Wild deer in the Hörnli cemetery in Basel cause ever greater costs. Individuals are now to be shot, as the city garden center explains to “Schweiz aktuell”.

The Basel Hörnli cemetery is the largest in Switzerland with 54 hectares. It lies on the outskirts of the city and borders on the forest.
That is why deer live there.
For them, the cemetery is a land of milk and honey: practically every day graves have fresh flowers to eat, and there are no enemies – neither dogs, cars nor disturbing bikers.

“Deer breed terrific”

Even the visitors do not scare the animals away, but behave extremely calmly. “The deer are multiplying terrific,” says Emanuel Trueb, head of the Basel city garden center.
In recent years, the population has increased from around 15 to around 25 animals (!!!). They live in the cemetery, many were also born there.

As cute as the deer look: they cause great damage. On the one hand, the graves would have to be repaired, on the other hand, one tries to keep the deer away, for example with butyric acid, says Emanuel Trueb. The costs for all countermeasures and maintenance measures would now amount to CHF 100,000 per year.

Deer cannot be driven away

That is why the city must take action now, Trueb told “Schweiz aktuell”, and targeting individual roebucks.
Because the previous measures would have brought little or nothing. “We also tried repeatedly to drive the animals out of the area, but they were back the next day.”

Because the cemetery is in the area of ​​Riehen, it is responsible for a kill. The town council of Riehen therefore investigated the matter.

“The focus was not on the damage caused by the deer, but on the welfare of the animals” (!!!), says councilor Christine Kaufmann.

“We found that the number of roe deer in the cemetery is three times larger than in the forest in a corresponding area,” says Kaufmann, who is also a veterinarian (!!!). And that leads to stress in the animals.”

That is why Riehen supports the cemetery’s wish to kill the deer population with kills.

Special approval required

However, since the cemetery is a hunting ban area, where shooting is not permitted, Riehen has submitted a shooting application to the canton. This is now with the Basel Security and Justice Department and should be answered shortly. There is nothing more to be learned.

https://www.srf.ch/news//grosse-schaeden-basler-friedhof-will-rehe-abschiessen

 
And I mean…Why can’t the city of Riehen protect the cemetery with a fence?
The Swiss also do it with their motorway, a method which is good for the animals as well as for drivers.

The deer did not come from heaven.
We take away their living space, their houses, their food, hunters kill their children and destroy their families.
The animals try to find peace and security in the cemetery.

“The deer are multiplying terrific,” said the gardener
People too!
“Deer cannot be driven away and cause great damage”
People too!

So… do we want to use the killing method for human pests too?
To regulate the population, as the hunters would say!

My best regards to all, Venus

Foreign hunting tenants are allowed to enter!

The strict entry requirements to Austria will remain in force until the end of May.

There are reliefs for nursing staff or for foreign tenants, for example. There are 300 territories in Tyrol that are leased to foreigners.

They do not have to show a certificate on entry (!!)
Basically, people who want to travel from abroad have to show a negative coronavirus test result that is not older than four days or they go into a 14-day quarantine.
Hunting tenants don’t have to be in quarantine!

These restrictions do not apply to commuters. And these restrictions are now no longer applicable to foreign tenants.

They do not need a medical certificate, nor do they need to be quarantined (!!!)

It is sufficient to submit a hunting lease contract or a contract for shooting wild animals.

There are 1,300 hunting areas in Tyrol, 300 of which are leased by foreigners. The relief has to do with the hunting season, which begins on May 15, according to the National Hunters’ Association.

It is about fulfilling the given shooting plan.

https://tirol.orf.at/stories/3047105/

And I mean…Article 3 of human rights
(1) All people are equal before the law.
It looks like hunters have negotiated a special status with the legislature and are above the law.

Murder is murder, the systematically planned mass murder must be carried out.
This reminds us of similar “exceptions” in the Nazi era …

My best regards to all, Venus

The Baltic wolf population is scientifically estimated at 3,600 individuals, of which 600 live in Latvia.

There was a premium for wolf shootings until 1999, and wolf hunting was fully open until 2003. That means there were no requirements in terms of a shooting plan. Over 200 wolves were killed annually in the 1990s, and nearly 400 in 1996.
On average, half of the gray dogs killed in the Baltic States fall in Latvia.

Latvia has it all: lynx, wolf, elk, deer, sow, deer – and everything can be hunted in Latvia.
Latvia is a member of the EU but has not signed the species protection directives.

Do you wonder? Nobody in the country does that. The wolves are hunted as usual, like in four other EU countries, namely in Lithuania, Finland, Greece and parts of Spain.

In 1997, Latvia acceded to the Bern Convention, an agreement to conserve European wild flora and fauna and their natural habitats, provided that no special protection was granted to the wolf.

In the accession negotiations with the EU, the Baltic States achieved a so-called geographical exception, namely: Wolf was recognized as a population with a favorable conservation status.

