On 16th February Melbourne Hunt Sabs released their highly anticipated short animation titled ‘Between Hunters and Foxes’.

It is a gripping and compelling piece that documents not only the birth of fox hunting in Australia but highlights the brave work of saboteurs who disrupt the hunts and save wildlife.

Directed and produced by London-based animator Ben Sinclair, it has received much-deserved recognition with it being chosen as one of Animalis Fabula’s animation short selections, scoring an impressive judge’s aggregate score of 9.4 out of 10.

Well done, very good Work!!
Thank you Melbourne Hunt Saboteurs, you are amazing!
we show solidarity with you!

My best regards to all, Venus

March 17, 2021 – Report from the Committee against Bird Murder e.V.

Milestone for the protection of migratory birds – European Court of Justice finally bans “glue traps” in France!

After years of negotiations, the European Court of Justice (EuGH) in Luxembourg ruled today that the use of “glue traps” to catch thrushes in Provence violates the EU’s Birds Directive.
The guideline has forbidden bird trapping since 1979, but permits to “preserve tradition”.

Countries such as France and Malta make extensive use of this option and to this day allow their hunters to catch birds using methods that have long been banned across Europe.

The judges ruled today that this licensing practice is incompatible with European law.

The decisive factor was that even protected bird species were accidentally caught in glue-branches and were injured to such an extent that they could no longer be released.

The ruling is therefore groundbreaking for the numerous other exemptions in France, but also a strong signal to other EU member states that allow bird trapping again and again.
The procedure was only made possible by the cooperation of the Committee against Bird Murder with its French partner LPO France.

We had documented the fishing practice on-site in detail and left all the results and the images we created to the LPO, which ensured that France ended up in court with great lobbying work.

Today is really a good day for the migratory birds!

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

And I mean…In the past,  hunting with glue traps was used across France to catch and eat songbirds.
Hence the sticky mass trick. So the birds can catch without injuring their bodies.

In the meantime, however, this hunting has become more of a grueling sport, where the question is who catches the most blackbirds or other thrushes.

In the south of France, for example, the ortolan is still considered a delicacy in some regions.
An estimated 30,000 Ortolans are caught in France each year.

In some places in the south of France, hunting is probably tolerated by the police. And small fines of around 80 to 100 euros are hardly a deterrent if an Ortolan brings up to 300 euros on the black market.

Ortolan

Songbirds are not only hunted in France, but also in Italy and Cyprus. In Italy, mountain finches and chaffinches are considered delicacies.
More than 800,000 registered hunters target them every year.

Hunting songbirds is particularly criminal because many species are critically endangered and in need of protection.

A Life without birdsong would be a wasteland, but so are feeling only people who have morals and empathy, and therefore want to hear the songbirds and not eat them.

My best regards to all, Venus

The only white giraffe has been killed by poachers, according to conservationists in Kenya, who explained that after the death of its mother and sister at the hands of other hunters, this last specimen carried a GPS, according to the Diario de Sevilla.

It inhabited the Ishaqbini Hirola Reserve, a wild conservation area in southeastern Kenya on the edge of the Tana River, home to hundreds of birds, mammals, and the famous Hunter’s antelope, a critically endangered species.

In 2016, the reserve became a popular tourist destination due to the discovery of three specimens of white giraffes (a female and her two calves).

In March 2020, the mother and one of the babies were murdered;

Local residents found their skeletons months later on the reservation. Its striking color is due to leucism, a genetic condition that alters the production of melanin and therefore causes the pigmentation of the skin to acquire a white tone.

Unlike albinism, leucism does not cause sensitivity to sunlight, nor does it cause a change in eye color.

This family of giraffes was first seen in Garissa County and made a huge splash worldwide for its beauty and uniqueness. This is precisely why the Kenya Wildlife Service began investigating the disappearance after the animals were not seen for several weeks.

“This is a very sad day for the Ijara community (reserve area) and for all of Kenya,” said Mohammed Ahmednoor, manager of this reserve. “We are the only community in the world that guarded white giraffes,” said the manager.

Ahmednoor described the killing of the giraffes as “a blow to the important steps taken by the community to conserve rare and unique species and a wake-up call to continue supporting conservation efforts.”

The boundless greed and wickedness of some people will never cease to amaze us. We absolutely condemn this murder, as well as any other animal on this planet.

https://www.animanaturalis.org/n/asesinada-la-ultima-jirafa-blanca-del-mundo

And I mean…The death of these two giraffes in March 2020 is a symptom of a much larger phenomenon. Since the mid-1980s, the entire population has decreased by up to 40 percent.

Of the reticulated giraffes, only an estimated 8500 animals live in the wild in Kenya. In Ethiopia and Somalia, only a few hundred are likely to be added.
Giraffes have been the focus of poachers for a number of years. Because of their size and behavior, they are easy prey for illegal hunters. They are shot as bushmeat.

Giraffes are also sought after by charlatan miracle healers who sell the myth that bone marrow and brain are supposed to help fight HIV / AIDS.

The skins and tail hair are also popular.

The last white copy was probably particularly popular because of its very unusual appearance.
And when a rich American, Spaniard, or German has paid $ 50,000 for their murder, every poacher clears the way and makes it easy for the client.

Only the death penalty for poachers might help save the last specimens of endangered wildlife.

My best regards to all, Venus

German trophy hunters shoot hundreds of wild animals of endangered species

German big game hunters kill polar bears, lions, or giraffes and bring the skins, teeth, and other parts home as a trophy.

In the past year, 2020, amateur hunters from Germany brought home hundreds of animals listed in the Washington Convention on Endangered Species as trophies.

They imported 543 hunting trophies from Africa, Canada, Argentina, the USA, Namibia, Tanzania, Tajikistan, Russia, and Mongolia, according to a response from the Federal Environment Ministry to a request from Green MP Steffi Lemke.

“It is completely absurd, while more and more animal species are facing extinction, parts of protected animals are still being brought to Germany as hunting trophies – quite legally,” said Lemke, the nature conservation spokeswoman for the Greens.
“The destruction of their habitat, the climate crisis, illegal and also legal trade put entire animal populations under pressure.”

Among the trophies: 164 zebras, 109 baboons, eight elephants, 14 lions, three white rhinos, one polar bear – and 40 giraffes that have just been protected in the Washington Convention on International Trade in Endangered Wildlife (Cites).
According to Cites, endangered animals are also hunted. In 2020, for example, a white rhinoceros from Namibia, four saber antelopes, eleven leopards, and three cheetahs were introduced to Germany.

“In view of the dramatic situation with the loss of species, the federal government must act and stop the practice of hunting trophies for protected species,” demands Lemke.
“The Germans are the greatest big game hunters after the Americans and Spaniards,” said Daniela Freyer from Pro Wildlife.

“It has to do with the country’s hunting tradition, but also with its ability to pay.”

According to the species protection organization Pro Wildlife, the giraffe populations alone shrank by 36 to 40 percent between 1985 and 2015. It is estimated that there are less than 100,000 giraffes across Africa. Habitat loss, poaching, and legal hunting threaten the animals, criticizes Pro Wildlife.

German hunters are among the leaders in trophy hunting after the Americans and Spaniards.

Some European countries have already banned the import of hunting trophies of certain species or are preparing corresponding laws.
The German government, on the other hand, is sticking to the approval of the import of hunting trophies and claims that these would provide a financial incentive to preserve hunted species.

In addition, The German government is currently funding development projects in Africa that “have points of contact with countries and areas with hunting components” with around 140 million euros.

Continue reading “German trophy hunters-the third in the world rankings” →

Let’s make them famous 🤬🤬
He was a 2-year-old elephant, in death he folded his legs like he was a baby.

The hunting company is Charlton McCallum Hunting Safaris.
The owner is Buzz Charlton.
The professional hunter is Max Delezenne and the trophy hunter is Mike Jines, owner of TopGen Energy.

Let’s make them famous on the internet for being the shit of humanity!

Text: Bert Grind

And a short addition from me: #TopGenEnergy = Unacceptable !!!!

# Charlton McCallum Hunting Safaris = scraps

#BuzzCharlton #MaxDelezenne # Mike Jines = garbage

My best regards to all, Venus

Criminal charges for the killing of a she-wolf

On the night of February 11, a wolf was killed in the Osnabrück-Emsland region of Lower Saxony (Germany) with the permission of the state (!!!)

According to Lower Saxony’s Environment Minister Olaf Lies, the so-called “Herzlaker wolf pack” based there is said to have torn sheep over a long period of time. The animal that was shot is a she-wolf.
The exemption, however, related to a male animal (!!!)

At the end of last week, PETA filed a criminal complaint with the Oldenburg public prosecutor’s office against those responsible – including the unknown hobby hunter and officials.

In addition to the current killing of the she-wolf without specific permission, the animal rights organization fundamentally criticizes wolf killings because it only protects the economic interests of the sheep farmers.

