Welcome
to the Latest News and Archives for March 2008
31/3/08
A MAN has been looked up for six months after being
found guilty of taking part in the "barbaric
sport" of badger baiting.
31/3/08
ECHO sparks MPs to condemn gangs hunting in our parks.
An Echo investigation into illegal hunting has
prompted condemnation of gangs in Parliament.Last
month, we revealed how thugs were using guns and dogs
to kill defenceless wild animals.
31/3/08
Government move to save disappearing water vole
Seahorses, shark and edible snail also on list Nearly
12 years after conservationists asked government to
help save the disappearing water vole it has now
become one of Britain's most protected species.
31/3/08
Appalling treatment of hunt monitors I have just
watched a short programme on BBC1 in which a camera
crew recorded hunt monitors following the Heythrop
Hunt.
30/3/08
Rajender Joshi, a wildlife trader belonging to
Jalpaiguri district along Indo-Bhutan border in West
Bengal, was today sentenced to four years in prison
along with a fine of 10,000 rupees. Joshi, son-in-law
of the notorious Ratiram Sharma, was accused of
possessing and trading in wildlife articles.
30/3/08
The Wildlife and National Parks Department
(Perhilitan) seized protected wildlife body parts
worth about RM10,000 during a raid on a house in Batu
Caves, Selangor Friday evening.
30/3/08
Two Cambodian men have been arrested for allegedly
poisoning an elephant and sawing off its tusks to sell
on the black market, officials said Wednesday.
29/3/08
We need your help in caring for a record number of
seals. Please donate whatever you can to help us feed
them at our East Winch Wildlife Centre in Norfolk,
which specialises in their rehabilitation.
29/3/08
The Irish Council Against Blood Sports has called for
a Garda investigation into complaints of cruelty to a
fox during a hunt in Fermoy, Co. Cork earlier this
month. We have written to the Garda Commissioner,
calling for a probe into the cruelty allegations made
against the Avondhu Foxhounds by "senior people
within the hunting community".
28/3/08
Sadly, even though much effort has been put in to
improving existing, poor regulations on hunting in
Russia, the Government of the Russian Federation has
now taken a step back in legalizing the hunting of
bear cubs, yearlings, and their mothers.
28/3/08
Canada's 2008 seal hunt has begun, with Canadian
fishermen expected to slaughter more than 275,000
seals for their fur—many as young as 12 days old.
28/3/08
Badgers are caught in a loop passing
on disease to Britain's herds of cattle. But is the
answer to cull Mr Brock? TREVOR LAWSON, from
protection group the Badger Trust, argues there are
other ways to handle the crisis which is now hitting
farming.
28/3/08
Silver Spring-based Discovery Communications LLC was
ordered Thursday to turn over footage from one of its
Animal Planet shows about the use of tiger bones in
winemaking to help bolster the defense of an animal
rights group being sued in China.
27/3/08
A MAN kept a bird of prey in a dog kennel in his city
flat and fed it on biscuits, a court heard today. The
young buzzard was thin and had damaged its wings from
flapping inside the portable kennel when wildlife
officers rescued it from George Hunter's Edinburgh
flat.
26/3/08
An increase of plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean is
putting rare birds and animals on the Midway Islands at
risk this is a video.
26/3/08
A Hunt club in Co Cork has been
suspended by the sport’s governing body after allegations
of animal cruelty.
26/3/08
The British Deer Society will this spring launch an
anti-poaching campaign and press the Association of Chief
Police Officers (Acpo) to provide greater resources for what
it describes as "gun crime" in the countryside
25/3/08 The Sick
sport of Dog Fighting Please
note this is a video it may upset some people. For
18-months a Panorama undercover team has been operating
alongside hard-core dog-fighting gangs in the UK and Europe,
capturing on camera the savagery of organised dog-fights.
24/3/08
Plight of Endangered Species Highlighted in International
Tourism Report.
23/3/08
European Convention for protection of pets and stray On Line
petition please sign it.
23/3/08
Thai wildlife police have arrested two vendors and seized
more than 200 rare animals including endangered tortoises
during a raid at Bangkok's popular weekend market, police
said Sunday.
22/3/08
As many as 50,000 deer are killed every year by night-time
poachers and illegal bloodsports fanatics, according to a
wildlife charity which monitors attacks on herds.
21/3/08
Police are probing David Cameron's
favourite fox hunt amid claims it was exposed illegally
hunting foxes by an undercover BBC team.
21/3/08
Wildlife police raid Scottish grouse moor. A grouse moor in the
Scottish Highlands owned by the formula one motor racing tycoon
Paddy McNally was raided by police yesterday as part of an
investigation into alleged persecution of birds of prey.
20/3/08
Almost 200 elephants were killed in Sri Lanka in 2007, with the
vast majority shot by farmers and others angered when the wild
animals stray out of jungles and forests into human areas to
search for food.
20/3/08
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20/3/08
Two Asiatic black bear cubs, 1.5 months old, one male and one
female, were rescued from poachers (who had killed their mother)
and were handed over to the Basumathari, Lower Assam MVS
veterinarian today
20/3/08
Wildlife
park chief arrested over massacre of rare gorillas. It was a
gorilla massacre that shocked the world.
