Brigitte Bardot responds to Trump's new anything goes hunting laws
Brigitte Bardot, possibly once the most famous 20th century French woman, has devoted her later life to the welfare of other species, via the Brigitte Bardot Foundation.
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Changes to the Victorian Wildlife (Game) hunting laws - Australian Wildlife Council (AWPC)
75% of Victorians think that shooting of native water birds should be banned. 91% of people living in Melbourne don't want shooting and 77% in the country agree.
NSW Minister Hodgkinson asked to stop laws permitting 12 year olds to attack animals
The World League for the Protection of Animals has expressed alarm at a proposed new New South Wales law that would permit children as young as 12, unaccompanied, to pursue and kill with weapons animals declared feral in National Parks.
Mass Slaughter of rhinos in South Africa
The mass slaughter of rhinos have continued in South Africa and with the indiscriminate
slaughter of more than 250 rhinos since January 2010 it can only be described as a
genocide; with all due respect to the human race. The slaughter has been fuelled by man’s greed and the recent arrests of various prominent business men, professional hunters and game farm owners have rocked South African communities.
Input to Tasmanian Wildlife Regulations Review closes 13 August 2010
Tasmanian wildlife are in a terrible situation and there is a great need for better laws to look after their welfare and habitat.
UN ban on seal products - a success for activists
According to an article by Brendan O'Neill in The Australian 13th March, animal activists are thought to be generally caring, ethical and "pure" people, but should remain basically maudlin and ineffective.
Poem - The Wallabies, Flinders Island by Mark O'Connor
THE WALLABIES, FLINDERS ISLAND
I can find the wombat
grass-snuffler, abroad in the day
like a bland hairy pig
or a fallen koala with middle-age spread;
but the small people stay in the ti-tree
watching me out in the open.
For ten thousand years they have kept their fear
without man or dingo
since the sea washed round their hills.
They long to drink, but it isn't safe,
not yet, until after the gun is heard
RSPCA Petition against Shooters Party Bill needs your support now!
Field & Game Australia is emailing all members to vote to beat the Royal Society for Protection & Care of Animals- RSPCA -petition opposing the NSW Shooters Party's bill allowing shooting in national parks.
Field and Game has put up its own petition to beat the RSPCA petition.
African Elephants - still slaughtered for tusk ('ivory') trinkets by backward Japanese and Chinese
The magnificent African Bush Elephant bull (male) walking tall in its native savannah homeland
Robert Borsak - Australia's Sarah Palin? Do you want him in your Parliament?
(Photo from Wikipedia commons - African Elephant)
Russians ban kangaroo-meat due to Systemic Oz hygiene problems
"Meeting a friend out walking one morning." Photo by Wildlife Carer, Anne-Marie.
FGA Hunters used stolen water to draw ducks to slaughter
Guilty plea to water theft in Sale Court
Field and Game Australia’s (FGA) Gippsland spokesperson, Gary Howard, today pleaded guilty in Sale Magistrates’ Court to illegally taking and diverting water under control of an authority. The water was diverted from the Latrobe River onto Heart Morass - the organisation’s private shooting property – just a week prior to the opening of the 2009 duck shooting season.
Shooters Party - fanatical red necks pushing for open season in National Parks
Since May 2009, Robert Brown MP of the Shooters Party has been pushing for the GAME AND FERAL ANIMAL CONTROL AMENDMENT BILL 2009 to be passed into NSW legislation.
Rees' 'red hot go' hunting in our National Parks
NSW Premier Rees is set to pass into law a 'Game and Feral Animal Control Amendment Bill 2009' to permit recreational hunters shooting everything and anything in protected National Parks across NSW including native wildlife.
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