Committee against the bird murder e.V.
5 August 2019
Italy is making a dramatic turnaround in bird conservation: the Lombardy regional government – led by the right populist Lega, which also ruled in Rome – has announced that it will allow bird trapping in the fall with nets.
A total of 12,700 blackbirds, red, singing and juniper chokes with miles of nets are to be caught in 24 major catching facilities!
The animals are to be used as live decoys in songbird hunting.
In the EU, bird catching has actually been completely bannedsince 1979, in Italy it was restricted in 1992, but finally abolished in 2014 at the instigation of the Committee against the Birds Murder and its Italian partner associations.
With renewed approval, the Lega makes one of its campaign promises to brainless hunters true and undermines efforts for sustainable bird conservation in Europe. The committee is already in contact with the EU Commission and is preparing a major complaint – Brussels is the only body that can put a stop to the plans of Lombardy.
My comment: We wish the Committee against Bird murder good luck in the negotiations with the EU Commissioners.
Yes! It is true that Brussels is the only body that can abolish this crime. This, and some others, such as animal transports to third countries, animal transports taking place at temperatures above 35 degrees, and above all, animal transports taking place over 8 hours in EU.
For the last, 1,270,000 people had signed by March 2012, and with the support of 395 EU parliamentarians, the campaign thus achieved more than the required majority. In a resolution in December 2012, the European Parliament called on the Commission to implement the eight-hour limit.
However, EU-Commissioners decided that a maximum transport time of eight hours alone would not be enough to improve animal welfare.
Thus, the way is blocked for a change in the law of EU transport to 8 hours.
And on the highways and ships by the sea, blood still flows from the trucks that carry thousands of animals for days.
So much for Brussels, EU Commissioners and other political plagues!
There are millions of wild animals in captivity worldwide – in zoos, theme parks, sanctuaries, dolphinaria, circuses and elephant camps.
There are also many other individual captive animals exploited for human entertainment. Many of these animals are kept in poor conditions – neglected, suffering or abused.
We want to prevent the suffering of wild animals in captivity and encourage people like you, whether in your home country or overseas, to look out for captive wild animals and flag your concerns.
You can report your concerns, highlight animal welfare issues, share information, and provide advice and guidance – here:bornfree.org.uk.
Many of these animals are kept in poor conditions – neglected, suffering or being abused.
The illegal trade, for example, with monkeys is a billion dollar business.
A gorilla baby can cost up to $ 250,000.
High in demand as pets in affluent homes or as performers in commercial zoos, baby chimpanzees have a cost of $ 12,500.
Wildlife trade, including in social networks, is booming.
Many animals are smuggled in regular airliners, such as the drug-pumped orangutan.
He was found in the suitcase at the international airport in Bali.Thousands of wild animals were raided in July, including 23 primates,30 large cats, more than 4,300 birds, nearly 1,500 live reptiles and nearly 10,000 turtles.
Among them were rare parrots found crammed together in a cage in India or dead zebrafish who died in smuggling to Brazil.
We have already reported on Zimbabwe’s inhuman capture of wild elephant babies for Chinese zoos. What these elephant babies expect is cruel.
But even Asian elephant babies are captured and abused for tourism.
And it is thanks to the attentive people that malnourished animals could be helped in circuses in Vietnam. These people have posted the harrowing images on the net.
Monkeys, turtles and even sharks have been secured in the world’s raids against the illegal trade in wild animals.
A spokeswoman for Interpol said the police arrested 582 suspects, and further arrests and prosecutions would follow.
Among the seized animals were nearly 10,000 marine animals, including sharks and dolphins, as well as 10,000 turtles and more than 4,300 birds. In addition, the authorities seized large quantities of ivory and animal skins, including crocodiles.
Singapore-based Operation Thunderball targeted cross-border crime networks that wanted to benefit from the activities of the species smuggling. It was the third such Interpol mission in recent years.
At the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, an orangutan was drugged and placed in a basket in a suitcase.
The orangutan was forcibly given medications mixed with milk, causing him to lose consciousness. This time it is a Russian tourist who wanted to smuggle the two-year-old orangutan out of the country.
There are only a few red-brown apes in the world anyway and they are brutally hunted or just drugged and smuggled like this little orangutan! Whether the mother is alive, we will never know.
