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Serbia: Serbian Police Do NOT Enforce The Rule Of Law AsRequired By The EU Commission. Why Does The EU Turn A Blind Eye Whilst Giving Serbia Millions Of Euros ???

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:

http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/policy/policy-highlights/rule-of-law/index_en.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/justice/events/assises-justice-2013/rule_of_law_en.htm

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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Serbia: Birds Continually Hunted – Failed By Those Who SHOULD Be Protecting Them – EU Enlargement Commission Fails As Always When It Comes To Animal Welfare.

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:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2015/08/13/serbia-italy-the-links-between-hunting-endangered-eu-red-list-birds/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2015/08/18/serbia-recommendation-on-measures-to-protect-wildlife-in-hunting-areas-like-all-serbian-animal-welfare-law-a-complete-mockery-of-reality/

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.

http://www.media.ba/bs/istrazivacko-novinarstvo-novinarstvo-novinarstvo/srbija-otvoreni-lov-na-zasticene-vrste

http://www.safariinternational.com/en/small-game/passege-game/267-serbia-quails-and-turtle-doves

Regards, V.

Serbia: Hope For ‘Hope’ – Can You Give To Help Her Medical Costs ?

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

The Story

‘Hope’ is a dog that is old at the estimate of the veterinarian about 12 years.

She lived on the street for about 10 years, of which 3 years lived with a huge tumor.

Surgery was on 4.05.2015. after which she went to chemotherapy that is not finished until the end, but unfortunately since the tumor was malignant, it then returned and is currently veterinarians are fighting for her life.

Please give anything for any help for her. The operation will be long and difficult and the cost very high.

To donate to help pay for the surgery – please go to http://www.youcaring.com/help-for-hope-414920

Thank you – please give anything you can.

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Serbia: Felix Shelter Latest News – Valerie Had Her Right Rear Leg Operated On; A Few Weeks And She Should Be Walking Fine !

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

We deeply apologize for the week-long silence but our lives have been a bit of a roller coaster lately.

Sneska has been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease which resulted in uremic stomatitis; Tabazija has developed megacolon. Both of them are under treatment and their condition is stable, at least for now, so Valerie’s surgery had to be our top priority.

Valerie had her right rear leg operated on a few days ago and everything went well, so we’re hoping this will be the last trauma she will be forced to go through. The vet managed to save her leg by basically breaking her incorrectly healed knee joint again and fixing it into the proper position with screws which are supposed to be removed in approximately two weeks time.

She will be kept in a cage for a while, but when she completely recovers, she is expected to walk normally again.

We’re immensely grateful to all of the wonderful people who have unselfishly helped this sweet girl and have given her the chance to live a life worth living!

Not even saying thank you a thousand times would be enough to express our immense gratitude!

http://www.youcaring.com/danica-s-cat-shelter-felix-374463

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Serbia: RECOMMENDATION on measures to protect wildlife in hunting areas – like all Serbian animal welfare law – a complete mockery of reality !

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Link:

http://www.mpzzs.gov.rs/preporuka-o-merama-zastite-divljaci-u-lovistima-za-vreme-trajanja-perioda-nepovoljnih-vremenskih-uslova/#more-3922?lang=lat

RECOMMENDATION on measures to protect wildlife in hunting areas during periods of adverse weather conditions

Users of hunting in areas with adverse weather conditions, it is recommended that, in consultation with the competent hunting inspector:

reinforce control of the general condition of wildlife and its habitat in the hunting grounds and take all necessary measures for the protection of wildlife, primarily measures: continuous provision of water in the bushes, protect wildlife from illegal hunting, protection and conservation of habitats, as well as other statutory measures,
take the necessary measures to prevent damage caused by wildlife on the property of legal entities and individuals, to educate the local population with regard to measures taken to protect the property from damage that can by game, and to take the necessary measures regarding the prevention of damage to wildlife,
activate the available human and material resources to the prevention of a possible fire, as well as to assist in extinguishing the fire site active, always taking care of wildlife in hunting grounds.

We should also pay attention to the education of the local population about the dangers and risks of unsolicited and uncontrolled burning stubble fields, reeds, grasses and other vegetation in the hunting grounds.