“According to the Lower Saxony state government, wolves should die so that shepherds do not suffer any financial losses.
That is a highly unethical motive.
The shepherds are not concerned with the welfare of the animals.
The supposed idyll on the pasture must not hide the fact that sheep are almost always violently killed in the slaughterhouse – with everything that goes with the animal industry: animal transports, failed stunning, fear, and pain.
The shooter’s permission to hunt must be withdrawn immediately, as he is apparently unable to distinguish a female from a male.
There are numerous case studies in which hunters shot away even though they could not make sure that it was the right animal. “
(Dr. Edmund Haferbeck, head of the Law and Science Department at PETA).

Hunters see wolves as “competitors”

In PETA’s opinion, the special permit for the shooting in Lower Saxony violated the provisions of the Federal Nature Conservation Act and the Animal Welfare Act.
The organization points out that some hunters, farmers, and politicians want the wolf to lose its protected status and to be included in hunting law as a huntable animal species.

The hunters claim that native wildlife lacks natural enemies such as the wolf, while hunters kill them themselves.

Predators are often viewed and pursued by hobby hunters as competition.
For farmers, on the other hand, protective measures mean additional costs or effort – and there is no longer any profit to be made from wracked animals that would otherwise have been forcibly killed in the slaughterhouse.

https://wildbeimwild.com/law-order/strafanzeige-wegen-toetung-einer-woelfin/43228/2021/02/26/

And I mean…It is basically the hunters who, for whatever reason, want to get the wolf free to shoot.
The wolf is listed as an excess to be reduced, as the individualized evil, as the suspiciously guilty party that needs to be destroyed.

Whole packs even disappear just like that from the scene: the wolf is Targeted at any place, at any time, on the basis of secret criteria and secret evidence, which are classified as necessary in secret procedures by unknown and largely anonymous persons in charge, without any scientific foundation, without any evidence.

Wild animals make up just 3% of the total biomass of land vertebrates on earth!
The rest is “useful” animals + human animals!

According to the German Federal Statistical Office, an average of more than two million animals are slaughtered here every day ”.
Per day!
“150 billion animals are slaughtered worldwide every year, 4756 per second …”

So, the criminal is not the wolf, but the meat and dairy industry, in which the small farmers are (also) involved.

The predators do not practice any environmentally damaging factory farming, they either eat what is there or starve to death.

Germany is the country where a pitiful minority of 388,000 hunters (0.45% of the population) have turned the forest, lake, and the rest of our nature into a shooting range and that with the support of the state ministers and politicians …

The hunting world is much worse than we can imagine.

My best regards to all, Venus

E-Mail from the German Hunting Association (DJV) to its members:

“Dear hunters,

In the following, I will give you information from the DJV, according to which hunting opponents will probably be active in different parts of Germany.

Because the DJV is currently receiving frequent reports of hunting-critical activities in hunting grounds by hunters at the base.
At the same time, the DJV noticed increased activities in the direction of hunting disruption and hunting sabotage in internet forums and social media groups.

The SOKO-Animal Welfare Association is currently calling for all trap-catching locations in Germany to be reported to the association (https://www.facebook.com/AktionsbuendnisFuchs/posts/715503882318036) *.

Image: SOKO-Animal Welfare Association

In Lower Saxony, the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) recently destroyed the Celle hunter’s burrow facility overnight and released the foxes.

In animal rights forums, the DJV finds calls and plans for further acts of sabotage, increasingly through “profiles” from Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Lower Saxony.

The campaign of Pro Fox Alliance has recently started a campaign against fox hunting: https://www.aktionsbuendnis-fuchs.de/

This is supported by Hannes Jaenicke (German actor) and Peter Wohlleben (forester)

The GEO Magazine has now also reported on this: https: //www.geo.de /…/ 24077-rtkl-tierschutz-streitthema …

At the same time, the animal rights organization PETA is currently launching a campaign (LINK: https://www.peta.de/kampagnen/fuchsjagd-stoppen/) to stop fox hunting.

Be particularly vigilant in the near future and report suspicious activities to the DJV (!!!)
If you see calls for criminal offenses on the Internet, please send screenshots with URLs and time tamp to us or directly to the DJV.

Please also pay attention to possibly sabotaged high seats such as sawn-off ladders etc (!!!)”

Source: Facebook

And I mean…The hunters are mobilizing.!!
They are slowly losing the ground under their feet! They notice that more and more people do not want to accept that their peaceful forests are turned into battlefields for defenseless animals.

In Germany, there is no nature reserve, no forest, no lake that is not subject to hunting.
Our remaining natural environment and the wild animals living in it have been degraded to a shooting range by a wretched minority (0.45% of the population, 388,000 hobby hunters).

Some animal rights activists who published the DJV’s email on their Facebook page have already been threatened.

