Many Australians are unaware of the disgraceful way in which wild pigs are being killed throughout New South Wales and Queensland
Pig dogging is a shamefully cruel and barbaric practice in which dogs are forced to hunt wild pigs. While hunters boast grotesquely of the adrenaline rush they experience, their treatment of the victims of this “sport” – both pigs and dogs – is deplorable.
The dogs are encouraged to chase and tire out the pigs and then hold them by the ears until a human arrives to kill them. Pigs who are chased, trapped, and killed in this way experience intense fear and distress.
Usually, hunters kill pigs by “sticking” them – stabbing them in the stomach or chest to puncture the heart – before leaving them to bleed out in a prolonged and painful death.
Because these hunts cover large areas and it’s difficult for hunters to maintain contact with their dogs, pigs are often mauled for long periods and even killed before the humans arrive on the scene. In many cases, hunters actually encourage their dogs to maul the pigs.
The dogs are usually large mixed-breed ones who’ve been “blooded” to make them especially aggressive. They may be beaten, starved, and psychologically abused in order to “train” them not to retreat from a pig 10 times their size.
After enduring this trauma, they’re then exposed to extreme danger during the hunt. Even though they may be “armoured” – wearing protective throat collars, breastplates, and vests – they’re often injured, mutilated, and killed.
Legislation relating to pig dogging differs from state to state, but it’s virtually impossible to take part in this blood sport without seriously compromising the intentions and regulations of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1979 and the Companion Animals Act 1998.
Write to the New South Wales and Queensland state governments and ask that they take action on this important issue.
And I mean...The same thing happens with the “training” of dogs against foxes in Germany.
In Spain the galgos are also trained to death either for hunting the rabbits or for competition.
And in Eastern countries, dogfighting is booming, as we recently reported. https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/02/02/kosovo-dog-fighting-as-an-organized-crime/
Everything takes place with the support or tolerance of corrupt politicians.
From psychopaths who sit in important positions and decide about lucrative business with animals.
But it is not an argument not to publish any criminal acts because they happen everywhere.
Wherever they happen, we will publicize them and ask for help.
Because the animals have just us.
In an accompanying post to social media, the group detailed the pod’s last moments as they were forced into what is known as the “killing cove” in Taiji, Japan on Tuesday.
“For sentient, self-aware, intelligent and intensely social animals, the level of suffering involved in the entire drive and slaughter process is unimaginable,” they said.
The pod of melon-headed whales huddled together before they were slaughtered. Source: Dolphin Project
“No lives were spared.”
The activists then captured the aftermath of the hunt, sharing images online of slaughtered dolphins with their tails tied together.
Dolphin Project founder Ric O’Barry told Yahoo News Australia he hopes the horrifying images will create change in Japan.
“(The hunt is) depressing, sadistic, but most of all unnecessary,” he said.
“This dolphin slaughter will end when the Japanese people rise up against it.
“Today’s exceptionally cruel event in Taiji is a good example of why it’s imperative to keep live streaming, why it’s important to keep a light on Taiji during the entire six months of the annual dolphin slaughter.”
Ric O’Barry is calling on tourists to stop visiting dolphin parks. Source: Dolphin Project
Japanese opposition to whale killing season
A growing number of Japanese nationals have been protesting against the hunt, and there has been a decline in the popularity of dolphin and whale meat.
At the beginning of the season each year, the dolphin hunt receives global attention, but as it continues on that coverage fades.
Mr O’Barry blames the continuation of the slaughter on the dolphin park industry, noting that many of them send trainers to the region to buy wild caught dolphins.
This year the dolphin drive quota is 1749, which includes 298 bottlenose dolphins and 200 melon-headed whales.
Once the trainers select the most prized dolphins for their theme parks the others are killed.
As a pastime, hunters in Germany kill up to half a million foxes in the most gruesome way – many of the animals are “only” shot or literally crushed and mutilated. Foxes serve as a living target for hunters; there is no reason for the mass hunt of the predators either from a wild biological or health point of view. Politics must finally act and put an end to the senseless killing of the useful animals.