In conditions of high temperature, pay particular attention to the proper handling of harvested game (move, transfer, or transportation of the hunted game, with the pertinent parts of the city with the shooting in the hunting ground to the place of official controls) and taking measures to manipulation and transport is performed according to the procedure and the way safe for human health.

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Hi Mark,

Hunting quail and turtle doves, migratory species is in full force. Also on the dove and wood pigeon, wild boar and roe deer, fox hunting lasts all year.

Hunters widely used BANNED electronic decoys for Quail. Therefore, killing large numbers of quail that gather around the decoy. (electronic sound invocation, same like voice of quail. ) You know what is this?

After our letters to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection – Directorate for Forests of 7 August 2015 to suspend the hunt for natural disasters, finally published the poor text “Recommendations on measures to protect wildlife in hunting areas during periods of adverse weather conditions.” 12. August 2015.

The text can be read here (or at the start of this post):
http://www.mpzzs.gov.rs/preporuka-o-merama-zastite-divljaci-u-lovistima-za-vreme-trajanja-perioda-nepovoljnih-vremenskih-uslova/#more-3922?lang=lat

How they write “unfavorable weather conditions” hunting is suspended, clearly states in Article 76, paragraph 1 Count 1. Law on Wildlife and Hunting (Official Gazette No. 18/2010).

From 1 July to 16 August 2015. mean daily temperatures were below 31 C, still about 35 C, even during July and up to 40 C, without rain. Yesterday, 17.08. outside temperature dropped to slightly below 30 C and little rain fell in Serbia, reporting to the media about the decay of the crop and the drought and the problems that people have because of natural disasters.

It was not initiated by the Forest Administration to comply with the law and the protection of wild animals from the hunting and persecution and harassment, but to protect hunting associations and hunting lobby that will trap quail and turtledove and earn a lots of money.

From which we can draw the conclusion that the laws are not respected and enforced.

Attached you can see what we wrote Forestry Administration. Use Google translation. 🙂

After all, it is clear that it will not comply with the Act, we filed criminal charges against the responsible civil servants in the Directorate for Forests ..

After finish the rest of the EU Commission, we must prepare a text about everything that’s going on here, 18 of the 25 EU countries hunting quail and turtledove is banned, Serbia is a migratory corridor and this savagery can not be tolerated. Albania has completely banned hunting and as I heard the ban will be extended to 2019. good.

We did not Cyprus, Malta or Lebanon. Migration is one of the strongest instincts of migratory birds and is very hard for them, is not humane and it is not acceptable to kill them during migration. Of course, it is not humane nor necessary to kill anyone but the reality is harsh.

I hope you’ll help us around the text.

In the next email, I’ll prepare for you and SAV, photos Massacre songbirds, 2 Italians, 89 birds, a couple of hours morning.

The two Italians were caught, and the day before they are caught, we know that because we have information, that they kill songbirds, they were in the south of Serbia in Bujanovac. That day they killed nearly 400 birds, that police did not even want to look and found no corpses. After more than 2 years we have received the documents from the case of the prosecution Vranje.

Were punished symbolically 4 policemen, the chief of hunting Bujanovac who hid the slain bird and the driver of the Italians.

Through Interpol, the two Italians have been found in Italy and gave statements, just as we heard that was going on, they are paid on all hands, and went and killed what they want and are doing, so for years.
Our prosecution did not know or did not want to apply a fine nor compensation for slaughtered birds, which then amounted to about 15,000 euros.

For hunting, they used an illicit gun with five bullets, and so they made a massacre.

Since then, year 2012. they do not come to Serbia.

p.s. Please fix mistakes, if something is not clear, I’ll explain.

Kind Regards

V.

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Denmark / Faroe Islands: Cruise Lines Shun Faroe Islands to Protest Whale Slaughter.

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

https://www.takepart.com/article/2015/08/10/cruise-ship-companies-protest-faroe-islands-whale-slaughter?cmpid=tpanimals-eml-2015-08-15-whales

Cruise Lines Shun Faroe Islands to Protest Whale Slaughter

Environmentalists applaud German companies’ decision to stop sending tourists to the site of an annual slaughter of pilot whales.

David Kirby has been a professional journalist for 25 years. His third book, Death at Seaworld, was published in 2012.

Meet the whales’ newest protector: the cruise industry.

