The supporters of the “Animal Liberation Front (ALF)” probably struck on the night from Friday to Saturday.
The perpetrators left a field of devastation in the Lower Saxony complex.

All metal parts such as slide valves and rotary bowls were stolen. The strangers also sawed wooden beams from roof structures and seating, which is why the police’s investigations will not only relate to property damage.

The perpetrators saw through the entire load-bearing wooden elements.

In addition, all foxes were released.

According to the sleeping facility operator, these hand-raised foxes have no chance of survival in nature.
According to the police, the total damage amounts to over 5,000 euros.
It is not the first time that attacks like this have occurred on full moon nights.
Not so long ago, another Lower Saxony sleeping facility was destroyed during a full moon.

The sleeping facility itself was also completely destroyed.

The sole purpose of these systems is to train hunting dogs for construction hunts in accordance with animal welfare standards.
Perhaps the self-proclaimed animal rights activists will understand at some point that such acts of sabotage cause animal suffering.
Incidentally, the affected hunters do not want to be named in this context.

Several threats against plant operators have been circulating on the Internet for some time.
It is announced that the hunters “must expect action in their private sphere”.

https://www.jagderleben.de/news/animal-liberation-front-tierrechtler-zerstoeren-schliefenanlage-712786

And I mean…A year ago we had informed about these murderous abilities of the German hunters in relation to fox hunting.

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/07/21/how-hunters-murder-foxes/

It is frightening what criminal practices human animals use torture and execute other animals for fun.
Hunting is and remains murder!

We express our unreserved solidarity to the ALF activists.

My best regards to all, Venus

The sight of young foxes playing is one of the most beautiful pictures that our domestic animal world has to offer.

Very few people know, however, that many fox pups are already shot by hunters in their parents’ den or caught in trapping instruments such as the so-called “young fox trap” and then killed.

Fox pups do not have a closed season in most federal states!

Foxes are hunted in most federal states without a regular closed season.

Hunters kill them during the mating season, during the gestation period, while rearing the young, while migrating in search of a territory.
They are hunted with traps and bitten out of their den with dogs, the supposedly safe haven for the birth of the puppies.

The highly social animals are kept captive in barren kennels in order to train construction dogs on them. They are victims of driven hunts and are tracked across territories during fox weeks.

Every year well over 400,000 red foxes in Germany die from hunting – five million in the last eleven years!

Foxes can neither be used as food, nor is the fur of these beautiful animals sold.
About 97 out of 100 foxes killed are thrown into bushes or, at best, buried.

This is neither ethically responsible, nor is it a reasonable reason in terms of the Animal Welfare Act.

Please, sign the petition: https://www.change.org/p/keine-jagd-ohne-vern%C3%BCnftigen-grund-f%C3%BCchse-v%C3%B6gel-haustiere

https://www.aktionsbuendnis-fuchs.de/post/2018/03/02/fuchsbau

 A very nice article about it:

Engineering structures for foxes: they are artificial dwellings built by hunters themselves, which serve as camouflaged traps, and trick their victims into a deceptive idyll that they are safe from persecution.
So sure they will start a family here and raise their young ones.

The whole thing works like this: “Sharp” hunting dogs, which have previously practiced on a captured living object, are sent to the burrow to scare the animals out
The young animals living there are eliminated and their parents chased outside. The murderers are already waiting at the exits with their rifles loaded.

Continue reading “Germany: how hunters build foxes’ death cells.” →

The Spanish regions have agreed to completely stop the hunt for the turtle dove this autumn.

Their populations are in free fall across Europe – today only around 3 to 6 million pairs breed in the EU, the Spanish hunters alone shoot 800,000 individuals of the endangered migratory bird each season.

After France, Spain is the second major country to initially suspend the hunt for the turtle dove.

Italy, on the other hand, had only recently decided to release millions of animals for shooting again this year.

The Committee against Bird Murder has long been campaigning for an end to the hunt for the turtle dove and other threatened migratory birds – only last year we filed a complaint against France and Spain with the EU Commission, thus accelerating the current decision from Madrid.

https://www.facebook.com/Komitee.CABS/

And I mean…The lovebird population in Germany has been around since 1980 decreased by almost 90 percent. It is estimated that it is 22,000 breeding pairs at most.

