Boycott PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, A Dog Eating Nation!
Dec 27, 2017 — Time has reported on December 20 that “The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, are facing a hurdle before the games begin on Feb. 9: lackluster ticket sales.” This article doesn’t mention dog and cat meat cruelty as one of the factors for the low ticket sales but we hope that it at least played a small part. Now the ticket sales have surpassed 60% but it is still well below their expectation.
Click here to learn more: http://time.com/5064263/winter-olympics-2018-pyeonchang-ticket-sales/
Click here to take action to “Boycott PyeongChang 2018” and speak out against the South Korea’s brutal and appalling dog and cat meat industry! http://koreandogs.org/pc2018/
Click here to take action on campaigns – National Olympic Committees: Take a stand in Pyeongchang 2018 against the dog and cat meat trade!
“Killing to Conserve” is a LIE! Killing at risk African wildlife just kills animals! Depleting wildlife populations and natural resources does not “help” the local African populations.
SAVE THE DATE! JOIN THE ACTION!
JANUARY 5 & 6 from 1 – 4 pm in DALLAS, TEXAS, USA.
Safari Club International is having a convention. People who oppose the rapacious “taking” of iconic African animals and other wildlife, their self-serving definition of “conservation,” and their smug self-identification as “outdoors” men and women will be PROTESTING SCI’s CONVENTION.
* S * H * A * R * E * this brilliant action against American trophy hunting culture!
Not only are SCI members meeting up to celebrate their loathsome activities against Earth and all creation, there is an AUCTION which includes items such as SAFARIS TO AFRICA TO KILL AN ELEPHANT AND RHINO! Or you can bid on a variety of things made of ELEPHANT SKIN, like CUPHOLDERS! So many price points representing the taking of so many lives… or just to show your basic lack of regard for elephant life.
THIS IS OUR 5TH ANNUAL ON-SITE PROTEST OF SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL!
Anyone within striking distance is URGED TO JOIN IN THE PROTEST!
Not in Dallas and want to protest trophy hunting and Safari Club International?
Visit rallyforcecil.org for more information on how you can get involved in our international anti-trophy hunting rally taking place February 4, 2018
FOR THE LIVE ACTION ON JANUARY 5 AND 6 IN DALLAS:
We will protest on January 5 & 6, 2018 from 1-4pm at the corner of Kay Bailey Hutchison convention center.
1st protest will be
Friday January 5th from 1 to 4pm
This protest will be in response to the woman’s hunters event.
2nd protest will be
Saturday January 6th
from 1pm to 4pm
Theunis Botha, a settler from Tzaneen, South Africa, was on a hunt in the neighboring country when four elephants charged at them.
One female elephant picked up Botha with her trunk after he had fired at the others, collapsing on top him when she was shot by another hunter. Botha was then killed, crushed to death.
While sympathies poured out for the hunter, those critical of big game hunting responded otherwise.
“You should be crying for the innocent elephant that was senselessly murdered not this idiot hunter who deserved what he got,” one person wrote on an online forum about his death.
Botha had his own big game safari company that toted wealthy foreigners on tours since the 80s. From a family of white settlers who arrived in South Africa in 1878, the hunter served in the South African infantry during the Angolan War but left shortly after.
A hunter was injured early Monday afternoon when the all-terrain vehicle (ATV) he was operating hit a stump and overturned in woods about 2.5 miles west of U.S. 421 in western Wilkes County.
The victim had a cell phone and was able to call another hunter in the woods some distance away. The other hunter met a member of the Champion Fire Department in a field near the South Prong of Lewis Fork Creek, U.S. 421 and the base of the Blue Ridge Mountain escarpment within about five minutes after 911 was called and emergency personnel were dispatched.
Champion first responders and Wilkes Rescue Squad members reached the victim on ATVs and he was transported out of the woods on a Wilkes Rescue Squad ATV. Wilkes Emergency Medical Services also responded.
Emergency personnel said the victim was conscious and alert and didn’t appear to have life-threatening injuries. He was transported by AirCare helicopter from the field at the base of the mountain to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
The victim and the other hunter were hunting on a tract of about 1,000 acres on Dividing Ridge that is controlled by a hunting club.
State Department of Fish and Wildlife police are asking for the public’s help after officers found more than two dozen dead ducks dumped along a roadside in Grays Harbor County on Dec. 26, 2017. (Photo: Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife Police)
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GRAYS HARBOR COUNTY, Wash. – State Department of Fish and Wildlife Police are asking for the public’s help to find whomever dumped more than two dozen dead ducks along a roadside in Grays Harbor County last week.
