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(Brazil/Global Witness) Jaguars vs cows: The biodiversity crisis under JBS’s shadow

https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/forests/jaguars-vs-cows-the-biodiversity-crisis-under-jbs-shadow/

Published: 19 April 2025

The jaguar’s future looks increasingly uncertain as Big Agribusiness tears down its home in Brazil’s tropical forests to make way for cattle ranching.

Jaguars are key for healthy ecosystems. Gerald Corsi / Getty Images

In a fight between a jaguar and a cow, who do you think would win? If you guessed South America’s most powerful predator, you’d be wrong.

As industrial agriculture like cattle ranching destroys Brazil’s forests, it also threatens jaguars – a keystone species vital to biodiversity and climate stability.

This new investigation reveals that JBS, the world’s largest meat processor, is one of the actors behind this crisis.

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(US – Virginia Beach, VA) Sign: Find Man Who Brutally Beat Goose With Curtain Rod In Front Of Goose’s Mate

https://animalvictory.org/petition/sign-find-man-who-brutally-beat-goose-with-curtain-rod/

The battered goose was left “almost lifeless in pain.” Rescuers rushed him to a veterinarian in an attempt to save his life, but he went into cardiac arrest and died while being sedated for surgery.

Now the slain goose’s mate is left alone. Canada geese mate for life, making this horrific crime even more heart wrenching.

The slain goose’s mate is now alone (via Tidewater Wildlife Rescue)

The man who bludgeoned this goose not only committed a shocking act of animal cruelty—he also broke the law, as Canada geese are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, making this a federal crime.

Please sign the petition today to help Animal Victory hold this individual accountable for his abhorrent behavior when he is found and arrested! Animal Victory is offering a $500 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the person responsible!

Bludgeoned to death in front of his mate

WHY THIS PETITION MATTERS: 

We, the undersigned, want the man responsible for this crime to be found and charged. We demand this individual be prosecuted for each and every law he violated!

Research has consistently shown a strong link between animal cruelty and human violence. Individuals who commit such heinous acts against animals often pose a threat to society as a whole, as animal abuse is frequently a precursor to other violent crimes. Failing to hold this man accountable not only denies justice for the innocent goose he brutalized but also endangers the community at large. It is imperative that we send a clear message that such cruelty will not be tolerated.

Individuals are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law. Animal Victory relies upon the authorities and the court system to determine guilt or innocence.

Note: Efforts are underway to find this man. The goose was attacked in the area of 144 Business Park Dr, Virginia Beach, VA Anyone with information is asked to call Tidewater Wildlife Rescue by calling 757-255-8710.

https://www.wtkr.com/news/in-the-community/virginia-beach/tidewater-wildlife-rescue-looking-for-man-they-say-beat-goose-to-death-in-virginia-beach

https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/virginia-beach/va-beach-goose-dead-after-allegedly-being-beaten-by-man-with-shower-curtain-rod/

France – Welfarm Protest At Cherbourg Against Brittany Ferries Resumption Of Live Animal Exports.

ABOVE – If not in English, the Welfarm site allows translation from French.

Previous CIWF / WAV post and petition link – please sign thank you.

(DE – Rhineland-Palatinate) Young female Wolf found shot

Image (Pixabay)

And so it begins .. a young female of 9 months was found shot on February 15th, 2025 near the small town of Fiersbach, in the district of Altenkirchen. The autopsy performed confirmed death by pericardial tamponade due to a projectile.

Under the law this is illegal and a crime, and the Upper Nature Conservation Authority SGD Nord has filed a criminal complaint. As usual, this will lead nowhere – the, without a doubt, involved hunters and farmers are a tight-knit group who cover each others’ backs.

Interestingly, only 5 days later, on February 20th, the Rhineland-Nassau Farmers’ and Winegrowers’ Association and the interest group of hunting cooperatives and private hunting owners declared themselves successful with their motion to have the wolf included in the hunting law – meaning that it is henceforth to be regarded as a huntable species.

Together with the EU’s recent decision to weaken the protective status of the wolf this is bad news …

Also, it means, in our view, that one local party produced facts several days ahead of that decision by the state government and the Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy and Mobility Rhineland-Palatinate.

GERMAN ARTICLES

https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/rheinland-pfalz/koblenz/strafanzeige-illegaler-abschuss-wolf-westerwald-100.html

https://www.blick-aktuell.de/Berichte/Wolf-wird-ins-Jagdrecht-aufgenommen-619242.html?StoryId=625037