In some regions the species is almost extinct.
The main reason for this is the intensification of agriculture.
It has the effect that the birds find too little food and fewer young birds grow up.

Around two million lovebirds a year are shot in south and south-east European EU countries, including Spain, Greece and Italy, and never return home from their journey from the wintering areas

Malta is the only EU country to enforce exemptions every year for hunting migratory birds in the spring, despite declining numbers.
The hobby hunters of the Mediterranean island of Malta are particularly interested in the turtle dove.

The effects of the corona pandemic are now making it even easier for legal and illegal hunters to shoot the animals.
Controls of the hunters in the field are therefore not carried out at all or completely inadequately.
In spring 2020, under the guise of a quail hunt, thousands of lovebirds were illegally shot on the train into their breeding areas in Malta.

In Spain, France, Italy and Greece only exceptions are made to the rule on lovebird hunting.
Lovebirds are hunted mercilessly!

In 2019 the hunting route for France was 45,000 to 138,000, in Spain 437,000 to 806,000 and in Italy 250,000 to 300,000 lovebirds.

Bans like this one in Spain, which make hunting that was previously legal, illegal, are another important step against poaching and the protection of birds.
And we can only hope that the new law will be closely guarded.

My best regards to all, Venus

Hundreds of songbirds confiscated: Italian hunters need live decoys to hunt songbirds.

Because of the lawsuits brought by the committee against the bird murder and its partner LAC, the catching of birds has finally been banned since 2014, the hunters have to fall back on bred birds.
But there are doubts about aviculture in Italy.
As part of Operation “Lord of the Rings”, the Carabinieri have started to control the alleged breeding facilities.

It is now clear: something is wrong with many breeders.

They either do not have the facilities to successfully breed birds at all or they have far more young birds on offer than the existing adult birds can breed at all.
They simply rob the chicks from their nests in the wild or catch them illegally with nets.

They then come on the market with forged or manipulated cultivars.

In the last few months alone, there have been a dozen large police checks throughout Italy, during which hundreds of song- thrushes and blackbirds were seized, as well as protected species.

Committee members were there in May and June as experts and appraisers and helped to identify the birds illegally stolen from the wild.
The confiscated thrushes are now being prepared for their release in reception centers.

https://www.facebook.com/Komitee.CABS/

And I mean…An entire branch of industry has grown around bird hunting in Italy.
Hunting outfitters, off-road vehicle manufacturers and restaurants benefit from the hunting bacillus.

The state collects more than 700 million euros annually in the form of fees for hunting and gun licenses, catch and shooting permits and taxes on weapons, ammunition, vehicles and hunting equipment.

In 1993 a new national hunting law was passed in Rome, which largely forbids catching birds and placed almost all songbirds under nature protection.
Even so, almost 30 years later, the authorities are very reluctant to get the poaching under control. And the still legal form of hunting is an affront to nature and animal protection.

But there is reason to be hopeful.
In the big cities of Italy in particular, hardly anyone wants to endorse hunting anymore, and the hunters have great problems with their offspring.
The environmental and animal protection movement has produced numerous, very motivated associations that successfully promote broad animal protection and environmental awareness in Italy.

And the authorities are cracking down on poachers and bird trappers – as the committee reported to us in this case.
It’s a long process that comes with a lot of small successes.

In 10 years if there are really high penalties we will see a decrease in poaching

My best regards to all, Venus

Wild boar number “157”, the last known animal in the wild, was shot in the course of ASF prevention.
Denmark is thus temporarily free of wild boar (!!)

With the slaughter of wild boar “157”, there should currently no longer be any wild boar in Denmark (symbol picture)

“157” was observed in South Jutland for months.

Attempts to catch or kill the wild boar had been unsuccessful until then.

The national nature authority assumes with some certainty that there are no more wild boars in the country at the moment.
At least no other animals could be detected for months.

 

Hunted a total of 157 wild boars to prevent disease

The reason for the total kill are the preventive measures against African swine fever.

In 2018, the inventory was estimated at just 100 black smocks. A total of 157 wild boars have been shot since then.