Foxes are an important part of our nature and need our protection.
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) belongs to the order of the predators (Carnivora) and is a representative of the dog family (Canidae). Due to the extraordinary ability to adapt to the most varied living conditions, it lives in a variety of habitats – from remote forests to cultural landscapes and into the cities. The red fox is also not picky when it comes to its food and eats, for example, small mammals, birds and earthworms, but also carrion or fruit.
Foxes live both as loners and in social family groups. In such a family association, only the dominant pair of foxes have offspring – some foxes even stay together for a lifetime. The mating season is between December and February. After about 52 days, four to five fox pups are born.
In a fox family, both parents take care of the children. The older daughters also often stay with the parents and lovingly help raise their siblings. Foxes do everything for their family: In May 2009, the British Daily Mail reported a fox puppy caught in a snare trap. The little fox survived only because his mother probably gave him food for two weeks until he was saved.
“Smart like a fox”
The red fox is the most common prey on earth. It lives in the icy cold in the Arctic Circle, but also in hot North Africa and in the dry steppes of Asia. Thanks to his high level of intelligence, he can adapt to a wide variety of living conditions and is a real survivor.
“Foxes learn quickly, grasp relationships and can then translate their knowledge into sophisticated strategies that ensure their survival in many situations. […] There are foxes, for example, who pretend to be dead to attract crows, who then snatch them at the right moment. ” (Prof. Dr. Dr. Herzog, Technical University Dresden)
Violation of the animal protection law
According to the Animal Welfare Act § 17, it is forbidden to kill or harm an animal without good reason. Nothing else happens in the fox hunt. Animal welfare has been anchored in the Basic Law since 2002 and must be viewed as a legally binding good. The state protection goal of animal protection has basic rights status – but not hunting. Thus, the right to hunt is subordinate to animal welfare.
Unfortunately, the hunter lobby, which is well networked in the authorities and politics, was able to assert itself again and again on the political level. In Luxembourg, on the other hand, the government was not impressed by the hunters’ slogans and in April 2015 enforced a ban on fox hunting that continues to this day. The result: “No major problems”!
The Luxembourg hunting association “Fédération Saint-Hubert” nevertheless tried to take legal action against the ban on hunting – without success. In 2016 the administrative court upheld the ban on fox hunting and the judges’ weak arguments were clearly rejected by the judges:
“On the one hand, the hunters cannot prove to the legislature that there is a clear mistake in assessing the situation. On the other hand, hunters cannot clearly demonstrate that the number of foxes is limited by hunting. “
The animal agonies during fox hunting are caused by:
– Missed shots: only half of the animals are killed by firing with guns: Most are seriously injured and die an agonizing death after days.
-Construction hunt: the foxes are driven and shot by hunters with dogs from their protective structure.
-Homicide traps: In practice, these traps often injure animals severely, and many of them die a slow and painful death from severed limbs, broken fragments, or crushed body parts.
-Live traps: the animals are caught with these traps and then executed with a head shot.
The special wire mesh traps are attached to the exits of the burrow, so that the fox pups step in on their next tour of discovery. In this way, hunters wipe out entire fox families.
Sign our petition: The senseless fox hunt in Germany must finally be prohibited!
Please ask together with us the responsible ministries of all federal states as well as the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture to remove foxes from the list of huntable species or at least to introduce a year-round closed season.
My comment: From the Facebook page “Total Hunt”, February 8, 2020: Successful fox hunt 🦊 On the morning stalk, this fox laced lengthways across the field and I can get a precise shot with my specialized fox rifle in caliber 22-250 Rem. With the V-Max 55 grs from Hornady, the woman is in a blast. The caliber makes shooting extremely pleasant and precise.The recoil is minimal with a silencer. The perfect combination for the fox hunt 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Image: Jagd Total
This is how psychopaths talk.
Hunting opens up a “space” for crime to murder.
Hunting without murder is a term that cancels itself.