The rarer a species is, the more it is said to keep such an animal as a pet.
A former smuggler said smugglers frequently used commercial flights and paid corrupt officials. The demand for orangutans is increasing. At least three orangutans are taken out of the jungle every week. The mothers are hunted and killed for an orangutan baby.
The destruction of the jungles of Borneo and Sumatra for palm oil plantations makes the extinction of the orangutan almost a guarantee. But also animal smugglers and people who buy babies as pets have accelerated the process.
In Asian zoos, circuses and safari parks, large-scale productions are performed with costumed, dancing, roller-skated apes.
Research shows that almost all of these trained primates were not bred in captivity but came illegally outside of Africa and Indonesia, with destinations in China,Thailandand other Asian countries.
The crime does not end with the impact on the animals’ lives, it also kills people. It has been estimated that over 1,000 rangers have been killed trafficking illegal wildlife over the past decade, protecting animals from poachers.
My comment: The fundamental rights of life, liberty and bodily integrity – rights that every person reading this piece demands or takes for granted –are created by humans and only exclusive for human animals.
People can fight for their freedom, animals can not. That is the big difference between all liberation movements in relation to humans and the liberation of animals.
Today, we live in the largest system of apartheid of all time, under the most intensive use of all technical and scientific possibilities: everything for the welfare of the people and everything for the exploitation of the animals.
And on the other hand, the flood of humanity is spreading like an all-consuming plague … it’s a criminal world we live in!
Washington state is moving forward with yet another kill order to slaughter more wolves. Now the state wants to kill up to eight members of the Old Profanity Territory pack, including pups born this spring.
All this is happening at the behest of a powerful rancher grazing his cattle on prime wolf habitat — and we need your help to stop it.
It’s likely the state will once again use aerial snipers in helicopters to gun down these wolves — at least one of which is collared — following up with on-the-ground kills of wounded animals. This asymmetrical warfare against wild creatures is sick.
Last fall they killed the pack’s breeding female and a 4-month-old pup, leaving behind only the father wolf and a pup. New wolves have joined this family unit, and more pups were born.
But in early July Washington gunned down the father wolf, and now they aim to kill as many as they can, up to eight more wolves, including the new pups.
Washington state has a long history of gunning down wolves within its borders. Since 2012 Washington has killed 23 state-endangered wolves, 19 of which were killed for the same livestock owner who is trying to eliminate the Old Profanity Territory pack.
The Center’s litigation to shut down Washington’s disgraceful kill protocol is still playing out in court. The state has no business gunning down wolves and destroying packs on public lands.
Chinese businessman invites tourists to his ‘wombat hunting lodge’ where people pay $1,000 people pay $1,000 a night to shoot Australian wildlife with shotguns and sniper rifles.
Tourists invited to a Victorian luxury hunting lodge to hunt and kill native wildlife
It has sparked community outrage amid calls to shut down Murrindindi property
The property is owned by wealthy Chinese businessman Tom Zhou
A Chinese website for the lodge promises visitors an unforgettable hunt
Police and local council are investigating reports of illegal hunting on the site
Every year in France and Spain, hunters legally shoot between 1.4 and 2.2 million lovebirds – that’s about a quarter of the stock in the entire European Union! At the same time, the species dies out faster than protective measures can take effect.
The EU has now initiated a lawsuit against both countries,because they still release the Turtle Dove almost unlimitedly for launch.
The “Committee Against Bird Slaughter”had just published a scientific study of the current hunting statistics this spring, including fresh information on the unbelievable amount of turtle hunting.
The governments in Madrid and Paris now have the opportunity to explain themselves.
If they do not do so, they will be taken to the European Court of Justice. Chances are better than ever!
My comment: Turtle doves are a symbol of love and happiness, and some people believe that they can cure disease.
That is why two to three million birds are killed every year in the EU alone?
The organization BirdLife International, estimates that up to 600,000 lovebirds in the Mediterranean are shot down each year.
You have to be a pathetic, underdeveloped monster to enjoy the murder of these peaceful, lovely birds.
But with this massacre it seems to be over.
At least the French and Spanish psychopaths will soon have to look for another fun in the future.
A French couple who posed with the dead animals they’d slaughtered during a trophy hunt in Africa have lost their jobs after the grotesque pictures were posted on social media, causing public outrage.
