Nest guarding in Sicily: In order to monitor the nests of the endangered hawk eagle, the members of the Italian conservation group Gruppo Tutela Rapacistarted their work in Sicily with the support of the Committee against Bird Murder.
Hawk eagles do not breed in captivity and therefore cannot be bred. This is why nest predators target eggs and young birds of the strictly protected bird – with them they can get the highest prices for some unscrupulous animal collectors or falconers.
Since we have been consistently guarding the nests in Sicily, the number of broods robbed has decreased by more than 90%.
Since curfews apply across Italy due to the corona crisis, the teams have regulatory approval for their work.
Without our presence, poachers would have a very easy game in the current situation, because the police are now entrusted with more urgent tasks than ever.
Thanks to Angelo Scuderi for the great eagle photo!
Committee Against Bird Murder e.V.
My comment: In Germany, rifles, poison and traps are the usual methods used by the perpetrators. We speak about really professional methods here, for example live bait.
They release pigeons whose back feathers are prepared with poison.
These animals are released in the middle of a hawk territory – with the aim that the raptor grabs them from above and dies from the poison on their back feathers.
Poachers of raptors in Germany are among hunters.
Because someone has to know very well which trees they are sitting in, where they are going to catch prey and other things.
The hunters know that.
A further indication is that hunting ammunition is always discovered in the carcasses of the raptors, which are usually only used by hunters.
So far, it has usually been the case that most investigations are ended without result and the perpetrators get away unscathed.
At least in my district, I don’t know of any judgment that has been posted for illegal wildlife killings.
“In the past, the insane, murderers, sex offenders or addicts were in institutions.
Today they are in hunting associations “.
received anonymously (translation); see more photos below:
In early March 2020, near the village of Pontaury, activists again acted against hunting by destroying 21 watchtowers, several of which were new.
We do not give the exact date in order not to facilitate the repressive work of the speciesist state.
This hunting area had been targeted before in October 2019, when 32 watchtowers were destroyed and a hunting cabin ransacked.
With this repeat action, in the same area, activists show their determination to fight against this hobby that no longer has reason to exist in a society claiming to be advanced, just and strongly linked to scientific and ethical knowledge.
We call on all those opposed to hunting to cause economic damage to hunting activities, anywhere, anytime.
In solidarity with the animal species persecuted by hunters and humans in general.
Attached is a press release, produced following the first actions in October 2019, and recent photos of 9 of the 21 watchtowers destroyed during the second action.
Citizens fighting against speciesism.
French:
Début Mars 2020, à proximité du village de Pontaury, des activistes ont à nouveau agi contre la chasse en détruisant 21 miradors dont plusieurs étaient neufs.
Nous ne communiquons pas la date précise pour ne pas faciliter le travail de répression de l’État spéciste.
Cette zone de chasse avait déjà été visée en octobre 2019, 32 miradors avaient alors été détruits et une cabane de chasse saccagée.
Par cette réplique, sur une même zone, les activistes montrent leur détermination à lutter contre ce loisir qui n’a plus lieu d’exister dans une société se disant évoluée, juste et fortement liées aux connaissances scientifiques et éthiques.
Iels invitent toutes les personnes s’opposant à la chasse à causer des dégâts économiques aux activités de chasse, partout, en tout temps.
En solidarité avec les espèces animales persécutées par les chasseurs et les humains en général.
Ci-joint un communiqué de presse, réalisé à la suite de la première action en octobre 2019, et des photos récentes de 9 des 21 miradors détruits lors de la seconde action.
And I mean..Today’s hunter is a heavily armed fool who goes into the forest with the latest high tech equipment and from ambush, from a tower, shoots unarmed, peaceful creatures.
At least from these murder facilities, no animal it will be massacred anymore ….
…and we say thank you
Over the past few weeks, tens of thousands of white storks have made their way back to their breeding grounds.
From Lebanon, where the migration routes of numerous populations overlap, numerous large swarms have been observed and reported by our partner associations since the beginning of the month.
Unfortunately, we have received dozens of reports of illegal shooting of storks at the same time. Yesterday, our Lebanese colleagues released these recordings, which show the shooting down of a stork resting on a mast near Akkar (northern Lebanon district) last week.
The material has been published by numerous Lebanese media, as well as the call by the committee and its partner associations to immediately report any such incident to the police.
And I mean…The estimated number of illegally killed birds in Lebanon is more than 2,600,000 annually.
But not only in Lebanon!
In the European Union, more than 53 million wild birds are legally shot down by hunters every year, including numerous species that are critically endangered in Germany.
