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BEARS FORCED SKIP PERFORM BALANCING ACTS…


Two bears http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223999/Pictured-The-shocking-images-bears-forced-skip-perform-balancing-acts-acrobatic-festival-China.html

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KILLING ELEPHANTS WITH ELECTRIFIED POWER LINES


English: topographic map of India

English: topographic map of India (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 In India, Poachers Are Now Killing Elephants With Electrified Power Lines http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/10/09/indian-elephant-poaching?cmpid=tpanimals-eml-2012-10-12-india

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Horror Film of Africa Rhino Poaching POVERTY CAN NEVER BE AN EXCUSE FOR GREED!


Wild lion in Kruger National Park, South Africa

Wild lion in Kruger National Park, South Africa (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Flies buzz around a pile of flesh and muscle rotting in the Kruger National Park, with its eyes gouged out and scimitar-like horns hacked off in the opening scenes of a new documentary. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

via Horror film of Africa rhino poaching.

Johannesburg – Flies buzz around a hulking pile of flesh and muscle that lies rotting in the Kruger National Park with its eyes gouged out and scimitar-like horns hacked off in the opening scenes of a shocking new documentary on rhino poaching.

A series of still-photos of other gruesome kills flash across the screen in Rhino under threat, a deeply disturbing 28-minute film available on video-sharing website YouTube that has been made to drive home the horror of a rhino poaching crisis which has reached alarming levels.

Made by UNTV and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), the film can be seen on YouTube.

It debuted on Monday at the Rio +20 global environment conference in Rio de Janeiro.

South Africa, home to close to the vast majority of the planet’s rhino, is the epicentre of the unfolding tragedy.

According to the latest data from the department of environmental affairs, as of 15 June 245 rhino have been poached in the country so far in 2012. At this rate the carnage will almost certainly exceed the 448 slain last year.

A decade ago only a handful were being taken.

Elephant and rhino poaching is surging, conservationists say, an illegal part of Asia’s scramble for African resources, driven by the growing purchasing power of newly affluent Asians.

Heart-rending

Rhino horn has long been used in traditional medicines in China and Vietnam and the film quotes a doctor at Hanoi’s biggest hospital who sings its praises.

According to the film, rhino horns have also been stolen from museums and private collections in more than 15 countries.

It says Vietnam’s last wild Javan rhino was poached last year and the slaughter in Africa is relentless.

“It’s heart-rending,” Ted Reilly, the head of Big Game Parks in Swaziland, says in the film. The kingdom lost its first rhino to poachers in two decades last year.

“You will find a rhino cow with a baby calf. The mother goes down and that calf usually will defend the mother. It won’t allow the poachers to get anywhere near it. And they end up having to shoot it too,” Reilly says.

The horn and half the face is then cut off with a chainsaw and Reilly says they have had instances where rhinos who had been drugged then wake up and stagger around in this state.

“How do you deal with people like that?,” he asks.

For the game wardens on the front lines, feelings toward them can certainly harden.

“I suppose the brutality of it is being lost on me at the moment. And to survive the emotional side of it one gets hardened. It’s like seeing dead poachers now. I’ve seen enough this year not to worry about them anymore,” says one Kruger Park ranger.

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You never should combine torture & killing of animals with happiness! Combination of festive activities & killing breeds = SADISM.


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Torture-iraq1 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

„There is no excuse for torture of animals even if they had a good life until that moment such as torture by dog-, cock,- bullfights etc. The combination of festive activities and killing breeds sadism. You should never combine torture and killing of animals with happiness, having fun & lots of alcohol, having a good time for people. Neither torturing nor killing is fun for an animal.”

by Marius Donker

      

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CRUEL-VIDEO SHOWS CIRCUS BEARS FORCED SKIP BABOONS TRACKSUITS ROLLER SKATING in NORTH KOREA


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153127/Cruel-video-shows-circus-bears-forced-skip-baboons-tracksuits-roller-skating-North-Korea.html

  • Footage was filmed secretly by a western visitor in capital Pyongyang
  • The 3,500 onlookers laughed as the animals followed the trainer’s commands
  • Animals rights campaigners said show ‘has no place in civilised society’
  • Tickets are only for the rich, costing up to £16 each – compared to the average North Korean worker’s monthly salary of £29

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153127/Cruel-video-shows-circus-bears-forced-skip-baboons-tracksuits-roller-skating-North-Korea.html

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153127/Cruel-video-shows-circus-bears-forced-skip-baboons-tracksuits-roller-skating-North-Korea.html#ixzz1xC5OUlXv

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Abandoned Animals, Horses, Cows…in Germany: WDR Shows a Docu


Für mehrere der im Filmbeitrag gezeigten Tiere gab es keine Hilfe: das Fohlen, dem 
niemand half, als es über mehrere Stunden auf gefrorenem Boden versuchte hochzukommen,
ist tot sowie auch die Kuh, die nicht mehr aufstehen konnte und Tage auf einer Eispfütze
liegen mußte – ohne erreichbare Nahrung und ohne Wasser -. 

Die anderen entkräfteten Tiere, die unter Qualen gestorben sind, liegen verstreut auf
den zugefrorenen Flächen!

Ich bitte alle Tierschützer irgendwie zu helfen… danke.
Schaut Euch den Beitrag des MDR unbedingt an.

