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The slaughter tourism trade in Serbia

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More campaign photos at the FB page of the BPSSS/BirdLife Serbia). And that flight is illegal because EU legislation does not allow export of game meat from Serbia to EU. Left: David Lindo, a.k.a. The Urban Birder is a broadcaster, writer, naturalist, photographer, public speaker and a tour leader. He cares about Turtle Doves – do you?

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Sea Shepherd Goes on Mission to Protect Bluefin Tuna

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Sea Shepherd doesn’t protest, Sea Shepherd intervenes against illegal activity. So it doesn’t affect our campaign,” he says. “The fact is, they’re exceeding their quota limits in the Mediterranean and they’re doing that every year.

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Sea Shepherd to be in Animal Planet

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During Sea Shepherd’s Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign: Operation Migaloo in 2007/08, Animal Planet had a camera crew on board a campaign that saved the lives of nearly 500 whales, leaving the Japanese fleet with less then half of their quota and costing them tens of millions of dollars.

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Protecting the Hyacinth Macaw and the Cerrado

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Illegal capture for the wild animal trade is an obvious peril for such a charismatic species, but this big blue bird is also hunted both for its meat and feathers. Check out the World Wildlife Fund’s creative campaign to save the Cerrado. Such cavities are hard to find and are sometimes disputed by more than one species.

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Organizations Putting Animals First

4 The Love Of Animals

Through heart-wrenching rescues, informative awareness campaigns and much more, they are striving to make a difference in the world for those that don’t have a voice. Proving that society’s conscience hasn’t been completely compromised, these companies and their employees make it a point to put animals first.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The law speaks specifically and narrowly to the distribution for profit of videos that show illegal acts of cruelty actually being performed on live animals (my italics). Only a very narrow range of activities come under the sweep of this law, and all of them are illegal. Lawrence A. Mandelker New York, Oct.

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We are Just Money Grubbers

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Illegal spring hunting and round-ups of moulting birds are taking place on the Russian breeding grounds and illegal shooting continues in Norway. They are under very heavy hunting pressure in Serbia and after 15 years of campaign , are finally off the shooting list. Disturbance on breeding grounds (e.g.

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