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#OpDolphinByCatch: French fishermen have sunk to a new low, carving the message 'Sea Shepherd F*ck' into the carcass of a dead dolphin, found washed up on a beach by Sea Shepherd crew.
This deplorable act only strengthens Sea Shepherd's resolve to continue our campaign until the laws are changed to require cameras on these fishing vessels.
In 2019, 11300 dolphins were killed on the French Atlantic coast as bycatch in fishing nets. Sea Shepherd is patrolling the area to document and inform the public of what is really happening.
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THE CRIMINALLY INSANE FEEL THEY NEED TO MURDER THE TRUE APEX PREDATORS...with guns, of course, as they could not any other way...and they travel in gangs, as well as pay guides to help, too...while governments make it all legal, so they can sell licenses to kill.....many big cats are going extinct, these jaguars and lions are not here to be a trophy for men with feelings of inadequacies...HUNTING IS WHAT CATS DO NATURALLY, HUMANS THAT KILL ARE MURDERING IN THE FIRST DEGREE -- Animal Freedom Fighter
Enough already with the logging. Where and for what are all this lumber going??
Koalas found dead on Australia logging plantation - Dozens of koalas have been found dead or injured at a timber plantation in the Australian state of Victoria, sparking an investigation by officials. Blue gum trees - an important koala habitat - were harvested from the plantation in December, leaving only a few isolated stands of trees. Some koalas had starved to death in the remaining trees. Others were apparently killed by bulldozers. About 80 surviving koalas have been removed and are being cared for. The deaths come after tens of thousands of koalas were killed in the bushfires that have ravaged Australia. The marsupial is listed as "vulnerable" by Australia's Environment Ministry.
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How many times does JOE BIDEN have to insult voters before they say: NO TO JOE?
You HAVE to read this article. Beyond disgusting. Seriously, only total douchebag dickwads would be involved in this - including you, Trump Jr. - Ted
"This is perhaps one of the world’s largest such gatherings, and it’s a grim affair. On offer will be more than 300 trophy hunts here in the United States and abroad, with starting bids ranging from $1,650 to $100,000 each. By the time the convention wraps up on Feb. 8, at least 860 animals, including black bears, wolves, leopards and elephants, will be condemned to die.
Peddling off one of those animal lives will be Donald Trump, Jr., a trophy hunter himself who was recently in the news for killing an argali sheep, an animal protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, during a trip to Mongolia. Trump Jr. will auction off a black-tailed deer hunt in Alaska for a starting bid of $17,000.
The convention is expected to rake in $5 million for the SCI. Meanwhile, the methods of killing trophy hunters employ are becoming more gruesome every year. Among the vendors at the convention this year is HHK Safaris, which describes itself as “Africa’s largest safari operator.” This outfitter has been the subject of recent media coverage for shooting leopards in the legs ahead of time so trophy hunters can go in and make a certain kill: a practice known as “kneecapping”."
Next Wednesday, trophy hunters with a yen for slaying some of the world’s most endangered and threatened animals will gather in Reno, Nevada, for the annual Safari Club International convention.
This is perhaps one of the world’s largest such gatherings, and it’s a grim affair. On offer will be more than 300 trophy hunts here in the United States and abroad, with starting bids ranging from $1,650 to $100,000 each. By the time the convention wraps up on Feb. 8, at least 860 animals, including black bears, wolves, leopards and elephants, will be condemned to die.
Peddling off one of those animal lives will be Donald Trump, Jr., a trophy hunter himself who was recently in the news for killing an argali sheep, an animal protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, during a trip to Mongolia. Trump Jr. will auction off a black-tailed deer hunt in Alaska for a starting bid of $17,000.
The convention is expected to rake in $5 million for the SCI. Meanwhile, the methods of killing trophy hunters employ are becoming more gruesome every year. Among the vendors at the convention this year is HHK Safaris, which describes itself as “Africa’s largest safari operator.” This outfitter has been the subject of recent media coverage for shooting leopards in the legs ahead of time so trophy hunters can go in and make a certain kill: a practice known as “kneecapping”.
At last year’s convention, vendors offering captive-bred lion hunts hawked the majestic animals as if they were pieces of furniture. The price of a lion hunt was largely determined by the size of the animal and his mane, ranging from “budget” to “deluxe.” One attendee bragged that he and his children participated in a canned hunt, killing a lion within 90 minutes. A hunt operator attempting to make a sale offered to bait lions with meat ahead of the trophy hunter’s arrival, to save time.
