Iceland plans to end all whaling from 2024, Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Svandis Svavarsdottir said in a column in the Morgunbladid newspaper on Friday.

“There are few justifications to authorize the whale hunt beyond 2024,” the minister said, adding that, as things stand, it is highly likely that the practice will be banned when the current quotas end.

Whaling, which was re-authorized for commercial purposes in 2006, is becoming less economically justifiable, with only one whale killed in the past three years.

“There can be several reasons for this, but perhaps the simple explanation is that there have been sustained losses from this type of fishing,” she said.

Demand for whale meat from Iceland has dropped massively since Japan re-authorized whaling in 2019 after it withdrew from the International Whaling Commission (IWC).

Whalers in Iceland have also been required to go further afield to hunt the creatures after a no-fishing coastal zone was extended.

Iceland-Whale hit by exploding projectiles bleeds to death slowly and painfully – That’s how cruel whaling is

Social distancing due to the coronavirus has also rendered Iceland’s whale meat processing plants inoperable.

Amid widespread condemnation of the industry, Iceland is one of the few nations, along with Norway and Japan, that still allows commercial whale hunts.

2018 was the last full whaling season, with 146 fin whales and six minke whales killed.

https://www.rt.com/news/548371-iceland-whale-hunt-ban/

And I mean..Those responsible in the Icelandic government should have come to this good decision much earlier, because the demand for whale meat has fallen sharply.

There is absolutely no justification for getting involved in this incredibly cruel industry.
Iceland’s government generally allows minke whales to be caught as a sideline for fishermen, but it also gives the monopoly on the killing of the world’s second largest species, the fin whale, to an one alone millionaire, Kristján Loftsson.

No other country hunts this endangered species, no other country has exported such mountains of whale meat in the last 20 years as the northern European island state.
Iceland used to be one of the most active whaling countries.

Thousands of blue, fin and humpback whales died in Icelandic waters from the early 20th century to 1989. The small country benefited primarily from exports of whale products to Japan.

Luckily the harpoons have been dormant since 2019, the fishing fleet has been in port ever since and the chances of ending this massacre forever and ever are good; we only hope that Minister Svandis Svavarsdottir sticks to his sensible decision.

Like Japanese whaling, whaling in Iceland was just a bloody massacre, benefiting very few and harming very many.
First of all the animals.

“Scientific research” as a hunting ground for whaling has always been a cynical joke.
It’s about jobs and subsidies.
But developments in Iceland suggest the last remaining whalers have gone out of business

What the Icelandic government has done to these animals up until now has been a moral bankruptcy.
High time to abolish that

My best regards to all, Venus

From German Media (translation)

The sight of the destroyed, sawn-down hunting high seat, which lies on the ground on the country road between Rheinfelden and Möhlin, annoys Willy Itin, hunting supervisor in the Rheinfelden area.

“2000 francs are over,” he says and adds: “It’s a bottomless impudence – just destroying someone else’s property. (!!!)

” With red paint, the alleged perpetrator has sprayed her abbreviation on the high seat: “ALF” – Animal Liberation Front; to German: Animal Liberation Front.
Their goal is to prevent animal testing and killing of animals. This is done, for example, by attacks on laboratories and animal farms by means of sabotage or arson attacks.

Danger to life and a queasy feeling it is hard to imagine, according to Itin, what could have happened if the perpetrators had only sawn on the stilts or the ladder and a hunter in the seat had fallen as a result.

He says: “In the worst case, you can break your back – or a shot can come loose. In general, it would be anything but easy for hunting today to fulfill its mission of keeping game damage to a minimum (!!!). Animal rights activists don’t want us to hunt anymore and according to some farmers, we can’t hunt often enough,” says Itin.

Two more high seats destroyed it was not the only action against the hunting parties in the lower Fricktal in the night from Saturday to Sunday.
Also in the hunting ground Möhlin-Süd in the Röti area at the foot of the Sonnenberg tower, the ALF allegedly sawed a high seat, a third fell near the brewery Feldschlösschen in the hunting ground Olsberg.

In the past, the three hunting societies had no problems with the said animal liberation front. In principle, one could be against hunting, says Paul Mahrer, deputy supervisor in the Möhlin Süd district.
But: “You should then please collect signatures, but not commit a crime.”

“In the future, you have to check carefully whether the high seat is not manipulated before you climb on it”, warns Mahrer.
He hopes that the police can identify the perpetrators and that they will have to bear the costs on which the hunting party would otherwise remain seated.
The other hunting societies also hope for this in unison. Thus, the reassembly is not only associated with costs, but also with time and work.
Police have started the investigation yesterday afternoon, it was still unclear whether further high seats had been destroyed.

As Corina Winkler, spokeswoman for the cantonal police, says, the police have started the investigation and secured the first traces.Call for witnesses persons who have noticed suspicious persons in the vicinity of the crime scenes from Saturday to Sunday are asked to report for information by telephone…

https://animalliberationpressoffice.org/NAALPO/2022/01/24/alf-topples-hunting-towers-germany-2/

And I mean…In principle, anyone with a license to hunt can set up such high seats.
This makes a high seat one of the very few structures that do not require a permit in Germany, which means that anyone can build wildly.
Where and as much as anyone wants.

Even on someone else’s property, and if the owner on whose property such a building stands does not agree to the construction, he has to calculate with a long process, with costs for lawyer, trouble..etc.
Even though it’s his property.

