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Animals News tagged with Ireland

Ban Digging Out and Terrierwork - ACTION Email
Animals  (tags: abuse, AnimalCruelty, animalrights, Ireland, terrier, fox )

Eureka
- 38 days ago - banbloodsports.com
It is carried out by what can only be described as thugs and sadists who dig animals out with spades and take pleasure in seeing their dogs inflicting the most savage injuries on them. VIDEO on site. Please send one email!
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Ban on Horrific Ferreting - ACTION Email!
Animals  (tags: AnimalCruelty, animalrights, ferret, rabbit, ireland )

Eureka
- 38 days ago - banbloodsports.com
Ferreting involves sending a ferret down a burrow to trap rabbits. The rabbits are either chased out of the hole and into nets or viciously gripped in place by the ferret while a hunter digs away the earth from above them. Please send one email!
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Animal Welfare Groups Welcome Ban on Fur Farming
Animals  (tags: ireland, fur farms, phrased out ban, animal rights groups, animal welfare )

Simone
- 42 days ago - irishtimes.com
ANIMAL WELFARE and rights groups have welcomed the Green Party Programme for Government as a victory for animals here, particularly the ending of fur farming in three years. Caft Ireland (Coalition to abolish the fur trade) said it was "absolutely
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Donegal Fur Farms Set to Close Under Agreement With Irish Government
Animals  (tags: animals, fur farming, set to close, Ireland, suffering, protection, environment )

Cher
- 44 days ago - all-creatures.org
Compassion in World Farming - Ireland has welcomed the Green Party's inclusion of a phase out of fur farming over the next three years in the new agreed Programme for Government
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Horses Will Starve This Winter, Warns Irish Welfare Charity
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, horses, Ireland, environment, protection, death )

Cher
- 63 days ago - horseandhound.co.uk
A leading Irish animal welfare charity is warning that many horses will die this winter -- and is blaming Horse Racing Ireland
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Call on the Irish Government to Implement An Immediate and TOTAL BAN on Fur Farming in Ireland ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, fur farms, Ireland, ban, environment, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 65 days ago - animalrights.change.org
To cut coats, fur farmers pack animals into small cages, preventing them from taking more than a few steps back and forth.
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Renewal of Special Protection Order for the Irish Hare
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, hares, Ireland, killing, ban, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 76 days ago - league.org.uk
The League has cautiously welcomed the renewal of the temporary ban on the killing, taking, sale or purchase of Irish hares. The League calls for the Department of Environment to take a permanent approach which is believed to be absolutely necessary in
2 comments
New Life Over Fife for Rare Sea Eagles
Animals  (tags: norway, ireland, international recovery programme, sea eagles, freedom, released, endangered )

Simone
- 105 days ago - eveningtelegraph.co.uk
Fourteen rare sea eagle chicks brought over from Norway have been released in Fife this week as part of a national recolonisation scheme. The birds -- which can grow to have an eight-foot wingspan -- are part of the East Coast Sea Eagle project
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Eleventh Hour Mercy Plea to Save Death Row Dog Bruce ! PLEASE HELP SAVE THIS DOG!!!!!
Animals  (tags: animals, dogs, BSL, Ireland, euthanasia, death row, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, pets )

Cher
- 146 days ago - dogmagazine.net
Dog lovers around the world have reacted in horror to the recent news that the high profile case of pet dog "Bruce" may finally be over as a court orders he be destroyed in a few days time ending an exhaustive twenty one month battle to save him.
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Sign Petition: Ban Fur Farming in Ireland
Animals  (tags: animals, fashion, mink, fox, fur, farms, ireland, animalcruelty, cruelty, death, suffering, gassing, electrocution, confined, cages, sadness )

Tom
- 168 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Fur farming is legal in the Republic of Ireland. Mink and foxes on fur farms are reared highly intensively in small cages before being killed at about 6 months old for their fur pelts. The pelts are exported for sale on the international fur markets.
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Ireland: Pig Abuse Investigation Undertaken and Exposed By ARAN
Animals  (tags: animals, pigs, cruelty, Ireland, investigation, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, environment, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 182 days ago - serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com
Animal Rights Action Network <http://www.aran.ie/> has just released heartbreaking undercover footage obtained directly inside an Irish pig breeding facility in Ireland.
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PLEASE TAKE ACTION: Stop the Poisoning of Eagles in Ireland (SPÉIR)
Animals  (tags: ireland, birds of prey, eagles, golden eagles, poisoned, killed, endangered, disappearing )

Simone
- 192 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Historically Ireland had two species of Eagles, namely White-tailed Eagle and Golden Eagle, distributed widely but thinly across the country. Historically, Eagles were revered by Irish people, praised in folklore, poetry and art. Place names, the Book
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10 Years of Irish Bird Reports Shows Mixed Results
Animals  (tags: birds, Ireland, population changes, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 239 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
BirdWatch Ireland has published a milestone report on the changes in Ireland's inland breeding bird populations over the past 10 years. These results are based on the Countryside Bird Survey (CBS) which is a joint project of BirdWatch Ireland and the
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Cruelty of 'Blooding' Greyhounds
Animals  (tags: animal cruelty, greyhounds, bloodied, live animals, torn apart, widespread, ireland, australia )

Simone
- 241 days ago - irishtimes.com
Listeners to RTE's Liveline this week will have been shocked by the graphic account of animal cruelty given by a caller who witnessed the "blooding" of greyhounds with live rabbits. This practice is widespread in Ireland, and an integral part of both
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End The Ward Union Carted Stag Hunt- PETITION
Animals  (tags: carted stag, abused, chased, hurt, injured, frightened, enivronment minister, ireland, stag abused, animal cruelty, suffering, ban carted stag hunts, animal advocateswildlife )

Simone
- 292 days ago - gopetition.com
CARTED STAG HUNTING IS A CRUEL PRACTISE THAT ONLY EXISTS IN IRELAND. DEER USED BY THIS HUNT ARE PURSUED FOR HOURS,GET INJURED, SOMETIMES DIE OF STRESS OR END UP TANGLED IN WIRE. MANY FARMERS AS WELL AS PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE AREA WANT TO END THIS DUE TO
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