Category: Environmental

China Cat Torture, Environmental, General News

England: Brit woman dubbed ‘The Immolator’ admits role in sick monkey torture ring where fiends pay to put animals in blenders.

This shows, as does our expose of Chinese cat torture – Search Results for “china cat torture” – World Animals Voice – that this sickening abuse spreads far and wide around the globe.

But the abusers can run but no longer hide; as campaigners across the globe are now hunting them down, publishing their photographs and detailing their convictions for authorities across the world to use when bringing convictions.  We are in the final stages of putting together all of our data which will be presented to the relevant authorities for actions.

You can see from the article below that despite the involvement of British and UK persons in these abuses; 2 people have also been imprisoned in Indonesia for same.

A very interesting article regarding UK animal torture.  A British woman admits her role in monkey torture ring.

Click on link to see all photographs and a video of her arriving at court.

Link – Brit woman dubbed ‘The Immolator’ admits role in sick monkey torture ring where fiends pay to put animals in blenders | The Sun

Copied from the article (link above) produced by The Sun – a UK newspaper.

Holly LeGresley today pleaded guilty to the charges Credit: Facebook

A probe found people were paying Indonesians to torture monkeys Credit: BBC

A BRIT known as The Immolator has admitted to her role in a monkey torture ring where fiends pay for the animals to be killed for sexual kicks.

Self-proclaimed animal lover Holly LeGresley, 37, led a secret life as a moderator in one of the global online groups.

She today admitted publishing an obscene article and causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.

Co-defendant Adriana Orme, 55, indicated no plea to the charges at Worcester Magistrates’ Court today.

The pair, from Kidderminster and Upton-upon Severn, were released on conditional bail.

LeGresley, who will be sentenced next month, published 22 images and 132 monkey torture videos to online chat groups, the charge sheet states.

She also made a payment of £17.24 to a PayPal account to encourage cruelty.

Orme allegedly uploaded one image and 26 videos of monkey torture between April 14 and June 16, 2022.

She is accused of encouraging or assisting the commission of unnecessary suffering by making a £10 payment to a PayPal account on April 26, 2022.

The court was told the women had “not carried out monkey torture themselves”.

West Mercia Police confirmed the charges are in relation to causing, consuming and facilitating the torture of monkeys.

It came after the BBC exposed a global monkey torture gang following a year-long investigation.

They discovered hundreds were paying Indonesians to kill infant long-tailed macaques on video.

Torture methods include setting the animals on fire and putting them in blenders.

LeGresley was known as The Immolator, meaning someone who practises sacrifice.

She once ran a poll on which torture method should be used on a baby monkey.

The bird lover describes her love of gore on Facebook – branding Hannibal Lecter and Pennywise the Clown “horror icons”.

She has even lashed out at films that portray animal cruelty before, including Suicide Squad spin-off Birds of Prey.

Complaining about a scene where an aviary is set alight, LeGresley wrote: “That’s sick. You don’t do that s***, even [with] computer graphics because it’s too far.

“Shouldn’t be allowed to put such gratuitous animal cruelty in a movie when it doesn’t even really serve the story. Sick twisted people who made this film.

“Won’t be spending any more of my money on the franchise. What a disappointment.”

Three people including suspected ringleader Michael Macartney have been charged in the US.

The 50-year-old, who went by the alias “Torture King”, ran several chat groups from around the world on encrypted messaging app Telegram.

The groups shared sick ideas for custom-made torture videos, which were then sent with payments to Indonesia.

According to US court papers, Macartney is accused of distributing videos depicting the “torture, murder, and sexually sadistic mutilation of animals, specifically juvenile and adult monkeys”.

The BBC reports he has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges and faces up to five years in jail.

He previously described joining his first Telegram monkey group, saying: “They had a poll set up. Do you want a hammer involved? Do you want pliers involved? Do you want a screwdriver?”

Macartney, from Virginia, said it was the “most grotesque thing I have ever seen”.

At least 20 people have been investigated over the sick videos – including three women living in the UK who were arrested in 2022.

Two people have been imprisoned in Indonesia, while David Christopher Noble and Nicole Devilbiss have been charged in the US.

WAV Comment – Please use this link to see all the photographs and a video:

Brit woman dubbed ‘The Immolator’ admits role in sick monkey torture ring where fiends pay to put animals in blenders | The Sun

Extra – We (WAV) are running 2 petitions relating to cat torture in China, which can be viewed and signed at:

UK – Petition · Chinese Cat Torture – Time For Action To Stop It. – United Kingdom · Change.org

Germany – https://www.change.org/p/china-katzen-folter-ring-cat-torture-ring

We are experiencing huge problems (like many others around the world) in being able to present our petitions to the Chinese authorities.  Until we do, then the petitions remain.