Wolf hunting is legal under the following conditions:
1. application of the hunting methods permitted in the directive,
2. continuous population surveillance,
3. Implementation of more suitable protective measures

There are psychopaths who dream of killing a lion in the African steppe, a polar bear in the eternal ice or a magnificent lynx in Latvia!

For many serial offenders, it is a great feeling when the trophy is stuffed over the fireplace at home or used as a bed mat.

In fact, there are a number of organizers worldwide who handle such requests – for a lot of money. Hunting a polar bear in Canada costs up to 40,000 euros, elephants and lions in Africa up to 60,000 euros and black rhino even up to 280,000 euros. A shot at the wolf in Macedonia costs 3,000 euros.
Nevertheless, there is great interest.

In Bulgaria and Romania, this primitive pleasure of killing the wolf for pleasure is far cheaper. There the hunt for the wild animal costs 400 to 500 euros. And if one of these hunting tourists shot a wolf in an EU member state, he is also allowed to import it into Germany, according to customs officials.

Quote from the story of a German hunter who took part in a hunting tour against wolf: “Latvia is not only the cheaper alternative, no, in Latvia you can legally hunt wolves. Captured wolf trophies can be prepared and taken to Germany with CITES- approval *! It was clear to all of us: we will be back “!

* (CITES: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)

P.S: We got a call for help from blog readers.
They asked us to write a separate article about the brutality and unscrupulousness of the lynx and wolf hunters in Latvia.

Hunting is legal in this country and psychopaths make shameless use of it.
We therefore only see the possibility of petitioning:

(a) to the Government of Latvia and
(b) to the EU Commission.

Of course, we have to say in advance that the results of a petition are not always positive, even if they are widely accepted.
However, a petition brings up unknown crimes that most countries want to avoid.
In any case, we must not give up, we have to keep fighting, we owe it to the animals.

Best regards to all, Venus

Wonderful news for the marine mammals in Iceland: the whaling season is slated to be canceled this year.

Sales problems and conditions due to the corona pandemic are causing problems for the Icelandic whalers. The hunting season should now be canceled again, a company probably wants to withdraw completely from business.

For the second time in a row, Iceland is suspending the whaling season this summer. This is reported by local media and the AFP news agency.
According to the agency, one of the two still active whaling companies in the country now wants to finally withdraw from whaling: “It is no longer worth it”, said the managing director of the minke whale company IP-Utgerd, Gunnar Bergmann Jonsson.

According to Bergmann Jonsson, the boats would have had to go far out to sea to hunt minke whales because of the expansion of a no-fishing zone off the coast. That would have been too expensive.

Hvalur, a company specializing in fin whale hunting is stopping this season, according to a report, mainly due to sales difficulties in the Japanese market.

There, the regulations for food safety for meat imports are much stricter than for domestic products, CEO Kristjan Loftsson told the newspaper “Morgunbladid”.

In addition, the companies that process the whale meat have problems meeting the requirements to fight the corona pandemic, Loftsson said.

Because of the distance regulations in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, it is also almost impossible to process the meat of the marine mammals. The workers in the whaling stations would have to work very closely together.
According to the newspaper, 146 fin whales and six minke whales were caught off Iceland’s coast in 2018.

According to the newspaper, 146 fin whales and six minke whales were caught off Iceland’s coast in 2018.

https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/island-setzt-walfang-im-sommer-erneut-aus-a-1c08587d-c1ac-4f3b-9e9e-11b8eb6217ec

And I mean…This is finally really good news for the whales!
Because, even this year, Icelandic harpoon cannons will not shred whale bodies.
Up to 209 fin and 217 minke whales are spared the agonizing death.

The Icelandic Marine Research Institute has recommended this number of whales as the annual maximum for hunting.

Hopefully we will soon see a ban on this cruel hunt forever.

My best regards to all, Venus

We remember the KUNLUN: The poacher ship expires in Dakar.
Monday, December 23, 2019: Nine months after the THUNDER sank in the Gulf of Guinea, the KUNLUN in Senegal was arrested when its crew tried to unload illegally caught Antarctic cod. The decaying ship is a monument to the worldwide efforts to smash the “Bandit 6” poaching fleet.

Commentary by Captain Peter Hammarstedt.

I felt the greasy layer of rust and dirt crunch under my feet as I stepped onto the deck of the ASIAN WARRIOR, known to me by its former name KUNLUN, in the port of Dakar in West Africa.

In 2014 the KUNLUN was part of the “Bandit 6”. Together with the now infamous trawl ship THUNDER, these six poacher ships looted the Arctic Ocean to Antarctica.

Nine months after the THUNDER sank in the Gulf of Guinea, the KUNLUN in Senegal was arrested when its crew tried to unload illegally caught Antarctic cod. The decaying ship is a monument to the worldwide efforts to smash the “Bandit 6” poaching fleet.

