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WAV Comment – Hunters killing pregnant wolves ? – no, it cant be true; hunters always preach to us that they are the conservationists.
And ‘the pregnant she wolf had killed sheep’. Sad but true; that’s what happens in the wild; especially when pregnant animals need to build up their supplies so that they can provide milk to youngsters when they are born.
The reality here is that a farmer has had a few of his sheep killed by a natural process which involves wild animals looking for food. Thus he cannot sell his sheep and get them loaded onto transporter trucks that go here, there and everywhere whilst evading all the regulations that have been set by the EU to ‘protect the welfare of animals in transport’.
It is great to read that the wolves are going to get more protection; but will it be enough to protect the from the bloodlust psychos who have to shoot everything in sight under the name of ‘conservation’ ?
Hopefully the wolves will live long lives; and the rest ? – I guess farmers want the perfect life of selling each and every one of their animals for terrible slaughter; but hey, who cares ?; as long as they get their cash; and the wolves should just not eat meat; simple as that. Possibly all wolves should now be trained on an orange juice and nut only diet.
Sad world.
Regards Mark
Wildlife conservation: First wild baby wolves for Belgium in 150 years
4 May 2020
Wildlife experts in Belgium are getting excited to welcome the country’s first set of wild wolf cubs in more than 100 years.
Adult wolves were spotted in 2018 in the European country for the first time in over one hundred years, and experts have been keeping a close eye on them and hoping for babies.
Now a female wolf named Noella is expected to give birth to cubs very, very soon.
To protect the wolves hunting has been banned and wildlife rangers are out on patrol, making sure the animals are safe.
Wolves disappeared from most of Western Europe because of hunting, growing cities and more factories being built.
That’s why experts in Belgium are now excited and keen to protect the few that have returned.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/52530878
Latest news 3 days ago
Belgium welcomes first wild wolf cubs in more than a century
Hunters were suspected of killing the last she-wolf to be pregnant in Belgium but authorities changed the law to protect the new cubs
Belgians are celebrating the safe arrival of the country’s first wild wolf cubs in more than 150 years, after introducing some of the strictest protection laws in the world.
The first pictures of the four cubs to parents August and Noella in the Flemish countryside brought a happy ending to the story of the return of the wolf to Belgium, which was marred by tragedy.
Conservationists accused hunters of shooting dead the first wild wolf in Belgium for more than a century in rural Limburg, close to the Dutch border, in September 2019, after the pregnant she-wolf had killed sheep.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/24/belgium-welcomes-first-wild-wolf-cubs-century/
Sea Shepherd Germany
Fish come in all shapes, colors, and sizes. They are spotted, dotted, striped, transparent, or glow in the dark. They are a few centimeters tall or many meters long like the whale shark, currently the largest fish in the world.
The largest specimen ever measured was 13.7 m long.
Whale sharks have lived on this planet for 60 million years. Under the pressure of global fisheries, whether as by-catch or as a targeted target due to their meat, fins, and liver oil, their survival is under threat.
In July 2016, whale sharks were classified as endangered on the IUCN (World Conservation Union) Red List of Threatened Species.
Nevertheless, the hunt for them continues!
With our campaigns against illegal, unregulated, and undocumented fishing, we prevent the killing of whale sharks and many other sea creatures.
Help us to help them! #ForTheOceans
The petition, please sign and share: https://stop-finning.eu/
My comment and Information: Finning is probably the most senseless fishing practice on the world’s oceans.
The shark fins are cut off – usually when the animals are still alive. The animals are then thrown overboard because their meat is almost worthless compared to the fins.
These fins are then used on the Asian market for an almost tasteless shark fin soup, for which around 90 euros are paid.
In 2013 EU legislation banned the so-called “shark finning”, the removal of shark fins and subsequent disposal of the animal in the sea.
However, there were exceptions that, in certain cases, made it possible to separate fins on the high seas.
In 2013, these exceptions were also abolished.
Eight years ago, on November 22, 2012, the EU Parliament voted to tighten the ban on “shark finning” and to close existing loopholes in the law.
Accordingly, the following is mandatory: EU fishing vessels that catch sharks worldwide, or ships that catch sharks within the EU, must keep the animals’ fins on their bodies.
