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A monthly Magazine edited and published by Maria Lopes - August 2005 Once again next 13th of September will take
place the slaughter of another bull of Vega, in Tordesillas, Spain.
Some of you probably received emails where the
name of the bull appeared as "Zapatero", the same name of the President of
Spain.
Initially the name was Zapatero, but some days ago they bought another bull, callled Cabrero. They claim that due to the blue tongue disease, they were obliged to change the bull. Please send the postcard and if you want to add some lines will be even better. For the Animals
Maria Lopes Coordinator of the International Movement Against Bullfights "Nothing will benefit human health and
increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a
vegetarian diet. It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its
purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially
influence the lot of mankind."
Albert Einstein (Nobel Prize) ITALY Stop the dolphin prison in Italy
Source: Mark Richards The town of Pomezia, a small city outside Rome, has announced plans to open an aquarium called Zoomarine, which will house, in part, five wild-caught bottlenose dolphins. The Honourable Stefano Zappalà, Mayor The aquarium has set up a comment page. Please let your
objections be known: All emails:
segreteria.sindaco@comune.pomezia.rm.it, ambiente@comune.pomezia.rm.it Keeping these intelligent, social animals in tanks causes
immeasurable suffering. Whether wild-caught or born in captivity, dolphins
retain their natural instincts and needs. No dolphin would choose to live apart
from his Dolphins navigate by echolocation, bouncing sonar waves off
objects to determine their shape, density, distance, and location. In a tank,
says Jean-Michel Cousteau, a dolphin's "world" becomes a maze of meaningless
reverberations. Jacques Cousteau vowed never to capture marine mammals again
I urge you to drop plans for an aquarium called Zoomarine in Pomezia, which will house, in part, five wild-caught bottlenose dolphins. Thank you for reading this letter. Yours sincerely, Name/Country
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND Urge Minister Roche to deny coursing licence Source: ICABS Minister for the Environment, Dick Roche, and his officials in the National Parks & Wildlife Service are currently considering an application from the Irish Coursing Club. The licence would allow coursers to net in the region of 7,000 hares for the upcoming coursing season, due to commence at the end of September. Please send an urgent message to the Minister, requesting him not to grant this licence. Urge him to insist that the coursers switch to mechanical lure coursing which is practised successfully in the USA and Australia. Remind him that hare coursing is outlawed in the UK and that there is currently a ban on taking hares from the wild in Northern Ireland, leaving Ireland as the last outpost of this cruelty in these islands. The decision will be made very shortly so time is of the essence. Please call or email Minister Dick Roche now. SAMPLE LETTER Minister Dick Roche Tel: 01-888 2404 Dear Minister Roche, As one of the 80 per cent majority of Irish citizens who wish to see hare coursing banned, I implore you to deny a licence to coursers for the 2005/06 season. Thank you. I look forward to your positive response. Yours sincerely, Name/Country REUNION ISLAND Live Dogs Used as Shark-Bait in French Territory Source: Fondation 30 millons d'amis, Fondation Brigitte Bardot, letter from Kinship Circle A local custom consists in going shark fishing with dogs used
as live baits.Last September, a dog came back to its owner in a very sad state.
It had run away the previous night and came back the next morning with a hook
planted in its muzzle. Unfortunately, the court could not condemn the culprit,
because he had already been judged a few months before by the police court,
where the fisherman keen on using live baits was given a one month suspended
prison sentence and a 6 000 francs fine. FRENCH GOVERNMENT EMAILS FRENCH PRESIDENT FRENCH MINISTRY FOR OVERSEAS DEPARTMENTS AND
TERRITORIES FRENCH MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS FRENCH MINISTRY OF TOURISM FRENCH MINISTRY OF JUSTICE FRENCH TOURISM EMAILS
Honorable French Officials and Tourism Agencies: I respectfully ask the French government to take responsibility for the wretched state of homeless animals throughout its overseas territories. I also urge tourism agencies to recognize the routine
incidence of animal abuse. I will not visit Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane,
Reunion, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, Mayotte, Nouvelle-Caledonie, Polynesie
francaise, The French territories beckon tourists with an exotic tapestry of customs, cultures, landforms and waterways. But for deserted animals, paradise is lost. In Guadeloupe, 40,000 to 70,000 stray dogs dodge bullets, poison, and cars set to kill them. They are fugitives of a culture that views them with apathy, hate or fear. Some believe dogs are "inhabited at night by evil spirits." I understand massive roundups and euthanasia are common. When the association AGIRE was directed to pick up roaming dogs, no efforts were made to sterilize or re-home the animals. Instead all were killed, even those who already had homes. One of the most perverse crimes occurs on the French island of
La Reunion, where stray or stolen dogs and cats are used as "bait" to lure
sharks. One dog returned home with a hook implanted in his muzzle. An
SPCA veterinarian found a fracture on the dog's lower jaw. On a separate
occasion, a pedestrian heard cries from inside the trunk of a car. She
French law outlaws this barbaric custom. Yet the courts rarely seek the maximum jail sentence. In fact, most offenders are not even convicted. When they are, penalties are little more than probation and a small fine. I call upon the French State to regulate its departments,
overseas territories, and regional bodies in compliance with continental animal
protection law. After decades of empty promises, conditions remain
Extensive sterilization is the only civilized solution for
territories overrun with animals. One female dog and her young can produce
67,000 puppies in 6 years. A cat and her litter can create 420,000 kittens in 7
years. Rather than subsidize mass killings, please fund clinics where strays are
altered and released. According to article R271-4 of the "code rural" (farm
laws), the sterilization and release of stray animals in overseas
I encourage officials to work with international organizations
willing to assist in sterilization, vaccination, and adoption programs in the
French territories. An alliance between local and foreign veterinarians, as well
as I hope the French government will implement humane education systems in its overseas communities. Until animal protection laws are wholly enforced, I will ask others to join me in a tourism boycott of the French territories. Sincerely, SPAIN TORO DE LA VEGA, "CABRERO" WILL BE TORTURED TO DEATH ON THE 13TH OF SEPTEMBER Source: International Movement Against Bullfights Postcard: Created by Gabriela
Lima
Every year in September in Tordesillas, a bull is tortured and murdered in a spectacle called "Toro de la Vega". Hundreds of men run with medieval spears after a bull, sticking them into his body until his death. This year in the 13th of September "Cabrero"
will be speared to death. Please send the postcard bellow (for those who receive
this Magazine in simple text, you can copy the postcard from our website at
www.iwab.org . Please click in on going campaigns).
