Posted on June 2, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
From a little guy crying out in pain whenever he was touched – the latest super footage shows what a few months of dedicated care can do – a strong and healthy lad now !!
We know from our daily monitoring of the site that little ‘Budi’ has become a great favorite with many visitors.
Here are our previous links from February when Budi was rescued as a pitiful little guy who was in so much pain due to bad keeping from his captors that he was unable to move or sit up on his own.
Links to our original posts where you can see the initial terrible state that Budi was in – so much pain and hardly able to move:
Well some 4 months on it is really pleasing to see that he has come on in leaps and bounds – he has become an inquisitive young orangutan with a huge appetite for food and a strong will to survive.
Thanks to many global supporters, his life is no longer in danger and his health is improving every day. The change in little Budi has been remarkable.
Well here is the latest video showing his amazing progress – Budi and new friend Jemmi were recently introduced to some of the other orangutans at baby school for the very first time!
The team at IAR has just sent over this fantastic footage and we’re delighted to be able to share it with you.
Budi has become a daily visitor to the centre where he can spend time with all the new friends he has made, learning how to become a specialist of the forest that his kind should be.
Access the following link and scroll down to see Budi and all his new friends at the sanctuary:
This just shows what love, attention and compassion can do in bringing something back from the deepest of deep.
We hope that will really enjoy the new footage of the little man who has grown to be so strong and agile now.
SAV.
Previous Photographs Below From Our Posts – despite what it says below abouut clicking to see the video; please click on this new link following to see the latest of Budi:
Youtube video link below of the same footage:
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Posted on June 1, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
I am a BIG wolf supporter and have just made a donation to help DoW continue with their vital woek. Can you help with a donation to preserve this beautiful animal ? – please give anything you can.. The US should be proud of their wolves; specialist wildlife; it must not be destroyed !
Please give anything you can – Thanks – Mark (SAV Founder)
Is this not the most amazing sound – Protect Them !!
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Dear Mark,
It’s with a heavy heart that we report that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has now confirmed that the animal killed by a hunter in Colorado on April 29th was indeed a gray wolf.
As with any killing of an endangered species, FWS is investigating the shooting – so far, it is believed that the shooter misidentified the wolf as a coyote. Defenders fully supports this investigation.
This is the third confirmed wolf to disperse to Colorado from the Northern Rockies since wolves were reintroduced there in the 1990s. Wolves have also dispersed on their own to California, Arizona and Utah from the Northern Rockies and the Pacific Northwest. It’s a lesson that left on their own, wolves can fill in the blank spots on the map where suitable wolf habitat remains empty.
This incident also reinforces the critical need for continued federal protections for gray wolves. Removing federal protections would make it less likely that wolves would be able to establish new packs in areas outside their current range, essentially halting wolf recovery into western Colorado in its tracks.
Our job, yours and ours, is to give these magnificent animals the protection they need and deserve – and then to let nature take its course.
Sincerely,
Jamie Rappaport Clark
President, Defenders of Wildlife
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Posted on June 1, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Posted on May 31, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Posted on May 31, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
With regard the new draft law in Serbia, things are happening and changing (hopefully for the better !) at an almost constant rate – it is very difficult to get in all the news and to keep issuing new posts; things are happening so fast.
So here are the main points that we have at the moment – it is good to see that major Serbian academics such as Mr. Dušan Kovačević , member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Art made some very strong comments in one of the national newspapers – see more below.
There are also petitions to be signed, and also there is a request for our campaigner friends that you do a simple sign opposing the killing, then take a photo of it with yourself, and send to Serbia to make an International wall of opposition to the killings.
Here are all the current news and links:
Slavica and EPAR have sent a Complaint to The Constitutional Court in agreement to article 82. of Law for the Constitutional Court, and to the government in agreement to article 8** The law about Government . and she ask that this Draft be put down and a new one be make by collaboration with all NGOs (as You can see there are more then 30 NGOs – interested public, and Law for ratification Aarhus Convention demands all be included in – 1. initial step of making Draft.
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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Mr.Dusan Kovacevic, says:
Those who made Draft are idiots
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Dear Mark,
I hope that you can help us and I am expecting your answer.
