Spreading the message of peaceful coexistence with native carnivores.
WAV Comment – very true; as our recent post shows:
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‘WE DON’T F*** AROUND’
Shocking moment vile dad and son are caught shooting hibernating black bear and her two newborn cubs before high-fiving
Above – Dickhead Hunter 1 (son) – Below: Dickhead Hunter 2 (father)
THIS below is the sick moment a dad and son high-five after slaying a defenceless bear and cubs as they hibernate in their den.
The footage which captured the illegal killing on Esther Island, in the Gulf of Alaska, comes from a camera which had been set up to study the animals.
Read the rest of the article; complete with video footage of the event, at:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8743068/shooting-hibernating-bear-dad-son/
In January, the father and son were brought to court and sentenced for killing the bears, and then lying to officials after they found out the bear was collared.
They both pleaded guilty to multiple misdemeanour counts including the illegal killing of the bears.
Andrew was sentenced to five months in jail with two months suspended, a fine of $20,000 (£15,300).
Owen was sentenced to suspended jail time and community service.
Both had their hunting licenses revoked, Andrew for 10 years, and Owen’s for two years.
WAV Comment: They must be real men – they shoot animals ! – or should that be ‘try to look tough real assholes’ ?
Dear Mark,
Picture the iconic, snowy landscape of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge … without polar bears.
It’s an unsettling thought. But as the Trump administration barrels closer to tearing open the Arctic Refuge to invasive oil and gas exploration, it could become reality sooner than we think.
Rapidly melting sea ice from climate change is already forcing more pregnant polar bears to move off the ice to den in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But if their dens are overrun with 90,000-pound “thumper” trucks and oil drilling rigs, these majestic bears will be left with nowhere to nurse and protect their cubs. And we’re running out of time to save them.
Photo – Alaska wild.
NRDC is fighting to protect America’s polar bears and other threatened wildlife, but we need your support. Become a Monthly Partner now to power our ongoing legal battles and help save the Arctic Refuge and its wildlife from destruction. If you start your gift before March 31, NRDC will receive an extra $75 for the environment!
Polar bears need us to protect their habitat and save them from extinction. And as a scientist in the Marine Mammal Protection Project and Oceans Division at NRDC, I can tell you that we need them, too. Polar bears are one of our best barometers for understanding our overheating planet.
That’s because their Arctic home is warming twice as fast as the planet’s average … melting sea ice, softening the land, and threatening Alaska’s fragile ecosystems.
Mark, we’re up against an administration that flat-out denies the dangers of our warming planet — and moreover, an industry that sees melting sea ice as an opportunity to expand offshore drilling to the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.
If the Trump administration succeeds in auctioning off Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas companies like ConocoPhillips or ExxonMobil, it will drive even faster global warming. And the polar bears? Tractors and massive thumper trucks will swarm the land, threatening their denning grounds and their cubs, making it even harder for them to survive.
That’s why NRDC is battling in court to block the Trump Administration from starting oil and gas leasing in the Beaufort Sea, which sits right off the coast of the Arctic Refuge. We also sued the administration to stop Big Oil from raiding the Western Arctic — and we’re preparing to jump into action the moment the Interior Department moves to begin leasing the Arctic Refuge.
We must be ready to haul this administration to court. And with your help, we can be. NRDC needs 300 committed supporters to join as Monthly Partners and come to the defense of the Arctic Refuge before it’s too late. Please, donate now >>
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Stand with us right now — on the right side of history — as we face one of the biggest environmental battles of our lifetimes. If we’re going to win this fight, we need as much help as we can possibly get.
Sincerely,
Francine Kershaw, Ph.D.
Project Scientist, Marine Mammal Protection Project and Oceans Division, NRDC
Regards Mark.
Posted by Carly Day
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons – chensiyuan
Currently 6237 Signatures Collected
Petition link – https://ladyfreethinker.org/sign-ban-animal-slavery-for-entertainment-in-california/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email
PETITION TARGET: Senator Henry Stern, Chair of the California Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water
Babies torn from their mothers, trapped in cramped, dirty cages, and tortured to perform tricks out of fear. This is the reality of the cruel circus industry — and every day, animals are suffering for this so-called “entertainment.”
These animals deserve better.
And a new bill proposed in California could help save them from the cruelty.
