential lobby on the basis of verifiable scientific facts. “It is high time that even political decision-makers in Germany stop bowing to the interests of the hunting lobby,” says Lovis Kauertz, co-founder of the “Action Alliance Fox”. “The example of Luxembourg shows that prohibiting fox hunting not only prevents the often painful deaths of thousands of foxes, but is also a model of success for citizens, animal and nature conservation.”
Past SAV posts relating to fox hunting in Germany – many graphic pictures show the reality of this barbarism:
When I read Juncker’s ridiculous attempts to re-enter you, Britons, some thought came to me, and I send it to you. Nigel Farage, head of the exit party UKIP, in the EU Parliament said: “Juncker has never had a decent job”!!
He is right. And anyway, he cannot practice the job of the President of the EU Commission decently.
And here is my comment.
Mr Junker
Juncker got a “nerve exit”!
He still cannot believe that he has lost the most beautiful bride in the EU -England.
It cannot be explained otherwise that he now pretends that everything can (and should) be reversed.
The Brexit is a disaster, he says, a loss for all. Blame it are only a few politicians, not the English people.
He is generous: The EU has not kicked out England, we would like to keep it, and if they want to stay we will find a solution.
And Tusk adds: our hands stay outstretched.
Mr Tusk
The truth is: EU is the loser in this situation, disaster is when you stay in the EU. When it comes to Brexit, the Brits will have gained their versatile freedom, and the EU will lose a strong partner.
Some have understood that being an EU member is a disaster.
Everyone has understood that the model EU does not work.
England can open its own club with Scandinavia, Iceland, Finland, the Baltic States, and perhaps even the Netherlands, to which perhaps Switzerland and Austria may then join.
And Germany can supply the impoverished Mediterranean area.
In any case, the real political Britons fortunately no longer have a vision of Europe, so it is more than embarrassing to try to convince the people to go in again with the kitsch of the open arms or with the sloppiness of the economic catastrophe, where soon nobody wants to go in anymore.
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