Das Elend geht seit über 16 Jahren! Der  Bauernhof in Frauenhagen macht immer wieder Horrorschlagzeilen. Obwohl Behörden das Elend der Tiere bekannt ist, schreiten sie nicht ein. Selbst der Tierschutzbeauftragte des Ministerium in Potsdam unternimmt nichts!

Beitrag:

http://www.mdr.de/exakt/video39852.html

These photographs speak without words…

Deutsch: Das Wappen der Stadt Potsdam, die Hau...

Image via Wikipedia

Finnland: Finnische Pelze behaupten sich am Markt


–Maaseudun Tulevaisuus – Finnland
Finnische Pelze behaupten sich am Markt
Trotz der Kritik von Tierschützern wächst die finnische Pelztierzucht und ist stärker denn je, stellt die liberale Tageszeitung Maaseudun Tulevaisuus fest: “Die Pelztierzucht ist ein Beispiel für natürliche Produktion, von der wir in der Welt mehr benötigen. Pelze sind warme, natürliche und nachhaltige Materialien. … Auch die grünen Kritiker müssen zugeben, dass es viel besser ist, sich in natürliche Pelzen zu kleiden als in aus Öl produzierte Kunstfasern. Bei den Investitionen ist natürlich zu beachten, dass der Wettbewerb in der Branche voraussichtlich zunimmt. Die gute Nachfrage führt auch in anderen großen Pelzländern zu einem Ausbau der Produktion. Die finnischen Pelze sind auch in der sich verschärfenden Wettbewerbssituation stark. Die jahrelang entwickelte Marke steht hoch im Kurs, denn die in Finnland produzierten Pelze sind für ihre Qualität bekannt. Qualität ist das Schlüsselwort für den künftigen Erfolg.” (31.01.2012)
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Tar Sands Fight Goes Beyond Keystone: A Little-Known Pipeline Plan Could Prove Disastrous for British Columbia | Environment | AlterNet


Tar Sands Fight Goes Beyond Keystone: A Little-Known Pipeline Plan Could Prove Disastrous for British Columbia | Environment | AlterNet.

An award-winning documentary offers a glimpse of a little-known pipeline plan — and the paradise it threatens.

November 18, 2011  |  
 

Spirit bear, photographed by Paul Nicklen
 
 Environmentalists from DC to California are praising last week’s State Department decision to delay approval of the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline — a move that could kill the project once and for all. But in Western Canada, where activists have been battling the massive tar sands development at the head of the pipeline for decades, the fight is nowhere near over.

In fact, at an impromptu sideline meetup at the APEC Summit in Hawaii this past weekend, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty scolded Pres. Barack Obama for delaying the Keystone project, and reminded him that the US is not the only oil-buyer in the world market.

The delay, Flaherty said, “may mean we may have to move quickly to ensure we can sell our oil to Asia through British Columbia.” He was referring to a pipeline proposal that is extremely controversial in Canada but virtually unknown here — the Enbridge oil company’s Northern Gateway, which would pump tar sands bitumen 731 miles to the coast of northwestern British Columbia, where it would be put on supertankers destined for China.

A week earlier, on Sunday Nov. 5, while 10,000 people encircled the White House to protest the Keystone XL, judges at the prestigious Banff Mountain Film Festival were on stage giving an award to a powerful documentary about the Northern Gateway and Alberta’s oil-sands strip-mines, 520 miles to the northeast.

The film, Spoil, takes place in the Great Bear Rainforest, one of the wildest pieces of land on earth. The Northern Gateway’s proposed path takes it through a sensitive section of the Great Bear, and, according to the film, threatens the livelihoods of the people of the Gitga’at First Nation. It also could destroy the habitat of the Kermode bear — an extremely rare, all-white creature also known as the spirit bear.

Trip Jennings, who directed and edited the film, says the existence of the spirit bear was a secret that the Gitga’at rarely spoke of, even among themselves. “They knew what the trappers had done for centuries,” Jennings said in an interview last week. “So it became a taboo passed down from the elders–if they happened to see a spirit bear they kept it to themselves.”

The Giga’at were at first reluctant to make the spirit bear the symbol of their quest to protect its (and their) home. But as Giga’at leader and guide Marvin Robinson explains in Spoil, the prospect of supertankers plying their narrow intercoastal waterways moved his community to allow the mysterious, charismatic animal to become “the icon for the whole pipeline issue.”

Ian McCallister, who lives on an island in the Great Bear and heads the BC-based environmental group Pacific Wild, has worked with the Gitga’at for more than 20 years–when he first arrived, the place was officially known as the Midcoast Timber Supply Area–and it’s largely through his and his wife Karen’s efforts that it has won protection from logging and open-net fish-farms.

“This place is being viewed in a much different light than it was 20 years ago,” McCallister says. “It was a place to extract [British Columbia's] raw resources; today it’s a place to celebrate its natural beauty, its ecology, its First Nations culture. So right when we’re at this turning point, making good on this promise to protect the place, we’re sideswiped by this proposal to put big oil here. Living in fear of a catastrophic oil spill has become very real.”

McCallister felt that the place’s unparalleled wildness and beauty — and the spirit bear — offered a unique opportunity to attract national and attention to its plight. So he contacted Cristina Mittermeier, director of the International League of Conservation Photographers. Spoil follows an innovative artistic/political intervention developed by that organization — a Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition (RAVE). Read more there: