Hunting

Italy: Amazon and eBay remove bird traps from Internet.

Committee Against Bird Murder e.V.

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Italy: eBay and Amazon remove bird traps from the range!

Bird traps and fishing nets can often be found on online platforms and classified ads, although you cannot use them anywhere. The problem is that almost everywhere the use of such devices is prohibited, but not possession and sale.

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The situation is different in Italy, where the possession of bird traps and fishing nets is illegal. And until recently, you could still buy them anywhere on the Internet.

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This is now over because the Italian office of the Committee Against Bird Murder has uncovered the extent of the trade-in illegal bird traps in an online search and reported it to the responsible authorities on the online platforms.
Amazon and eBay have governed in an exemplary manner and quickly removed dozens of offers from the Internet.

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Now we are concentrating on smaller platforms and also checking whether the providers are pushing back onto the market with some tricks.
The great success has the downer that it is limited to Italy – in Germany and almost all other EU countries you can continue to manufacture, sell, and own prohibited bird traps.

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

 

Comment and Information: As “traveling bird conservationists”, the activists of the “committee against the bird murder” are particularly affected by the COVID 19 pandemic. There was no deployment in the spring as originally planned.

Nevertheless!
They can look forward to some successful assignments:

-From 9 to 31 March, the activists in Malta were able to document a total of 18 cases of illegal bird trapping with blow nets and report them to the authorities, as well as two cases of poaching with firearms.

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The evidence produced by the committee will lead to a series of criminal proceedings

-In Italy, there was a single mission, almost regular: the hawk-eagle protection campaign on the Italian island of Sicily.
The birds are sought after by pet dealers and animal collectors because they cannot breed them.
Many chicks used to fall into the hands of poachers – in spring 2020, not a single nest was robbed.

-Even if the actions of the team in Calabria (southern Italy) were much shorter than planned, the activists, with four convicted poachers, still had a good result!

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-The spring operation in Lebanon could not take place, but the partners of the committees SPNL and MESHC carried out inspections several times in April and May and, together with the police, shut down a number of fishing systems. A total of 300 running meters of illegal fishing nets for songbirds such as reed warblers, flycatchers, and warblers were mined, and dozens of birds were released.

We would particularly like to thank the tireless activists for their successes and the highly professional work that they achieved despite the adverse circumstances!

Foto: NABU/Andreas Hartl

 

My best regards to all, Venus

General News

Crushing Grapes. Footwear From Wine !

Footwear Giant To Launch Vegan Leather Sneakers Made From Wine Waste

The plant-based sneakers also feature mesh made from recycled PET bottles and an algae-based EVA sole.

Mercer Amsterdam is to launch vegan leather sneakers made from Italian wine waste as part of its upcoming Spring Summer ’21 collection.

Dubbed the ‘W3RD Wine Pack’ – the sneaker range also features mesh made from recycled PET bottles and an algae-based EVA sole

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The company has collaborated with Vegea – who recently partnered with Swiss fashion giant H&M to launch a range of handbags and shoes.

Vegea creates a ‘soft’ and recyclable vegan leather using the skins, stalks, and seeds of grapes left over from the winemaking process.

‘A game-changer’

In a statement sent to Plant Based News, Founder of the fashion brand Pim Mercer said: “For me, it is important for us to try and change the high-end sneaker industry- it doesn’t need to be all-leather all the time.

“The best experience for me is when someone says ‘I love this sneaker’ without knowing the backstory. This goes to show that sustainable, vegan, and plant-based footwear can be as nice and luxurious as real leather – and that is a game-changer in a mostly all-leather and plastic industry.”

https://www.plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/footwear-giant-launch-vegan-leather-sneakers-from-wine-waste

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France set to Murder 18,000 turtle doves this Autumn — at the Request of Hunters.

WAV Comment:

One of the first meetings Pompili granted while in her new role was with the president of the French National Federation of Hunters.

Well what a surprise !!

`Minister of Ecological Transition`, – for animals, birds, wildlife; that means simply from ‘living’ to ‘dead’ we would assume.

France set to shoot 18,000 turtle doves this Autumn.

Barbara Pompili, the French government’s new Minister of Ecological Transition, has presented a draft decree that would allow the killing of some 18,000 European Turtle Doves this autumn:

https://www.birdguides.com/news/france-set-to-shoot-18-000-turtle-doves-this-autumn/

 

Barbara Pompili, the French government’s new Minister of Ecological Transition, has presented a draft decree that would allow the killing of some 18,000 European Turtle Doves this autumn.