Executives at two major German cruise lines—Hapag-Lloyd and AIDA—said Monday they would stop sending their tourist-packed ships to the Faroe Islands in protest of the annual slaughter of pilot whales in the remote North Atlantic archipelago known for its stark beauty and bloody traditional hunts. The move is a blow to the islands, which depends on tourism revenue.

“Hapag-Lloyd Cruises is committed to treating flora, fauna, and the marine ecosystem as well as all its creatures with respect,” Karl J. Pojer, the company’s chief executive, said in an email. “We protect what fascinates us—it is therefore high in the interests of the company that whaling on the Faroe Islands is stopped.”

The cruise lines also cited a new Faroe Islands lawrequiring anyone who spots whales to report the animals to local officials as a reason to take the destination off their ships’ itineraries.

Hapag-Lloyd had already reduced the number of ships scheduled to visit the Faroes, Pojer said, with only one cruise slated for next year. The company is trying to find an alternative destination for that trip.

Monika Griefahn, AIDA’s chief sustainability officer, said in an email that her company “expressly dissociates itself from whaling. Species conservation is an integral part of our sustainability strategy. Thus, AIDA Cruises has decided to cease approaching the Faroe Islands until further notice.”

Whale hunts are permitted in 22 Faroese bays, where up to 120 pilot whales can be killed at a time. According to Sea Shepherd, 1,200 pilot whales are killed during the hunt season.

The hunt is also used to draw tourists to the islands, according to the website Visit Faroe Islands.

“The pilot whale hunt in the Faroes is, by its very nature, a dramatic sight,” it states. “Entire schools of whales are killed on the shore and in the shallows of bays with knives which are used to sever the major blood supply to the brain.”

RELATED: The Islands Where Watching Whales Could End Their Lives

“It’s not something we want to hide,” Brynhild Weihe, an office assistant at Visit Faroe Islands said in an email. “Some people express doubts about coming to the Faroe Islands because they don’t know what to think of the whaling that is done here, and so we want to make sure they can read about the main facts. This doesn’t mean we want them to come here for this reason.”

In the past two years, Hapag-Lloyd and AIDA wrote to the Faroese prime minister expressing their concerns about the whale hunt, or grindadráp.

A Hapag-Lloyd official, who asked not to be identified because she was not authorized to speak with the media, said the company never received a response.

The letters prompted Sea Shepherd, the environmental group that has been trying to halt the whale hunt since the early 1980s, to contact the companies, calling on them to suspend cruises to the islands. Sea Shepherd highlighted a recently passed law making it a crime not to report whale sightings to local authorities.

“Authorities are quoted as saying that these reports can be decisive in determining whether or not the spotted whales are subjected to traditional whaling,” said AIDA’s Griefahn.

A court last week convicted five Sea Shepherd volunteers of violating the Faroe Islands law by trying to stop the slaughter of 250 pilot whales on July 23. They face fines or up to two weeks in jail.

“We were very delighted to hear the news,” Rosie Kunneke, land crew leader for Sea Shepherd in the Faroes, said in a telephone interview from the islands. “This puts pressure on the cruise industry, who might want to reconsider what people are doing to the animals here.”

Several other cruise lines still operate in the islands, Kunneke said, including Princess, Royal Caribbean, Crystal, and Holland America.

“We’re hoping that the world gets to know about the hunt and that customers demand that these companies do not come here anymore,” Kunneke said.

Courtney Vail, campaigns and programs manager for Whale and Dolphin Conservation, said that “ethics-based corporate responsibility” is one way to help stop the killing.

The cruise industry has been much criticized by conservationists for polluting the world’s oceans. But recently it has made efforts to appear more attuned to ethical concerns. Carnival, for instance, announced in June that it would launch a cruise line that lets passengers perform community service in the countries they visit.

“We believe in the power of consumer choice to help guide and reform national and global environmental and animal welfare policies,” Vail said in an email. “It is a shame that such a beautiful destination continues to be marred by the shadow of these bloody hunts.”

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SAV recent posts on this issue:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2015/06/27/faroe-islands-petition-result-success-mr-spielberg-and-dreamworks-will-not-now-be-filming-in-the-faroe-islands-due-to-pilot-whale-slaughter-your-petition-has-worked/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2014/06/15/denmark-faroe-islands-sea-shepherd-to-deploy-drones-to-stop-massive-whale-slaughter/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2008/10/13/denmark-disgraces-the-world-with-faroe-islands-whale-slaughter/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2009/01/13/denmark-response-given-to-faroes-pilot-whale-annual-slaughter/

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2 Very Important Petitions – Please Sign Soon Thank You.