Hunters, poachers, bird catchers and animal traders threaten our migratory birds everywhere along their hiking routes. Whether in Italy, France and Spain, in Malta and Cyprus, in the Balkans, Greece and Egypt and probably also in other countries, songbirds migrate to the grill plate instead of to the winter quarters!
In theory, bird hunting is forbidden in the EU, but it is still “as a tradition” and in France they even want to increase the “catch quota”!
Why should the loss of biodiversity of birds and other animals interest the corrupt morons in politics?
Most of them are hunters themselves.
Therefore, penalties are not so high that hunters hurt; only the corruption is high and increases every day. They help each other to hide and continue to kill our songbirds, and not only.
No wonder that we have fewer and fewer birds in our home gardens, parks and in nature.
We are not only by animal haters, we are surrounded by life haters!
On the 1 of March the lynx cull began in Sweden as of right now over 80 have been killed and 103 will be killed by the end of this month.
A massacre was going on in the forrest and we could not just sit idly by and watch the slaughter.
While searching for the hunt scum with the intention of sabotaging their efforts to kill the 8 lynx that were still fighting for their home and lives in our cull zone we came across many traps, hunting towers and feeding stations that all met the same fate. Here are two of the many that were demolished. Long live the lynx!
Our partner League pour la Protection des Oiseaux (LPO) has done a great blow against the illegal trade in songbirds for restaurants in France: A poacher has been shown to have had a total of 10,000 protected robins in the department of Les Landes in southwestern France over the past 9 years, robin, finch and titmouse caught, plucked it and sold it as kitchen-ready skewers (!!!)
The estimated profit is 50,000 euros. The traps he used for this are allowed for the “traditional” and non-commercial catch of skylarks, but are often used illegally, as the current case impressively shows.
Beginners of Ortol, against whom the “committee against bird murder” has been working in the same region for many years, also resort illegally to this type of trap. The poacher and three of his biggest customers – including apparently an internationally known rugby player – will have to go to court in Dax next September.
My comment: Rare and beautiful birds are illegally shot or caught by game killers for fun before they are plucked, skinned, and eaten – or simply thrown away.
Italy is one of the worst offenders on the great migration route between Africa and Eurasia. The worst is Egypt, where 5.7 million birds are illegally killed every year. It is followed by Syria and Lebanon with 3.9 million and 2.6 million birds killed, respectively.
A study by BirdLife Internationalincludes a breakdown of killings by country, here is the map:
In France, an estimated 149,000 to 895,000 birds are killed illegally each year.
In the name of tradition, birds are caught illegally in many regions and many non-target species are killed as by-catches. Trapping is the most common form of illegal killing of birds in France.
Of the 349 bird species studied in France, around 32% are killed to a significant extent illegally. Eurasian chaffinch, robins and Ortholan bunting are killed in large numbers . The Ortolan bunting is considered an expensive “delicacy” and can bring in up to 150 euros – for French gourmets it was an entry-level ritual for centuries to eat this bird. Despite the illegality, the species is tolerated.
It is terrifying how few people notice that there are almost no birdsong in the forest. They don’t care.
What are we so busy with that we no longer notice the absence of the beautiful company of birds in the forest?
You can only hear roaring machines that smash, suck, blow, cut, destroy, saw, flatten …… how far we have gone from nature … and we find ourselves really great and powerful. ..
The number of birds is falling, the number of catchers is increasing.
We owe that to criminal politics and a Stone Age society that still does the murder for fun and has it on their menu!
Bavaria is a federal state that thrives economically, but hunting has remained at a pre-civilizational level in the vastness of the country.
There is war against wildlife here. Animal protection is systematically undermined by nature users – hunters, farmers, forest owners, anglers, pond owners – in close cooperation with local politicians and state authorities.
That remains of wild animals after hunting. Image: B. Pelli
In Bavaria, wild rabbits, raccoons and raccoon dogs do not even have the grace period provided for in the federal hunting law during the rearing of young animals. The animals are legally hunted all year round, regardless of whether they look after young animals or not. The young animals starve or freeze to death.
Whether the raccoon mom will come back… – the chances are worse in Bavaria than in other federal states. Parents can be shot! against the federal regulation. Picture: Heiko Anders
In Bavaria, it often doesn’t matter whether existing hunting laws are observed or not. Minister of Agriculture Michaela Kaliber (CSU=Christian Social Union) cannot rely on the hunters’ self-control by the hunters: in Bavaria, the parent animals required for rearing were and are strictly hunted this year in January, February and March, despite the fact that the foxes have set in this year killed.
