Câmara proíbe touradas no município
OIPA Portugal
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Fim das touradas em Viana do Castelo expande-se agora a todo o concelho
Depois de banir a realização de touradas em Viana do Castelo, no final do ano anterior, a Câmara Municipal decidiu agora estender essa proibição a todo o concelho.
Câmara proíbe touradas no município
Câmara proíbe touradas no município
Friday, February 27, 2009
Europe: BAN THE CRUEL SEAL TRADE - YOUR URGENT ACTION REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY
http://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/europe-ban-the-cruel-seal-trade-your-urgent-action-required-immediately/
This Spring, the European Parliament will vote on a historicproposal to ban EU trade in seal products — a ban that wouldsave millions of seals from cruel commercial slaughter.
On 2nd March, the Internal Markets and Consumer ProtectionCommittee (IMCO) of the Parliament will decide what amendmentsshould be made to the ban proposal. This vote is critical: whatIMCO decides next Monday will determine what the entireParliament will vote on from now.
Contact your MEPs and ask them to vote to save seals.Click here:
https://community.hsus.org/ct/Hd_r5Ap1lzZp/takeaction
The issue should be clear cut for IMCO. After all, a record 425MEPs have called for a strong ban on seal product trade. Butsome members of IMCO are seeking to undermine the proposal, andhave put forward amendments that would reduce the ban to atoothless labeling scheme — which would allow the cruel sealproduct trade to continue.
Your MEPs sit on IMCO, and in the lead up to the Parliamentaryelections, your voice counts more than ever. Please let yourMEPs know that you support an unconditional prohibition on sealproduct trade, and that you will not accept anything less.
This Spring, the European Parliament will vote on a historicproposal to ban EU trade in seal products — a ban that wouldsave millions of seals from cruel commercial slaughter.
On 2nd March, the Internal Markets and Consumer ProtectionCommittee (IMCO) of the Parliament will decide what amendmentsshould be made to the ban proposal. This vote is critical: whatIMCO decides next Monday will determine what the entireParliament will vote on from now.
Contact your MEPs and ask them to vote to save seals.Click here:
https://community.hsus.org/ct/Hd_r5Ap1lzZp/takeaction
The issue should be clear cut for IMCO. After all, a record 425MEPs have called for a strong ban on seal product trade. Butsome members of IMCO are seeking to undermine the proposal, andhave put forward amendments that would reduce the ban to atoothless labeling scheme — which would allow the cruel sealproduct trade to continue.
Your MEPs sit on IMCO, and in the lead up to the Parliamentaryelections, your voice counts more than ever. Please let yourMEPs know that you support an unconditional prohibition on sealproduct trade, and that you will not accept anything less.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Partido Para Os Animais
Um partido político holandês cuja prioridade é o bem-estar animal e o respeitoso tratamento de animais.
Estão representados na Câmara dos Representantes, no Senado e nos Estados Provinciais.
Nunca antes um partido político, dedicado ao bem-estar animal foi eleito para um parlamento nacional em qualquer outro lugar do mundo.
O Partido para os Animais é o partido político com mais rápido crescimento na Holanda. Agem como um 'pacemaker' no parlamento, em outras palavras, encorajam os outros partidos políticos para se deslocar mais rapidamente quando se trata de bem-estar animal. Desde a criação do Partido para os Animais, tem havido um grande interesse do partido no estrangeiro.
Criaram este site internacional, que prevê uma série de informações úteis.
Todas as segundas-feiras, a partir das 15h (na Holanda), haverá um novo texto no Worldlog de Marianne Thieme, a líder do Partido para os Animais.
Este não será apenas disponível em Inglês, mas também em francês, alemão, italiano, espanhol, Português. Turco e russo.
O Partido para os Animais acredita que os animais devem ter os direitos que eles merecem.