Trophy hunters often hold out the false claim that their work helps wildlife conservation and local people. Nothing could be further from the truth. Studies show that hardly any of the money from trophy hunting actually trickles down to local people in the range nations. And the rarer the animal, the more trophy hunters prize it, which means they often end up decimating populations of animals that are already struggling to survive. Our analysis of SCI’s “Record Book” for 2015 showed SCI members have killed mindboggling numbers of endangered and at-risk animals, including at least 2,007 African lions, 1,888 African leopards, 791 African elephants and 572 critically endangered black rhinos, among other animals.
People around the globe are increasingly becoming aware of this needless killing of the world’s precious wildlife and are voicing their objection. Recently we reported how an SCI chapter in Calgary, Canada, was forced to call off its planned auction of the first elephant trophy hunt in Botswana in seven years following local protests. Trump Jr.’s trophy hunt of the argali sheep was met with shock by large numbers of Americans and HSUS and HSI have urged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to not allow the import of that trophy. Last week, music group REO Speedwagon pulled out of their scheduled performance at the SCI convention.
These are promising signs for our cause, and it is also encouraging that attendance at the convention has been dwindling year after year. In a world in which a million species are fast disappearing because of direct exploitation, climate change, habitat loss and poaching, no one has the patience anymore to indulge trophy hunters and their killing of wildlife for fun.
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I'm telling you. God. Is. PISSED to see his beloved earth and creatures treated this way. My advice to him? Fire and brimstone on all these ahole loggers - from the CEO's down to the workers. - Ted
Victorian wildlife authorities are investigating reports of a "koala massacre" in the state’s south-west, with hundreds of the marsupials alleged to have been starved when their habitat was logged, their bodies then bulldozed into waste piles. Volunteers and government workers were on the scene at Cape Bridgewater on Sunday, trying to rescue dozens of surviving koalas.
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Victorian wildlife authorities are investigating reports of a "koala massacre" in the state’s south-west, with hundreds of the marsupials alleged to have been starved when their habitat was logged, their bodies then bulldozed into waste piles.
Volunteers and government workers were on the scene at Cape Bridgewater on Sunday, trying to rescue dozens of surviving koalas.
The deaths are believed to be the result of clear-fell logging of a plantation of bluegum trees, according to conservation group Friends of the Earth, with the operation leaving hundreds of koalas to starve, a version of events disputed by the logging industry.
Friends of the Earth said the "koala massacre" came to light when local activists saw bulldozers pushing the bodies of dead koalas into waste piles left over from the main logging operations.
The logging industry group said on Sunday that the forestry contractor who harvested the bluegum plantation in November followed all of the stringent wildlife protocols in place to protect koalas.
The Australian Forest Products Association says the land and its remaining trees were bulldozed after the contractor had left, with the lobby group pledging to hold its own investigation into the incident.
The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning confirmed on Sunday morning that it had been at Cape Bridgewater, about 14 kilometres west of Portland, for several days and had rescued a number of animals.
The news comes after many thousands of koala deaths in the bushfires that ravaged the east and north of the state in December and January.
The department said it was prepared to prosecute over the events.
"We are extremely concerned about these reports of a koala population on private land near Cape Bridgewater where animals are showing signs of starvation and injury," a spokeswoman said.
"The conservation regulator is currently investigating this matter, with the department.
"If this is found to be due to deliberate human action, we expect the conservation regulator to act swiftly against those responsible."
The departmental spokeswoman said the rescue and recovery operation was set to continue in the coming days.
Hundreds of koalas are feared dead in what has tonight been described as a 'massacre' near Portland.
"Wildlife welfare assessment and triage will continue with qualified carers and vets," she said.
"[The department] will be onsite ensuring resources and expertise is available to continue to care for wildlife injured."
Australian Forest Products Association chief executive Ross Hampton condemned those responsible for the koala deaths and injuries.
"All those who work in our forest industries join with the community in appalled shock at what appears to be a callous act of animal cruelty," Mr Hampton said.
"It is unclear as yet who bulldozed the trees with the koalas apparently still in them, but it is absolutely certain that this was not a plantation or a forestry company.
"We support all those calling for the full force of the law to be applied to the perpetrator."
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