Welcome to the latest news and
Archives for September 2010.
27/9/10
Efforts to block plans for a ban on hare coursing in Northern Ireland have been
dealt a blow following confirmation from the Agriculture Minister that no such
provision will be included in the new Welfare of Animals Bill.
27/9/10
Estate owners face criminal charges over bird of prey poisonings, Scotland’s
estate owners will be made criminally responsible for birds of prey illegally
killed on their land under plans being “actively considered” by the SNP
Environment Minister.
27/9/10
A MAN was arrested on suspicion of interfering with badger sets after police
launched an operation tackling wildlife crime in the countryside around Penrith.
27/9/10
Reformed hunter battles to save Bangladesh's wildlife, Sitesh Ranjan Deb says
his transformation from hunter to conservationist was triggered 20 years ago
when he was attacked by a Himalayan black bear while out stalking deer.
26/9/10
Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio will put his fame to work to raise global
awareness about India's dwindling number of tigers an official said Saturday
26/9/10
Invaders Kill Over 300 Zebra at Illegally Occupied Game Reserve.
25/9/10
A clergyman who caught a squirrel in his house was told he was neither allowed
to kill it nor release it into the wild.
24/9/10
Golfer charged over fox death. A Man was charged in connection with the death of
a fox, after allegedly battering it with a club on a golf course.
Anthony's view I would like to see this sick person
jailed.
24/9/10
The Irish Council Against Blood Sports is horrified to learn that a Catholic
priest is chairman of a coursing development committee that "has been busy
organising the Irish Coursing Club Stand [at the Ploughing Championships
festival].
23/9/10
Dawie Groenewald, owner of the notorious Out of Africa Adventure Safaris company
and his wife, Sariette, were arrested on Monday in South Africa, for allegedly
being the masterminds behind an illegal rhino poaching gang. Nine other people,
including veterinarians and hunters, were also arrested for poaching.
22/9/10
INCREASING cases of rhino poaching in Africa is a big concern to Namibia, a
senior conservation expert in the Ministry of Environment and Tourism said this
week.
22/9/10
Colorado wildlife officials declared victory Friday in their 11-year effort to
reintroduce lynx to the state, saying the cats are reproducing faster than
they're dying, a sign of a self-sustaining population.
21/9/10
Wildlife crime is "going through the roof" in Staffordshire with
badgers, deer and birds targeted for sport or money, it was revealed today.
Gangs using electronic trackers are sending terriers into badger setts.
20/9/10
A New section on the Northumbria Police website is setting out to educate the
public on wildlife crime.
19/9/10
South African police said they have arrested 11 suspected members of a major
rhino poaching ring which they said was linked to many rhino poaching incidents.
18/9/10
A trainer "attached" to Sheffield's Owlerton Stadium, who regularly
races greyhounds there, has been charged with offences by greyhound racing
authorities after one of his dogs tested positive for cocaine.
18/9/10
Shocking Views on Greyhound Welfare Expressed by Industry Insider.
18/9/10
Paralyzed Dog Scales Mount Washington in Wheelchair (VIDEO)
18/9/10
NASA Engineer Resigns Over Monkey Tests, One NASA engineer has publicly resigned
over the agency's plans to test radiation on monkeys. The proposed experiment by
NASA to spend 1.75 million dollars on irradiating 18 squirrel monkeys has drawn
extensive protest from anti-vivisection and animal rights groups. A spokesman
for NASA has said the experiment is under review and may or may not actually
happen Anthony's
view NASA does not need to test radiation on any animals we all know how
dangerous radiation is this is disgusting.
18/9/10
The illicit wildlife trade is intimately linked to wealth and organised crime.
Conservation groups should target consumers.
18/9/10
A mystery animal with a long snout has been spotted in Africa, which scientists
say could be a completely new species of giant elephant shrew.
17/9/10
The United Kingdom has created the worlds largest Marien reserve the welcome
announcement that the new Government’s Ministerial team at the Foreign Office
has confirmed their full support for the Chagos Marine Reserve, so
implementation can now get under way.
17/9/10
The revelations made by Tony
Blair in his new book 'A Journey' show how he disgracefully sought to undermine
the law banning hunting with dogs.
17/9/10
Poaching and human wildlife conflict has declined at the world's famous Maasai
Mara game reserve due to joint surveillance patrols between Kenya and Tanzania,
a conservationist has said.
17/9/10
INCREASING cases of rhino poaching in Africa is a big concern to Namibia, a
senior conservation expert in the Ministry of Environment and Tourism said this
week.
17/9/10
A buzzard was shot in a "barbaric" attack in North Yorkshire - the
UK's worst county for attacks on birds of prey.
17/9/10
POLICE have declared war on people who persecute birds of prey after another
rare hawk was shot and injured in the region
17/9/10
Dealing with tiger poaching and illegal mining isn't really a walk in the park.
Perhaps that is why forest guards in Goa's seven wildlife sanctuaries will now
whiz through the woods on motorcycles to detect and check forest crime.
16/9/10
Two fernie Hunt members are to face trial in December over allegations they used
illegal hunting practices.