So, Please sign and pass on, thank you.

Regards Mark and Diana

Environmental, Farm Animals, General News, Stray Animals, Uncategorized

England: May 2024 Photos From Pauline.

Thank you everyone for sticking with us; and a special welcome to all our new visitor friends from Australia and Singapore. Check out our visitors – https://clustrmaps.com/site/1a9kn

If some of you are new to the site and not aware, animal buddy Pauline often sends me a collection of her animal photos taken in and around South East London / Kent County.

You can see all the past photos from Pauline by clicking on https://worldanimalsvoice.com/?s=pauline

Tonight I have a new set of photos which you can see below. Hopefully, Pauline and I will be meeting up for a coffee on Wednesday and a Veggie / Vegan Ruby (Ruby Murray – Curry) – https://youtu.be/XRVVCbXmYJo in the next few weeks; so really looking forward to it. Animal talk on the menu as always – her hedgehogs and birds in nesting boxes; and my badgers and foxes who come round for scoff every night; – below, a badger in my garden.

So here below are all of Pauline’s latest shots; which we are sure you will enjoy.

Regards Mark and Pauline.

Below – Spring Lamb

Above – Singing Whitethroat

Below – Whitethroat

Above – Male Blackbird

Below – Female Blackbird

Below – Oyster Catcher

Below – Peacock Butterfly

Below – Gray Herons At Nest – and Youngsters

Below – Gosling

Below – Canada Geese

Below – Young Grey Wagtail

Below – Grey Wagtail

Below – Goldfinch

Below – .. and Thirsty

Below – Swans Nesting – Can You See the Egg Within ?

Below – Terrapin

Regards Pauline and Mark

Environmental, General News, Hunting

EU: Survey: Tougher Regulation of Hunting Demanded by Rural Communities.

2 May 2024

Inhabitants of rural areas strongly oppose cruel and unjustified hunting and only 12% feel well-represented by hunting interest groups, a new survey shows. With rural inhabitants most affected by hunting policies, it’s time to change the rules.

The survey which focused on large carnivores like wolves, highlighted the broad support of rural communities towards their protection. 

Rural communities show a similar progressive approach when it comes to hunting of other species. 67% prioritise the protection of biodiversity and animal welfare over the maintaining of hunting traditions. While hunting is currently regulated differently in each Member State, 65 % of respondents called for an harmonisation of hunting practices throughout the EU, based on scientific knowledge and in application of EU legislation, especially regarding the protection of biodiversity.

7 out of 10 respondents believe that each wild animal is a sentient being that needs to be protected, and want effective non-lethal and humane wildlife management methods to be researched and implemented. 

A larger group (75%) are demanding a ban of hunting methods causing avoidable suffering to wild animals (underground hunting with dogs, glue-trap hunting, etc). This approach is largely supported by recreational hunters (68%) themselves showing broad support for policy change. 

64% of respondents want a limitation of hunting to cases where independent scientific assessments conclude that the species poses a risk to the environment or public health, clearly calling for the end of leisure hunting. Besides its impact on animals, hunting also raises public safety concerns as only 31% of respondents feel rather safe going out during hunting season and a larger group (39%) avoids going out altogether.

The survey highlights the negative impact of hunting practices on the livelihoods of EU citizens living in rural areas, and demonstrates the need for the EU to promote humane practices in the management of wild animals and finally issue clear guidelines for an efficient regulation of hunting.

This survey clearly shows that the hunting lobby does not represent the interests of rural communities. Rural citizens across the EU demand change, they want protection for themselves and for wild animals victims of cruel, unnecessary and unjustified culling, whether it concerns wolves or other species. It is time for the EU to seriously look into this and promote solutions.

Léa Badoz, Wildlife Programme Officer, Eurogroup for Animals

Hunting survey report

BROWSE TO THIS PUBLICATION

10,000 inhabitants of rural areas in Germany, France, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Denmark, Sweden and Romania participated in the survey, which was conducted by Savanta in November 2023. The survey was commissioned by Eurogroup for Animals, Humane Society International/Europe, Fondation Brigitte Bardot, Dierenbescherming, Djurskyddet Sverige, Deutscher Tierschutzbund, World Animal Protection Denmark, World Animal Protection Netherlands, World Animal Protection Sweden and LAV.

Environmental, Farm Animals, General News, Uncategorized

EU: Candidate MEPs Take The Vote For Animals Pledge.