The standard method used by German hunters is the intimidation method.
The heavily armed gang was always of the opinion that not only the animals in the forest but also any hunting opponents can terrorize.
Those days are over!

* SOKO Animal Welfare Association made an appeal on Facebook in January of this year, I quote:

“Who can help?

We are looking for hunting trap locations. Alive or homicide traps.
Anyone who knows such locations: Please doesn`t comment here, but send us exact location data and, if possible, a photo by PM. Thank you.

Update: Since the various hunters are just going crazy again, I would like to remind you again that the forest in Germany is free.
That means, you can enter it, you can relax there and also take photos. Of course, as always, you should pay attention to signs, leave them as you found them, and show consideration for yourself, animals, and third parties.

Anyone who knows SOKO Animal Welfare Association knows that our tactics are always peaceful, legal, and successful. In this sense, enjoy nature, respect its inhabitants, and do not allow yourself to be patronized by people who think the German forest is their private playground”.

My best regards to all, Venus

Mr. Pastor goes hunting!

Manuel Fetthauer is a Protestant theologian and passionate hunter!
Some of his parishioners wonder whether a pastor can really just put a rifle on to go hunting in the forest.

The Protestant theologian Manuel Fetthauer from Rhineland-Palatinate has a clear answer.

Manuel Fetthauer prefers to sit under a gnarled cherry tree, with a view of a small valley basin, deserted fields, and the edge of the forest.
Here in the Hintertaunus, he can switch off from everything that kept him busy during the day.
The Protestant pastor from Rhineland-Palatinate has a passion that one would not expect from a theologian: Whenever he has the time, he buckles his rifle on and goes hunting.

Anyone who wanders through their hunting grounds with Fetthauer quickly understands that there is someone who knows their way around nature.
The 32-year-old knows which bird calls can be heard and which paths the animals usually use.
“The forest is not in good shape,” he says. It is the third dry year in a row and many branches have dried up.

Pastor Fetthauer

Red deer harm the trees says Mr. Pastor

In addition to the long drought, the numerous red deer also bothered the trees, he says.
The animals eat the buds of young plants or gnaw on the bark.
Fetthauer has already seen 200 red deer roaming past his hide in a single evening. Restoring the natural balance is also a kind of “creation mission”  (!!!) for the hunted theologian.

Hunting opponents see it differently.
For example, the animal rights organization “PETA” has launched a “Christians for Animals” campaign, which specifically encourages believing people to adopt a vegan lifestyle.
The traditional annual Hubertus masses and hunter services are a thorn in the side of the critics.

The President of the German Animal Welfare Association, Thomas Schröder, accused the churches of justifying the “senseless killing of millions of animals under the guise of customs”.
Even St. Hubertus, the patron saint of hunters, has renounced the hunt, according to legend, after Christ spoke to him in the form of a stag.

Fetthauer likes many of the hunter’s customs.

He celebrates hunting services in November because they also appeal to the hunters’ sense of responsibility, as he says, and he also plays the hunting horn himself.

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In the past seven years, 12 dead lynx were found in Bavaria (Germany).
The number of unreported cases could be much higher. The perpetrators have not yet been identified. The Socialist Party of Germany (SPD) criticizes this fact and demands results.

Since 2011, 12 dead lynx have been found in Bavaria.

This is in response from the Interior Ministry to a request from the SPD in the state parliament.
The number of unreported cases could be 36.

According to this, six lynxes were killed by shooting or poisoning, and another six animals were found as stuffed trophies.
According to the ministry, five lynx were also killed in traffic accidents.

There are still no perpetrators (!!!)

The State Office for the Environment names another 14 cases in which wild lynx have been killed.
In none of the six proven killings, a perpetrator could be identified.
The police were able to find few investigative approaches in the cases despite securing and analyzing evidence, according to the authority.

Lynx poaching in Bayer, 2020: The case was dropped for lack of evidence (!!) © WWF

The SPD member Florian von Brunn criticizes this fact.

At the end of 2015, a dead lynx was found that was believed to have been strangled. It is also particularly strange that there is still no information about the findings of the investigation into two lynxes killed in the Cham district in 2015.
At that time there was a police search of a hunter’s house.

“We still don’t know what came out of the ammunition investigation” (Florian von Brunn)

The Bavarian Ministry of the Environment offered a reward of 10,000 euros for reports on the perpetrators.
The Federation of Nature Conservation in the Regen district demanded the creation of a special police unit against poaching in the Bavarian Forest.

The state of investigation regarding the killing of the lynx “Alus”, whose carcass was found in September 2017, is still unclear, complains Florian von Brunn.

Continue reading “Germany: the lynx is strictly protected= in seven years 36 illegal shot lynxes!” →