Authored by State Senator Ben Hueso (D-San Diego), SB-313 would ban the use of elephants, tigers, lions and other exotic animals in any traveling act performing in the state. If passed, the bill would spare animals from abuse and show that we are no longer willing to tolerate cruelty for human amusement.
These animals may be whipped until they bleed, choked with tight collars, and forced to jump through rings of fire that leave horrific burns on their bodies. They are left physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred. The abuse has to stop.
The bill is scheduled for a hearing with the California Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water on April 9, 2019.
No animal should suffer at the hands of humans for any reason – least of all for our entertainment.
Sign this petition urging Senator Henry Stern, Chair of the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water, to work to pass this bill, and help bring an end to animal exploitation everywhere.
One-time Disy MP Evgenios Hamboullas sparked outrage on Friday after he urged people in Famagusta (a city on the east coast Cyprus) to attack and beat up foreign activists fighting the illegal hunting of songbirds.
His outburst came after a statement by the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (Cabs) said 29 of its volunteers had collected 2,596 limesticks and 53 nets in the district, one of two main hotspots for bird trapping, a lucrative business that fetches millions to poachers.
In a rant on his Facebook page Hamboullas accused the authorities of treason and urged residents to attack the activists.
“They are not aktivists, they are shit ruffians!! Break their bones wherever you find them and if you can’t, call me and I will help,” said Hamboullas.
The remark sparked outrage elsewhere on the island with people calling on Disy chief Averof Neophytou to oust Hamboullas from the party.
“It was an unacceptable post. There is no excuse. He ought to withdraw and apologise in public,” Neophytou said on Twitter.
Hamboullas has since removed the post.
This was not the first time Hamboullas caused a stir regarding the issue.
While in parliament in January 2016, he had posted a photo on social media of himself at a dinner table with a platter of songbirds.
MP Hamboullas seen here enjoying ambelopoulia
He claimed he did it because he supported legalisation of hunting blackcaps, or ambelopoulia as they are known locally, albeit not with limesticks and nets, as is the current practice.
The attorney-general chose not to press charges at the time because putting together a criminal against a sitting MP for eating illegal game was difficult.
My comment: In no other country in the European Union does poaching go to such an extent. 4,000 poachers (at 1,120,489 island inhabitants) are said to have contributed to the cruel killing last year and more than 2 million birds were killed.
And this is how the serial killers act: Rods are smeared with an odorless and colorless glue and placed on attractive -for the birds- landing sites; the birds stick to it and are at the mercy of their tormentors – the fishing method was already used in the Stone Age.
And in no other country are the authorities so powerless and inactive. The captured birds have become a big business for catchers, butchers and restaurats. The police pushes more than one eye – glue rods and nets are considered at best as a trivial offense, if not a venerable tradition!
The illegal hunters earn about 15 million euros annually – of course, black. The estimate is from the year 2010 and should not have changed downwards.
“The illegal activities are open and more often supported by high-ranking politicians and administrative employees,” says a report about “the Bird Mafia in Cyprus”. https://www.spektrum.de/news/vogelfang-auf-zypern/1398790
We believe that immediately! if the kickback Hamboullas from the affair comes unpunished only with the deletion of a line in his Facebook page, then we have again learned something from corruption in politics.
On the other hand, they are all directly or indirectly supported by a society of lackeys. A population that lets such murders happen in front of their eyes and does so with the justification, there is always something more important in life than the murder and suffering of other beings.
My best regards, Venus
Quite rightly, the (UK) BBC has a reputation the world over for producing some amazing wildlife programmes. We would like to share some of them with you.
‘Blue Planet’ is the latest series on UK television; some amazing footage from all over the globe.
Enjoy
Regards Mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOGn4zQGmpU
Just when we thought we had seen everything, all kinds and models of human stupidity and human nonsense about the abuse of animals, another horrible practice appears.
And leaves us speechless, alone because one with the carcass of a murdered animal over the shoulder can walk around undisturbed. And because it is legal.
These two-legged species we must call a filthy sack, witch has the psychopathological symptom of the Thanatophilia!
My best regards, Venus
This is the time of year once again when Canadians will start smashing in the heads of young seal pups.
Does Canada not realise that it is hated the world over for allowing this hunt to take place each year ?
Below are a few facts and links which we hope will give you more information on what is going on. Like all hunters, the Canadian government is supporting those which murder seals – ‘they take our fish’ – OUR fish ?? – or do they mean beings of the sea which are taken as a food source by other animals of the sea ?