Pompili only assumed the role at the start of July but, on Wednesday [22 July 2020], a directive to allow the hunting of the Threatened species was put up for consultation on the website of the Ministry of Ecology. Despite the decree acknowledging the worrying status of European Turtle Dove, it also lays out the plays to ‘take’ 17,460 of the birds.

Barbara Pompili, the French government’s new Minister of Ecological Transition, has presented a draft decree that would allow the killing of some 18,000 European Turtle Doves this autumn.

Pompili only assumed the role at the start of July but, on Wednesday [22 July 2020], a directive to allow the hunting of the Threatened species was put up for consultation on the website of the Ministry of Ecology. Despite the decree acknowledging the worrying status of European Turtle Dove, it also lays out the plays to ‘take’ 17,460 of the birds.

In 2015, the IUCN Red List upgraded European Turtle Dove from Least Concern to Vulnerable, on the back of a wretched 78% decline since 1980. In western Europe, the species has suffered a particularly profound range retraction and drop in numbers. France sits on an important migration route for the dove.

To set this quota, the ministry relies on the advice of a committee of experts, who recommended that, temporarily, no European Turtle Doves were shot, in order to maximise the chances of a population stabilisation, or that half the estimated population be killed – some 18,000 birds – which is allegedly ‘sustainable’ based on demographic models.

One of the first meetings Pompili granted while in her new role was with the president of the French National Federation of Hunters.

Environmental, General News

Coronavirus: Vietnam bans wildlife trade over pandemic risk.

Coronavirus: Vietnam bans wildlife trade over pandemic risk

Vietnam has banned the import of wildlife and wildlife products to reduce the risk of new pandemics.

The move also bans wildlife markets for such items, including online sales.

Vietnam has previously been accused of turning a blind eye to the sale of products such as pangolin scales and rhino horns often used in traditional medicine.

Scientists have long warned that the wildlife trade can be an incubator for disease.

The origins of the current Covid-19 pandemic are thought to lie in the wildlife trade, with the disease emerging in bats and jumping to people via another, as yet unidentified, species, which could include rats, civets and pangolins.

“The prime minister orders the suspension of imports of wildlife – dead or alive – their eggs… parts or derivatives,” said the order released on Thursday on the Vietnamese government website.

“All citizens, especially officials… must not participate in illegal poaching, buying, selling, transporting… of illegal wildlife.”

The country will also “resolutely eliminate market and trading sites which trade wildlife illegally”, the order said.

Conservationists welcomed the move.

“Vietnam is to be congratulated for recognising that Covid-19 and other pandemics are linked to the wildlife trade,” said Steven Galster, chairman of the anti-trafficking group Freeland.

“This trade must be banned as a matter of international and public health security,” he added.

However, one group said the ban did not go far enough.

“The wildlife consumption ban mentioned in the directive is insufficient as some uses of wildlife such as medicinal use or wild animals being kept as pets are not covered,” said Nguyen Van Thai, director of Save Vietnam’s Wildlife.

In February, a dozen conservation groups sent a joint letter urging the government to “identify and close markets and other locations where illegal wildlife is on sale”, Reuters news agency reports.

After being hit hard by previous epidemics, Vietnam imposed an extensive, early lockdown and has reported no coronavirus deaths.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-53525954

Farm Animals, General News

Germany: Feces and fur residues in the meat

Do you remember the scandal in the slaughterhouse of the German pig baron Tönnies?
https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/06/20/tonnies-empire-is-for-14-days-closed/

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After a corona outbreak with hundreds of sick employees (most of them from Eastern countries), the Tönnies plant in Rheda-Wiedenbrück had to close for weeks. Now there is bad news again.

A cold store of Nagel Transthermo GmbH in Dissen, Germany, was cleared due to a rat infestation. Meat from the Tönnies company was also stored there. The animals had apparently been active and able to reproduce there unhindered for more than 5 months.
Been active?

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Yes!! the meat was cut up there, i.e. a real cutting plant.

Local newspaper journalists wanted to know more. The local newspaper asked more closely, and the spokesman for the Tönnies Group admitted that the cold store was “used sporadically (!!) to a limited extent, for example for storing goods”.

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In a press release dated July 22, 2020, the Osnabrück Administrative Court announced:

“In view of the photos submitted and according to the findings made by the specialist company for pest control, there is no doubt that the products which were produced therefrom the cut-off date are unsuitable for consumption.
Fecal pills, walking paths, fur remains and signs of nest building in the rats were found to an extent that indicated a very large rat population”.

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But it gets interesting when you take a closer look at the data !!
Because obviously this problem had been known since January.