The Danish wild boar population has always been very manageable compared to Germany.

https://www.jagderleben.de/news/afrikanische-schweinepest-letztes-wildschwein-daenemark-erlegt-712776

And I mean…Denmark has done its homicide task.

From July 1941 the aim of the fascist regime in Germany had as aim to murder all of them “as Jews defined persons” in Europe and beyond.
Hermann Göring had called it the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”.

Denmark reminds us that fascism against the weak is not a thing of the past

My best regards to all, Venus

After the corona-related cancellation of Europe’s largest hunting fair “Jagd & Hund” (“Hunting & Dog”), the organizers want to allow numerous providers of trophy hunting trips in Dortmund’s Westphalia Halls again at the beginning of 2022.

The shooting of rare animal species such as lions, elephants, rhinos and polar bears as part of complete travel packages is now a regular part of the offer for wealthy people from hobby hunters.

Five animal-friendly celebrities in Germany now want to stop the sellout of nature and are turning to Dortmund’s Lord Mayor Thomas Westphal and the parliamentary groups in the city council to ban offers for trophy hunting trips in the city’s exhibition halls.

There are shocking offers at the Dortmund “Jagd und Hund” fair.

“The motivation of the trophy hunters alone – the desire to kill animals that are as rare as possible – as well as the purely economic interests of the providers should lead to such offers being excluded. But even the ‘arguments’ for trophy hunting put forward by the hunting lobby do not stand up to scientific scrutiny. The claim that trophy hunts are beneficial to the protection of species are completely absurd ”, it says in the letter of the celebrities.

Background information

As early as 2020, PETA and other organizations turned to Dortmund politicians.
But the CDU (Christian Democratic Party) and SPD (Social Democratic Party) do not want to ban offers for trophy hunting trips in the exhibition halls.

At the “Hunting & Dog” fair, over 150 exhibitors offer trophy hunting trips abroad every year.
The hunt for endangered and protected species is advertised at the exhibition stands via price lists, special offers, hunting videos and photos of killed animals.
The city of Dortmund, as the sole shareholder of the Westphalia Halls, would have the decision-making authority to implement the demand for a ban on hunting trips.

In Africa alone, more than 18,000 people from different countries hunt big game each year, killing more than 100,000 wild animals.

Germany is the world’s third largest importer of hunting trophies of internationally protected species: In 2020 alone, “trophies” of 543 rare animals were imported, including body parts of elephants, lions, rhinos, polar bears and monkeys.

Because trophy hunting cannot be justified under animal and species protection law, some countries have already issued import bans: France was the first EU country to stop the import of lion trophies in 2015.
In 2016, the Netherlands issued an import ban on trophies for all protected animal species.
Tour operators and hunting tourists claim that trophy hunting is a contribution to species protection – this is absurd and does not stand up to scientific examination.

https://wildbeimwild.com/kunterbunt/ausverkauf-der-natur-stoppen/45785/2021/06/16/

And I mean...Every year in Dortmund: The “Hunting and Dog” fair in the Westfallen Hallen Dortmund!
Terrible what you can book here!

Travel is offered here. However, these are not beach holidays to relax – but safaris in Africa, where you can kill animals in the wild. With the so-called trophy trips, the customer pays extra to be able to shoot animals.

On offer: antelopes, giraffes and zebras, even lions and leopards. The price depends on size and rarity.
The hunting price for a giraffe is 1950 euros, while killing a male lion costs 19,500 euros.
The more threatened an animal, the higher the price.

In Africa, for example, there are only fewer than 20,000 lions left, the populations have almost halved in the last 20 years – nevertheless hundreds of lions are killed by hunters every year.

Every year individuals of endangered and protected species such as various deep sea birds and songbirds, polar bears, rhinos, elephants, lions, leopards, giraffes, monkeys, brown bears and wolves are offered for shooting – completely legally.

In South Africa it is still allowed to breed lions and other animals, to raise them by hand and to have the adult animals shot down in fenced enclosures by trophy hunters (so-called “canned hunting”)
A hunting license is usually not required for the trips offered, it is said.

