Category: Hunting

Press propaganda made in Germany: “wolves kill sheep, spread fear”.

 

There are more and more: Wild wolves on the advance in Germany!

Bonn, Germany – Wolves continue to spread in Germany, as recent figures from the authorities show.

Wolves kill sheep and spread fear (!!!)

According to the latest official census, there are 128 wolf packs, 35 pairs, and 10 sedentary individual wolves in Germany – significantly more than a year earlier.

In the monitoring year 2019/20, wolves were detected in 15 of 16 federal states, as the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation announced on Friday.

Wolves live mainly in Brandenburg, Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, and Lower Saxony.

But there are also territories in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia.

According to updated data, 105 packs, 41 pairs, and 12 individual wolves were detected in the 2018/19 monitoring year, the nature conservation authority announced.

“The wolf population in Germany is increasing,” said Beate Jessel, President of the Federal Office.

The wolf population has continued to increase, particularly in the north and northwest. For the first time in ten years, a sedentary wolf was confirmed in the Bavarian Alps.

126 wolves found dead

A fence delimits a sheep pasture on Burgdorfer Holz. Wildlife cameras have recorded at least eight wolf pups in the area northwest of Hanover.

47 wolf packs lived in Brandenburg in the monitoring year from May 1, 2019, to April 30, 2020, more than in any other German state.

In second place is Saxony with 28 packs and Lower Saxony with 23.

According to experts, it is difficult to say how many individual animals there are – a pack consists of a pair of parents and their offspring, and mortality is relatively high.

The number of wolves in a pack can therefore fluctuate widely, according to experts it is usually between five and ten animals.

The number of wolves found dead has also increased sharply – from 100 in 2018/19 to 126 in the most recent monitoring.

“After traffic accidents, illegal killing is the second leading cause of death,” said Jessel.

Of 126 animals found dead, 98 died in traffic, and 11 were killed illegally, and another 7 of the wolves that were involved in an accident were also shot illegally.

Wolves are strictly protected (!!!). They may be shot down if they kill sheep, for example, but each individual shot must first be approved.

Wolves have been back in Germany since the turn of the millennium. What makes conservationists happy, worries animal owners – the number of wolf cracks has also risen sharply in recent years (!!!).

In contrast, there is no confirmed wolf attack on humans.

https://www.tag24.de/thema/tiere/woelfe/immer-mehr-wilde-woelfe-in-deutschland-auf-dem-vormarsch-1704825

 

And I mean…They all agree on lies, harm, and propaganda.
Hunter, farmer, politician, press…
The German press has become a hideous servant of German politics.
Hunters and farmers decide the life and death of the wolf, the politicians only approve.

The farmers complain when once a year the wolf takes its food from their herds.
The farmers will slaughter their animals anyway – more cruel and senseless than the wolf does.
And with every loss, the farmers get compensation.

The hunters, on the other hand, run to the aid of the farmers, animal killers always keep looking together.
And then we also have the press, which feeds and strengthens the hatred against these animals with dirty arguments.

Editor-in-chief of the New York Times, John Swinton, in 1880 stated:

“The business of us journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie freely, to falsify, to crawl at the feet of Mammon and our country and his Selling people for their daily bread … We are the tools and vassals of rich people behind the scene.

We are the puppets, they pull the strings and we dance.
There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion”.

This article proves Swinton’s opinion down to the last detail.

My best regards to all, Venus

World Lemur Day

You can see one lemur spin his head in psychological distress while trapped in a cramped cage 😔
Zoos deprive lemurs of their freedom and sometimes even their families.

Never visit them!!

 

And I mean…It is collective nonsense to believe that zoos help protect species.
It is only prisons with live animals that parents visit with their children so that they learn that innocent and completely defenseless animals have to live in loneliness, suffering, and deprivation of liberty for a lifetime.

Zoos are commercially operated entertainment establishments that breed for their own display needs.
The zoos bring the argument about conservation, research, and education for children only to justify their existence

But as soon as children see that orangutans and monkeys live in the tropical rainforest at all and that almost exclusively high up in the trees where they build their nests, then they understand it has nothing to do with the animal that is apathetic in the zoo crouching behind a pane of glass on a bare concrete floor and bored to death.

A zoo is and remains an amusement for the visiting people. Nothing else.

Never visit a zoo! Never take your kids to the zoo!

Every documentary film conveys more knowledge and arouses more empathy than a visit to the zoo could ever do.