It is illegal in Canada to hunt newborn harp seals (whitecoats) and young hooded seals (bluebacks). When the seal pups begin to molt their downy white fur at the age of 12–14 days, they are called “ragged-jacket” and can be commercially hunted.
Hunters in Canada target harp seal pups because of their soft fur. But law prohibits hunters from killing pups that have yet to grow out of their white coat, like this baby’s. Harp seals aren’t endangered, but melting ice because of climate change is killing pups.
In recent years, hundreds of thousands of seals have been killed annually in the commercial seal hunt. More than one million seals have been slaughtered in the past five years alone. These kill levels are among the highest witnessed in Canada in half a century.
Regards Mark.
Further reading and learning:
https://www.canadasshame.com/features/baby-seals/
https://www.canadasshame.com/about/
https://www.canadasshame.com/features/8-things-you-need-to-know-about-canadas-seal-slaughter/
https://eluxemagazine.com/magazine/canadas-seal-hunt/
https://www.thedodo.com/in-the-wild/canadian-seal-hunt-2018
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/commercial-seal-hunt-dfo-1.5007895
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_hunting
Regardless of brain dead Canadian politicians; there are always brilliant real men
– Paul Watson and the late Bob Hunter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hunter_(journalist)
In March of 1976, he and Paul Watson (now Sea Shepherd) stood on the heaving ice floes off the coast of Labrador as a large sealing ship bore down on them.
https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2018/05/11/remembering-bob-hunter-im-not-going-anywhere/
Below – the late Bob Hunter – saving seals !
Today is also a good day, because we can start with sensational news!
Received anonymously from @ALFUKpress (click here for video from the action):
We decided after reading recent hit reports from other activists that it was time we did something about it as well.
The game farm at ‘Chilmark Common’ is just south of the village of Chilmark. We found 8 very large pens each pen had approximately 400-600 birds, totaling somewhere between 3,200-4,800!
These breeding birds would have gone on to produce tens of thousands of offspring that would have been reared in factory farm conditions, to be put into pheasant pens in the late summer then shot. By releasing the breeding birds now, we hope that far fewer birds will go on to be shot this Winter.
We removed fence panels from the end of each pen, then walked through the pen and hearded the pheasants out, closing the pen behind us after each one so that they didn’t run back in.
It was an incredible sensation to be amongst all these birds, who were making their first flights without bashing into a net. We hope they find peace in the surrounding woods.
Animal Liberation Front, https://animalliberationpressoffice.org/NAALPO/2019/03/20/alf-liberates-thousands-of-pheasants-from-game-farm-in-chilmark-uk-2/
My comment: Growing pheasants in large farms (factory farming, like any other) is only for sale to hunters at certain times. These hunters, who are mostly rich or even aristocrats, have large hunting grounds, where pheasants (and other breeding birds) are kept to be shot down.
In order to make it easy prey later and to avoid injuries due to the density in factory farming, the beak tips are tilted or the animals get grotesque masks, view barrier in front of the eyes or beak barrier.
Foto: VGTIt is a feudal hunting practice and a very expensive business. For the breeders, for the area owner, and for the psychopaths, who pay dearly to shoot the animals.
In this case: not only animals are liberated here, but a business of about half a million Euros has certainly been destroyed.
My best regards, Venus
From ‘Respect for Animals’ – England.
Check them on the Web – http://www.respectforanimals.org/
Now we move on calling for a:
A recent article in the Independent revealed that a UK retailer is selling a coat made from killing and skinning 100 hamsters and we all often see hats with real fox fur pompoms and coats with collars made with coyote fur. All of these animals, slaughtered cruelly for fashion.
As the law stands, imports of fur are legal. The law must change. The import and sale of fur is allowed even though the main ways fur is obtained, including fur farming, are banned in Britain.
Killing animals just for their fur is cruel and barbaric, and we must stop funding it by banning imports of real fur immediately.
Fur import bans have been successfully implemented elsewhere. There is a EU-wide ban on the import of domestic cat and dog fur and California is considering a ban on the sale of real fur.
The UK should take a lead and become the first country in the world to ban fur imports.
That’s why we’ve teamed up with change.org to launch this petition as part of our new Fur-Free UK campaign.
Using the hashtag #FFUK , we’re telling the fur trade what we really think about their barbaric industry.
Please sign our petition to help end this senseless cruelty to animals.
Take Action
Regards and thanks – Mark.
World Animals Voice 