Posted on June 1, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
We are an organisation founded primarily to help the animals of Serbia – and so we are devoting main post time and attention to this as at the moment things are rather critical re legislation changes.
You can catch up with all the events re Serbia campaigning by clicking on the ‘Home’ tab at the top of the page and the simply scrolling down.
We are also still publishing other (non Serbian) posts – but these are not taking the prime spot at the moment.
But you can view these – just scroll down a little until you see ‘Recent Posts’ on the very right hand side. Select any recent post listed to view it.
We have articles on China, South Korea, the USA, plus a Time Out which gives you some music links to enjoy – we all need some time out to get away from all the cruelty sometimes !
Thanks – SAV.
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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 June 1, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Urgent:
Stop China winning the Olympics again
China will see hosting the Olympic Games again as a signal that the world doesn’t care about Tibet.
Beijing is one of only two cities competing to host the Winter Olympic Games in 2022. If it were to win the Games, it would be the first city ever to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing saw worldwide attention on Tibet, with daring stunts by Tibet campaigners and enormous controversy resulting from China’s brutal suppression of the Tibetan uprising in March 2008.
When it awarded the Games to China in 2001, the International Olympics Committee (IOC) claimed that the Olympics would improve human rights in China. Nothing could be further from the truth. Since then, repression has deepened in Tibet and in China itself, the government is more intolerant of free speech and opposition to its rule than ever before.
The IOC must not reward China for repression by giving it the Olympic Games again. More than 175 Tibet groups across the globe have joined forces to oppose Beijing’s bid. Please sign the global Change.org petition now and demand that the IOC rejects China’s bid.
The decision will be made in less than two months. Please sign the petition now and ask your friends and family do so too.
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Posted on June 1, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Target: South Korean President Geun-Hye Park and Minister of Justice Kyo-Ahn Hwang
Goal: Ensure that the man accused of boiling 600 live cats is held accountable for his actions.
Busan Bukbu Police arrested 54-year-old “Mr. A” on charges of capturing and slaughtering 600 live stray cats, which is a violation of South Korea’s Animal Protection Act. Mr. A was suspected of capturing the cats by luring them into traps with food and then slaughtering them in a secret, remote location in another province for over a year. The helpless cats were reportedly forced into large containers of boiling water and were essentially cooked to death. Mr. A would remove their fur and sell the organs to a “Health Food Center,” where customers purchased them for supposed health benefits.
During the raid at Mr. A’s slaughterhouse, 18 cats were discovered locked in a crate and waiting to be killed. Mr. A has admitted to boiling, killing and selling over 600 stray cats, which seems like an unfathomably high number, but the police explained that there is a high demand for cat soup due to a niche belief that the soup cures or alleviates symptoms of arthritis.
Unfortunately, although Mr. A has been arrested, the “Health Food Center” that bought the cats’ organs will go unpunished. This is because there are no laws to stop these types of organizations from reselling the cats to the public.
However, Mr. A will be charged for violating the provision in the Animal Protect Act, which prohibits the act of killing an animal by inhumane methods. Please sign this petition to ensure that Mr. A will be punished to the highest degree of South Korean law for cruelly boiling live stray cats if he’s found guilty.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear President Geun-Hye Park and Minister Kyo-Ahn Hwang
Mr. A was arrested for boiling 600 live stray cats and selling their organs to a “Health Food Center” in another province. There is a belief in South Korea that cat soup can cure or alleviate symptoms of arthritis, but consuming them does more harm than good. Unlike livestock animals such as pigs and cattle, cats are not managed for sanitation and parasites in cats are more likely to be transferred to humans.
Aside from the actual health risk of consumption, the manner in which Mr. A allegedly slaughtered these innocent cats is shockingly cruel. According to the Animal Protection Act, it is against the law to kill an animal inhumanely. Every animal deserves justice. I urge you to make sure that Mr. A is severely punished for the torture and slaughter of hundreds of cats if he’s found guilty.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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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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