Animals

By admin • January 4th, 2009

‘Steve Irwin’ may refuel in Dunedin05-01-2009 By Hamish McNeilly, Otago Daily Times,New Zealand

The anti-whaling vessel at the centre of a diplomatic row may be heading to Dunedin to refuel. The Dutch-registered Steve Irwin MV has pursued the Japanese whaling fleet for more than 3000km on the Antarctic high seas and is now heading to the [...]

Karl Lagerfeld defends fur industry
04-01-2009 Daily India, India
From ANILondon, Jan 4: Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld (http://www.karllagerfeld.com/) has defended the fur industry saying ‘beasts’ in the wild would “kill us if they could.”The 75-year-old mogul said in a radio interview that while he himself does not wear fur, an entire industry depends on the trend to [...]

Lead spreads death
Senegalese risk lives recycling toxic metal
04-01-2009 By HEIDI VOGT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Edmonton Sun, Canada
THIAROYE SUR MER, Senegal — First, it took the animals. Goats fell silent and refused to stand up. Scores of chickens died and street dogs disappeared.Then it took the children.
Toddlers stopped talking and their legs gave out. Women gave [...]

Orphan Selling Snakes to Survive04-01-2009 Radio VOP, Zimbabwe
Hunger and desperation have driven a Mutasa district orphan to hunt for snakes and sell them in Mozambique. Stung by hunger, no money to pay his school fees and being constantly overlooked at periodic food rations, Tendekai Mucheki, has resorted to an unorthodox survival tactic.
Mucheki started his self [...]

Protest tegen proeven met apen aan KU Leuven
04-01-2009 Het Laatste Nieuws, Belgium
De Anti Dierproeven Coalitie (ADC) heeft in de Leuvense winkelstraten actie gevoerd tegen de dierproeven met apen aan de universiteit. Enkele actievoerders namen als aap verkleed plaats in een kooi en worden “behandeld” door een onderzoeker.“Nuteloze proeven op apen”Volgens de ADC voert de Leuvense [...]

Konijn achtergelaten in vuilcontainer
04-01-2009 RTV Utrecht
AMERSFOORT - In Amersfoort heeft iemand een konijn in een ondergrondse vuilcontainer gegooid.
De dierenambulance vond het gewonde en verwaarloosde diertje in de container aan de Drentestraat en belde de politie. Die is nu op zoek naar de eigenaar van het beestje.
Het konijn heeft het overleefd en is naar de konijnenopvang [...]

‘We don’t know if it’s good to eat moles… ‘
03-01-2009 By Zara Nicholson and Nwabisa Msutwana-Stemela, Cape Argus, South Africa
Hunting for moles and other small animals to eat has become something of an art for the poor residents of White House Village informal settlement in Belhar, especially among the young boys.
When a Weekend Argus team [...]

Anti-whalers stop whale watch to re-fuel
03-01-2009 Perth Now, Australia
THE anti-whaling ship Steve Irwin has stopped its pursuit of the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean to return to port for refuelling. The Shepherd Conservation Society vessel’s captain, Paul Watson, said the Irwin’s efforts so far had been successful in stopping the Japanese whale hunt.
“We [...]

70 animals rescued at one house
03-01-2009 By Samuel Underwood, The Argus, UK
Seventy sick animals have been rescued from a house by the RSPCA. Inspectors were shocked to find the creatures, including three dogs, 25 cats, rats, doves and other birds, living in poor conditions in the house in Bexhill. Several of the animals, including a [...]

Malaysian fishermen face fine over shark catch04-01-2009 The Associated Press, International Herald Tribune
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Four Malaysian fishermen could be fined for not releasing a protected 23-foot-long (7-meter-long) whale shark they caught by accident, local media reported Sunday.
They towed the 2.2 ton (2 metric ton) juvenile whale shark, known as a Rhincodon Typus, to shore [...]

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Honden komen om bij brand in Mussel
03-01-2009 RTV Drenthe
MUSSEL - Bij een brand in een vrijstaande woning in Mussel zijn vrijdagnacht twee honden omgekomen. De bewoonster van het pand werd met ademhalingsproblemen naar het ziekenhuis gebracht.
Toen de brandweer uit Stadskanaal arriveerde was de brand al uitslaand. De bewoonster had zichzelf al in veiligheid gebracht, maar [...]

Wild elephant problem solvable only if illegal
logging stopped
03-01-2008 Antara News, Indonesia
Banda Aceh, (ANTARA News) - Wild elephant incursions into human settlements in Aceh will continue if nothing is done to stop illegal logging in forest areas, a local nature conservation official said.

Elephants helped clear debris on Aceh after the tsunami in Dec. 2004.
“The [...]

Second cloned lamb born in Iran
03-01-2009 PressTV, Iran
A cloned lamb has been successfully born at twenty-eight weeks of gestational age –7th month of pregnancy– in Iran’s Royan institute (http://royaninstitute.org/cmsen/index.php).
“The lamb lived for about 10 minutes after birth but died because of Polyhydramnios — a medical condition described by excess amniotic fluid in the amniotic [...]