Officers said three white garbage bags containing 28 ducks that had been shot were discovered on December 26 at the Devonshire Road turnout on State Route 12, about nine miles east of Aberdeen.
The dead ducks included 8 hen Mallards, 18 Drake Mallards and two smaller birds.
Officers believe the ducks were shot over the Christmas holiday weekend and may have been disposed of illegally. Wasting wildlife is considered a gross misdemeanor.
Anyone with information or tips is asked to call WDFW Police Dispatch at 360-902-2936 or case officer Becker at 360-742-8516.
3K supporters
Petition update
Public Hearing Notice
Montague, MI
Jan 2, 2018 — The petition has made so much progress in the last month and a half! A public hearing has been scheduled for January 10th at the Montague High School Auditorium with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. From 6-7 PM there will be a Question and Answer session and from 7-8 PM the people of the community will be allowed to share their comments to the DEQ.
We want to have as many people as possible in attendance to send a strong message to Marsh Swine Farm and the DEQ that we do NOT want the permit granted. All are welcome to attend!
2,730 have signed. Let’s get to 5,000.
Marsh Swine Farm: Stop a Factory Farm…
By Greenpeace: “A polar bear nursery, a Russian oil company and one of the most beautiful islands on earth“. Blogpost by Maria Favorsky – 12 November, 2014 at 16:30
Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean is a distant land of polar bears and whales, northern lights and shining ice. It’s also a nature reserve and one of only two UNESCO Natural Heritage sites in the Arctic. It should be the most peaceful place on Earth, but in the last months this peace has been shattered.
A Sacramento County man entered a no contest plea Tuesday to charges of poaching a huge blacktail deer in Sacramento County. John Frederick Kautz, 51, of Lodi, was charged with possession of an illegally poached deer and falsification of deer tag reporting information, both misdemeanors, following a three-month investigation.
Poached deer with trophy-sized antlers. December 2017.
Kautz illegally killed the trophy-sized buck on private property in Wilton in December 2016, two months after the deer season closed in the area. The deer had an antler spread of 31 inches with four antler points on one side and five on the other, which is an unusually large size for this part of California.
Kautz transported the illegally killed deer across state lines to Nevada to have the deer head mounted by a taxidermist. Kautz was also working through the process of scoring the trophy class buck to have it entered into the Safari Club International hunting record book. The deer’s trophy-sized antlers would have been surely accepted if the animal had been legally taken. However, the poaching conviction for the buck makes it ineligible for that recognition.
Working on a tip provided in September 2017, Wildlife Officers Sean Pirtle and Anthony Marrone spent an exhaustive three months on the investigation, collecting evidence that would prove the year-old incident was an act of poaching. Through extensive interviews, multiple search warrants and forensic analysis of computer records, and with the help of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) Computer Crimes Unit, they slowly pieced together the puzzle. Then, collaborating with Nevada game wardens who conducted multiple follow-up interviews outside of California, they worked together in an attempt to track down the actual deer that had been mounted by the Nevada taxidermist.
All California wildlife officers are federally deputized to investigate fish and wildlife crimes anywhere in the United States. The wildlife officers submitted the case to the Sacramento County District Attorney’s office for prosecution.
On Dec. 19, Sacramento County Deputy District Attorney David Brown announced a plea bargain resulting in a conviction of two poaching related misdemeanors. Kautz was sentenced to two days in county jail, placed on three years probation with a search and seizure clause, ordered to surrender the mounted deer head and was prohibited by the court from hunting or accompanying anyone else who is hunting during his probation. The fine was set at $5,000 pursuant to a new legislation and regulation package which took effect on July 1, 2017, increasing penalties associated with poaching “trophy class” or very large wild game animals.
The vast majority of hunters are ethical and abide by hunting laws and regulations, including the individual who provided this tip that helped lead to Kautz’s conviction.
“We would like to thank our wildlife law enforcement partners in Nevada and the CHP, and the Sacramento County District Attorney’s office for their assistance in this investigation and the subsequent prosecution, and the hunter who gave us the original tip,” said David Bess, CDFW Deputy Director and Law Enforcement Division Chief.
“We are also pleased how the newly effective legislation and regulations package helped increase the penalties in this case to hopefully deter others from the same poaching behavior. A case like this is exactly why this package was enacted.”
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Media Contact: Capt. Patrick Foy, CDFW Law Enforcement Division, (916) 651-6692
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