This often happens during so-called fox or predatory game weeks. The first fox pups are born in Bavaria in January.
Strictly speaking, fox fathers required for rearingare eliminated by hunters in December, because as soon as the male has mated – usually from mid-November to the end of November – he will be a future parent.
Roe deer, deer or chamois are no better off in Bavaria. “Forest before game” is the motto that has been laid down in the Bavarian Forest Act in 2005 at the instigation of forest owners, foresters and the Ecological Hunting Association.
Driven hunts, in which many dozen hunters and drivers take part with their dogs, regularly take place in Bavaria right into the middle of winter. Actually the time when the metabolism of deer and deer is down to survive the sparse season with little food.
Hunting regulations do not even exist on paper for these hunts, which are carried out in particular by the Bavarian State Forests, but also by other large forest owners such as the noble Thurn and Taxis or the Princely House of Waldburg-Zeil.
Animals are shot in the belly, the lower jaw is blown away with heavy bullets or they are bitten by dog packs that get out of control.
Lecturers from the Bavarian Forest University in the state capital are using inhumane slogans such as “Only a dead deer is a good deer” or “You don’t have to look at what deer is for deer. The main thing is to make your finger crooked ” (!!!)
It is also the case that the authorities deliberately tolerate serious violations not only against the foxes, but also against the deer.
A long-time hunter puts it this way:“State forest, prince and so many hunting cooperatives don’t give a shit about legal norms.”
In rural areas in Bavaria there is a targeted and successful mood against returning species. Otters, beavers, cormorants, wolves and lynxes are used as scapegoats to distract from their own deficits, both in the protection of rivers and in the misguided agricultural policy.
In Bavaria, around 80,000 cormorants have been shot with a” special” permit in the past ten years. Picture: Michael Hamann
“Exceptions” for the shooting down of cormorants and beavers are said to have been made even in nature and bird protection areas such as Lake Chiemsee. In many places, beacon buildings are systematically destroyed and put away with the toleration of local politicians. Any illegal activity will not be prosecuted. Those who dare to intervene are often threatened.
Many of the problems attributed to the animals are man-made and could be solved without the animal cruelty measures shown. The intense hunt, due to the immense disturbances in the rhythm of life, helps the roe deer to bite young trees at all.
In parts of Switzerland, a quiet zone model is successfully practiced, which has also been imitated in the forests of those of Gemmingen: on around 25-30 percent of the area, large hunting-free areas and unhunted grazing areas are created. Deer, roe deer or chamois find retreat there. Without the constant pressure to hunt, they regularly find food there and do not become “forest pests”.
The shooting down of foxes or raccoons is completely pointless. Because hunting is not able to regulate the population of these animals. The development of the number of raccoons cannot even be delayed by hunting. The only thing that is achieved by hunting prey is – besides satisfying their pursuers – the destruction of the social fabric of wild animals and the lowering of their average age. A fox in Germany would not even be two years old- on average.
And I mean…Which is worse: swine fever or hunter and politician plague?
Almost two years ago, has the CSU (Christian Social Union) in the state parliamen enforced that “the Bavarian otter- management should be supplemented with “removal”, so it says in the group’s request. The term “removal” means catching otters in traps and and then execute. Although hunting for otters is prohibited.
In a pilot project, the government wants to allow three hunters to set up traps at fish farms. Otters are said to be caught in them and then shot.
The “Free State” of Bavaria simply wants to take the first step so that the hunt for the otter is back becomes socially acceptable.
It is an invention of sick psychopaths, politicians and hunters. Otters do not harm anyone, psycopaths do!
This reminds us of the cruel, brown times around 1941 when Göhring had applied for the “final solution” to the Jewish question” wich was therefore nothing other than the murder of the Jews at that time.
Annihilate, eliminate, or even exterminate would be the correct term for the shameful word “remove” for otter.
And we already know how do it.
Hunting is a big part of life in the eastern Bay of Plenty and the Opotiki Little 3 – that took place over the weekend – encourages kids to get involved by attempting to bag the largest number of possums, magpie and rabbit.
Ōpōtiki youngsters have been getting stuck into a hunting competition designed just for them.
Hunting is a big part of life in the eastern Bay of Plenty. Source: Seven Sharp
Hunting is a big part of life in the eastern Bay of Plenty and the Opotiki Little 3 – that took place over the weekend – encourages kids to get involved by attempting to bag the largest number of possums, magpie and rabbit.