My best regards to all, Venus

Italy: the mafia methods of hunters

Mafia methods: After we had one success after another in Italy this autumn, our opponents are now reaching into the bottom drawer of the bag of tricks: One of our employees received a threatening letter to his private address yesterday:
“Now we know where you live. It’s just a matter of time. You better bring your daughter to the grandparents ”.

Not that we’re particularly scared – it just shows once more what poachers are made of.

Komitee gegen den Vogelmord e.V.

 

And I mean…Whoever massacres defenseless animals uninhibitedly loses all sensitivity to his fellow human beings too.
The hunt leads to dehumanization.

Max Planck and Einstein thought hunters were psychopaths. When I read what methods they use to murder and intimidate, this opinion is confirmed.
Hunters have no task in nature, they do not belong to nature at all.

Hunters are pathetic monsters, who are allowed to continue to exist as such because our society tolerates them, covers them, or is indifferent to their crimes against the weaker.

 

Regards and good night, Venus

From the USA: Ethical Vegans Must Reject Donald Trump. Period.

With thanks to Stacey at ‘Our Compass’ for sending the following over.  Mark.

Ethical Vegans Must Reject Donald Trump. Period.

‘Our Compass’ Link as follows:

Note: Regarding Protect the Harvest’s ludicrous and deceptive claim of the nonexistence of factory farms, “family” has zero legal distinction regarding farm size; indeed, a “family” can refer to Kraft, Ford, Trump, Smithfield, and Walmart. The government defines size, and anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of Google can easily find this data. To suggest that the greater than 10 billion land animals killed annually in the US alone come from Uncle Ted’s backyard hinges on desperation to continue the animal holocaust unseen and socially accepted. SL

EPA:

USDA:

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines AFOs as agricultural enterprises where animals are kept and raised in confined situations. AFOs congregate animals, feed, manure and urine, dead animals, and production operations on a small land area. Feed is brought to the animals rather than the animals grazing or otherwise seeking feed in pastures, fields, or on rangeland. There are approximately 450,000 AFOs in the United States.

A CAFO is another EPA term for a large concentrated AFO.  A CAFO is an AFO with more than 1000 animal units (an animal unit is defined as an animal equivalent of 1000 pounds live weight and equates to 1000 head of beef cattle, 700 dairy cows, 2500 swine weighing more than 55 lbs, 125 thousand broiler chickens, or 82 thousand laying hens or pullets) confined on site for more than 45 days during the year.  Any size AFO that discharges manure or wastewater into a natural or man-made ditch, stream or other waterway is defined as a CAFO, regardless of size.  CAFOs are regulated by EPA under the Clean Water Act in both the 2003 and 2008 versions of the “CAFO” rule.

Additional resources:

Large animal feeding operations on the rise

99% of U.S. Farmed Animals Live on Factory Farms

Ethical Vegans Must Reject Donald Trump. Period.

Source Free From Harm

By Rosemary Thompson

Veganism, at its essence, is the recognition that all animals have the right to bodily integrity. Humans do not own the bodies, families or lives of other animals – we can be guardians to animals in need of rescue, but animals are never our property or commodities.

Donald Trump has demonstrated, over and over again, that he sees animals only as obstacles to be cleared or resources to be used to serve corporate interests and generate maximum profits.

But his actions don’t reveal a detached view of other species as objects or commodities so much as a seething contempt – for the natural world, for animals and for anyone trying to protect them.

Putting animal haters in charge

At every turn, Trump has placed people who actively oppose animal welfare, wildlife and environmental protection in leadership roles at the agencies responsible for carrying out those protections. Not surprisingly, this fox-guarding-the-hen-house strategy has resulted in dire consequences for animals and their habitat.

In 2016 he selected Brian Klippenstein, executive director of a particularly vile organization called Protect the Harvest, to serve as senior advisor to the USDA – the agency charged with safeguarding animals used in commerce.

Protect the Harvest exists to “save the agricultural industry from the growing threat of the radical animal rights movement” by lobbying against animal welfare legislation, supporting ag-gag bills and promoting animal commoditization in all forms – including circuses, rodeos, dog and horse racing, horse carriages, puppy mills and horse slaughter.

One of the group’s campaigns aims to soothe consumers’ growing concern regarding confined animal feeding operations by assuring the public that factory farming is just a “fictional concept created by activists.”

Next, Trump chose to appease animal agriculture and fossil fuel industry elites by putting climate change denier Scott Pruitt in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency – a move that led to the rollback of several critical climate and pollution regulations, along with the U.S. decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.