According to the findings of the veterinary service, rats have been in increased numbers in areas of the cold store since mid-January, the local newspaper quotes. Control measures have so far been unsuccessful, the rodents “populated” the entire building.

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Cold store operator Nagel-Transthermos has announced that it will close the affected site in Dissen.

https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/toennies-fleisch-lag-in-von-ratten-bevoelkertem-kuehlhaus-a-921cc8cc-5458-4c8b-878f-2d36966fb268

And I mean … “Well, thank God I cover my purchase of meat products in a village shop”, a commentator wrote.

Naturally! Anyone who still consumes meat after all the reports from the recent past cannot be scare off by the few rats …..
The meat scandals are not getting smaller, the greed for profit and the shamelessness are becoming clearer.
Slaughterhouse workers are exploited, consumers cheated and endangered, but the real victims are the animals.

Just stop lying to yourself and don`t support this shit financially. Don’t buy it.
Not to caress your conscience or to make you feel better, but because it’s the right thing to do.

My best regards to all, Venus

Farm Animals, Fur and Fur Farming, General News, Live Transport

France launches a referendum for animals.

From CIWF, London:

https://www.ciwf.org.uk/news/2020/07/france-launches-a-referendum-for-animals

France launches a referendum for animals.

On the 2nd July, France launched the first Shared Initiative Referendum for animals in the country’s history.

We joined journalist Hugo Clément and some of France’s most-prominent business leaders in launching the Initiative. Alongside other organisations and numerous high profile individuals, we are attempting to transform animal legislation in France.

The Shared Initiative Referendum calls for six measures to protect animals.

These measures consist of a series of bans on:

  • fur farming,
  • hound hunting and other “traditional” hunting methods such as bird traps,
  • live wild animal shows,
  • animal research where alternative research methods can be followed,
  • caged farming from 1 January 2025,
  • factory farming by 2040. This measure also includes an immediate moratorium on any new intensive animal farms; any new farm planning permissions will have to guarantee animals have outdoor access.

Léopoldine Charbonneaux, our Director of CIWF France said: “We are honoured to be a part of this referendum. Alongside our partner organisations, we could end the cage age in France and become one of the first countries to bring in a ban on the building of new intensive farms, bettering millions of farm animals lives.”

A Shared Initiative Referendum allows citizens to change the law.

It requires four million signatures to be gathered within nine months of its launch, and needs to be endorsed and submitted by at least 185 members of the French Parliament. It’s a participatory democracy tool, similar to the End the Cage Age European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) we launched in September 2018.

With more than 1.5 million signatures, the End the Cage Age ECI has been the most successful ECI for farmed animals. Such a huge wave of support proves that the welfare and protection of animals is a priority for citizens on a national and European level and, therefore, it should also be a priority for national Governments and EU Institutions. 

Find out how close each country is across Europe to a 100% cage-free future and how you can help End the Cage Age.

Farm Animals, General News

New Zealand – Time to put The Chicken Before the Egg.

Time to put The Chicken Before the Egg.

Kia ora Mark  

Let’s put animals on the agenda.

Last night we put animals back on the agenda at our online event, Political Panel 2020: It’s Time! Ahead of the general election we asked political decision makers the tough questions on issues affecting animals in New Zealand, now and in the future. 

Today, we’re launching an ambitious pre-election action to call on our next Government to commit to freeing hens from cages – and we need your help.

Take action for hens this election

Action 1 – Email your MP

In New Zealand, nearly three million hens are confined in cruel cages. Thanks to you, the Government banned tiny battery hen cages, but the new standard ‒ ‘colony cages’ ‒ is just as cruel. Cages prevent hens from carrying out normal behaviour such as dust bathing, foraging and spreading their wings. The reality is – a colony cage is still a cage.     In the lead up to this election we need our MPs to know that New Zealanders have lost their appetite for the cruel caging of hens. Over the next few weeks we will be calling on you to give hens a voice so that animals are put back on the election agenda.

Contact your MP now

Let’s keep moving


In 2014, the Labour Party promised to introduce legislation by 2016 to phase out cruel colony cages ‒ but four years on, we’re still waiting. These cruel cages have no future in New Zealand. Even Parliament’s restaurants have committed to going cage-free, along with all major supermarkets and a growing list of businesses. So, let’s keep movingand banish cages to the history books!   It’s time New Zealand put the chicken before the egg.     

Debra Ashton
Chief Executive Officer  

P.S. We know the world can be different for animals. Together, we can create a better, safer Aotearoa New Zealand for all. Read our vision to find out more.