“This competition is about getting out there & giving it a go!” the event’s website states.
The event is exclusively for under 16s.
“It’s good for the environment,” one keen young shooter told Seven Sharp.
The competition was created three years ago by a group of hunting mums (!!!).
“We are a small committee of four women, and we do our best,” one of the organisers said.
They decided big hunting competitions in the area didn’t focus on families.
“Most of us have full time jobs as well as doing this but we do it for the kids so… it’s worth it to see their smiles!”
Check out the video above to see the youngsters in action!!!
And I mean … Those who want to become serial killers in the future must practice early!
Then we wonder if a human massacre happens.
By almost every massacre we learn too late that mass murderers have previously practiced on animals.
And in some cases even parents come as guides.
People who are violent on animals rarely leave it at that.
But as long as the victims belong to another species, nobody cares and the murder is “good for the environment”!
“The child first exercises mercy or cruelty on the animal – and then, when grown up, it is helpful or merciless towards its fellow human beings”. (Friedrich Froebel)
Police release pictures of huntsmen in Warwickshire hunt trespass on railway near Banbury
British Transport Police (BTP) have issued two photos of men they want to identify after a hunt ran amok and held up trains on New Year’s Day.
In an appeal to the public they have asked anyone who recognises the men to contact BTP.
The Banbury Guardian covered the story at the time. At that time Warwickshire Hunt denied that a hound had been struck by a train, claiming ‘all hounds had returned safely to kennels’, but BTP has confirmed that a dog was, indeed, hit.
One train involved in the initial incident and was left waiting on the track while Network Rail workers tried to get the hunt to leave the railway, which they refused to do. Overall 21 services were affected because of the backlog of delays. Network Rail confirmed that the trains have forward facing CCTV and their examination of the film has resulted in today’s appeal.
A spokesman for BTP said: “Officers investigating an incident of trespass in Warwickshire are today releasing these images in connection.
“On January 1 shortly before 1pm, officers were called to the lines in Claydon following reports of a group of trespassers on the tracks. Thankfully, no injuries were reported, however a dog was sadly hit by a train.
“The incident caused significant delays and cost to the railway. Officers believe the people in the CCTV images may have information which could help their investigation.
“If you recognise them or have any information please contact BTP by texting 61016 or calling 0800 40 50 40 quoting reference 305 of 01/01/2020.
“Alternatively you can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.”
Commentary by Peter Hammarstedt (Sweden) – captain of Sea Shepherd
Europe kills the fastest shark in the world, while African countries struggle to save the shark from extinction.
Last week, Senegal and Canada submitted an application to the International Atlantic Tuna Conservation Commission (ICCAT) for strict guidelines to protect the shortfin maco after a 2017 study showed that the world’s fastest shark species, itself if the catch rate was zero, there would only be a fifty percent chance of recovering. Gabon, The Gambia and Liberia supported the application, which provides for a ban on carrying short-fin makos on board, even if they were “accidentally” killed. The three African coastal states conduct patrols at sea together with Sea Shepherd.
dead mako sharks in Liberian waters
The participants in the convention of the Washington Convention on the Protection of Species had previously voted for a trade ban on short-fin mako products. To our horror, despite the efforts made by the African bloc, the application was smashed by the European Union and the United States. These made a weakened countermotion, which contradicted the best scientific recommendations.Unfortunately, this is not surprising since European fishing vessels are largely responsible for catching shortfin macos.
The failure of the application is devastating, but it gives me hope to see how our African partner countries play a pioneering role in the question of better shark protection measures. I am proud of Gabon, The Gambia and Liberia, who are fighting for the shortfin mako, and I trust that in future African coastal states will increasingly work for shark protection at international gatherings and conferences.
In addition, although the country is the largest market for shark fins, China has voted for measures to protect the short fin maco.
Sea Shepherd thanks the Gambia, Gabon and Liberia and the other 13 supporters of Senegal’s application for their strong commitment to nature conservation at the ICCAT meeting.
Up to 11,000 sharks are killed by humans every hour. Shark populations have decreased by 90% in the past century and a quarter of all shark species are threatened with extinction.
The supporters of Senegal’s application understood the urgency of shark protection and the importance of better protection measures for the heavily exploited shortfin mako.
https://sea-shepherd.de/2818-usa-und-europa-blockeren-haischutz My comment:“In their 400 million year evolution, the Mako sharks became the perfect hunter and even survived the dinosaurs, ”said marine biologist Ralf Sonntag for the International Animal Welfare Fund (IFAW).