An exception applies to ships that are allowed to separate the fins if they can demonstrate that they use all parts of the fish. These also require special approval.
Spain and Portugal have usually used this exception for bad business.
The “Baz” case
During an inspection on September 5, 2017, the Spanish ship “Baz” was caught in the territorial waters of the West African island state of São Tomé and Príncipe. The “Baz” violated the EU’s finning rules.
Official documents from the Department of Fisheries of the Ministry of Finance and Trade in Sao Tome show the extent of the crime: under the catch of the “baz”, consisting of tuna, swordfish, and other species, there were 69 tons of sharks and fins – about two-thirds of that entire cargo.
In addition, the inspectors found so-called J-hooks on the ship, which are prohibited for fish and are mainly used for predatory fish such as sharks.
“When we came across the base and found that the number of sharks on board was twice that of other fish, it was clear that this is a ship that mainly catches sharks, although it does fish under a tuna agreement,” said Peter Hammarstedt, campaign manager at Sea Shepherds.
However, the “Baz” not only actively fished for sharks and replaced their fins on board, but also violated the regulations of the European Council of 1185/2003 and the latter, the amended from 605/2013
The “Baz” was fined $ 45,000 by the Sao Tome fisheries directorate for processing the catches without official authorization. The EU has not commented on this case until today.
Hammarstedt is convinced that ships like the “Baz” will not be sanctioned and will, therefore, continue to violate the anti-finning regulations of Brussels.
As far as I know, the petition Stop finning is still open, please sign!
My best regards to all, Venus
Committee Against Bird Murder e.V.
June 18 at 4:15 pm · Share publicly
This morning, a team from the Committee caught a bird catcher in Spain.
The bird guards were involved in the inspection of trapping sites near Valencia, which were found in our ORPHEUS online bird protection camp this spring by on satellite images.
Several of the catch points were freshly prepared but not active.
There was also a well-known place on the way where they could already see from afar that decoy cages were installed on a bush.
The immediately called environmental police of the provincial police (agentes medioambientales) caught the poacher in the act – he had already caught six goldfinches with the net, they were released together with the two illegally kept decoys.
The pictures are from the action this morning.
And I mean…These songbirds reach a body length of 12 to 13 centimeters and are therefore somewhat smaller than sparrows. Weighing between 14 and 19 grams, they weigh about as much as two one-euro pieces.
So, as a delicacy, these animals are hardly profitable.
But they are still hunted for captivity.
Many buy a songbird, they lock the animal in a cage and they call it pet animal!
Until the 20th century, the cheerful goldfinches were coveted house birds.
The catch of the Goldfinch is now prohibited by the EU Birds Directive.
Nevertheless, as we read, illegal bird catchers in some EU countries do lively business at the expense of these animals – in Malta, for example, it even happens with an official blessing: In 2014 came in force a controversial national exemption for catching finches in autumn and winter!!
The EU Commission has already initiated a procedure, so far without success.
“Compared to animals, humans are habitual criminals“, said Karl Heinz Deschner.
And he was right!
My best regards to all, Venus
My Christmas Hat has been hijacked – but I have no problem if it these little guys,
Stay Foxy – Regards Mark
I have had the real pleasure of meeting lots of foxes over the years – and until I took a few shots one day; people did not believe when I told them that a wild fox comes up the stairs into the office and stays a while. I carry on working, but keeping an eye on him also – when he has stayed a while; he jumps down, goes out the front door back to the wild.
Here is a picture of him in the office:
Hunters like to call themselves conservationists and often claim that they take care of nature and the animals in their territory. The fact that hunters kill wild animals is inherently contradictory – but did you know that animals are even bred specifically for hunting and then released so that hunters can shoot them as live targets during hunts?
Pheasants offered on eBay for 10 euros to kill
This is common practice when hunting pheasants, ducks, and partridges.
Hunters buy the animals and release them to kill before hunting. For example, pheasants can be bought for 10 to 20 euros on eBay or in pheasant shops, where thousands of them are bred in a confined space.