20/3/08
Scientists warn that many species are under threat, as local
communities have no stake in face extinction as a result of
poorly regulated hunts and poachers
19/3/08
Sussex MP Nicholas Soames is to be prosecuted over the use of
his quad bike at a new year's day hunt. The politician, a
grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, was filmed towing a trailer
carrying adults and children on the road near his home.
18/3/08
A GANG of suspected hare coursers were trapped (Monday)
after a high-speed police chase involving two helicopters across
two counties.
18/3/08
POLICE
are investigating the shooting of a peregrine falcon found
injured in a garden at St Lawrence, Ventnor. Wildlife officer PC
Nicholas Massey, from
Ryde police station, said:
“The peregrine falcon likes to feed on pigeons, so they often
become the enemy of pigeon racers. It’s possible this bird
travelled many miles before becoming exhausted due to the lack
of food.
17/3/08
ICABS has renewed its appeal for Irish wildlife to be protected
after learning that a British foxhunt was invited to Ireland to
persecute our foxes.
17/3/08
A former officer for Western Australia's Department of
Conservation and Land Management (CALM) has avoided a jail term
over his involvement in the illegal transfer of cockatoos to
Victoria.
17/3/08
In Chad, Janjaweed militia from Sudan killed 100 elephants in
one afternoon; in Kenya, Somali warlords armed with
rocket-propelled grenades killed four wildlife rangers during a
bloody raid on herds in the Tana Delta; in Democratic Republic
of Congo, a whole host of rebel groups have turned the country's
dwindling elephant population into a new cash crop.
16/3/08
PAW Open Seminar, held on 27 February 2008, one of the most
important issues discussed was the agreed UK wildlife crime
priorities for 2007/08. These priorities were agreed by the High
Level Group of Government and enforcement officials, following
discussion of the National Wildlife Crime Unit's strategic
assessment of wildlife crime in the UK.
16/3/08
A vile trader who brags how easy it is to sell illegal animal
skins in Britain has been exposed by The People. Our
investigators tracked down Mohammed Abdelkader after a boom in
demand for tiger, lion, leopard and zebra skins. Abdelkader,
based in Marrakech market in Morocco, boasted: "We are very
clever. We get them into the UK very easily. We pack them up and
send them in as rugs. We have done it many times."
15/3/08
Members of the public have been urged to speak up against
wildlife criminals by a Northern Ireland partnership formed to
reduce wildlife crime. Members of the (Partnership for Action
Against Wildlife Crime) PAW group in Northern Ireland, which
includes a wide range of organisations who work together to
combat wildlife crime, are making the call to mark the launch of
a new reporting system.
14/3/08
A dog was the victim of a suspected poisoning incident near
Fochabers. Constable David MacKinnon, force wildlife crime
officer for Grampian Police, said: "It is not uncommon for
pets to be harmed or even killed by poison
14/3/08
At Sheffield Magistrates Court on 12th March 2008 Mr John
Allison pleaded guilty to four offences of not taking all
reasonable precautions in using an insecticide containing
bendiocarb. He was fined £200 for each offence and a further £200
towards costs.
13/3/08
Three teenagers have been arrested after police raided a
suspected cockfight in County Durham. Officers were called to
suspicious activity in a white van parked in Durham Road, Bishop
Auckland, on Tuesday evening
13/3/08
The sight of brown hares "boxing" is one of the most
arresting spectacles of the countryside, and if you're lucky and
you look hard, you can see it now in the arable fields of
lowland Britain.
13/3/08
Sir Paul McCartney's woodland shrine to his dead wife, Linda
McCartney, has been desecrated by a sadistic poacher who
launched a savage attack on a member of the local deer
population.
13/3/08
Philippines authorities have rescued venomous snakes, endangered
eagles and scores of other rare wildlife in a raid on a pet
market in Manila, the environment department said Wednesday.
13/3/08
The number of tigers in the world has diminished at an alarming
speed in recent years, global conservation group WWF cautioned
on Wednesday, blaming poaching for much of the decline.
12/3/08
The North Shropshire Hunt has been told of a local law which
requires that all dogs on public roads must be kept on leads.
Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council's full meeting last month
that their dogs were not exempt, the Masters of Foxhounds
Association's lawyers are trying to get the decision reversed.
12/3/08
The world's tiger population may have halved in the past quarter
of a century and at least one of the remaining five sub-species
is in danger of becoming extinct, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
experts said on Tuesday
11/3/08
Two men were found guilty of badger-baiting in West Wales on
Friday, 7 March 2008 in what has been the most significant
badger-baiting prosecution case seen in Wales for the past 15
years.
11/3/08
Protesters have slammed a "chaotic" hunt, which was
called off early after 25 hounds repeatedly
ran across a Peak District road. The North
West Hunt Saboteurs Association put a video
online which it said showed hounds putting lives at risk by
running back and forth over a road while searching for a hare.
