Welcome to the latest news Archives for January 2008

31/1/08 BIG-GAME hunting has returned to Britain with gunmen paying £550 apiece to shoot captive wild boar on a country estate. However, ant hunting campaigners are likely to target the sport, and the proprietor of Britain’s first commercial boar hunt will not advertise it publicly. He relies on word of mouth to attract customers

31/1/08 Butchered tigers, leopards seized on Thai-Lao border. Six slaughtered tigers and five leopards have been seized along with 275 live pangolins as traffickers tried to smuggle them across the Mekong River into Laos, the Thai navy said Wednesday.

31/1/08 Death of tigress remains a mystery.  The post-mortem report of the tigress found dead on Sunday has placed asphyxia, fracture of trachea, brain haemorrhage, trauma and blood loss as the reasons behind the death.

30/1/08 Should the Irish Government ban fox-hunting. Philip Kiernan says Ireland's image as a decent and compassionate nation is tarnished by a cruel pursuit The tranquillity of the countryside is shattered as a fox squeals out in agony. The blood-curdling cry signals the end to another hunt outing as a panting fox with bulging eyes is knocked off its feet and eviscerated

30/1/08 The so called Countryside Alliance have had a total flop at getting press interest in their being voted the 'political personality of the last decade' by  viewers (mass multiple voting organised by a well connected, wealthy organisation of bloodsports fanatics) of Channel 4 News.

29/1/08 Almost 12,000 grey squirrels have been poisoned to death or shot in the past year in a ‘cull’ funded by the government. The killings took place in Northumberland England UK and were undertaken - it was said - to protect the red squirrel. Grey squirrel.

29/1/08 Police priorities when tackling wildlife crime were to investigate damage to Sites of Special Scientific Interest by recreational off-road vehicles

28/1/08 A protest against hare coursing is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 from 12 noon to 2 pm. The Irish Council Against Blood Sports is one of the groups from all around Ireland who will be represented at this peaceful demonstration outside the coursing finals venue - Powerstown Park, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

28/1/08 Welcome to the latest edition of the ACE e-newsletter, our first in 2008

27/1/08 Tribal separatists in India's northeast are involved in a flourishing rhino poaching syndicate at the famed Kaziranga National Park in Assam leading to a sudden spurt in incidents of the giant pachyderms being slaughtered for their horn.

26/1/08 The skins of a young tiger killed by poachers in the Nilgiri forests of Tamil Nadu and of a leopard were seized in Kerala’s Munnar hill station, wildlife officials said.

25/1/08 WILDLIFE authorities in Cameroon have rescued more than 1,200 African Grey parrots being trafficked to Bahrain and Mexico for the exotic pet trade, an animal welfare group said yesterday.

24/1/08 Poaching in Kenya may increase because of crisis. The crisis in Kenya's tourism industry caused by the post-election violence there and the subsequent collapse in tourism could mean more people turn to poaching, conservationists warned Thursday.

23/1/08 The president of the Quebec Wildlife Federation, an organization that encourages outdoorsmen to be responsible, resigned yesterday after he was charged with poaching.

22/1/08 Leopard is listed under Schedule (I) of Wildlife (Protection) Act and is identified as critically endangered. But, so far its conservation has failed to garner as much attention as that of a lion or a tiger.

21/1/07 India has opened a national wildlife crime control bureau to curb poaching of tigers and other endangered species, officials said Wednesday

20/1/08 Collar 'key' to snow leopard secrets. Lying somewhere in the mountainous, snow-cloaked terrain of Pakistan's Tooshi Game Reserve is a collar that could help unlock the secrets of the elusive snow leopard.

19/1/08 Surrey Union Foxhunt - Caught Bloody Red Handed Not 30 miles from the politicians in Westminster; the Surrey Union hunt chased a terrified fox along the A29 and around Ockley village green before ripping it apart on the cricket pitch. This was the reality in England on Saturday January 5th 2008 (3 years after hunting was banned)

18/1/08 The slogans painted on the walls and roadside stalls in Katerniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary in eastern Uttar Pradesh tell a tragic story

17/1/08 India must wake up to tiger crisis’ Known as one of India’s leading wildlife conservationists, Belinda Wright has been the public face of tiger protection in the country.

16/1/08 There's a mysterious disease stalking the gharial (the Indian crocodile). Even as I write this, dead bodies of the gharial are being dragged out from the river Chambal. Females, males and sub-adults - the death toll continues to rise day after day.

15/1/08 New Delhi, (PTI): The much-awaited Wildlife Crime Control Bureau office will finally start functioning here from next week.

14/1/08 A former presenter of One Man and His Dog has won £2,000 in compensation after being wrongly arrested on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred. Robin Page fought a five-year, one-man campaign to clear his name over remarks he made at a pro-hunting rally which led to him being held in a police cell.

13/1/08  A protest against hare coursing is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 from 12 noon to 2 pm. Ireland.

12/1/08 The Irish Council Against Blood Sports has renewed its appeal to Coillte to stop allowing hunters to chase and kill foxes on its property.

11/1/08 On the 7th of January, at Bridgwater magistrates court, Huntsman William Goffe and Whipper-in Gary Bradley of the Minehead Harriers pleaded guilty to illegal hunting.

10/1/08 NEW evidence of barbaric badger baiters operating in Gwent was found in a horrifying discovery near Pontypool. Gwent Badger Group discovered a sett in the area known as Goytre Wharf, which had been dug out on New Years Eve.

9/1/08 In a mind boggling and quite outrageous development the so called 'Countryside Alliance' (formerly called The British Field Sports Society) has been short-listed for the Channel 4 News  'most inspiring political personality of the last decade' award.

8/1/08 Farmer’s £8000 subsidy cut over wildlife crimes. WILDLIFE groups have welcomed the decision to cut a European cash subsidy to a Scots farmer after his gamekeeper was convicted of trying to kill birds of prey.

8/1/08 A surge in demand for exotic freshwater turtles and tortoises in Southeast Asia is fuelling rampant illegal trade in the animals in Indonesia, wildlife experts warned Tuesday.

7/1/08 A Chico man arrested earlier this week is facing federal charges for allegedly conspiring to import protected tortoises into the United States and selling them.

6/1/08 Vietnamese police came face-to-face with two live tigers they found in a passenger car in central Hanoi when they busted an illegal wildlife trafficking gang this week.

5/1/07 Bid to smuggle out protected animals and body parts foiled. The Wildlife Protection and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) has foiled an attempt to smuggle RM30,000 worth of protected species or their parts out of Gua Musang, Kelantan. 

4/1/08 Sugarcane growers in an Uttar Pradesh district are suspected to have poisoned at least 50 jackals, a protected species under the wildlife act, for damaging crops and biting villagers while foraging for food.

3/1/08 More than half the freshwater turtle and tortoise species sold by pet dealers in Jakarta markets are threatened and nearly all are obtained illegally, according to a survey by the WWF-linked wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC.

2/1/08 The smuggling organisations are powerful - will use violence against you. Colleagues have been beaten up and had guns held to their heads.

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1/1/08 Crime against wildlife is regarded more seriously than ever before, says a policeman whose appointment helped to pioneer a new approach.

1/1/08 Rare birds hit by poisoning rise Some of Scotland's rarest birds have been hit by an increase in poisoning cases, according to nature campaigners.

1/1/08 The hunt joined by Absolutely Fabulous star Jennifer Saunders has been accused by the League Against Cruel Sports of chasing foxes illegally.

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