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

https://www.change.org/p/ministry-of-agriculture-republic-of-indonesia-suswono-minister-of-agriculture-indonesia-indonesian-government-free-all-animals-from-ragunan-and-surabaya-zoo-into-sanctuaries

Indonesian Government: Free all Animals from Ragunan and Surabaya Zoo into Sanctuaries

Captive elephants in Indonesia’s Surabaya Zoo and Ragunan Zoo are being held in extremely cruel conditions.

“I have never seen … this before,” said a staff member of an animal advocacy organization.

At both zoos, says the staff member, the elephants were restrained in a severe and agonizing manner. The animals are not only chained to the enclosures by their back legs, but their front legs are tied together. “I have visited zoos across the world, many of which unfortunately chain their elephants. But I have never seen elephants with leg ties as well as chains,”said the staffer

With the additional leg ties, the elephants are unable to even move backwards and forwards freely, restricting them to “hobbling” or “hopping.”

The male elephants who were tied in this manner at the Surabaya Zoo were in obvious distress: “He was rocking backwards and forwards for some time in a stereotypical display often seen in captive elephants,” says the staff member.

“The real sad thing for him was when he decided to use the bar as a scratching post, he needed to haul himself and the chains, centimeter by centimeter, into a position where he could rub against the metal bar. This should be something that is freely available to him and not something that he is forced to work for by having to ‘hobble’ within the small areas that his chains allow him within.”

At the Ragunan Zoo, both adults and a very young elephant were seen with their front legs tied together: “The calf was attempting to lie down on a number of occasions, but the leg ties prevented it from doing so. It also had to ‘hop’ with both front legs together every time it wanted to turn around.” (The calf is likely this young male.)

Indonesia has long been criticized for its animal welfare standards, especially the Surabaya Zoo, in East Java, referred to as the “Zoo of Death” for the horrific conditions the animals live in and the nauseating photos that reportedly emerge from it, including a lion found hanging last year in his cell, and an emaciated camel eating in his enclosure.

Femke den Haas is the founder and coordinator for wildlife rescue at the Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN). Den Haas lives in Indonesia and first visited the Ragunan Zoo 20 years ago: “I was so shocked to see the suffering of the animals there that I decided I wanted to return to Indonesia the soonest to help improve animal welfare in the country.”

It was the eyes, she says, of one adult male orangutan that she couldn’t forget: “His name was Johnny. Johnny was an adult orangutan inside a tiny dark cage, not able to climb, not even able to obtain any sunlight.”

Twenty years later, Johnny is still inside the same cage.

Since 2002, 23 orangutans have died inside the Ragunan Zoo, den Haas said. (The Ragunan Zoo is a member of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums.)

Since 2013, JAAN has been denied access to help improve the quality of care for the animals of the zoo, den Haas claims.

Part of the problem, she maintains, is there is no standard of care for animal welfare in zoos in Indonesia. “The Indonesia Zoo and Aquarium Association (IZAA) is a sham. This association is run by the zoo owners who seek profit and little regulations. The conditions of animals throughout Indonesia in zoos are horrific. I just returned from a zoo in Banyuwangi that received animals from Surabaya [Zoo], including orangutans and elephants. The elephants are chained and walked around [by keepers] with the infamous sticks with nails on them to handle the elephants and [use them for] elephant rides.”

Unfortunately, says den Haas, as bad as the Ragunan and Surabaya zoos are, there are some even worse. At these zoos, says den Haas, “animals hardly are seen with even drinking water.”

The staff member of the advocacy group agrees with den Haas’ assessment: “Sadly, animals are kept in even worse conditions in other zoos both within Indonesia and other Asian countries.”

“The sad reality,” the staffer adds, “is that the majority of Asian zoos house as many species and individuals as they possibly can, and the staff have little to no knowledge of how to care for these individuals to meet their complex physical and behavioural needs. Therefore animals languish in squalid concrete cells and the measure of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ is whether they survive or not.”—Source-The Dodo~

Ask the Minister of Agriculture Suswono to shut these places of hell down and transport the animals to sanctuaries !