Gostariam , pois, de unir forças com outros países Quantos mais partidos para o bem estar dos animais criados em todo o mundo, melhor.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Against killing of strays within the European Union ( 2nd petition)
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/against-killing-of-strays-within-the-european-union.html
Background (Preamble):
Please HELP prevent the European Union from implementing the mass killings of stray animals and the union-wide installation of killing shelters by signing this petition! The problem: The growing numbers of abandoned and free-roaming pets (especially dogs and cats) have become a problem in some European states. More and more we are confronted with horrific news about and pictures of animals that have been poisoned or otherwise killed and animals who have been subjected to terrible abuse. Animal welfare activists have been trying for many years to improve the situation for strays and have made great personal and financial efforts to do so. Within the affected countries the legal protection of pets is either missing, completely inadequate or rarely implemented.In recent times throughout the world and in some European countries strays have been held responsible for the spread of rabies and other diseases. In some countries mass killings of roaming dogs and cats have already been undertaken under this pretence.The legislators In May 2008 the European Union published the “European Parliament resolution of 22 May 2008 on a new animal health strategy for the European Union 2007-2013 (2007/2260(INI)). Beside other aspects this strategy provides for a strong dependency on the “Draft guidelines on stray dog population control” of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) formulated by the Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission (Report October 2008). All member states of the EU are members of the OIE as well.The solution of the stray dog problem in accordance with the OIE The draft guidelines of the OIE have already accepted methods used by various non-European countries. The guidelines of OIE are strongly targeted on economic aspects. They define clearly the methods required for implementation of containment of rabies connected with the stray problem. The OIE, whose leading commissioners come from countries having problems with strays, naturally support the immediate elimination of the problem. The fastest solution for solving the stray problem according to the OIE guidelines is euthanasia of the animals.The “humane” methods accepted by the OIE for eliminating stray populations range from the insertion of a captive bolt into the head followed by pithing prior to exsanguination - to death in gas chambers or electrocution.According to the OIE the responsibility for the decision about the fate of strays living in a certain region is carried by the local authorities alone. Veterinarians and animal welfare organisations are degraded to 'gophers' of the local authorities and their politicians.The consequences for Europe This appalling document of the OIE means not only a sentence of death for stray dogs world-wide, it is also approved by the majority of the EU representatives according to the result of their voting on the “European Parliament resolution of 22 May 2008 on a new animal health strategy for the European Union 2007-2013 (2007/2260(INI))”.However, no such bill has yet been passed. But, because the EU is planning to apply for OIE membership and because all member states of the EU are members of the OIE as well, there exists the great danger that in Europe killing shelters and mass killings of stray animals will be established by law. Such killings will not be performed only in times of acute rabies in some regions. They can be conducted as well in cases where human beings feel bothered or harassed by faeces and noise, or when the animals are feared to be the cause of obstruction of traffic. A dog may be killed if it is said it was dangerous or if a town or a municipality has insufficient financial resources for vaccination or castration or to keep animals in a shelter for a longer period of time. We all know, what can happen if local authorities are the decision makers (see e.g. Serbia, Turkey, China, etc.)! There, even mass killings are accepted as a legal method of epidemic control. Instead of stopping the mass production of pets, the uncontrolled breeding and the mass import of kittens and puppies, the OIE allows such “breeders” to continue their business with impunity. The OIE wishes only that dog breeders and dealers should be encouraged to form or join an appropriate association. Euthanasia of our companion animals becomes a solution for a human-made problem that people are not willing to solve. To eliminate the stray problem people need to develop compassion or responsibility. In fact people will be encouraged to act irresponsibly if the right to kill pets is handed to them.The right to practise euthanasia in order to eliminate a self-created problem makes things easy for politicians and obviates the necessity of teaching their citizens to treat animals with respect. The high standards of animal welfare in Europe and the decades of efforts to produce better animal welfare of many persons will go for nothing. The brutalisation of humans towards their companion animals will be another consequence.Some countries, where today an effective animal welfare exists, will have to get used to the legalised and arbitrary killing of their pets by local authority diktat. In the same manner animals will be increasingly treated as disposable by irresponsible people.Our claims With regard to animals that have been maltreated, abused and abandoned, we do have to protest against legislation that legalises the killing of pets and stray animals. This petition aims to prevent such legislation from coming into effect and make sure that the European Convention for the Protection of Pet Animals (Strasbourg, 13.XI.1987) will be improved. This petition supports legislation that protects stray animals in Europe and does not hand them over to be killed by local authorities.Our thanks go to all who sign this petition and fight to help the strays in Europe.Because European Parliament will decide about animal welfare in Europe in May 2009 the petition will be closed latest April 30th 2009!