And now they were brought to the brink of extinction by humans because of a shit soup!
The Mako shark is also known as the “cheetah of the oceans”. It can reach a speed of 69 km per hour. It is the fastest shark in the world.
Unlike other fish, sharks breed only slowly. Females only reach sexual maturity from the age of 18 and only have a few cubs every few years.
Spain is the main exporter of Mako sharks. European, especially Spanish and Portuguese, fishing vessels are responsible for 65% of the reported shortfin mako catches between January and June 2018.
The sharks are on the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as highly endangered!
The human animal should be on the red list as the most dangerous animal in the world.
I had invested high hopes on the Corona Virus that he would kill some millions of us, humans. So that the animal and natural world can recover a little.
But obviously he’s a weakling.
Violent acts towards animals have long been recognised as indicators of a dangerous psychopathology that does not confine itself to animals. “Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives”, wrote humanitarian Dr Albert Schweitzer.
Robert K Ressler, who developed profiles of serial killers for the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), states, “Murderers … very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids”. Studies have now convinced sociologists, lawmakers and the courts that acts of cruelty to animals deserve our attention.
They can be the first sign of a dangerous pathology that threatens humans as well.
Animal abuse is not just the result of a minor personality flaw in the abuser but rather a symptom of a deep mental disturbance. Research in psychology and criminology shows that people who commit acts of cruelty to animals don’t stop there; many of them move on to their fellow humans.
The FBI has found that a history of cruelty to animals regularly appears in the backgrounds of serial rapists and murderers, and the standard diagnostic and treatment manual for psychiatric and emotional disorders lists cruelty to animals as a diagnostic criterion for conduct disorders.
A study conducted in the US by Northeastern University and the Massachusetts SPCA found that people who abuse animals are five times more likely to commit violent crimes against humans. The majority of inmates on death row in California’s San Quentin State Prison “practiced” their crimes on animals, according to the prison’s warden.
As a child, serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy – who was convicted of two murders but was suspected of actually killing more than 40 women – witnessed his father’s violence towards animals, and he himself later tortured animals.
Earl Kenneth Shriner, who raped and stabbed a 7-year-old boy, was known in his neighbourhood for hanging cats and torturing dogs.
David Berkowitz (aka the Son of Sam), who pleaded guilty to 13 murder and attempted murder charges, once shot a neighbour’s Labrador retriever.
Brenda Spencer, who opened fire at a California school, killing two children and injuring nine others, had repeatedly abused cats and dogs, often setting their tails on fire.
Serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer impaled the heads of dogs and cats on sticks.
Suspected US High School Shooter Has Reported History of Animal Abuse
Stephanie Bell, senior director of cruelty casework at PETA US, has commented in response to reports that the suspected gunman in the tragic Florida high school shooting previously used animals for target practice:
It is no surprise to PETA that before he allegedly massacred 17 people at a school in Parkland, Florida, Nikolas Cruz is said to have talked about shooting small animals, including lizards, squirrels, frogs, and a neighbor’s chickens, and reportedly sent his dog to a neighbor’s house to attack the pigs there.
The FBI has identified cruelty to animals as a warning sign of more violence to come, and many school shooters and serial killers have a history of abusing animals. While the issues of gun control and mental health rage on, one simple way to prevent future acts of violence are for local law-enforcement officials to pursue the strongest penalties possible in cruelty-to-animals cases – for everyone’s sake – and for those who hear about or witness animal abuse to report it.
The FBI is the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is roughly equivalent to India’s Central Bureau of Investigation.
Predictably, the man who killed 59 people and injured more than 500 others at a country-music festival in Las Vegas last year had a history of violence against animals, too. In India, the notorious Veerappan was both a poacher and a serial killer, and the Noida serial murders of children occurred at the home of Moninder Singh Pandher, who was fond of hunting. And they weren’t the only ones who hurt animals before moving on to hurting humans – so, too, did all the serial killers listed here and many others.
Thanks to Angelo Scuderi for the great eagle photo!
“In the past, the insane, murderers, sex offenders or addicts were in institutions.
That remains of wild animals after hunting. Image: B. Pelli
Whether the raccoon mom will come back… – the chances are worse in Bavaria than in other federal states. Parents can be shot! against the federal regulation. Picture: Heiko Anders
In Bavaria, around 80,000 cormorants have been shot with a” special” permit in the past ten years. Picture: Michael Hamann
dead mako sharks in Liberian waters
World Animals Voice 