Jacques and Martine Alboud (pictured above, left and right), who ran a branch of the Super U co-operative supermarket in L’Arbresle, eastern France, were pictured standing over the bodies of a number of lifeless animals — including a zebra, lion, leopard and hippopotamus — that they had ruthlessly killed during safaris in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Tanzania in 2014 and 2015.
After the images went viral on Twitter and there were calls on Facebook for customers to boycott the store, last week the supermarket group announced that the couple had given up their franchise with immediate effect.
“In the face of condemnation provoked by these actions at the heart of the co-operative and the legitimate public feeling, the store managers have decided to quit immediately the brand and their l’Arbresle store,” Super U said in a statement, adding that it did not condone safari hunting and that the couple’s actions were “in total opposition with the values defended by us.”
The French animal rights organization 30 Millions d’Amis commented that this story was reminiscent of the death of Cecil the lion — who was murdered in Zimbabwe in 2015 by an American dentist and hunter, Walter Palmer — that sparked widespread condemnation. It says that around 8,000 lions have been reared specifically to be hunted down and killed in the last decade in South Africa, and that there has been a 90% fall in the lion population over a century. “The species could disappear by 2050,” it adds.
The couple have so far declined to comment on their actions.
Thousands of animals are released on the land of the Republic of Austria without any permission and clearly against the will of the majority of the population, only to be shot down! the ducks are only used for hunting fun. It is a tragedy.
Every year, some oddly talented people expose thousands of breeding ducks from Hungary to the river systems of the Leitha in northern Burgenland, Austria.
A few years ago, they even stretched a net over the Leitha Riverso that the helpless animals would not be driven downstream. But that could be banned by intervention from us.
Nevertheless, the ducks regularly land at the beginning of July in temporarily built enclosures on the riverbank, in numerous places. Few days later, the fences disappear and tons of wheat, corn and other food are being released daily in the countryside.
The landed property of these river systems belongs to the Republic of Austria, that is us.And there they are exposed to thousands of breeding cattle from factory farming, without asking us!
Through this fun the water is poisoned, contaminating the landscape. The responsible state councilor does not comment on this. Our ads were ineffective, although the mayor has publicly spoken out against this dropout.
Time to act.
Today, some “hikers” arrived at the river Leitha and accompanied more than 500 of the breeding ducks to Hungary. The still flightless young animals without parents joined the animal rights activists.
Just before Hungary, a hunter became aware of the strange processions. A little later, some hunting helpers attacked the animal rights activists. One activist was pushed into the water twice in the river, another was to be snatched from the camera. Through the cameras and the kalmierende appearance of the peaceful animal rights activists, the excess of violence could be contained.
The hunting society was also completely incomprehensible to the police officers. In any case, they told me that we had committed no crime and left again. The ads against the hunting helpers I will bring in the prosecutor.
And most importantly, the ducks meanwhile disappeared into the Hungarian undergrowth. At least 500 of them. There they can hopefully escape the access of the insane breeding hunter from Austria.
Updated: The 500 ducks have now disappeared in the Hungarian riparian forests in the thicket and hopefully safe from the shotgun hunters on the Austrian side. 🐦
Thanks to the animal rights activists!
My comment:Dr. Dr. Martin Balluch, the chairman of the “Association Against Animal Factories” (VgT) is a longtime and very dedicated animal rights activist.
With his long and courageous commitment he was able to record to some successes in animal welfare: the prohibition of fur farms and wild circuses, the prohibition of laying batteries, the prohibition of animal testing of apes and the caging of meat rabbits, the establishment of animal welfare as a state goal in the Federal Constitution and the ban on crates for mother pigs.
In the coming state elections, in Austria, he runs as an independent candidate for the list “Now” (JETZT) for animal welfare.
I hope that he will be elected in Parliament so that he can also exercise political influence over animal rights.
In South Africa, majestic creatures are bred in captivity and then drugged and paraded for ‘trophy hunters’ to shoot from parked vehicles.
It’s sickening cruelty – the dazed lions are shot for FUN!
There are about 200 places in South Africa that breed lions in captivity for canned lion hunting. As many as 6,000 lions are ‘stockpiled’ for hunters. When a lioness gives birth, her cubs are taken from her and used for tourists to pet and pose with them in photographs.