Documentary reference:
Written declaration on the welfare of pets and stray animals pursuant to Rule 116 of the Rules of Procedure by Alain Hutchinson, David Hammerstein and Neil Parish on the welfare of pets and stray animals
European Parliament resolution of 22 May 2008 on a new animal health strategy for the European Union 2007-2013 (2007/2260(INI))
Background (Preamble):
Please HELP prevent the European Union from implementing the mass killings of stray animals and the union-wide installation of killing shelters by signing this petition! The problem: The growing numbers of abandoned and free-roaming pets (especially dogs and cats) have become a problem in some European states. More and more we are confronted with horrific news about and pictures of animals that have been poisoned or otherwise killed and animals who have been subjected to terrible abuse. Animal welfare activists have been trying for many years to improve the situation for strays and have made great personal and financial efforts to do so. Within the affected countries the legal protection of pets is either missing, completely inadequate or rarely implemented.In recent times throughout the world and in some European countries strays have been held responsible for the spread of rabies and other diseases. In some countries mass killings of roaming dogs and cats have already been undertaken under this pretence.The legislators In May 2008 the European Union published the “European Parliament resolution of 22 May 2008 on a new animal health strategy for the European Union 2007-2013 (2007/2260(INI)). Beside other aspects this strategy provides for a strong dependency on the “Draft guidelines on stray dog population control” of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) formulated by the Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission (Report October 2008). All member states of the EU are members of the OIE as well.The solution of the stray dog problem in accordance with the OIE The draft guidelines of the OIE have already accepted methods used by various non-European countries. The guidelines of OIE are strongly targeted on economic aspects. They define clearly the methods required for implementation of containment of rabies connected with the stray problem. The OIE, whose leading commissioners come from countries having problems with strays, naturally support the immediate elimination of the problem. The fastest solution for solving the stray problem according to the OIE guidelines is euthanasia of the animals.The “humane” methods accepted by the OIE for eliminating stray populations range from the insertion of a captive bolt into the head followed by pithing prior to exsanguination - to death in gas chambers or electrocution.According to the OIE the responsibility for the decision about the fate of strays living in a certain region is carried by the local authorities alone. Veterinarians and animal welfare organisations are degraded to 'gophers' of the local authorities and their politicians.The consequences for Europe This appalling document of the OIE means not only a sentence of death for stray dogs world-wide, it is also approved by the majority of the EU representatives according to the result of their voting on the “European Parliament resolution of 22 May 2008 on a new animal health strategy for the European Union 2007-2013 (2007/2260(INI))”.However, no such bill has yet been passed. But, because the EU is planning to apply for OIE membership and because all member states of the EU are members of the OIE as well, there exists the great danger that in Europe killing shelters and mass killings of stray animals will be established by law. Such killings will not be performed only in times of acute rabies in some regions. They can be conducted as well in cases where human beings feel bothered or harassed by faeces and noise, or when the animals are feared to be the cause of obstruction of traffic. A dog may be killed if it is said it was dangerous or if a town or a municipality has insufficient financial resources for vaccination or castration or to keep animals in a shelter for a longer period of time. We all know, what can happen if local authorities are the decision makers (see e.g. Serbia, Turkey, China, etc.)