Pruitt, once honored with an award for his contribution to the success of the beef cattle industry, has described himself as a “leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda” and “a big fan of beef.”

Though he resigned in 2018 under the weight of numerous legal and ethics investigations, EPA leadership continues to prioritize industry demands over keeping the country’s air and water clean. In March the agency used the COVID-19 chaos as a cover to release polluting industries from monitoring and reporting requirements.

Perhaps the most stunning hire Trump made was William Perry Pendley, a former oil and gas attorney he installed to wreak havoc on the Bureau of Land Management. That’s the agency charged with conserving public lands – such as national parks – in 11 Western states and Alaska.

Pendley, who spent the bulk of his career lobbying for oil companies’ rights to drill in pristine wilderness, does not believe public lands should exist at all.

He has joked on video about illegally killing and burying endangered animals, and tweeted that climate change is like a unicorn because “neither exists.” He also has a grotesque obsession with eradicating wild horses and burros – insisting that they (rather than cattle grazing or resource extraction) represent an “existential threat” to public lands.

A judge recently ruled that Pendley’s service violates the Constitution because he was never confirmed by the Senate, but so far he has refused to leave his post.

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Hunters aren’t just professional killers. They’re professional liars too

Our topic today: traps and hunters

Below are some of the hollow, de facto false arguments hunters make about traps when the public asks about it

1. Hunter’s statement: Traps are no longer allowed or used in Germany!
That’s not true!

Trapping is a completely common and widespread hunting method in Germany. However, it is hidden from the public by the hunters.

The trap is used in particular to track foxes, marten, and domestic cats. Many dogs also suffer cruel deaths in traps year after year.

2. Hunters’ statement: Only live traps are allowed in Germany.
That’s not true!

In Germany, manslaughter traps, which are supposed to kill immediately, and live traps in which the animal is caught, are allowed.

Homicide traps are supposed to kill immediately, but often don’t. Many animals die a slow and agonizing death in these traps.

Live traps: Live traps are mostly boxes made of wood or wire, into which an animal is lured using bait or fragrances, lures made by industry. According to studies, the animal panics when the trap closes – and is often seriously injured from desperate attempts to escape. Due to the panic fear of death, the animals are under high stress and often die of heart failure.

Others, severely injured, often lie hungry and thirsty for hours or days, tormented by cruel pain, and wait for death.

Although the law requires the traps to be checked once a day, it is reasonable to assume that this will not happen. If the traps e.g. are only checked every 2 – 3 days, this means that the animals caught in the so-called live traps slowly and painfully perish from injuries or stress.

3. Hunter’s statement: After being caught with a live trap, the animals are released back into the wild.
That’s not true!

Most of the animals are killed. The old wives’ tale of the release into the wild is told to the unsuspecting citizen in order to conceal the harsh reality in our forests. Animals caught in live traps by hunters are mostly killed. E.g. Foxes and cats.

“A powerful blow with the narrow side in the neck or over the muzzle does no less than a small-bore pistol – and works silently.” (quoted from K. Hutter, A loud word against the silent hunt)

4. Hunter statement: Traps are only somewhere in the deep, deep forest.
That’s not true!

Traps can be anywhere. They are often set up near high seats or even completely normal paths, from where they can be more easily controlled.
Gardens, allotment gardens, log piles, field trees, concrete pipes in the forest (e.g. under paths), field barns, piles of straw, piles of brushwood, and fences are popular trapping sites.

The trap is covered with brushwood, litter, etc. and thus hidden from the view of the walker.
From the magazine “Hunter” (quoted from Dag Frommhold): “The pulpit (raised stand) is ideal as a distraction. The hikers’ eyes are sure to wander up to her. The nest box that hangs on the tree nearby makes the visitor friendly. So we are happy when the eyes wander upwards – because our traps are below. “

5. Hunter’s statement: Traps only selectively catch a certain species of a wild animal.
That’s not true

Katze Totschlagfalle

Animals are lured into traps with attractants! Fox attractants often work on dogs as well. Of course, animals that are similar in size to e.g. have a fox go into the trap. Foxes have no closed season in Germany. It is just not allowed to shoot suckling birds (which is all too often disregarded). Exception: adult foxes have a closed season in Berlin (but not young foxes).

6. Hunters’ statement: Traps are only set by poachers!
That’s not true!

Trapping is a common hunting method used by hunters in Germany. Any hunter who has completed an approx. 15-hour trapping course and can then present a certificate of trapping qualifications is allowed to hunt with the trap.