When a lion gets bigger and harder to handle, it is moved to an enclosed area and there it stays until someone pays to shoot it.
They call it canned lion hunting because poor lions are literally served up on a plate for hunters. The lions can’t run, hide or defend themselves in any way.
The lions are frequently drugged to make it easier for hunters, who often shoot the poor creature, while they sit inside a nearby vehicle. Often it takes several shots before the animal dies.
In neighboring Zimbabwe, a lion called Cecil was shot with a bow and arrow and suffered for 12 hours before dying!
We want your help to fight this cruelty and have it outlawed. It’s an uphill battle because the canned lion industry is wealthy and so far, the South African government is ignoring the cruelty. We have to lobby government; we have to raise public awareness and we have to support other groups.
The EU is deeply involved in ivory business. Tons of ivory are traded, imported and exported within the EU. Europe is a henchman of elephant poachers.
The idea is wrong that elephants are poached in Africa, their ivory is sold to Asia – and that Europe has nothing to do with it. Rather, Europe plays a central role as a hub for the legal and illegal trade in ivory.
The sale, import and export of ivory is legal in Europe if it comes from old stock. An invitation to criminals! Legal trade allows them to infiltrate illegal ivory of poached elephants.
32 African countries have appealed to the European Union to stop ivory trade.
Europe is a henchman of elephant poachers.
In the EU, ivory is offered open at auctions, in stores and on the internet.Some EU companies have even specialized in the purchase and export of ivory to Asia: More than seven tons of ivory and more than 12,000 ivory carvings have been sold to Hong Kong alone in the last two years.
The international community has now called on all governments at two important conferences to close their national ivory markets.
The EU does not comply with this demand and undermines the global efforts to save the elephants.
Although Germany supports stricter rules than the EU Commission, it intends to continue to facilitate the trade in ivory carvings, antiques and musical instruments.
A development in Asia aggravates the situation: Elephants are also killed because of their skin, because it is believed that the elephant skin has healing properties. In Myanmar, up to 110 skinned elephants were found within four years. One could despair.
But in terms of ivory, we can do something – on our doorstep!
Please ask the EU to ban the ivory trade completely. Only then will the mass poaching of elephants come to an end.
I am calling on the Commission and Member States of the European Union to ban all exports and imports of ivory and to close the EU’s domestic ivory market. The international community at the recent CITES conference and at the IUCN World Congress adopted two resolutions, calling on all governments to close their domestic ivory markets. The EU maintains an active ivory market for “pre-convention” ivory, and is the biggest exporter of ivory to China and Hong Kong, with exports of worked ivory experiencing an alarming increase in the last two years. The legal trade enables that ivory from poached elephants is laundered. It fuels demand and corruption. Moreover, EU Member States are clearly being used as transit countries to smuggle illegal ivory from elephants poached in Africa to Asia. Huge shipments have been seized in EU Member States recently and ivory is on top of the list of seized wildlife products in the EU.
As actions are increasingly being taken around the world to close domestic ivory markets and destroy stockpiles of seized and confiscated ivory, I am urging the EU to take responsibility to end its own role in the ivory trade
My comment: The European Commission knows very well that the EU is being used to “wash” illegal ivory, and is instrumental in ensuring that about 35,000 elephants still die each year.
When the international ivory trade was banned in 1989, the eradication of the African elephant seemed to have been averted. After a decade of slaughter, in which the number of animals worldwide halved, the populations recovered.
Unfortunately, however, the international trade ban did not last long: at the instigation of four states in southern Africa, it was eroded just a few years later.
Statistics show that poaching and ivory smuggling have seen a bloody comeback since 2008: in particular, the rapid increase in demand in China, combined with rising purchasing power, led to the poaching of about 100,000 elephants in Africa in the years 2010-2012 alone.
2008 In China, the price of raw ivory rose to as much as $ 2,100 per kilo.
At the same time, state-licensed ivory shops and carving factories sprang up in China, as did illegal business. Because of ivory were many of thousands of elephants killed, and China and Hong Kong became the largest markets for both legal and illegal ivory.
Since then, heavily armed poachers have been killing entire herds of elephants, chopping off their tusks with axes.
Masterminds are globally organized criminal gangs who hire poachers in Africa and equip them with automatic weapons. They bribe politicians, authorities and freight companies and create the “white gold” in containers, air freight shipments and personal luggage hidden through various stops in the main sales markets in Asia.