! There, even mass killings are accepted as a legal method of epidemic control. Instead of stopping the mass production of pets, the uncontrolled breeding and the mass import of kittens and puppies, the OIE allows such “breeders” to continue their business with impunity. The OIE wishes only that dog breeders and dealers should be encouraged to form or join an appropriate association. Euthanasia of our companion animals becomes a solution for a human-made problem that people are not willing to solve. To eliminate the stray problem people need to develop compassion or responsibility. In fact people will be encouraged to act irresponsibly if the right to kill pets is handed to them.The right to practise euthanasia in order to eliminate a self-created problem makes things easy for politicians and obviates the necessity of teaching their citizens to treat animals with respect. The high standards of animal welfare in Europe and the decades of efforts to produce better animal welfare of many persons will go for nothing. The brutalisation of humans towards their companion animals will be another consequence.Some countries, where today an effective animal welfare exists, will have to get used to the legalised and arbitrary killing of their pets by local authority diktat. In the same manner animals will be increasingly treated as disposable by irresponsible people.Our claims With regard to animals that have been maltreated, abused and abandoned, we do have to protest against legislation that legalises the killing of pets and stray animals. This petition aims to prevent such legislation from coming into effect and make sure that the European Convention for the Protection of Pet Animals (Strasbourg, 13.XI.1987) will be improved. This petition supports legislation that protects stray animals in Europe and does not hand them over to be killed by local authorities.Our thanks go to all who sign this petition and fight to help the strays in Europe.Because European Parliament will decide about animal welfare in Europe in May 2009 the petition will be closed latest April 30th 2009!
Documentary reference:
Written declaration on the welfare of pets and stray animals pursuant to Rule 116 of the Rules of Procedure by Alain Hutchinson, David Hammerstein and Neil Parish on the welfare of pets and stray animals
European Parliament resolution of 22 May 2008 on a new animal health strategy for the European Union 2007-2013 (2007/2260(INI))
Against killing of strays within the European Union ( 1 st petition) The Petition Site
Against killing of strays within the European Union - The Petition Site: "Against killing of strays within the European Union
Please HELP prevent the European Union from implementing the mass killings of stray animals and the union-wide installation of killing shelters by signing this petition!"
Please HELP prevent the European Union from implementing the mass killings of stray animals and the union-wide installation of killing shelters by signing this petition!"
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Atrocidades e Crimes no Canil Municipal de Lisboa
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/atrocidades-e-crimes-no-canil-municipal-de-lisboa.html
PetiçãoNós, abaixo assinados, tendo tido conhecimento de mais uma barbaridade repugnante cometida no Canil Municipal de Lisboa, que resultou na morte dum gato cinzento, molestando gravemente as pessoas envolvidas e todas as pessoas civilizadas que gostam de animais e respeitam os animaisExigimos:
- Que as zonas interiores do Canil Municipal de Lisboa sejam imediatamente interditas à permanência de animais saudáveis por períodos superiores a 6 horas (tempo suficiente para rastreios, etc.);- Que os autores de mais este acto bárbaro e desumano, de mais este crime, sejam punidos com rigor devendo o caso e os castigos terem ampla divulgação e exposição pública, a fim de evitar que outros, de igual má índole, caiam na tentação de fazer o mesmo.Informamos que iremos boicotar o pagamento das taxas e impostos municipais, nomeadamente do IMI, e/ou promover o boicote a estes pagamentos se a Edilidade ousar continuar a ignorar o assunto e a indignação e revolta que provoca nas pessoas civilizadas e não resolver este vergonhoso problema com a celeridade e rigor exigíveis. O boicote prolongar-se-á até que a nossas exigências sejam satisfeitas cabalmente.