Most of the time, in front of such murder seats there are feeding barrels for the animals that will soon be executed.
By feeding them, with which they literally fatten up some wild animals and bring them through the winter, they just want to shoot a deer quickly and not sit in their seats for hours and wait for one to run by.
Hunter Willy Ittin claims “hunting today fulfills its mission of keeping game damage to a minimum”.

Hunting is not wildlife management – genocide is not humanitarian aid.
Mentally, morally, socially sane people with decency don’t need the disgusting, murderous hunt.
Thanks to the activists of ALF

My best regards to all, Venus

A wolf followed a person for a long time and then stopped at a distance of two meters. Since the animal could have been potentially dangerous to humans, it was killed (!!!).

That’s what it’s about:
-A male wolf recently came very close to a person in Surselva.
-In order to avoid the risk of endangering people, the canton decided to shoot the animal.
-It is probably a lone wolf.
-Attempts to scare the wolf away had previously failed.
-Wolves are generally not dangerous to humans. They generally avoid people.

In the past few weeks, there have been a number of worrying encounters between a solitary wolf and humans in settlements in the upper Surselva, which can be classified as problematic behavior (!!!) of a wolf with a potential threat to humans.
This was announced by the Office for Hunting and Fisheries on Friday.

“The canton has therefore decided to shoot the problem animal using the general police clause.
The wolf was killed by the game guard in the night of January 20, 2022,” says the communiqué.

Harassment without success

The game warden had been closely following developments regarding the encounters of the lone wolf with humans for some time and was in contact with the community authorities.
Several attempts to equip the animal with a telemetry transmitter and scare it away with rubber bullets were unsuccessful.

At the same time, encounters within the settlement area had increased sharply in the past few weeks, with the wolf increasingly attracting attention with problematic behavior that potentially endangered humans.
So there was an encounter last Sunday morning at 6.15 a.m., in which the wolf followed a person unnoticed and finally stayed close to the person at a distance of two meters for a longer period of time, before continuing to run in the direction of the village.
The apparently increasing habituation of this wolf to humans and the resulting increased risk of endangerment for humans were alarming.
The male wolf that has been killed in the meantime is very likely a solitary wolf.

Application of the general police clause

In order to avoid the risk of increasing danger to people, (!!!) the canton decided to shoot the problem animal (?) using the general police clause. The wolf was killed in the night of January 20, 2022 in the immediate vicinity of a settlement and transferred to the Fiwi Center for Fish and Wildlife Medicine in Bern for further examinations.
The genetic analysis will be carried out at the Laboratoire de Biology de la Conservation, Université de Lausanne.

https://www.20min.ch/story/wolf-kam-menschen-zu-nahe-ruede-erlegt-724496050570

And I mean…Quite perverse: a non-aggressive wolf is shot down because it behaves like a dog towards humans!
So…problem wolf because he got too close?
So getting close is already a problem?
Is it really the wolf that comes too close to us, or is it not rather we who are spreading more and more and depriving the animals of their last place of refuge?

What outrageous nonsense!!!
Absolutely no Mernsch has been attacked by a wolf in Switzerland since 1995, where native wolves have returned.
Absolutely nobody at all.

Apart from that- the reference to the “police general clause” is shameful.
A shooting is still “intra legem” ( within the law) , to a certain extent a state emergency, and not to be compared with the factual freedom of the wolf to approach humans.
Ultimately, it was no different than the right to kill with impunity.

My best regards to all, Venus

The current 2022 hunt is even more gruesome than usual as various local county governments work together to eradicate entire families of wolves from their territory and habitat.

Norway (a non-EU country where the hunt for 54 wolves can continue until May 31) and Sweden are cooperating in this grotesque eradication effort and creating a wolf holocaust.

Almost 2,000 hunters have signed up on the Swedish side to kill 27 wolves.
Finland has also launched a hunt for 20 wolves.
Thus, in Scandinavia in 2022 more than 100 wolves will be slaughtered in the most gruesome ways.

The intentional killing of predators goes against the spirit and spirit of the EU’s Habitats Directive protecting endangered species.

NGOs in Sweden, Norway and Finland have called for the hunt to stop. Not in line with modern nature conservation: Sweden has been involved in the cruel business of trophy hunting for brown bears, lynx and wolves since 2010.

Wolves and other predators were nearly wiped out by human persecution in the late 19th century. At the beginning of the 19th century, the love of nature and the movement of people to urban areas contributed to a renewed appreciation for a diverse range of animals. The Hunters’ Association also contributed to the protection of certain species.

Unfortunately, in the late 1930s the Hunters’ Association was entrusted with the management of wild animals by the state and received enormous economic resources, linking the state and hunting interests, on a model then used in authoritarian Germany.

This model is still valid and gives them a budget of about $5.6 million each year.

This created an institution that would exercise control over wildlife and act as a lobbying force infiltrating government and the hunting political agenda at all levels. And this despite the fact that hunters make up less than 3% of the population.

Why is there a trophy hunt in a developed country like Sweden?

Wolves were fully protected starting in 1966 to save the species.

But as we can see, that has changed, even though Sweden has been subject to EU safeguards since joining the EU in 1995.
Since 2010, licensed hunting has expanded trophy hunting in Sweden as hunters are now allowed to kill bears, lynx and wolves. Foreign hunters are also welcome.

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