On some websites, the animals are offered depending on the season at a unit price of 10 to 14 euros. Even more macabre: When purchasing larger quantities, there is often a discount of up to 50%.
What is the so-called “cherish”:
So that not too tame animals are killed during the hunt, the respective state hunting laws stipulated the deadline before which the animals must be released. For this purpose, hundreds of ducks and other birds are often released specifically to waters.
So that they stay there until the start of the hunt, it is allowed to feed them. The attached feed and the droppings of the numerous birds often damage the water sustainably.
In addition, the animals that are accustomed to being raised by humans continue to be tame from feeding and run unsuspectingly towards their murderers while hunting.
Fear of death while the “drift and pressure” hunt.
During the “Drift and pressure hunts,” the animals are pursued by drivers and hunting dogs in front of the shotguns and rifles of the hunters.
The animals flee in panic for their lives – often via streets and through settlements.
Game accidents during hunting are unfortunately not uncommon and can be fatal to those involved, particularly due to large wild animals such as wild boars.
It also often happens that animals are shot but not immediately killed.
They then flee in panic, with gunshot wounds on the body or on the wings, until they succumb to their injuries and die after several days of agony.
Hunting is not nature conservation
The targeted release of animals for shooting shows that hunting has nothing to do with nature conservation.
On the contrary – the ecosystem is being completely confused.
Renowned wild biologists confirmed many years ago that hunting is not suitable for regulating wild animal populations, but is counterproductive.
Studies show that hunting leads to earlier sexual maturity in wild animals.
In hunted areas, the population grows faster, as wild animals compensate for the death rate with stronger births in the next generations and, moreover, more individuals take part in reproduction than usual.
On the other hand, natural regulation of wild animal populations takes place through environmental influences such as weather, food availability, or diseases.
Areas like the Swiss canton of Geneva, where hobby hunting has been banned for over 40 years, clearly show that nature regulates itself.
https://www.peta.de/tiere-jagd-gezuechtet
And I mean…EVERYTHING that hunters do, no matter what they say and what they actually do, serves only ONE goal: to preserve the hunt!
Hunting is a murderous hobby. No more, no less!
NO hunter in Europe has been forced to hunt.
Especially here in Germany, nobody is forced to lease a hunting ground and no one is forced to take part in a hunt for a fee.
Those who hunt kill for pure pleasure.
What state of mind can I expect from someone who cowardly shoots an animal from the ambush while it is eating, although he does not need his flesh and skin for life at all and then he calls it “hobby”, “nature conservation”, “species protection”, “disease protection” or “tradition”?
So if a hunter stands here and claims to be a conservationist, he is lying.
Hunters want to kill. No more and no less!
My best regards to all, Venus
WAV Comment – with shit like that; really sad that they are part of the British Commonwealth. Brits try to protect animals, not be assholes like this deadbeat hunter.
Dead black bear dumped in ditch; hunter ticketed for littering
EDMONTON — The body of a black bear was dumped illegally in a ditch near Lloydminster on Sunday, Alberta Fish and Wildlife said.
Officers determined the bear had been shot legally on private land, but that the carcass was improperly disposed of.
The person who shot the bear was ticketed for littering, Fish and Wildlife said.
“Owners or occupants of privately owned land or any person authorized to keep livestock on public land may, without a licence, hunt (but not trap) black bear on such lands, at all times of the year,” a Government of Alberta spokesperson said.
The woman who reported the carcass, Angie Atkinson, says bears are a common sight in the area.
“We’re not that far from the North Saskatchewan River, so there’s lots of ravines,” said Atikinson. “Once in a while, I’ll see scat along the road but they’re just trotting down the road and don’t seem to be much of a problem.”
Officials say animal carcasses should be disposed of at a waste management facility or on private land.
“A government decree allows the prefects to anticipate the opening date of the hunt to June 1, 2020.”
While the wildlife of our country, (France) is barely emerging from a respite with confinement, the government gives all the freedom to act to the prefects to anticipate the 2020-2021 hunting season by 2 months!
In many French departments, since June 1, 2020, it is possible for hunters to shoot on sight boars, roe deer, foxes and even deer.
For hunters, the desire to kill cannot seem to wait for the end of summer!