Please, do not hesitate to ask me about anything related to the new draft law.
A media campaign has started. One of the greatest intellectuals in Serbia (Mr Kovacevic) has spoken for the most read newspapers (Blic) on Thursday.
He told the authorities that they should kill retired citizens after they kill all dogs and cats because we are so poor, and after that they should kill workers etc.
He is academician and a writer and he was sarcastic because poverty is always an excuse for killing dogs.
On Friday, he spoke for Radio Free Europe and said that there is a group of idiots at the Veterinary Directorate and that the idiots have to be stopped.
Today, Blic (national newspaper) published another article and Mr Kovacevic’s and I spoke about new draft law.
We have a lot to say, because most provisions are written so imprecisely that we are expecting new and new misapplications that will cost lives many animals.
Best regards,
Natasa Vukmirovic
Link Plus
Thursday:
People react positively, until now 63,200 people were reached on our Page:
Friday:
Saturday:
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PETITION REQUIRES MORE INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT
– Please sign and share.
Dear Mark
We desperately need more signatures on this petition to stop amendments to the Animal Welfare Law which will only mean suffering for Serbian animals.
WE NEED YOU! – PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE WIDELY!!!
Warm regards
Desanka
SIGN AND SHARE THIS PETITION
and SEND A PHOTO OF YOURSELF such as the one above, and with the wording in Red below, to:
Check out all the supporters you can join with by clicking here:
Make sure you include the following text:
SERBIA
– SAY NO TO CRUEL AMENDMENTS TO THE ANIMAL WELFARE ACT
#protectserbiananimals
#theworldiswatching
Important – ** As well as including your name and nationality **
(this – your nationality, will send more of an international message)
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Her Royal Highness Steps In To Help Serbian Strays Action:
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Posted on May 28, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The following messages have been left in our ‘contact’ box. They say it all, and the videos show the situation. Serbian government is out of control. The EU is doing very little to solve this problem. SAV.
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I recently wrote to Serbiananimalsvoice, regarding introducing new Animal “Welfare” Law.
Well, it’s getting worse and worse. No more meetings with animal welf org, all refused, 31 AW org signed a letter to Ministry of agriculture a few days ago, some citizens go for protest. In the meantime, killing goes on, in spite of the fact that it’s still illegal.
There is an organisation called Avenija MB, avenue, what an irony. Description of their business in register is ANĐELIJA STEVANOVIĆ PREDUZETNIK, RADNJA ZA ČIŠĆENJE OBJEKATA I OSTALE USLUGE U POLJOPRIVREDI AVENIJA MB, NOVO SELO , small business, Shop for cleaning objects and other services in agriculture. ??????
However, they are employed by 26 councils to catch stray dogs (contract between Mayor of the council and Avenija), all published on tender list. Only criterion to get a job is – who is cheapest.
All is illegal, but we can’t do anything. They have opened ” shelter”, read ‘concentration camp’, access denied. They even haven’t a licence , but local government doesn’t care.
A few people managed to enter, 20 dogs in cages. If they don’t die by hunger, by disease, they get infected, they get killed, or get thrown somewhere in the bush. Citizen noticed groups of sick dogs , skin and bones (link attached).
Point is that councils blessed by government turned blind eye, employed pure fascists, who will get rid of stray dogs. Not only stray. They are payed per dog, so they try to catch as many as possible.
Local newspapers in Serbia don’t want to , or mustn’t write about it, there only two web sites zivotinje rs and petface who write the truth on this topic. Is it possible that foreign news or tv write something or make a short video, what can we do???
And now, with new law changes, killing will be LEGAL. Government claims they must change The Law to follow EU Animal Welfare rules. Imagine cruel rules on primitive way. We, animal lovers, from Serbia and all over the world, are shocked.
two videos attached
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uDh4f-lxBs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjr_wgn5_4w
photos published by ORPAK Krusevac, dogs found on the street in terrible condition, all infected, all had to be put down. They strongly believe they were thrown by Avenija there.
