Welcome to the Latest news
and Archives for October 2009
29/10/09
Google has been urged by ICABS to stop advertising foxhunting in Ireland. The
call comes in response to Google ads which encourage readers to "experience
the thrill of the chase" and consider a "foxhunting break" in
Ireland.
29/10/09
Shop girl is threatened by hunting supporter, A 19-year-old member of staff at
Lush, in the Drake Circus shopping mall, was left shaken after a man acted
aggressively, pointing at her, using threatening language and getting very close
to her face on Saturday. Anthony's
view it just goes to show how sick the hunt supporters are total cowards.
28/10/09
Sea Shepherd Demands Action by the Netherlands, In a news release today, the
Prime Minister of the Netherlands stated support for an amendment to Dutch law
that would facilitate vessel deregistration.
28/10/09
Neighbours who persuaded the police to issue the first Asbo warning in Britain
against a fox hunt, have taken their campaign to the silver screen.
27/10/09
Animal welfare groups voiced outrage today after the restaurant critic AA Gill
said he shot a baboon on safari "to get a sense of what it might be like to
kill someone.
26/10/09
Poachers kill 2-yr-old leopard, A two-year-old leopard was trapped and later
killed by poachers in Katarniyaghat wildlife sanctuary, forest officials said
here today.
26/10/09
Wildlife authorities in Assam have warned that the human-elephant conflict has
reached alarming proportions with villagers poisoning to death at least four
wild elephants in the past three weeks by lacing toxic chemicals in homemade
moonshine.
26/10/09
The Irish Council Against Blood Sports has thanked My Space for removing an
advert for foxhunting in Ireland. The ad invited readers to "experience the
thrill of the chase".
25/10/09
The Conservative Party is facing the prospect of being investigated by the
parliamentary sleaze watchdog after an animal welfare charity complained that
pro-hunting groups and individuals had made influential donations to a member of
the shadow cabinet.
25/10/09
WWF expedition into Timor Sea finds dolphins, sea birds, turtles and other
marine wildlife at risk in oil spill that began in August Conservationists
warned yesterday that one of Australia's worst off-shore oil spills was killing
wildlife and "massively contaminating" one of the world's last great
wildnernesses.
24/10/09
A man appeared to strangle his dog after it attacked a four-year-old boy in a
Birmingham park. The owner was walking the dog, described as a brown pit bull
type, in Wash wood Heath Park without a lead. Anthony's
view I hope this sick idiot is jailed it is not hard to put a muzzle on your dog.
24/10/09
A dog breeder who dumped two litters of newborn puppies in suitcases and left
them to die has been found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to the dogs.
24/10/09
The Irish Council Against Blood Sports held a successful protest against hare
coursing in Edenderry, Co Offaly on 18th October. We thank everyone who joined
us for this important demonstration and all the local people who expressed
support for our campaign.
24/10/09
Authorities in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, northeastern
Somalia, are compiling data on foreign helicopters said to be poaching and
stealing wildlife from the area while at the same time scaring off the farm
animals.
23/10/09
Asia demand for ivory, sharks' fins set for scrutiny, Proposals to restrict or
ban international trade in those three products are due to be studied when the
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) holds its next
triennial meeting in Qatar next year.
23/10/09
A woman from Lincolnshire who held sickening dog fights in a home-made pit in
her garage has been convicted in one of the biggest cases of its type ever
brought by the RSPCA.
23/10/09
Sea Shepherd Renames the Earthrace Vessel in Honor of Benefactor, At a
fundraising event in Los Angeles on Saturday, October 17th, 2009, the
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society unveiled their newest ocean defense vessel:
the Ady Gil. The
vessel, previously known as the Earthrace, is a fast, futuristic looking
trimaran that recently set the world record for global circumnavigation. The
vessel renaming reflects the ship’s benefactor, Ady Gil, who helped acquire
the vessel.
22/10/09
Tory MP in cash row over hunting ban. The League has written to the
Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over concerns the Shadow Secretary of
State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has been compromised following
cash donations from hunt supporters.
22/10/09
The HSA site has been redesigned and looks excellent don't take my word for it
have a look for your self.
21/10/09
The Countryside Alliance (CA) has urged hunt supporters to keep protests against
high street cosmetics chain Lush within the law.
Anthony's view is this CA not
the same organization that said not so long ago they would back criminal
activity if hunting was banned and now hunts supporters are attacking Luch
shops, It just goes to show the real thugs.
20/10/09
Golden
eagles have been filmed hunting and attempting to kill reindeer calves. One
eagle was filmed swooping down and grabbing a calf, while another pulled out of
an attack at the last minute.
19/10/09
Typhoon Ketsana caused some of the worst flooding in Philippines’ history
IFAW’s specially-trained Rapid Water Rescue Team is feeding and rescuing
stranded animals and helping the military deliver food to people.
19/10/09
Vandals target anti-hunting Lush - Branches of ethical cosmetics chain
attacked after campaign launched in support of saboteurs, In the past week,
the cosmetics chain Lush has seen its branches vandalized and its staff
threatened, immediately after it launched an anti-fox hunting campaign.
Anthony's view you don't
need to think very hard what people or groups that are behind the attack.
19/10/09
Forest guards shot dead a poacher and his accomplice but not before they
killed a one-horn rhino in Assam’s Rajiv Gandhi Orang Wildlife Sanctuary
late on Saturday night.