LETTER TO

Ministry of Agriculture Republic of Indonesia Suswono, MMA

Executive Director – WAZA Gerald Dick, PhD, MAS

Indonesian Government: Free all Animals from Ragunan and Surabaya Zoo into Sanctuaries

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/740/490/385/illinois-man-lights-firework-in-dogs-mouth-while-laughing-about-it/

Illinois man lights firework in dog’s mouth while laughing about it!

target: Will County State’s Attorney James Glascow

Update #1 3 days ago ▾

Press Release
July 31, 2015

Statement regarding investigation/charge in Joliet Pit Bull Case

The Will County State’s Attorney’s Office has filed the strongest felony charge possible under Illinois law based upon the evidence that has been obtained by police and prosecutors up to this point.

Upon conviction, the felony charge in this case carries a potential penalty of up to six years in prison and a fine of up to $25,000.

The investigation into this case is ongoing.

About This Petition

A man from Joliet tricked a pit bull dog into taking a firework in his mouth moments before he had lit it. The dog did not survive the incident.

The incident happened on July 7 when Nicholas Garcia, 24, and his friend were lighting some fireworks in an alley when a dog suddenly appeared; the two decided to have some fun with the animal and intentionally tossed a firework in its direction; the dog chased it and picked it up immediately, moments before it went off its mouth.

The dog’s owner, who had finally caught up with his dog during their usual stroll, witnessed the entire incident. The distraught owner claims that Garcia was amused by the situation, before taking off moments after.

Police have filed charges of ‘destruction of property’ against Garcia, who has turned himself in.

We, the undersigned, strongly feel that the Illinois judicial system should file for much tougher charges, because ‘destruction of property’ does not apply in this case. Dogs are family, sentient beings, but judging by these charges it would seem they are just some objects that got destroyed. This is hardly the case. Garcia needs to spend time behind bars after taking the life of an innocent animal that is only guilty of curiosity.

News Link: http://bit.ly/1IqfwOJ

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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:

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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

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:

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.

The event is from August 18, 2013, Southern Serbia, Sveta Petka, near Klenike, Bujanovac municipality.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

On the first day they killed about 400 to 450 birds, but birds and police did not want to look.

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.

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

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

The Story

‘Hope’ is a dog that is old at the estimate of the veterinarian about 12 years.

She lived on the street for about 10 years, of which 3 years lived with a huge tumor.

Surgery was on 4.05.2015. after which she went to chemotherapy that is not finished until the end, but unfortunately since the tumor was malignant, it then returned and is currently veterinarians are fighting for her life.

Please give anything for any help for her. The operation will be long and difficult and the cost very high.

To donate to help pay for the surgery – please go to http://www.youcaring.com/help-for-hope-414920

Thank you – please give anything you can.

We deeply apologize for the week-long silence but our lives have been a bit of a roller coaster lately.

Sneska has been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease which resulted in uremic stomatitis; Tabazija has developed megacolon. Both of them are under treatment and their condition is stable, at least for now, so Valerie’s surgery had to be our top priority.

She will be kept in a cage for a while, but when she completely recovers, she is expected to walk normally again.

We’re immensely grateful to all of the wonderful people who have unselfishly helped this sweet girl and have given her the chance to live a life worth living!

Not even saying thank you a thousand times would be enough to express our immense gratitude!

RECOMMENDATION on measures to protect wildlife in hunting areas during periods of adverse weather conditions

Users of hunting in areas with adverse weather conditions, it is recommended that, in consultation with the competent hunting inspector:

activate the available human and material resources to the prevention of a possible fire, as well as to assist in extinguishing the fire site active, always taking care of wildlife in hunting grounds.

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

Warbler (or birch forest) Phylloscopus sp. (Trochilus – sibilatrix) – 1 individual.

B. Protected non-hunting species:

The text can be read here (or at the start of this post):
http://www.mpzzs.gov.rs/preporuka-o-merama-zastite-divljaci-u-lovistima-za-vreme-trajanja-perioda-nepovoljnih-vremenskih-uslova/#more-3922?lang=lat

From which we can draw the conclusion that the laws are not respected and enforced.

Attached you can see what we wrote Forestry Administration. Use Google translation. 🙂