Now it is the season of births.
Many “bambi” like this will become orphans and die. Indeed when he is not old enough to flee and in case of danger, “bambi” flattens on the ground while waiting for his mother to return
… if she returns..
https://www.facebook.com/extraordinairenature/
And I mean…Hunters are terrorists, killers, and liars!
Terrorists because they spread fear and violence.
Murderers because they kill out of sheer lust for murder.
And liars because they pretend insolent lies for their behavior. ..
That this biological dung construct still exists is due to the support of some (hunters) politicians, and to a cowardly society that keeps the hunting terror in the forest and nature alive with its silence.
But the time of intimidation and lies, the time of the psychopath gang that thinks they can do what they want in the forest, is finally over.
Hunters! Shoot yourself and your stupid political followers immediately with you.
My best regards to all, Venus
30. Mai 2020
FRANCE -Live “decoy ducks” are bred especially for their beautiful voices.
When adult, they are elevated in micro prisons along the banks of a dam to vocally attract their free-flying friends while the hunters lie in wait, their rifles at the ready.
When will our base level of ecological unconsciousness in the name of sport ever change?
We demand an immediate end of this shameful practice.
France: Ban the use of live ducks, encaged, to attack their wild friends, to be shot down.
“Ever since we arrived on this planet as a species, we’ve hunted them down, dug them up, burned, and poisoned them. Today we are doing so on a greater scale than ever”. (Sir David Attenborough)
Petition – http://tiny.cc/bszypz
And I mean… Hunters are serial killers.
Like the serial killer, hunters have to prove their status as a person who has power over life and death.
Both the serial killer and the violent hobby hunter thinks he is taking part in something important.
It is time for every civilized society to recognize hobby hunting for what it really is: a pastime for psychopaths that is kept alive with government support.
So we never tire of publishing their crimes so that everyone knows about them.
Sign the petition: https://www.thepetitionsite.com/de/215/749/674/france-ban-the-use-of-life-ducks-encaged-to-attrackt-their-wild-friends-to-be-shot-down
My best regards to all, Venus
May 29, 2020, 5:50 p.m.
The basic intention of conventional German media is to sell us for stupid.
I quote from the local newspaper “Nordkurier”, which very shamefully describes the following incident:
“It was long unclear whether a wolf was actually responsible for the disappearance of an entire flock of sheep near Strasburg (northern Germany). Now it is clear: yes, he was (!!!)
It was the wolf!
The crack incident near of …. could be clearly assigned to the wolf by genetic testing, the district spokesman said on Friday at the request of “Nordkurier” Newspaper. Around 50 animals (!!!) died on the meadow in the middle of the month, including more than 30 lambs.
The wolf “used” dead animals again (!!).
“There have been several cases in Krackow (North Germany) indicating that the wolf will reuse the dead animals or stillbirths,” said the spokesman.
For this reason, the nature conservation authority has received an application for the “removal” of a wolf.
The authorities are examining the request for shooting”.
https://www.nordkurier.de/node/395314
And I mean…The wolves in Germany mainly eat deer, young red deer, and wild boar. Sometimes rabbits or mice are on the menu, but they rarely cut sheep or calves.
Because they avoid herds.
Therefore no idiot would believe that 1 (!) Wolf tears 50 (!) Sheep/lambs without eating them !!!
Anyone who leaves his animals unprotected, despite the wolves, he willfully delivers them.
As soon as an electric fence and herd dogs protect the sheep, they are no longer easy prey and the wolves leave them alone.
The guilty wolf doesn’t exist.
The farmers do not care about their animals, they will be later cruelly slaughtered anyway, but even for each animal torn by the wolf, they receive fat compensation.
What should not be forgotten is the fact that hunting for the wolf is not intentional cruelty to animals, but a necessity for survival.
In contrast to the farmers, who are torturers by profession and use animals for their economic interests lifelong.
We cannot allow that these animal haters, the peasants, and their dirty marionettes in the banana republic of Germany authorize the execution of wolves, and even legalize it later.
As soon as a petition comes out, I will contact you again.
It wasn’t the wolf, it was the farmers’ love for their animals
My best regards to all, Venus
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