The good news is: China has already banned trade under international pressure.
The US should not import hunting trophies in the future either.
The pressure on the EU Commission must grow. The number of signatures in this petirion approaches the million, and from 1 million votes, the commission is obliged to take an official position on the subject.
Every year in Namibia, 86,000 Cape Fur Seal pups are butchered to death.
Namibia is the only southern hemisphere country where seals are commercially slaughtered and the only country in the world where slaughter of puppies still nursed by mothers is possible.
The cruel seal hunt is actually known only from Canada.And Canada has also resumed the bloody seal hunt, although demand for seal products has plummeted. But even on another continent, seals are slaughtered by the thousands. Between 80,000 and 100,000 dwarf fur seals, also known as eared seals, cavort at the Cape Cross on the rocks in Namibia.
Over the next four months, as we learn, thousands of seals living in Cape Cross and Atlas Bay are brutally killed for their fur, oil and genitals.The genitals are exported to Asia.The terrible bloodshed has already begun. The hunting season lasts 139 days from July to November.
The seal cubs are brutally hit on the head after being separated from their mothers.Under the cries of the mothers, they are stung, whether dead or not, in the neck and slashed with knives. By now 80,000 Robby babies are supposed to be.
The massacre of seals in Namibia is brutal for a number of reasons, including the method of killing and the effects that it has on the entire colony.
The sealers prevent the colony of seals from escaping into the sea. Seal hunters aim for bigger puppies and get away with the smaller, thinner ones – those with less chance of survival. This can weaken the long-term genetic vitality of the populations.
The puppies are killed mainly because of their fur, but also because of their bacon sold as a “food supplement”. The bones are made into pieces of jewelery and then sold with the fur as a luxury item in distant lands. To make a fur coat, it takes about 8 dead seals.
The butcher of Namibia – Hatem Yavuz
The Turkish-Australian fur trader Hatem Yavuz is one of the main licensees. He controls 60 percent of the fur market in the world.
Hatem Yavuz, known as the butcher of Namibia, is the man responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of seals – both in Canada and Namibia, according to hesealsofnam.org.
This one man has the contract to turn their fur into so-called fashionable apparel. We had pictures of what’s going on but Google banned the page for it being too graphic.
The Turkish and Australian based company Hatem Yavuz named after the owner Hatem Yavuz controls roughly 60 percent of the world’s seal market and processes 130,000 seal pelts every year in his Istanbul factory.Yavuz also has a hand in the Canadian seal market and claims to be proud of what he does. In an interview that spurred a flurry of hate mail, Yavuz told “7 News” in Australia that “It’s a job.If I don’t do it, someone else is going to do it.”He is called the King of Seal Killers.
Yavuz is an Australian citizen and also has Turkish citizenship.He is honorary consul in Namibia for Turkey and has as a diplomat both a luxury vehicle and offices, which are paid by the Namibian taxpayer. As a Consul of Namibia, he is a government official and benefits directly from the sale of the country’s assets, according to the organization.
Yavuz pays about $ 7 per coat and needs the fur of about 8 dead seals.
Yavuz will sell this coat for $ 30,000. Enough money to buy an exclusive townhouse in Swakopmund, Namibia. However, this money does not remain in Namibia to help the economically disadvantaged. It goes to Yavuz, who rides between Sidney and Istanbul, leading the life of a multi-millionaire.
The fur is processed in his company in Turkey.
Yavuz controls 60 percent of the world’s fur market.
As Turkey is not part of the European Union, which prohibits the import and export of seal products, hides from Namibia are shipped to Turkey, where they are processed and sold to countries such as China and Russia.
My comment: I read in another website that this bloody spectacle is a popular tourist attraction.
If some dull, mentally ill proletarians can find it beautiful, get excited, and enjoy how innocent and utterly defenseless animals suffer and are tortured to death like this, then they are nothing more than pathetic monsters, and they do not deserve anything like their own human rights. The Government of Namibia allows this. The Government of Australia, Turkey and Canada allows fur trade.
And if the butcher Hatem Yavuz says massacring innocent beings is just a job, then why is he no longer burning witches, or selling slaves? That would be good business too.
For this, all he needs to do is make an offer to the governments that they can not refuse.
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