It is alarming that Germany, together with Spain, is the largest importer of hunting trophies of threatened species after the USA, even though the majority of the population rejects trophy hunting for threatened species.

Germany: the colonial times are over, finally stop supporting this killer tourism 

My best regrads to all, Venus

Normally the whaling season in Iceland would start now, but the whalers are leaving their harpoons ashore this year too, no whaling will take place.

The last active whaling company in Iceland, Hvalur hf of whaler Kristjan Loftsson, has not yet taken any action to get its ships afloat for the season and now it is too late.

Tourists watch a minke whale in Iceland. Whale watching is one of the top tourist attractions in Iceland. (c) IFAW

“We are a hair’s breadth away from the permanent end of whaling in Iceland,” says Andreas Dinkelmeyer, campaign manager of the IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) in Germany.

“In 2020 the minke whale hunters had realized that whaling was not worthwhile and gave up their business.
Now only the fin whale hunter Kristjan Loftsson remains. Officially he still has a fishing permit for fin whales. Of course we are happy that he has not killed any whales since 2018.
However, he could go hunting again next year to secure another five-year quota. “

Minke whale meat is sold in Iceland, but most of it is consumed by curious tourists. The last opinion poll commissioned by IFAW found that only about one percent of Icelanders eat whale meat on a regular basis.

Together with local whale watching companies, IFAW launched the “Meet Us Don’t Eat Us” campaign to make tourists aware that their whale meat consumption is keeping whaling alive. The campaign significantly reduced the consumption of whale meat by visitors to the Island.

In contrast to the limited local market for minke whale meat, fin whale meat has been sold exclusively to Japan since 2013 without being able to establish an export market.

Whaling hardly plays a role in the political arena of Iceland either.
Whaling was an election campaign topic for decades, but has lost its importance since 2016. Young voters are more concerned about the climate crisis and the positive contribution whales are making to maintaining healthy marine ecosystems and sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

“At the moment only the pause button for commercial whaling in Iceland is pressed,” adds Dinkelmeyer.

“As long as the harpoons have not been mothballed in Iceland, whales are still at risk. Ultimately, it will be the Icelanders who will advance the decision against whaling and hit the whaling stop button. We will continue to work to promote marine conservation and responsible whale watching in Iceland. “

Since 2003, the year Iceland resumed commercial whaling, 653 minke whales and 852 fin whales have been killed for a total of 1,505 whales.

IFAW has worked with Icelanders since 2003 to promote responsible whale watching and to promote alternatives to cruel whaling.

Whale watching is one of the top tourist attractions in Iceland. More than 350,000 customers each year generate around 20 million euros, proving that whales are worth far more alive than dead.

https://www.presseportal.de/pm/15641/4941839

And I mean…Good news!
The only person in the world who commercially catches fin whales is Icelandic millionaire Kristjan Loftsson, majority shareholder of the whaling company Hvalur HF.

In 2018 the company shipped 1,700 tons of fin whale meat to Japan.
However, the company is shaking because of fines, a lack of fishing licenses, court-ordered additional wages, and of course unsuccessful deals with Japan.

Whales are killed with explosive harpoons, here one of the company’s ships for fin whale hunting © Szilas

Because the fin whale meat from Iceland does not meet Japan’s meat hygiene standards.
Due to the lack of sales opportunities, the Hvalur fishing fleet has remained in the port since 2019, and officially in 2020 also because of the Covid-19 requirements for the ship’s crew.

The hunting season is now set to be canceled again for the third time, and one company probably wants to withdraw from business entirely.

According to “Der Spiegel” german magazine, this is IP-Utgerd, a company specializing in minke whales.
“The business is not worth it,” said managing director Gunnar Bergmann Jonsson.

From the point of view of the whale conservationists, the minke whales went even better.
The minke whale hunt in Iceland was suspended in 2019, and in 2020 the last minke whale hunter also threw in the towel.
With that, the subject of minke whale hunting in Iceland is probably done.

At a time when school children are demonstrating against climate change and the decimation of biodiversity, this barbarism is inhumane, a moral declaration of bankruptcy, no matter where it is still practiced anywhere in the world.

My best regards to all, Venus