While my crew and I were chasing the THUNDER from Antarctica through the dangerous waters of the Southern Ocean to the north on BOB BARKER, Captain Siddharth Chakravarty and his crew took care of the KUNLUN hundreds of miles to the southeast on the SAM SIMON.

The SAM SIMON crew led KUNLUN out of the Antarctic fishing grounds and then handed over evidence-relevant documents to Interpol and the New Zealand authorities.

Due to their long history of violations of fishing laws and their connection to the well-known Spanish crime syndicate, Vidal Armadores, to whom the ship belonged, they also searched for KUNLUN.

Like the THUNDER, Interpol searched the KUNLUN with a purple alarm, a wanted list that alerted the police authorities worldwide. This has been requested by New Zealand, Australian and Norwegian authorities.

The sister ships of the KUNLUN named YONGDING and SONGHUA were later seized on Cape Verde.

During a routine visit to Mindelo, I reported to Interpol, the New Zealand Ministry of Primary Industry and the Cape Verde judicial authorities that they were in port. Almost four years later, the two ships still remain in Cape Verde.

To get to the KUNLUN bridge, I had to climb over a mattress belonging to the Senegalese security guard, the lonely guardian of the ship. The console on the bridge has long been an empty case. All the electronic equipment for navigation was torn out, including the radar on which KUNLUN was able to track the position of the SAM SIMON.

Captain Peter Hammarstedt.

If you look ahead, the ship has a slight flip to the port, as opposed to the starboard tilt that the THUNDER accepted before sinking. The THUNDER was deliberately sunk by its own captain Luis Alfonso Rubio Cataldo, who made this unfortunate decision to destroy evidence.

The captain from Chile, Luis Alfonso Rubio Cataldo, the leading engineer Agustin Dosil Rey from Spain and the second mechanic Luis Miguel Perez Fernandez, also from Spain, were sentenced to two years and eleven months in prison and to a fine of 15 million euros for forging documents, pollution and damage, and for neglectful conduct.

Nobody appiered to request the KUNLUN. The ship remains in the custody of the Senegalese government, whose use in fixing the ship was commendable.

In its decay, the former phantom now appears very real. Everything mystical that once surrounded the ship disappears with the actual decay.

If we ever have doubts that civil society, in cooperation with governments, is capable of stopping illegal fishing, all we have to do is look at this sad, dilapidated steel block that was once KUNLUN in Dakar.

And we remember the depths of the Gulf of Guinea, where the THUNDER lies 3,800 meters below sea level, at the same depth that the TITANIC sank.

https://sea-shepherd.de/2825

„The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a conservative organization.

I am a conservative. You can’t get more conservative than being a conservationist. Our entire raison de être is to conserve and protect.

The radicals of the world are destroying our oceans and our forests, our wildlife and our freedom.“ (Captain Paul Watson)

My best regards to all, Venus

Spring hunt in Malta: Despite all protests by the nature conservation associations and from the population and contrary to the requirements of the EU Birds Directive, Malta has approved the spring hunt for quail.

From April 10th to 30th, 6,000 hunters can shoot a total of 5,000 of the endangered migratory birds.

That means the hunters go on the prowl for 20 days in order to allegedly kill less than one bird on average – a hardly credible calculation.

The actual number of birds shot is likely to be much higher. The police controls, which are always too tight, have been further reduced by the corona pandemic.
As a result, the two teams of the Committee against Bird Murder, which are currently in use in Malta, observe numerous violations of hunting and nature conservation law.

The use of banned electronic lure systems and shots at protected birds of prey, hoopoes and lovebirds are particularly widespread.
The last victim of the uncontrolled spring hunt is a kestrel, which a committee team found at Birzebuggia on Easter Sunday (photo). Unfortunately, the bird had to be put to sleep – its body was full of lead shot.

In our video published today, we show a whole range of violations – from bird trapping with blow nets to hunters who are illegally stalking. It has received and confirmed information that the man works as a prison guard in Corradino Correctional Facility.

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

My  comment: The hunting season in Malta lasts from September to May. There is hunting almost everywhere, and the illegal poachers don’t give a shit about the police.
Since classic game on the islands has long been eradicated, the murderers’ rage is concentrated on the migratory birds.
The list of birds officially released for hunting and fishing includes, in addition to numerous songbirds, waders and waterbirds, even highly endangered species.

A blatant case of corruption when licenses are issued for endangered species.

Bird catching is a popular sport in Malta. Unlike most other fishing areas in the Mediterranean, the captured songbirds end up as caged birds, locked up in the living room of perverted “bird friends”.
In Malta’s capital Valletta there is even a large bird market every Sunday, which is even mentioned in the travel guides as a sight.

Another big advantage of the Corona is the temporary standstill of tourism in countries that have always lived from tourism. For tourism, a lot of money is usually made with animals.

My best regards to all, Venus