Welcome to the latest news and archives for February 2011

27/2/11 'Dog asbos' come into force in Scotland. New legislation has come into force in Scotland to close a loophole in the Dangerous Dogs Act.The Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act aims to judge dogs on their behaviour, not breed, and gives powers to impose penalties on irresponsible owners.

26/2/11 WILDLIFE enthusiasts are being asked to join efforts to protect birds on Chongming Island from hunters. The Chongming Wildlife Conservation and Management Center, which has fewer than 10 staff members, is recruiting volunteers to boost numbers.

25/2/11 Ireland The Green Party's 2011 election manifesto has outlined that the party will "introduce legislation to ban hare coursing" and "make the hunting of animals with hounds an offence under law" if they form part of the next government

25/2/11 A fox has been discovered living at the top of the UK's tallest building. The animal, named Romeo by staff, is thought to have entered the 288m (945ft) Shard building at London Bridge through the central stairwell

25/2/11 Hare courser fined in court and his car is destroyed by police. 

25/2/11 Following a six-month investigation by the Pennsylvania Game Commission and Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, five residents of Maine - four adults and a 17-year-old juvenile - were charged with more than 250 counts of violating. 

24/2/11 Dog Brutally Blinded Faces Painful Recovery. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Although they are difficult to view, we include these gory images as a reminder of the unimaginable cruelty that some animals face in Lebanon all donations are warmly welcome.

24/2/11 A MAN was arrested and illegal stuffed birds were seized by police during a raid at a house in Burnley. Wildlife officers from Lancashire Constabulary, special constables and representatives from the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) and DEFRA executed a warrant at the property in Glen View Road.

24/2/11 At least 5,000 animals, such as dogs, cats and monkeys will be vaccinated against rabies in eastern Moxico province, Angop learnt Wednesday from the head of department of veterinary services, Aguinaldo Mutaleno.

24/2/11 A leading conservation group says Governor Schweitzer's frustration over wolf management is "understandable". But Defenders of Wildlife worry his decision to kill entire wolf packs to protect livestock and wildlife shows states will "hammer wolves to the maximum extent possible

23/2/11 Animal Rights Action Network is organising a protest against Fine Gael's pledge to reverse the ban on staghunting. The protest will take place outside FG headquarters, 51 Upper Mount St, Dublin  Wednesday, February 23rd from 6pm. Please make a special effort to be at this important event

22/2/11 Thieves have made off with a valuable black rhino head in Essex - prompting fears that its horns could be ground down and used in black-market Chinese medicines.

19/2/11 The Scottish chairman of the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust has been questioned by wildlife crime officers following the discovery of a dead sea eagle on his estate.

19/2/11 Northumberland pair forced animals to fight to the death. Two men from Northumberland have been jailed after forcing Animals to fight to the death and posting it on the internet. Anthony's view sicko's

19/2/11 The UK government's decision on whether to allow badger culling to curb cattle TB in England is to be delayed. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) had planned to announce its completed policy around the end of this month.

19/2/11 WSPA’s recent campaign documenting shocking mistreatment in Swedish and Finnish reindeer husbandry has generated action from supporters on a huge scale. 

19/2/11 A colony of 22,000 large bats living in Sydney's Botanic Gardens have lost their fight against eviction and will be forced out of the harbourside park over the coming months.

19/2/11 The two men arrested in last week's poaching bust near Dearborn made their initial court appearances on Thursday in Lewis & Clark County. The arrests came after a three-year investigation by Montana FWP game wardens.

19/2/11 Hunters and their hounds turned our village into a race course. 

18/2/11 Anti-hunting campaigners have built an interactive online map to chart illegal hunt activity across the country. The ‘huntmap’ has been built by the League Against Cruel Sports and relies on people using social networking site Twitter to plot ‘incidents of suspicious or illegal hunting as well as hunt havoc’.

18/2/11 Cumbria police investigate after badger killed by snare. Police are investigating after a badger was killed by a snare in near Maryport. The animal, which would have suffered a slow and painful death, was discovered by a member of the public hanging from a wire fence on Monday.

18/2/11 One of China's largest producers of bear-bile is facing an unprecedented online backlash from angry members of the Chinese public following reports it was planning to list on a local stock market.

17/2/11 A leading conservation group says Governor Schweitzer's frustration over wolf management is "understandable". But Defenders of Wildlife worry his decision to kill entire wolf packs to protect livestock and wildlife shows states will "hammer wolves to the maximum extent possible

17/2/11 A group of illegal hare coursers who drove 150 miles to let their dogs chase hares in north Suffolk were fined and banned from driving yesterday.

16/2/11 Word is out right now that Fine Gael—should they get into government—are going to reverse the hard fought ban on the Ward Union carted stag hunt. Should the party get their wicked way and repeal this only piece of legislation, it will set our movement in Ireland back and will cast a dark day for all campaigning to bring about an end to cruelty to animals.

15/2/11 At least 211 pets including dogs, cats and monkeys were immunised from January 2 to February 14, in Uije city, at fixed vaccination centre of the Office of Veterinary Services, under 20011 vaccination campaign against rabies.