18/10/09
David Cameron government will put full force before hunting ban - The Tory
leadership today attempted to kill off internal rows over the hunting ban with a
pledge to throw the full weight of a future Conservative government behind
repeal.
Anthony's view it is a shame
he is not wanting to put his
full force behide tracking down the criminals that are Vandalizing
Lush shops.
17/10/09
A NEWCASTLE store has launched a campaign against what it claims is illegal
fox hunting.
17/10/09
Elephant tusks litter dry river beds in parched southern Kenya.
16/10/09
Vietnamese environmental police stopped a taxi Friday carrying four suspected
wildlife smugglers and confiscated two frozen tiger carcasses hidden in the
trunk.
15/10/09
ICABS Welcomes the ban on deer hunting secured by the Green Party following
their negotiations with Fianna Fail on a new programme for government at the
weekend. This is indeed an historic milestone in our campaign to bring to an
end the hunting of animals with dogs in Ireland.
14/10/09
Cameron
outfoxed by campaign? David Cameron's promise of a free vote on fox hunting has
created a splash in the bubble bath world. Lush Cosmetics with Mrs Fox bubble bar, with the proceeds going to the Hunt Saboteurs Association. A
wasted effort, according to the fox-hungry people at the Countryside Alliance:
"Let's be honest, hunt sabs are not the biggest consumers of soap,"
says a spokesman. Anthony's
view well the Countryside Alliance must be the biggest buyers of the stuff with
that much blood on there hands. Lets face it if you do not have blood on your
hands then why would you need to wash your hands more than once a day with soap.
14/10/09
ASPEN - State wildlife officials are offering a reward leading to the
prosecution of the person or persons who illegally shot and killed a mule deer
buck on Aspen Mountain in recent days.
14/10/09
Video. A marine survey team off the north Wales coast discovered dolphins,
playing 'football' with jellyfish lying on the water's surface.
13/10/09
NEW DELHI: CBI has arrested two alleged members of a wildlife poaching gang,
wanted in number of cases related to killing of Tigers and Panthers including
in Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan, from a village in Mansa district of
Punjab.
12/10/09
Urgent action needed to curb wildlife traffic, Stricter enforcement of laws is
needed to curb the increasing exploitation of wild animals in the Cat Tien
National Park in the Tay Nguyen (Central Highland) province of Lam Dong, said
deputy head of the park’s Forest Ranger Team Nguyen Van Minh.
11/10/09
SALEM — Wildlife advocates are protesting the state’s move to expand
hunting of cougars to reduce conflicts with livestock, big game, people and
pets.
10/10/09
Malaysian wildlife authorities rescued a five-year old Malayan tiger, badly
injured in a snare set up by poachers near the country's jungle border with
Thailand, officials said Monday.
9/10/09
A man has been arrested for allegedly selling reptile skin products to
visitors at tourist hot spot Matheran in Maharashtra, wildlife have said.
8/10/09
The worst floods of the last 50 years have devastated southeast Mexico, where
the water now covers 80% of the state of Tabasco. IFAW (International Fund for
Animal Welfare – www.ifaw.org) has sent a rescue team to evaluate the impact
to animals and habitat, with the purpose implementing an emergency relief plan.
8/10/09
Penrith police are gathering an army of extra eyes and ears across the north
Cumbrian countryside to help wipe out wildlife crime.
8/10/09
A 45-year-old County Durham man appears in court accused of being involved in
the trade of rare birds' eggs.
8/10/09
Changes to wildlife law do not mean it is an open season on parakeets and
anyone shooting them without a good reason faces prosecution, a bird charity
has warned.
8/10/09
Welcome to this updated version of my popular GSM monitored alarm add on here
we will add a radio link from the alarm control panel to the receiver.
8/10/09
New
Page added to site Welcome to this updated version of my popular GSM monitored
alarm add on here we will play a security message as well.
7/10/09
Hunters can keep stalking gray wolves for now in the Northern Rockies, but the
killing may be short-lived after a federal judge found problems with the
recent removal of the animal from the endangered species list.
3/10/09
The cosmetics company Lush is launching a bubble bath it hopes will raise tens
of thousands of pounds for anti-blood sports activists who sabotage fox hunts.
Anthony's view Excellent
stuff this.
3/10/09
Thousands of culled grey squirrels later, the invader’s advance into
remaining red squirrel territory is still relentless. Environment Editor Tony
Henderson reports on a study into why this is so.
2/10/09
RSPCA called as buzzard shot in Alnwick, Northumberland, A BIRD of prey has
suffered “serious” injuries after it was shot while out flying in
Northumberland. The young buzzard, which had hatched this year, was sprayed
with pellets during the shooting in Alnwick.
1/10/09
Police arrest a man in Carlisle in an investigation into the illegal
importation of rare tortoises.
1/10/09
Read this in Chinese "Abandon the pandas, Rescue the dogs." Judging
by the headlines last week, it seems China is not only overtaking the UK as an
economic superpower, it might also be becoming more cuddly and sentimental
towards animals
1/10/09
The League Against Cruel Sports is using the first day of the pheasant
shooting season (October 1) to highlight the cruel practices which go on
behind the scenes to sustain the shooting industry.
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Undercover
investigations form a vital part of the League's overall campaigning strategy to
abolish blood sports and tackle wildlife crime. Without these investigations,
MPs, the media, League members, supporters and the wider public would not be
aware of the nature and scale of wildlife persecution.
If you have
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