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USA: Nearly every wolf in the lower 48 just lost its Endangered Species Act protection. And Eco Destroyer Trump Wants Re Election ?

CBD Web Link – https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/

Hi Mark,

Nearly every wolf in the lower 48 just lost its Endangered Species Act protection.

Gray wolves, once nearly extinct, could be coming back to Colorado | US  news | The Guardian

Photo – The Guardian (London)

Their survival is now at stake.

We’ll be in court as soon as possible to fight this disastrous move. Please make an emergency gift now to the Saving Life on Earth Fund. All gifts will be matched.

It’s now up to states to decide what happens to these beautiful, family-oriented animals.

That’s why we’ll be leveraging the full power of our grassroots activists to shut down plans to hunt, trap or poison wolves state after state.

In the few places where wolves exist today — like the northern Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes states and West Coast — they face persecution.

Washington state has wiped out entire packs for conflicts with livestock, mostly by gunning wolves down one by one from a helicopter.

In Wisconsin a law is already on the books requiring trophy hunts of wolves.

What to know about the gray wolf, whose fate in Colorado could be decided  by voters - ABC News

Photo – ABC News

Idaho has for years expanded its hunting and trapping seasons on wolves — it even contributes to bounties to kill them.

In Montana it costs $19 to kill a wolf. And anti-wolf forces there have tried to make it cheaper.

That’s the way some states view wolves: as cheap, expendable targets for trophy hunting and barbaric trapping.

Wolves are irreplaceable — and we will fight like hell to protect them against this horrible move.

More than four decades of work to save these magnificent creatures just came to a screeching, bloody halt.

We knew this day was coming, which is why we’re ready to challenge this in court as quickly as possible.

We can’t let anti-wildlife forces doom this keystone species to being shot, trapped or poisoned, state by state, wolf by wolf.

Our team is ready for this fight. But we need you, too.

Please give now to our Saving Life on Earth Fund.

For the wild, Kierán Suckling
Executive Director
Center for Biological Diversity

WAV Comment:

America – Live real – dont vote for this clown.

Continue reading “USA: Nearly every wolf in the lower 48 just lost its Endangered Species Act protection. And Eco Destroyer Trump Wants Re Election ?”

Veneto (Italy): hunter’s car gets new tires

Tutorial: How to change the tires of a hunter’s car!!

https://animalliberationpressoffice.org/

 

And if the cell phone has no reception up there… bad luck for the animal lover!!

By the way: the tires on my car were also slit in one night.
But that wasn’t the ALF!
I live among farmers, hunters, farm owners … it couldn’t have turned out otherwise, I disturb all professional groups that have to do with animal cruelty, animal exploitation, and animal murder.

Thanks to the brave activists!

My best regards to all, Venus

Malta and its terrorists bird catchers

From the Facebook page of  “Committee against Bird Murder e.V.

Back to the Stone Age – bird catchers threaten hikers: In Malta, catching birds was allowed again – yesterday’s animal tormented became “scientists” overnight.

 

They are supposed to “only” catch the birds that they have otherwise locked in small cages and sold on the black market for a lot of money, check for any known bird rings and immediately release them again.

Effective control is not provided and with thousands of approved fishing facilities not even possible.
The video of a team from the “Committee Against Bird Murder”, recorded on Malta’s neighboring island of Gozo, shows how the new “scientists” behave in the field.

The bird-catcher threatens a walker with a stone because she comes too close to his trap!!

And I mean…When Malta joined the EU in 2004, the state was given five years to phase out the practice of bird trapping, which is illegal under the Birds Directive.
But the Maltese government, including hunters and poachers, was apparently trained enough in corruption and fraud to outsmart the EU and its laws, and that is why illegal trapping has continued unabated since 2009.

And that happens in the “civilized” EU …

And then we blame the Africans for not respecting their tigers and for corrupting trophies.
And we ask the Indians to save their elephants and stop hunting them.

Although we ourselves are not able to clean up our own stable of “scientists” type Malta.

My best regards to all, Venus

UK: Numbers of Wild Lions Have Tumbled from About 450,000 in the 1950s to an Estimated 15,000 Now. The Conservative Government Should Stop the Fancy Talk and Support the Public – Give Them the Ban NOW.

British hunters have killed at least 60 lions since Cecil shot, as ministers delay trophy imports ban again

Experts warn big cat heading for extinction as gunmen from EU slaughter more than those from any country in the world

British hunters have killed at least 60 lions – and probably more – since the shooting of Cecil in 2015, as a promised government ban on trophy imports has been delayed again.

