Welcome to the Latest
news and Archives for May 2009.
29/5/09
Edward Lucy brother of Olympic rowing silver medalist Tom Lucy, has
pleaded guilty to clubbing trapped crows to death.
28/5/09
New Page added to site. Phone
line cut Alarm that sends a cell phone signal when some one cuts your phone
line
21/5/09
Shocking new statistics show two-thirds of all dog fighting reports received
by the RSPCA are now directly connected to youths using their dogs as weapons
in streets and parks.
20/5/09
Don't miss Secret World's "Wildlife Babies Open Weekend" on Saturday
23rd, Sunday 24th and Monday 25th of May.
19/5/09
Badger baiting, poaching and attacks on birds of prey are going unreported in
Northern Ireland, the police have warned.
18/5/09
The world's largest colony of leatherback sea turtles has been identified by
scientists, raising hopes that the giant creature may not be as endangered as
previously thought
17/5/09
A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to 10 days in jail, fined $11,000 and
suspended from hunting in Ontario for seven years for illegal deer hunting
involving a power boat.
16/5/09
An Australian court has ordered a temporary halt to the killing of thousands
of kangaroos on defence department land near Canberra.
15/5/09
A circus elephant has become a poster pachyderm against poaching of his
endangered Asian species, capturing the hearts of many Vietnamese after an old
wound caused by a trap flared up.
14/5/09
On Line Petition. In Rhodes (Greece) the shelter contract expired and was
taken from R.A.W.S. (Rhodes Animal Welfare Society) and since then the dogs
have been left sitting in their cages, bill unpaid, dogs medical conditions
neglected and worse. R.A.W.S. has found
homes for over 100 dogs and has many more homes waiting for the dogs that are
sitting in the cages being neglected.
10/5/09
Earlier this morning verdicts were returned in the case of the 111 horses,
ponies and donkeys found in appalling conditions on a Buckinghamshire farm.
10/5/09
The Irish Council Against Blood Sports has warmly welcomed a statement from
the office of the Minister for Defence, Willie O'Dea, in which we were told
that the Minister "fully supports" our campaign.
10/5/09
Manoel Island was ear marked for a big project and the Maltese Minister of
Tourism Francis Zammit Dimech had ordered the police, spca, and government vet
to go and kill eleven healthy dogs under the care of Animal Rescue Malta and
close down their sanctuary, as they were in the way of the MIDI project.
9/5/09
A wildlife group is offering a $10,000 reward for information after a kangaroo
was shot through its nose with a crossbow in outer northern Melbourne.
8/5/09
A man was charged with smuggling songbirds into the United States by hiding
more than a dozen of them in an elaborate, custom-tailored pair of leggings
during a flight from Vietnam to Los Angeles.
7/5/09
Detectives from all across East Perthshire were celebrating yesterday after
picking up prizes in a wildlife crime competition.
7/5/09
The scion of Kenya's most famous white settler family was found guilty on
Thursday of the manslaughter of a black poacher on his family's sprawling
estate.
6/5/09
Discarded plastic bags are injuring and killing wildlife and need to be
banned.
5/5/09
The European Parliament has just announced a ban on the trade of seal products
within the European Union. Historic victory for seals as EU bans trade with
over whelming majority Anthony's view
Excellent news.
5/5/09
Acting as a "client wrangler" for a Hi-Line-area ranching family, a
Louisiana man admitted Monday that he recruited big-game hunters to come to
Montana where they illegally killed elk and deer.
5/5/09
In a twisted case of cops and robbers, three police officers were arrested
this week in Trinidad and Tobago for stealing more than one thousand protected
animals from Venezuelan wildlife smugglers.
5/5/09
Trespassing charges have been dropped against four U.S. Navy officers accused
of wantonly shooting and killing 21 protected birds in southwest Florida.
4/5/09
Helicopter pilot dies in crash at EC game reserve.
4/5/09
On line Petition Romanian horses are in desperate need of your help.
4/5/09
Sea Shepherd's TV series Whale Wars drew in Animal Planet's largest audience in
the network's history when it aired in the United States and Canada for 7
straight weeks in November and December 2008. The audience is expanding as Whale
Wars is airing in more markets around the world now as well.
4/5/09
The Irish Council Against Blood Sports has renewed its call on the Minister for
Agriculture, Brendan Smith, to outlaw the horrendous practices of digging out
and terrierwork.
4/5/09
Hundreds of emaciated seabirds have washed up dead on beaches from Marin County
to Monterey Bay, and wildlife officials said they suspect that a dip in the
birds' food supply may be killing them.
3/5/09
The Tasmanian devil is nearing extinction, but Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors
are hopeful that A Night in Black and White, a fundraiser to help save the
marsupial, will spread awareness about their demise.
3/5/09
The US Forest Service is preparing to close thousands of caves and former mines
across the eastern US in an effort to control a bat-killing fungus.
2/5/09
In pockets of the UK, the rodents have become almost completely immune to
conventional pesticides, pest controllers said today.
1/5/09
The mystery of a poached tiger in the dense Sattari wildlife sanctuary has
deepened further, with the chief conservator of forests claiming that there was
no 'evidence' to show that any tiger was killed in the forest reserve.
1/5/09
Wildlife economist Brendan Moyle has been on a secret mission to explode myths
about the illegal trade of tiger products in China.
1/5/09
Nigel Bell from the Wick and District Beagles was interviewed by police
yesterday where he admitted breaching the Hunting Act in February this year.
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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
any information you think may be of value to League investigators, e-mail in
confidence investigations@league.uk.com
or write to Investigations Unit, League Against Cruel Sports, 83-87 Union
Street, London, SE1 1SG.
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