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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