PetiçãoNós, abaixo assinados, tendo tido conhecimento de mais uma barbaridade repugnante cometida no Canil Municipal de Lisboa, que resultou na morte dum gato cinzento, molestando gravemente as pessoas envolvidas e todas as pessoas civilizadas que gostam de animais e respeitam os animaisExigimos:
- Que as zonas interiores do Canil Municipal de Lisboa sejam imediatamente interditas à permanência de animais saudáveis por períodos superiores a 6 horas (tempo suficiente para rastreios, etc.);- Que os autores de mais este acto bárbaro e desumano, de mais este crime, sejam punidos com rigor devendo o caso e os castigos terem ampla divulgação e exposição pública, a fim de evitar que outros, de igual má índole, caiam na tentação de fazer o mesmo.Informamos que iremos boicotar o pagamento das taxas e impostos municipais, nomeadamente do IMI, e/ou promover o boicote a estes pagamentos se a Edilidade ousar continuar a ignorar o assunto e a indignação e revolta que provoca nas pessoas civilizadas e não resolver este vergonhoso problema com a celeridade e rigor exigíveis. O boicote prolongar-se-á até que a nossas exigências sejam satisfeitas cabalmente.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Hundehilfe Portugal
http://www.hundehilfe-portugal.de/index.htm
Photos of abandoned animals from Portugal that our association tries to save.
Em Português
Histórias felizes
http://cantinhodosanimais.blogspot.com/2008/04/hundehilfe-portugal.html
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Ikea devolve dinheiro a clientes - Edredões e almofadas com penas de aves vivas
A marca sueca Ikea vai devolver aos clientes o dinheiro gasto na aquisição de produtos como edredões e almofadas que forem provenientes de fornecedores chineses que utilizam para o seu enchimento penas de aves vivas, segundo notícia do El Pais...
http://www.meiosepublicidade.pt/2009/02/12/ikea-devolve-dinheiro-a-clientes/
http://www.meiosepublicidade.pt/2009/02/12/ikea-devolve-dinheiro-a-clientes/
Aljezur quer acabar com casos de eutanásia de animais
Campanhas de esterilização e castração, sensibilização das populações, campanhas de adopção responsáveis, campanhas contra o abandono e maus-tratos, campanhas de angariação de donativos para financiar as anteriores.Este é um resumo das estratégias e apelos que resultaram do 1º Encontro Pelos Animais, que decorreu recentemente em Aljezur.
Os promotores do evento, veterinários e associações de animais, com o apoio da Câmara de Aljezur, salientaram que é urgente acabar com a eutanásia de cães e gatos na região.
“Existem muitos canis onde os animais são eutanasiados ao fim de alguns dias”, denunciaram os responsáveis, salientando que essa actuação demonstra falta de interesse em relação ao bem-estar animal, apelando aos visados uma atitude “mais humana, actual e civilizada”.
“Muitos municípios continuam sem qualquer politica de prevenção e actuação a nível do bem-estar animal”, criticaram ainda os veterinários e associações envolvidas nesta iniciativa.
Segundo os mesmos, “a eutanásia não pode nunca ser um método de controlo populacional” dos animais nos canis.
No encontro, que teve lugar no Espaço + em Aljezur, foram abordados ainda outros temas, tais como, “a importância do trabalho dos médicos veterinários municipais junto das populações e a sua colaboração com associações e grupos de voluntários, os bons exemplos existentes no país a ambos os níveis, a responsabilidade dos municípios na protecção dos animais, a importância das campanhas de educação junto das populações, as vantagens das campanhas de esterilização de animais vadios ou errantes e a questão da adopção de animais a partir de canis municipais”.
Perspectiva moderna e actual
“Numa perspectiva moderna e actual da defesa do bem-estar e saúde animal e, ainda, da saúde pública e higiene pública veterinárias, parece-nos fundamental identificar estratégias de actuação concertadas, criar sinergias, potenciar acções e agilizar procedimentos”, justificaram.
De acordo com os responsáveis, “o médico veterinário municipal apresenta-se, actualmente, como a autoridade veterinária mais bem posicionada em todas as questões que se relacionam com bem-estar animal, saúde animal e saúde pública, em cada concelho, podendo e devendo a sua actuação ser optimizada pela colaboração dialogante com associações de protecção animal”.
Neste encontro participaram diversas associações de protecção animal vindos de vários pontos do país.
http://www.jornaldoalgarve.pt/artigos.aspx?id=9466
Declaração sobre o bem-estar dos animais de companhia e dos animais errantes na União Europeia.
Um pedido para cada cidadão da UE agir e agir AGORA.
ESTE É UM DOCUMENTO DE VITAL PARA O FUTURO DOS ANIMAIS DE COMPANHIA E ANIMAIS ERRANTES DE TODA A UNIÃO EUROPEIA .
ESTE é o caminho a seguir para uma melhor protecção dos animais errantes em toda a Europa, Sérvia e Balcãs . Agora precisamos ABSOLUTAMENTE de assegurar que um número máximo de deputados do Parlamento Europeu (MPE) vote a favor (apoio) da presente Convenção Europeia.
Este documento foi apresentado nos termos do artigo 116.º do Regimento
por Alain Hutchinson, David Hammerstein e Neil Parish
sobre o bem-estar dos animais de companhia e dos animais errantes
por Alain Hutchinson, David Hammerstein e Neil Parish
sobre o bem-estar dos animais de companhia e dos animais errantes
Se for apoiada por mais de metade dos deputados no Parlamento Europeu, poderá fazer com que a União Europeia chame a si, pelo menos em parte, a tomada de medidas legislativas de protecção dos animais de companhia com lar e errantes da UE.
LEIA A
Declaração escrita sobre o bem-estar dos animais de companhia e dos animais errantes
ESCREVA AOS EURODEPUTADOS PORTUGUESES A PEDIR QUE ASSINEM A DECLARAÇÃO
Emails dos Eurodeputados Portugueses
paulo.casaca@europarl.europa.eu, carlos.coelho@europarl.europa.eu, assuncao.esteves@europarl.europa.eu, edite.estrela@europarl.europa.eu, elisa.ferreira@europarl.europa.eu, ilda.figueiredo@europarl.europa.eu, vasco.gracamoura@europarl.europa.eu, joel.hasseferreira@europarl.europa.eu, joao.pinheiro@europarl.europa.eu, jose.ribeiroecastro@europarl.europa.eu, manuel.dossantos@europarl.europa.eu, jose.silvapeneda@europarl.europa.eu, sergio.sousapinto@europarl.europa.eu,
Carta exemplo
Exm.(as)(os) Senhor(as)(es) Deputad(as)(os),
Como cidadã(o) da UE e defensor(a) do bem-estar animal, com plena consciência do enorme sofrimento infligido aos animais em vários países da União Europeia, bem como muitos ainda não inseridos na UE, concordo plenamente com a declaração apresentada pelo Sr. Alain Hutchinson, David Hammerstein Sr. e Sr. Neil Parish (MPE) sobre o "bem-estar dos animais de estimação e animais errantes ou abandonados".
Pessoalmente, solicito que assine a declaração e dê o seu pleno apoio como deputado a estas importantes propostas relativas à legislação do bem-estar animal em todas as oportunidades ao longo da sua transição no Parlamento.
Pessoalmente, solicito que assine a declaração e dê o seu pleno apoio como deputado a estas importantes propostas relativas à legislação do bem-estar animal em todas as oportunidades ao longo da sua transição no Parlamento.
Agradecendo desde já a sua atenção e com os melhores cumprimentos
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Após ter enviado a minha mensagem aos Eurodeputados no dia 5 de Fevereiro, foi com bastante agrado que recebi hoje a primeira resposta por parte do Membro Europeu Carlos Coelho que me informava que assinara a referida Declaração como se pode ver em
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