Wildlife trade crime links exposed by police03-01-2009 Courier Mail, Australia
CRIME networks are behind a surge in the trade of wildlife and other live animals on the black market, according to an Australian Federal Police report. The report commissioned by the AFP has exposed the link between national criminal groups and an explosion in wildlife crime, [...]

Sulia Jatra: A festival of animal sacrifice
Kandha tribe of western Orissa has been celebrating Sulia Jatra, a tribal festival, since ages. The festival is celebrated to please the tribal god by sacrificing buffaloes, goats, roosters and pigeons. However, the practice needs to be discontinued.
02-01-2009 CJ: Debashree Behera , MeriNews, India
IN THE name of tradition, thousands [...]

Onderzoek naar Pallas eekhoorns in Nederland02-01-2009 Natuurbericht.nl
Een Chinese eekhoornsoort kan de inheemse rode eekhoorn bedreigen. Daarom wordt een onderzoek gestart. Geef ook uw waarnemingen door!
De Zoogdiervereniging heeft van het Team Invasieve Exoten (TIE), ressorterend onder het Ministerie van LNV, opdracht gekregen om populaties van de Pallas eekhoorn (Callosciurus erythraeus) in Nederland in kaart te brengen.
Uitheemse [...]

Protest tegen proeven met apen in Universiteit
Leuven
02-01-2009 Anti Dierproeven Coalitie
2009 brengt voor de apen die in het dierproeflaboratorium van de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven gevangen zitten enkel meer angst en pijn. De Anti Dierproeven Coalitie zal dit onzichtbare leed opnieuw onder de aandacht brengen.
Op zondag 4 januari vanaf 14u tonen wij aan de koopjesjagers [...]

Parrot spooked to death by fireworks
02-01-2009 The Associated Press, Orlando Sentinel, USA
LOXAHATCHEE GROVES, Fla. - Officials at a wildlife conservatory are blaming the loud noise from New Year’s Eve fireworks for the death of a rare parrot. Workers at the Rare Species Conservatory Foundation in Loxahatchee Groves were checking their birds Thursday morning when they [...]

Exclusive: Customs reveal bizarre animal products they have seized
02-01-2009 By Paul O’Hare, The Daily Record, UK
CUSTOMS officials have opened up the stash of illegal animal products they have seized in the last decade. Items made from elephants, turtles and crocodiles sit alongside weapons confiscated at our ports and airports.
The exhibits are at Custom House Museum [...]

Slowing coral growth will cause Great Barrier Reef
to ‘fall apart’
02-01-2009 By Daily Mail Reporter, Mail Online, UK
Coral growth in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has fallen to its lowest rate for 400 years, in a troubling sign for the world’s oceans, researchers have warned. This could threaten a variety of marine ecosystems that rely on [...]

Rampaging elephants attack Jharkhand village
02-01-2009 Daily India, India
From ANIKundhit (Jharkhand), Jan 2: Wild elephants have attacked the remote village of Kundhit in Jharkhand’s Jaamtara District, terrifying its residents.The animals after losing their track ventured into the human settlement and damaged standing paddy crops.
“The elephants are here since yesterday and have destroyed a lot of our [...]

Elf dieren gered uit brandende schuur in
Grijpskerk
31-12-2008 112Groningen
Grijpskerk - Woensdagavond heeft de brandweer van Grijpskerk elf dieren uit een brandende schuur gered. De schuur stond achter een boerderij aan de Westerhornerweg nabij Grijpskerk.

Bij het ter plaatse komen stond een deel van de schuur in brand en ook de naast staande schuur vatte al vlam. [...]

Netcu Watch // Thoughts on media hysteria post
SHAC trial31-12-2008 IndyMedia UK
I’m fed up with the histrionics, the exaggerations and the lies about SHAC and so this is my contribution to counter them.
(Put the kettle on - this is quite a read)

I write as someone who was involved with SHAC in the beginning in 1999 [...]

Politie bekend met bekladdingen
31-12-2008 RTV Nens (omroep voor Noordwijk, Noordwijkerhout en De Zilk)De politie heeft bevestigd dat een huis aan het Westeinde beklad is. Dierenactivisten claimen op 19 december verantwoordelijk te zijn geweest voor het aanbrengen van leuzen op het huis.
De eigenaar zou volgens de actievoerders handelen in aandelen van een bedrijf dat dierenproeven uitvoert. [...]

Over 200 protected parakeets rescued from train31-12-2008 The Times of India, India
Ahmedabad: They pecked and necked in public, but nobody really minded the cacophonic romance by this bunch of parakeets seized as illegal railway consignment on Wednesday. Over 200 of the rose-ringed variety of parakeets were rescued by the forest department from Kalupur railway station [...]

Hundreds of dying rats found in Foster disgust SPCA chief
31-12-2008 Mike McKinney - By John Hill, Providence Journal staff writer, Projo.com
FOSTER — The police and the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals are trying to find out who left 280 dead or starving rats in eight containers on the side of [...]