Killing can have a power component and hunting is the stage on which power is also lived.
Animals are the victims that are readily available.
The animal species plays only a subordinate role here: game, pets, “farm animals”.
The main thing is to kill.
And they try to enforce their murder ideology through love of nature, ecological balance, regulation of populations … a silly justification for their crimes that no educated and civilized person would accept.
Inside Europe’s biggest hunting fair where trophy hunters buy and sell grim goods
EXCLUSIVE: At Germany’s Jagd & Hund ‘Hunting and Dog’ trade fair trophy hunters and buyers travel from around the world to trade in the slaughter of wild animals in the name of sport
With a smile on her face, a middle-aged woman invites me to try a dining room chair for comfort.
She confirms matter-of-factly the £1,189 chair is made from zebra hide.
We are in a vast conference centre full of animal skins, hunting trophies – and some unpleasant people.
It is only 10.30am but the room is already packed with punters, some with kids in tow, others with furs – with the animal’s head still attached – draped around their shoulders.
NThe 45-year-old owns Take Aim Safaris, which offers trips to hunt lions, elephants, hippos, giraffes, leopards, zebras and a host of other species in South Africa and Zimbabwe. He boasts of having taken part in over 400 game hunts.
The shaven-headed hunter greeted visitors on his stall this weekend under a banner that said “your gateway to hunting”.
His brochure says: “I have personally hunted the big five and dangerous seven as a client. I know exactly what is required to make your safari a successful one. South Africa would also be ideal for family hunting holidays.”
Above – the Mirror reporter amongst the stands
Nearly 180 trophy hunting firms from around the world flocked to this six-day event – called Jagd & Hund, meaning Hunting and Dog – lauding the slaughter of wild animals in the name of sport.
Among the Brits cashing in on the bloodthirsty safaris was Carl Knight, born in Epsom, Surrey, and now living in South Africa with his wife and two children.
Defending his organised shoots of wild animals in Africa, he says on his website: “Hunters are real conservationists, we are doing good work, we won’t be discouraged.”
Last night conservationists blasted the British presence at the convention.
Eduardo Goncalves, of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, said: “What an appalling ‘hobby’, and what a disgusting way to make a living.
“At this fair Carl Knight will have sold off the lives of countless defenceless animals to people who kill for kicks. He shames our country.
“People will be furious that the law still allows Brits to shoot zebras for a laugh and then have them skinned to turn into seat covers. How could anyone sit on them knowing the animal has died a cruel, callous and senseless death?”
Most stalls were lined with furs such as bears and springboks. There were stuffed animals including lions, hyenas and tigers.
Above – animal traps for sale.
There are now less than 4,000 tigers left in the wild, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Items on offer included traps, a fox cushion for £84, and a bear skin complete with head for £849.
Many stalls at the fair used zebra skins as makeshift tablecloths.
I also encountered hunters selling cut-price safaris to kill imperilled species such as giraffes for 3,000 euros (roughly £2,600).
The booth of Okambara Elephant Lodge was staffed by two women standing next to a trophy of a giraffe. One of the reps said she has been a hunting guide for three years, adding: “Hunting giraffes is rather easy because there are many roaming near the lodge.”
First Class Trophy, a taxidermy company based in Denmark, was punting a new smartphone app boasting “easy and fast” quotes for stuffing your animal of choice.
European trophy hunters have killed about 75,000 protected and threatened animals in the past decade.
It is estimated 7,000 threatened animals will be slaughtered and brought into Europe by trophy hunters in the coming months.
Manon Dene, from Humane Society International, said: “This kind of trophy hunting fair outlines how shockingly easy it is for individuals to travel almost anywhere in the world to shoot as many iconic or endangered species as their bank account allows.
“To witness an event like this taking place in the heart of Europe, that glorifies the killing of wild animals for thrills and bragging rights, was truly upsetting.”
The Mirror (UK) is campaigning for an end to the barbaric practice of trophy hunting.
We are calling on the (UK) Government to ban the import of animals that are shot for pleasure.
The Government is consulting until February 25 on whether trophy hunting imports should be outlawed.
Mr Goncalves said: “We have to do away with this evil ‘sport’. We may never get another chance to put an end to this disgrace. Let’s kick trophy hunting into touch once and for all.”
You can help the campaign by emailing huntingtrophyconsultation@defra.gov.uk and saying you support a total ban.
Posted at Martin Balluch ( Association Against Animal Factories, VGT, Austria)
Once again hard to believe!
The Association Against Animal Factories (VGT) – Deputy Chairman David Richter, father of three children, received this threatening letter with the threat of death and the announcement of an arson attack.
Written on a typewriter.
There is a hunting society in the Leibniz district (Austria) that clearly illegally releases and kills pheasants. David Richter documented this together with other activists. That is the reaction to it!
In addition, there were several notifications against (!) David Richter from these hunters according to the General Data Protection Regulation because he had documented the hunters during the (illegal !!) hunt for illegally exposed pheasants without permission!
But now it only comes: A hunter wrote a letter to the state hunter of Styria, pointing out these abuses of illegal abandonment of pheasants and demanding that the hunting license be withdrawn.
The hunting overseer of this hunt then filed a complaint against the VGT-OBMANNdeputy for defamation.
According to the public prosecutor’s office, criminal proceedings have also been opened against the deputy VGT chairman.
But this incredibly brutal death threat is totally irrelevant to the state attorney, it seems.
Really shocking how the animal rights activists are treated as second class people over and over again. They are charged with the trifle trifles, but the most massive attacks and threats against animal rights activists are not pursued.
IT IS THE SAME EVERY TIME !!!
Translation of the threat (original see below)
As an animal lover, Mr. Richter, your days are numbered. As the spokesman for the association, your days are also numbered. We have located your residence in Thal. We, as hunting clubs have certainly reserved a scrap load for you on occasion, or we will set your house on fire. So it does not continue that you destroy all hunts and question our tradition. The XXXXXX will also happen. The “pork” farmers from the Leibniz district also join. Traditionally, we don’t let psychologically ill patients get us down. It cannot be that a whole profession is drawn into discredit ???
And I mean: “Both the serial killer and the violent and cunning hunter thinks he has something important to share. Brain abnormalities are strikingly common in serial killers. Violence leaves traces in the brain after a short time ”.
Why are hunters so uninhibited and aggressive?
Because the state and the politicians are behind them.
With the support of a corrupt policy millions of animals are brutally murdered in the forest from the hunter’s hand.
And that happens in an EU country that calls itself civilized!!
Evolution of hunters: From monkey to a bunch of shit
Donald Trump Jr to speak at world’s largest trophy hunt convention
First son to sell a bid for a hunting trip with him in Alaska during convention next week, according to reports.
The first son and top campaign surrogate to Donald Trump was set to attend the Safari Club International’s annual three-day convention in Reno, Nevada, where he was scheduled to speak on 8 February.
For $17,000 (£13,067), attendees of the convention can bid to hunt black-tailed deer native to the region with him, according to Safari Club International.
Other features of the event include an estimated 870 exhibits selling everything from animal heads to hides, as well as 300 hunting trip opportunities across the country, with bids ranging between $1,650 (£1,268) and $100,000 (£76,860).
The Humane Society of the United States slammed the upcoming convention in a statement that said: “This annual event is the largest meeting in the world of people who celebrate the senseless killing, buying and selling of dead animals for bragging rights.”
“As our planet suffers an extinction crisis, it is business as usual for the trophy hunting industry and SCI, who continue to revel in spending millions of dollars every year to destroy imperilled wildlife.”
News of Mr Trump Jr attending the event comes after it was reported late last year that he received special treatment during a trip to Mongolia, where he allegedly shot and killed an endangered argali, the largest sheep in the world.
Mr Trump Jr retroactively received a rare permit allowing him to kill the animal during his hunting trip to the country in August 2019, according to ProPublica. That permit was reportedly issued in September, after he had already left the country.
The event also follows attempts by Mr Trump’s White House to roll back protections for endangered wildlife worldwide, including providing the first trophy import permit for a lion trophy from Tanzania.
The move to issue a permit for the Tanzanian lion was decried as “tragic news for lion conservation” in a statement by the Centre for Biological Diversity.
“Tanzania is a lion stronghold, but it’s been criticised by scientists for corruption and inadequate wildlife protections,” Tanya Sanerib, international legal director at the centre, reportedly said in a statement at the time, adding: “Opening the US market to these imports doesn’t bode well for the lion kings of Tanzania.”
At Europe’s largest hunting fair “Hunting and Dog”(Dortmund, January 28 to February 2), hunters can book excursions at the fair that include the shooting down of endangered and protected species such as polar bears, rhinos, elephants, lions, leopards, giraffes and monkeys, brown bears and wolves – quite legally.
“We are currently experiencing the greatest loss of species since the dinosaurs went extinct, and many animal populations have already collapsed. Nevertheless, wealthy hobby hunters can shoot threatened and protected animals, as in colonial times. This senseless killing out of sheer greed for status symbols must finally come to an end ”. Daniela Freyer from Pro Wildlife.
Exhibitors from Germany and more than 40 countries are represented at the “Hunting and Dog” fair, dozens sell hunting safaris all over the world and attract visitors with stuffed animals, hunting films and special offers.
“Corruption and mismanagement in the hunting sector are the order of the day in many countries. Lucrative profits mean that even the last animals with a magnificent trophy are mercilessly pursued”, says Daniela Freyer.
Trophy hunters are not only targeting rare species, they are also competing to shoot down the largest and strongest individuals.
When hunting abroad, methods are also used that are prohibited here in Germany.
Hunters are allowed to kill animals with bows and arrows, crossbows or muzzle-loaders, rush them with dogs, chase them with vehicles or bait big cats with dead animals.
In South Africa it is still allowed to breed lions and other animals, to raise them by hand and to have the adult animals shot down in fenced-off enclosures by trophy hunters (so-called “canned hunting”).
Up to 10,000 lions vegetate there in hunting farms.
Background:
– Hobby hunters from Germany and Spain are among the leaders in the hunt for endangered and protected species after the Americans.
In Africa alone, around 18,000 foreigners go trophy hunting each year, killing more than100,000 wild animals.
– Every year hunting trophies of hundreds of endangered and internationally protected animals are imported to Germany.
– Even strictly protected species that cannot be traded commercially can be imported as trophies for “private use” with official approval.
– According to a representative opinion poll, 86 percent of the population in Germany rejects hobby hunting for endangered species. In the Netherlands, the importation of trophies from endangered species is prohibited, in France at least for lions. The UK government is also currently planning a ban.
Exhibitors offer kills of turtle doves, puffins and songbirds (!!!)
Bird protectors criticize the fact that the organizer Messe Dortmund GmbH also offers companies a platform at the “Hunting and Dog” trade fair that offers endangered migratory birds such as turtles – bird of the year 2020 -, quail and songbirds in southern Europe or the Balkans.
As reported by the Committee Against Bird Murder (CABS), biologists have evaluated the list of exhibitors at the fair in recent weeks and have come across a total of eight companies that have made killing European migratory birds a business model for a fee.
For example, the three tour operators “Absolute Hunting & Wingshooting”,“Diana Hunting Tours” and “Merle Hunting Travel” offer kills of turtle pigeons in Romania and Serbia. The French company “Séjour Chasse” offers wealthy customers the opportunity to shoot blackbirds and thrushes in France in autumn or rare double-tailed godwits in Russia.
If you prefer to shoot migrating songbirds near Madrid or aim at godwits in Armenia, contact the company “ICC Hunting Pleasure”!
Several exhibitors advertise the hunt for wild quail in the Balkans, including the German companies“K&K Premium Hunting Travel” and “Merle- Hunting Travel”.