16/9/10
Help Outlaw the Poisoning of Wildlife. The HSUS is calling on the U.S.
Department of Agriculture and its Wildlife Services program to end the use of
two notorious predator poisons—Compound 1080 and the cyanide-loaded M-44.
15/9/10
Cumbria one of worst counties in UK for attacks on birds of prey.
14/9/10
Police in Scotland are investigating after a golfer allegedly beat a fox to
death with his golf club.
Anthony's view I am disgusted
and sick to read this article I hope they get this person and give him what is
coming to him.
14/9/10
The public is besotted with these animals, despite the scourge of TB, says
Geoffrey Lean.
13/9/10
Hunts don't just ruin the lives of wildlife; they can have an horrific effect on
the lives of people who get in their way. As this compilation shows, hunts have
no regard for the safety of their own animals, the public at large, railways and
roads, and at a moment's notice turn violent and aggressive
12/9/10
Florida Bans Cruel Fox and Coyote Pens! After a year of deliberating over the
issue, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) voted
unanimously last Wednesday in favor of a statewide ban on fox and coyote pens.
Fox and coyote pens were created for what their proponents call a
well-intentioned means of training hunting dogs. However, they’re nothing more
than a barbaric form of state-sanctioned cruelty that is no different from dog
fighting.
11/9/10
SCIENTISTS are calling for dingoes to be reintroduced into large areas of
Australia to help prevent the further extinction of native mammals
11/9/10
SIX swans have been attacked or injured on the River Thames in the past few
weeks, including one that died after being hit with a lifebelt.
10/9/10
A dog breeder from Kent has been given a suspended jail sentence and banned from
keeping animals for life, following a prosecution by the RSPCA.
10/9/10
Those who claim to have seen a big cat prowling around the county have at times
been ridiculed – but there is one wildlife expert who believes them.
10/9/10
A Javan rhino that was found dead in the Cat Tien National Park in April may
have been shot in the leg, World Wildlife Fund experts told a meeting on
Thursday.
9/9/10
Kauai County acknowledged in U.S. District Court that it is guilty of violating
the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act by killing Newell's shearwater birds
through its lighting policies at county facilities over the last five years.
9/9/10
Feeding flood-stricken Animals Helps Restore Life in Pakistan
9/9/10
This September, a bill to phase out bear farming will
be proposed to the Korean government for the entire Parliament to debate. Right
now over 1,400 bears are suffering on bear bile farms in South Korea. They're
reared in cramped, barren cages until the age of ten, when they are slaughtered
for their bile.
8/9/10
Nine-year-old Richie Bragg was in his yard when he saw a swarm of bees coming
toward him. Although he got a few bee stings, Richie was saved by his
18-week-old pitbull, Pinky. Pinky distracted the bees and, in turn, got stung
around 40 times and had to be rushed to the vet.
7/9/10
A notorious Malaysian wildlife trafficker nicknamed the "Lizard King"
was sentenced Monday to six months in jail for smuggling snakes a penalty
activists said was far too lenient and a "tragedy".
6/9/10
A jury at the Auckland District Court yesterday found a Kawau Island resident
guilty of being the owner of a dog that killed 14 endangered weka at the Kawau
Island Historic Reserve in May last year
5/9/10
Nevada wildlife commissioners are pursuing plans to establish a bear hunting
season for the first time in state history, saying Nevada’s bruin population
now is stable enough to allow for one.
4/9/10
Police call for tip-offs as coursing comes back - HARE coursing may be making a
worrying comeback around Ongar, police have warned.... Pc Mark Sheridan-Brown,
of Ongar Police, said: "We are gathering intelligence on suspected hare
coursers who have been in the area
1/9/10
Arundel Castle Protest March. National Anti-Snaring Campaign supporters will be
holding a protest and march through Arundel starting at Arundel Castle following
grave concerns for wildlife due to the estate’s refusal to stop setting snares
despite evidence that badgers are being caught in snares set for foxes on the
estate.
1/9/10
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has been accused of making a mockery of his own
government after he admitted in his memoirs, published today, that he changed
his mind on fox hunting after a conversation with a hunt’s mistress whilst on
a holiday in Tuscany, ignoring volumes of evidence from his own government
inquiry on the issue. He admits to trying to neuter the legislation before it
reached the statute book.
1/9/10
Gamekeepers have accused Scottish ministers and their scientific advisers of
failing to grasp the damage that is done to the country's multi-million pound
shooting industry by birds of prey.
Anthony's view Cruelty has no
place this is why we have wildlife laws. It is a well known fact Gamekeepers are
the biggest killers of our wildlife.
1/9/10
THE discovery of a dead badger in west Oxfordshire has renewned concerns about
people deliberately tampering with badger setts.
1/9/10
With rhinoceros poaching in Africa approaching an all-time high , one nature
preserve owner has had enough. Ed Hern, owner of the Rhino and Lion Nature
Reserve near Johannesburg, South Africa, is experimenting with injecting cyanide
into his rhinos' horns. He believes the poison will not harm the rhinos, because
there are no blood vessels in the horn to carry the poison the rest of the
rhino's
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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.
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