Official figures reveal dozens of bodies, skins and other parts of the endangered animal have been brought into the UK from Africa in the past five years.

The data also show the European Union imports more lion trophies than any country, allowing the species to be driven dangerously towards extinction, experts say.

After the killing – exactly five years ago – of Cecil in Zimbabwe by a US dentist prompted an international outcry, ministers promised to ban imports of lion trophies by 2017. The promise was also included in last year’s Tory election manifesto, and in February, Boris Johnson told Parliament he would deliver a ban.

Numbers of wild lions have tumbled from about 450,000 in the 1950s to 20,000 in 2015 to an estimated 15,000 now.

It’s feared there could be as few as 13,000.

Wild lions face the threat of extinction within three decades if populations continue to fall, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has previously warned. Conservationists have described the decline as “heartbreaking”.

Ministers last year announced a public consultation on a ban, which ended in February, but officials say the outcome has been delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The consultation included the option of stricter requirements or a ban on parts of only certain species.

But analysis of numbers from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), which regulates trade, reveals lion bodies, as well as skins, skulls, claws and feet, have been legally brought into the UK. A conservative reading of the database suggests that represents between 53 and 77 dead lions.

But if the body parts were listed not as trophies but for personal, educational or commercial trade, the number of imports to the UK is 154.

Eduardo Goncalves, author of a new book on trophy hunting and founder of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, said: “The government promised to ban lion trophies after the killing of Cecil. Then it changed its mind. As a result, British hunters shot another 50 or more ‘Cecils’.

“Now it’s saying again that it wants to ban hunting trophies. We cannot have any more dithering or delay. Nine out of 10 voters want this stopped.

“Wildlife is on the brink. There is now a real prospect of lions becoming extinct in the wild.”

Other Cites data reveal the EU is the world’s largest importer of lion trophies compared with non-EU countries. The EU imported 406 lion trophies in 2017 and 2018, including 18 trophies of wild lions in Zimbabwe like Cecil.

Within the EU, Spain imported the most lion trophies – 84 – in the two years.

Claire Bass, Humane Society International/UK’s executive director, said: “Cecil’s senseless killing exposed trophy hunting as immensely cruel, completely unnecessary and morally bankrupt. And yet, five years on from his tragic death, Britain and the European Union are still providing a market for this horrific hobby.”

The public were outraged when Walter Palmer shot Cecil, a protected lion and one of Zimbabwe’s most loved animals, on 1 July 2015. It led to calls for his extradition to Zimbabwe, and he became the target of threats and protests. A professional hunter was cleared over the death.

In answer to MPs who have questioned the delay, minister Victoria Prentis said the government was continuing to work on the issue and would publish its response as soon as it was practical. “The outcome of the consultation, and the accompanying call for evidence, will inform our next steps,” she added.

Normal Defra Bullshit (WAV Addition)

A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: “There is a clear manifesto commitment to ban the import of hunting trophies from endangered animals and we continue to work to end this shocking trade.

Independent London July 2020

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-hunters-uk-ban-lion-trophy-imports-cecil-zimbabwe-walter-palmer-eu-a9591906.html

USA: Idaho Opens First-Ever Swan Hunting Season – But Hunters Have to Have Training to Identify the Bird and Use ‘Non Toxic’ Shot; Despite Killing !! – Dead Sounds Toxic To Us.

Hunters fined $19,000 for shooting swan | CBC News

Idaho opens first-ever swan hunting season

WAV Comment – So the hunters have to use ‘non toxic shot’ as part of the rules. Non toxic or not; the swans will be killed by the hunter psyxhos – so why is this one of the ‘rules’ ? – we must not harm the hunters with toxins must we. And they have to be trained to identify the bird !! – sounds really pathetic.

In August, 50 tags were issued first-come, first-serve for Idaho’s first ever swan hunting season; those who were early to the draw will get to participate when the season opens October 19.

Swan hunting will only be available in Benewah, Bonner, Boundary and Kootenai counties, and runs until December 1.

Hunters will be limited to one swan bagged per day and one swan possession per day; they are also encouraged to take the Idaho Department of Fish and Game’s swan orientation course to get familiar with identifying the bird.

Hunters also have to follow these rules:

  • Have a swan tag
  • Have a migratory bird permit
  • Have a federal migratory bird stamp
  • Have a shotgun that holds no more than three shells
  • Have non-toxic shot