To send the postcard either from the Magazine, either from our website you have to go to the following steps: Use your mouse right button and select "save picture as", choose a folder for that (for instance my pictures). Then when you open the email , choose in the top menu "insert" and then picture, then select the file that you saved the picture as. If you just copy/paste the photo it will follow as blank square.
Ministry of Environment: President of the Delegation of
Valladolid:
Ramiro F. Ruiz Medrano: presidencia@dip_valladolid.es Palacio de Pimentel C/Angustias s/n, 47003 Valladolid (Spain) Junta de Castilla y León
web, www.jcyl.es Ministry of the Interior (Home
Office):
estafeta@mir.es Culture ministry
informa.admini@sgt.mcu.es Casa de Su Majestad el Rey
Palacio de La Zarzuela Madrid (España) protocolo@casareal.es Block to copy/paste: protocolo@casareal.es,ainfo@mma.es,oszurdo@mma.es, With CC to:
Name/Country UKRAINE PREVENT FURTHER DAMAGE TO THE DANUBE DELTA BIOSPHERE RESERVE Source: Proact-campaigns Ukrainian conservationists and their supporters worldwide have been confident that the new president Viktor Yuschenko would nullify the plans of the former administration to drive a deep-water canal through that part of the core area of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve located in the Ukrainian Republic. It seems however that the old chains of bureaucracy and corruption have not yet been broken. We have just received the news that dredging work has resumed, this time a Ukrainian dredger is active. Two nesting bird colonies and young fish shoals have already been disturbed . This work must stop before wide-scale destruction of further bird colonies and other fauna occurs and irreparable habitat damage is caused. Please support Ukrainian conservationists in their ongoing
campaign by mailing President Yuschenko at: and BCC to:
PREVENT FURTHER DAMAGE TO THE DANUBE DELTA BIOSPHERE RESERVE Dear President Yuschenko We are very concerned to hear that the Ukrainian dredging vessel "Skadovsk" has restarted channeling work in the mouth of the Bystroe estuary. Under the late President Kuchma there was strong international protest against the construction of the Bystroe canal through the sensitive core area of the Danube biosphere reserve. At an official level the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee found Ukraine to be in violation of its obligations under the Aarhus Convention in the matter of the construction of the Danube - Black Sea canal and the European Union and Commission also expressed their grave concern at this potential environmental disaster. Other relevant international organizations who continue to express their concern are the UNESCO and the Bern Convention committee. The Ramsar Convention secretariat have prepared an update on the Bystroye estuary which concludes that a proper and comprehensive analysis of the influence of the proposed canal on the Danube Delta environment, by all interested parties, should be undertaken. To this end the Ukrainian government should provide precise information about the status of building operations, as well as an evaluation of the environmental impact. We urge you to put an immediate stop to the canal dredging before irreparable harm is done to an area of global environmental interest. - as this way Ukraine continues violating international obligations and brings serious harm to world-value territory! We further urge you to annul the relevant presidential decrees signed by Leonid Kuchma should be annulled, as they are still contrary to Ukrainian legislation and in breach of international conventions to which the Ukraine is a signatory. Sincerely, PETITIONS Belgian Minister of Agriculture & Environment authorises
hunting with BOW http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/368251054 Save The Fur Seals of South Africa http://www.petitiononline.com/Rrancois/petition.html Ban Bullfighting in Mexico http://www.petitiononline.com/55400000/petition.html
Not in My Name! http://www.careforthewild.com/petition.asp?pid=3 Protect the Yellowstone Buffalo - the Last Wild Herd http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/395560384?z00m=27088&z00m=27088<l=1123014501 Disclaimer: All items published in this magazine were received by us and we pass them on in good faith. We are not responsible for incorrect email addresses, errors, omissions etc. by the originators.
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