From left to right: MEPS Francisco Guerreiro, Tilly Metz, Caroline Roose, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Senior Political Advisor at Eurogroup for Animals Andreas Erler and IFAW Representative Filip Molnár

Candidate MEPs take the Vote for Animals pledge

25 April 2024

Press Release

MEPs of the Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals celebrated their achievements for the last legislative term, while candidates for the next one pledged to continue to advocate for better protection of all animals at the EU level.

The Intergroup, which met for the last session for this term, brings together 94 MEPs from across all political groups, and provides a cross-party platform for discussions and initiatives on animal welfare in the European Parliament (EP). For the past four decades, it has been a crucial catalyst for action on this front.

Some of the noteworthy achievements of this term include:

The set-up of a Committee of Inquiry on the Protection of Animals during Transport (ANIT), which pushed for the revision of the outdated Regulation on animal transport.

The resolution on actions to accelerate a transition to non-animal science.

The working group on the ECI End the Cage Age, which contributed to get  a resolution in the EP and a subsequent European Commission (EC) commitment.

The adoption of a resolution on improving Regulations on wild and exotic animals to be kept as pets in the EU, through a positive list.

The support for a campaign calling for an EU commissioner on animal welfare.

A working group on companion animals.

During her intervention, President of the Intergroup Tilly Metz said that the Intergroup has continuously made animal welfare visible in the EP, through reports, working groups, resolutions and parliamentary questions. She expressed her disappointment at the EC’s failure to put forward a full package of proposals to update the EU animal welfare legislation, despite continuous pressure by members of the Intergroup and animal protection NGOs.

In the run-up to the European Elections in June, candidate MEPs are taking a pledge stating a clear commitment to strive to improve animal welfare if they are elected, through the Vote for Animals campaign, run by Eurogroup for Animals and its members. The pledge, composed of ten asks, addresses live animal transport, imports of animal-based products, welfare of aquatic species, non-animal science and the conservation of wild animals, among others.

These were five intense years of fighting for better animal welfare. We have seen overwhelming civil mobilisation, which shows the willingness of EU citizens to better protect animals at an EU level. We need legislation that protects all animals, including aquatic ones, which are currently unprotected. We have yet to see a ban on cages, on fur farms, and fur products in the EU market,

MEP Caroline Roose (Greens/EFA, FR), Vice President of the Intergroup

Without the civil society – the ECIs, campaigns and other initiatives – we wouldn’t have been so strong. We require species-specific legislation, for example for octopus, and other animals which are unprotected. We must continue to bring animal welfare on the table in important discussions,

MEP Sirpa Pietikäinen, (EPP, FI) Honorary President of the Intergroup

As 300 million animals continue to suffer in cages, we need the European Commission to deliver on the End the Cage Age ECI. We need to push for a roadmap for a transition to non-animal science, and a ban on the transport of vulnerable animals

MEP Niels Fuglsang (S&D, DK), Vice-President of the Intergroup

Environmental, General News, Hunting

USA: Support A Ban On Coyote / Wolf ‘Whacking’. Action To Take Below.

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USA: JUSTICE FOR WOLF RUN DOWN BY SNOWMOBILE, TORTURED, AND KILLED AT WYOMING BAR – Petition.
https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2024/04/18/usa-boycott-wyoming-the-call-after-100000-signature-petition-re-wild-wolf-torture-video/

Dear Mark, 

To you, and to the average citizen, running over coyotes and wolves with a snowmobile sounds inhumane, barbaric, and just plain cruel. But unfortunately, this practice is legal in Wyoming and Idaho (wolves and coyotes), and Montana (just coyotes), where wildlife policy is stacked against wild carnivores.

If wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains received the federal Endangered Species Act protections they deserve, Cody Roberts wouldn’t have felt emboldened to commit the heinous act of running over a yearling wolf before further torturing her in a bar and finally killing her. 

Unfortunately, even if wolves are relisted to the Endangered Species Act (which is essential to prevent decades of conservation work from being undone, and why we’re suing the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service), it would still be legal to run over coyotes with snowmobiles and other motorized vehicles. Therefore, we’ve joined the Center for Biological Diversity and other groups in calling on the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to ban the use of snowmobiles or other vehicles to run down wolves and other wildlife. 

This practice is utterly barbaric, and one would think that banning it would be straightforward. However, both Wyoming and Montana had the opportunity to prohibit this practice in 2019 and FAILED to do so.

It’s high time to hold wildlife policymakers accountable. They are failing wildlife. They are failing all of us. Thank you for standing with us to show Wyoming, and the rest of the country, that we will not allow wolves, coyotes, or any wild animals to be legally tortured.   Last week, the Wyoming Fish and Game Commission convened and heard impassioned testimony from wildlife advocates across the country regarding the disturbing Cody Roberts’ incident.

Many individuals urged the Commission to support a ban of “whacking.”   We MUST continue this call to end egregious practices like “whacking” and create a more compassionate world where wolves are safe from all persecution and inhumane practices and policies.    Stay loud and join us in demanding justice and stronger protections for wolves, coyotes, and all wild carnivores. Here’s how you can create a safer future for wild lives: 

If you haven’t already, sign this change.org petition calling on Sublette County officials to bring more severe charges against Cody Roberts.

Contact Wyoming State officials urging harsher punishments for Cody Roberts and strengthened protections for Wyoming wolves and coyotes—including banning “whacking.” Please remember to be polite and respectful in your comment. Call 307-777-7434 for Governor Mark Gordon Call 307-777-4600 for WY Game & Fish Department Director Brian Nesvick  

Sample script:

olf & coyote “whacking.” The use of snowmobiles and other motorized vehicles to chase and down and kill wolves and coyotes goes far beyond practices of fair-chase and is purely cruel and inhuman; it must end. Please take action to ensure this never happens again. Thank you. Support our efforts to sue USFWS over their negligence in not relisting Northern Rocky Mountain wolves to the Endangered Species Act and our ongoing litigation in Montana in defense of wolves by donating today or monthly.  It’s high time to hold wildlife policymakers accountable. They are failing wildlife. They are failing all of us. Thank you for standing with us to show Wyoming, and the rest of the country, that we will not allow wolves, coyotes, or any wild animals to be legally tortured.

For The Wild Ones,     Carnivore Conservation Director

Environmental, Farm Animals, General News

USA: U.S. health and agriculture officials are ramping up testing and tracking of bird flu in dairy cows.

Source – The Independent – London.

U.S. health and agriculture officials are ramping up testing and tracking of bird flu in dairy cows in an urgent effort to understand — and stop — the growing outbreak.

So far, the risk to humans remains low, officials said, but scientists are wary that the virus could change to spread more easily among people.

Read the full story at:

More cows are being tested and tracked for bird flu. Here’s what that means (msn.com)

Environmental, General News, Uncategorized

Germany: Fox In The City – An Insight Into These Beautiful Animals.

Wildlife in Unexpected Places – Foxes in Urban Environments | Full Documentary

Foxes are true survivors, at home in all regions of the Earth. Nowadays, the smart animals also feel at home in our cities. As an example, a close-knit clan has been living in Berlin’s government district for many years. High up in the North on the German coast, a vixen raises her litter alone. Rarely is there enough to feed everyone. Like after a storm, for example, when the vixen finds a lot to eat in the drift line on the beach. The little ones have to grow up fast, as once the autumn arrives, their single parent mother’s reserves are exhausted and she drives them out of her territory. For more than two years, filmmakers Roland Gockel and Rosie Koch kept track of the foxes in Berlin, Hamburg and on the North German coast. With the help of hidden cameras, they were able to unearth many secrets of the clever animals.

Environmental, General News, Hunting

USA: ‘Boycott Wyoming’ – The Call After 100,000 Signature Petition Re Wild Wolf Torture Video.

Roberts’ (above) social media accounts show how he is an avid hunter who frequently hunts wild animals alongside his kids. – What a way to raise kids !!!

Upset animal lovers descend on Wyoming over wild wolf torture video – claiming the footage has left them with ‘nightmares’ and calling for a boycott of the state

Latest:

Upset animal lovers descend on Wyoming over wild wolf torture video – claiming the footage has left them with ‘nightmares’ and calling for a boycott of the state | Daily Mail Online

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13305103/wolf-wyoming-cody-roberts-green-reiver-bar-disturbing-video-kissing.html

Old post on this issue:

USA: JUSTICE FOR WOLF RUN DOWN BY SNOWMOBILE, TORTURED, AND KILLED AT WYOMING BAR – Petition. – World Animals Voice

Video filmed by witnesses showed him kissing the barely conscious wolf and laughing at its distress as it lay on the floor of the Green River Bar

Roberts dragged the wolf into the bar over protests from the owner, and left it there for hours while he drank.

‘He was a jokester about it, while it was just sitting there bleeding to death… He was drunk and rambling mostly. A guy who thinks highly of himself.‘

The owner and many of the other patrons in the bar were unhappy with the situation, but no one challenged Roberts and the bar staff didn’t tell him to leave.