15/2/11 The SMITHS songwriters MORRISSEY and JOHNNY MARR have joined forces once more - to support a leading animal rights campaign group. 

14/2/11 POLICE investigating the suspected poisoning of a buzzard in Fife have warned over the dangers of disposing of dangerous pesticides.

13/2/11 The Prime Minister has given his clearest commitment yet to repealing the ban on hunting and promised a Commons vote within months. Anthony's view the Prime Minister has given his clearest commitment yet to repealing the ban on hunting it's interesting he is not as keen in helping the people that will lose there Jobs, homes also there livelihoods and more by his cut backs, Lets face it the Prime Minister is a joke look at his track record.

13/2/11 Millionaire backer of hunt sabs and eco-militants in talks to fund police crime unit. The plan would see Mark Constantine, the founder of the Lush Cosmetics empire, paying for police staff in the cash-strapped National Wildlife Crime Unit – even though he also gives money to hunt saboteurs. 

13/2/11 Three men have been found guilty of illegal hunting with dogs at Selby Magistrates Court. Mark Tiffin, Ben Lloyd Galworthy and Neil Burlingham were each ordered to pay £500.

12/2/11 An investigation has been launched after two horses died in the paddock at Newbury amid fears they were electrocuted by underground cabling.

11/2/11 The right of farmers to control predators with snares was supported by NFU Scotland policy director Jonny Hall.  Anthony's view how can the Scottish Government make wildlife laws to protect some forms of wildlife but still allow the silent killer snares to kill the same wildlife it made the laws to protect.

11/2/11 A Spokane Police detective is on paid administrative leave after he was charged with obstructing an illegal hunting investigation.

11/2/11 Illegal trade in wildlife generates $10bn annually and ranks in top 5 most valuable global illicit markets according to new study

10/2/11 Tennessee authorities are investigating a possible multi-state network of illegal buying, selling, transport and possession of snakes after a man died from the bite of a poisonous copperhead.

10/2/11 State wildlife officials say a deadly fungus that has killed countless bats across the eastern United States has reached North Carolina. The Wildlife Resources Commission said Wednesday that cases of white-nose syndrome have been found in Avery County and at Grandfather Mountain State Park.

9/2/11 Three WWF officials kidnapped in India released. Indian police say that three female wildlife officials who were abducted in the north-eastern state of Assam have been released.

9/2/11 After defending three badger diggers at Sunk Island, Near Hull last year, Defence Lawyer, Clive Rees today defended three young men accused of hunting with dogs in the Gateforth area near Selby.

9/2/11 The discovery of a squirrel found with an air rifle pellet in its back in Dorking has led to an emotional outburst from a wildlife campaigner

8/2/11 A $2,500 reward is being offered for information in the killing of a black bear cub found this fall on the border of Prince William Forest Park.

8/2/11 Friends of Kimberley Blackwell, a Canadian who was killed last week in Costa Rica, described her as an animal lover who had campaigned against sloth poaching in that country.

7/2/11 Three suspected rhino poachers are shot and killed by wildlife protection rangers in South Africa's Kruger National Park.

7/2/11 Oregon State Police are investigating a Springfield father and son for alleged hunting practices that combine one of Oregon’s oldest crimes — poaching — with one of its newest: identity theft

7/2/11 SAY NO TO TESCO GREYHOUND RACING PROMOTION, Greyhound Action Ireland appeal to Tesco Clubcard Deals to remove their Irish Greyhound Racing deal from their brochure. Apparently 10 euro in clubcard vouchers will get you 40euro to spend at the Greyhound track. They say ‘experience the pace, the thrills and excitement that is a night at the dogs’.

6/2/11 On line petition Prosecute for the senseless slaughter of 100 Sled Dogs! A dog-sled company in Whistler, British Columbia, ordered the killing of 100 dogs in April, 2010, when bookings for adventure tourism slumped after the Olympic Games.

5/2/11 A BADGER protection group has reported an upturn in attacks on the animals and their setts.

5/2/11 Successful Clonmel protest against hare coursing. Thank you very much to everyone who supported the ICABS/ARAN protest against coursing on Wednesday, 2nd February. Check out some photos from the protest. And lots more from the ICABS.

5/2/11 A guide dog has been reunited with his owner after being spotted alone by a deep hole filled with water on an empty building site in Ramsbottom, Bury, Greater Manchester.

4/2/11 Wildlife advocates are asking a federal judge in Montana to stop the impending slaughter of many of the hundreds of bison captured this week as they attempted to migrate out of Yellowstone National Park.

4/2/11 Eight South Asian countries have launched a regional scheme to share information on poaching and wildlife trafficking in a bid to protect dwindling populations of tigers and other rare animals.

3/2/11 The future of a Devon nature reserve which contains some of the UK's rarest butterfly species is being threatened by a pheasant shoot, it is claimed.

1/2/11 Evidence filmed by League Against Cruel Sports’ investigators has today led to the successful prosecution of Andrew Bellamy who has been convicted of two offences under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992.

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