The latter company demands 1,150 euros for a four-day “hunting arrangement quail hunt” in Romania and advertises that hunters can count on the shooting of 40 wild quail per day.
For hunters who want to kill rare seabirds in Iceland, the German company “Malepartus Hunting Travel” has the right offer in the program.
For a flat rate of 1,040 euros, you can shoot two days from the boat on puffins, fulmares and guillemots – if you are traveling by yourself. There is also a hunt for snipe in Ireland and Scotland, which is advertised in the catalogs of the companies “Blaser Safaris” or “Diana Hunting Tours”.
Turtles, quail and snipe have decreased in large parts of the EU in recent years and are protected with great effort in Germany and its neighboring countries, according to the Committee against bird murder.
“The shooting down of endangered migratory birds destroys complex conservation projects in the breeding areas, accelerates the decline of these species and can never be sustainable,” said committee manager Alexander Heyd.
The committee has therefore recommended in writing to Messe Dortmund GmbH today to separate itself from the exhibitors concerned at the “Hunting and Dog” trade fair.
The State Hunting Association, which officially acts as the “ideal sponsor” of the fair, was also asked to clearly distance itself from hunting endangered migratory birds and to exclude the eighth exhibitor from the fair.
My comment: The hunters always create the terror they need.
It seems like any animal in any country can be shoot down if one is an asshole and ready to pay the price: ibex in Kazakhstan, wild boar in Turkey, sable antelope in Argentina. Or warthogs in Mauritania, four days, five animals, 2800 euros.
A buffalo in South Africa, seven days, 11,800 euros. An elephant from Zimbabwe, on the other hand, already costs $ 34,500. The shooting of a giraffe should cost 1,500 euros, the mountain zebra 900 euros, a jackal 50 euros….
Wild animals are listed as surpluses to be reduced, as individualized evil, as the suspect guilty party that needs to be destroyed.
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.
In addition, there is an unknown number of animals that are killed each year in countries without evaluable data (Greece, Netherlands, Ireland and Great Britain) and outside the study area in the Mediterranean region or in Africa.
The battlefield is everywhere and what is a necessary act of killing is determined by the one who wants to carry it out.
More than 350 pygmy elephants still live on the Kinabatangan River. However, a road construction project threatens their living space. The bridge had sparked international protests, and even the famous rainforest protector Sir David Attenborough raised the alarm. After Sabah’s government changes, the danger is acute again.
So far, elephant poaching has been almost unknown in the species-rich rainforests of Sabah, where rhinoceros, malay bears and orangutans live.
However, criminals have discovered the Malaysian state for themselves in recent years.
They are now not just about ivory, but also about the skin, nails and other body parts of the animals, with which a lot of money can be earned on the Chinese market.
Between 2010 and autumn 2019 alone, 145 killed elephants were registered by the wildlife authorities in Sabah. The elephants were poisoned, shot, or caught in snares. If this continues, the species will soon be eradicated.
Saba Pygmy elephant baby tries to wake his dead mother
But the bloody craft of the poachers could even be eased if the government pushes the construction of a bridge over the Kinabatangan River.
It is only the first section of a new road through the forest of the Tabin Wildlife Reserve, which was previously difficult to access. A gateway for poachers, but also for illegal settlers, wood thieves and the palm oil industry.
The walking routes of more than 350 elephants would be cut up and the herds crowded into ever smaller fragments of their original habitat. The animals would increasingly invade villages and plantations and many would be killed when crossing the new streets.
The construction project should officially serve the economic upswing of the region. In addition, some politicians apparently promise personal benefits. In the meantime, it damages the currently developing ecotourism beyond nature.
Please help protect the elephants and other endangered species in Sabah and sign our petition!
And I mean…For once again we have to reanimate our hope and optimism that with this petition some peaceful animals keep what belongs to them and some criminals lose the chance to destroy all life. We sign, we hope and keep fighting.
Image: Jagd Total
Saba Pygmy elephant baby tries to wake his dead mother
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