And then we were sent further information by the same campaigner:
Message: please ad this link to my previous message (as shown above – SAV), dogs found on the road krusevac, village kaonik, in the middle of the nowhere, 20 of them.
Have a look at the picture. They didn’t come there by themselves. No. They were all brought there and left. Avenija, dogcatchers scenario. They catch them on one place, get paid for that, throw or kill them on another. Not the first time.
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Message: keep up the good work…my heart is with you guys….xooxoxox to our animals….
Thank you – we have been and will continue to try and wake up the EU Commissions about this – SAV
Please keep checking this site for any further news we may get on the situation – things are changing a lot and news is coming in at different times – being in the UK it is also an extrra problem as we are not on the ground in Serbia.
Here is a link to our recent post which gives news as of 26/5.
Here is a link to another tab on our site – ‘About Serbian Animals’ – which will give you info on the actual law in Serbia which the government and all the authorities are completely ignoring.
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Posted on May 25, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
English and Deutsch versions
Just a very small part of images/ Ein kleiner Teil der Bilder:
Dear All,
One and a half years have gone by since Romania began to kill its dogs in massive numbers. Even during the time period when the methods of the application of the law were suspended, the dogs continued to be killed in some cities, especially Bucharest. The Service for the Management of Stray Dogs in Bucharest, ASPA, periodically organizes press conferences where they brag about the number of dogs that have been killed, as if this was some glorious action that brings great merit. In some areas of Romania the municipalities mention the topic of stray dogs only in the context of the number of dogs killed.
The situation in Romania puts us under immense pressure and keeps piling up more and more problems. It’s a race against time, and it was almost impossible for me to provide you with updates. But a wonderful event happened: in many cities all over the world a huge action took place on 16th of May: the fourth international PROTEST against dog killing in Romania. Under the banner of “YES WE CARE”, in about 25 cities in Germany, Austria, Italy, UK … (and of course, in some cities in Romania as well) people gathered to voice their strong displeasure.
I want to thank all the wonderful people in many countries who organised and participated in protests against the animal cruelties from Romania, some having to drive hundreds of kilometres, and to all of you who tirelessly help the animals in Romania by all of your actions!
All the best
Carmen ARSENE
Ihr Lieben,
Die massenhafte Tötung der Hunde in Rumänien spielt sich jetzt schon seit anderthalb Jahren ab. Sogar während der Zeit, als die methodische Ausführungweise der Gesetze zeitweilig aufgeschoben wurde, werden die Hunde weiterhin ermordet, besonders in Bucharest. Das Amt für die Verwaltung der Streunerhunde (ASPA) organisiert immer wieder Presse-Konferenzen, wo sie damit prahlen, wieviele Hunde schon getötet wurden, als ob das etwas wäre, worauf sie stolz sein könnten. In manchen Gegenden von Rumänien werden Streunerhunde nur im Zusammenhang mit der Anzahl von ermordeten Tieren erwähnt.
Die Situation in Rumänien übt einen intensiven Druck auf uns aus, und bombadiert uns mit mehr und mehr Problemen. Es gibt nie genug Zeit, und deswegen war es fast unmöglich für mich, euch auf dem Laufenden zu halten. Und dann passierte ein ganz großartiges Ereignis: in vielen Städten auf der ganzen Welt fand eine Riesen-Aktion statt am 16. Mai: der 4. internationale PROTEST gegen die Tötung der Struenerhunde in Rumänien. Unter dem Motto von “YES WE CARE” (JA, WIR SORGEN UNS), kamen Menschen in über 25 Städten in Deutschland, Österreich, Italien, England… (und natürlich auch in einigen Städten in Rumänien) zusammen, um gegen die Tierquälerei zu protestieren.
Ich möchte all den wunderbaren Menschen in so vielen verschiedenen Ländern danken, die Demonstrationen gegen die Misshandlung von Tieren in Rumänien organisierten und daran teilnamen, manche mußten hunderte von Kilometern fahren, und euch allen, die ihr so unermüdlich mit all euren Aktionen den Tieren von Rumänien helft!
Alles Liebe!
Carmen ARSENE
Just a very small part of images/ Ein kleiner Teil der Bilder:
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