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Showing posts with label Asia - Indonesia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asia - Indonesia. Show all posts

Thursday, November 12, 2015

INDONESIA'S FIRES CALLED A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY - ORANGUTANS AND OTHER ANIMALS ARE THREATENED BY FOREST FIRES deliberately set by villagers to clear land - Much of Southeast Asia under a poisonous haze that affects people's health

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While the US president and other leftist leaders blame the West for climate change (they don't call it global warming anymore), countries in Asia are perpetrating ecological crimes against humanity.
More than 1.7 million hectares (4.2 million acres) of land has been burned and six provinces severely affected by the haze, according to Indonesia's forestry ministry
More than 1.7 million hectares (4.2 million acres) of land has been burned and six provinces severely affected by the haze, according to Indonesia's forestry ministry  
 
Fires deliberately set by villagers to clear land are raging across Indonesia, creating thick smog that's believed to be the caused of 500,000 respiratory infections.  The government has been in readiness to evacuate victims from haze-affected provinces, while pollution caused by the fires has killed many and caused respiratory illnesses in half a million.
 
The conditions are so extreme that Sutopo Puro Nugroho, spokesperson for the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) recently called the persistent haze a "crime against humanity," adding that 43 million people have been inhaling toxic fumes from the smoke for months.
 
Innocent animals are being victimized
A few days ago I posted an article on Indonesia deliberately setting forests on fire to clear land, and then attacking defenseless orangutans who try to flee to safety.   It was the heartbreaking story of a starving mother orangutan with a baby reaching a village only to be stoned by villagers.
 
Nick of time: International Animal Rescue's photo shows a baby orangutan holding onto its malnourished mother while being rescued in Borneo's West Kalimantan province. The pair had escaped a forest fire before being set upon by villagers
 
An endangered Borneo orangutan and its baby escaped from raging fires in Indonesia that destroyed their forest habitat - only to be attacked by angry villagers.  
 
The malnourished mother and youngster, called Gito, were found distressed and clinging to one another as locals hurled rocks at them and tried to tie them up before they were saved by International Animal Rescue (IAC).  Read more here
 
Indonesia's forest fires threaten a third of endangered orangutans.  Fires have spread beyond plantations deep into primary forests and national parks, the last strongholds of the endangered apes.
 
But not much is being reported about Indonesia's ongoing practice of setting fire to the forests, with the resulting destruction of trees, animals' habitat and animals themselves, and the poisoning of the air with smoke that make people ill, not only in Indonesia but in many other parts of Southeast Asia.  

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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

ORANGUTAN MOTHER AND BABY ESCAPE FOREST FIRE ONLY TO BE STONED BY VILLAGERS IN MUSLIM INDONESIA - That country sets fire to forests to clear land for palm oil exports - In INDONESIA they also have the tradition of skinning and BLOWTORCHING DOGS ALIVE to be eaten as food

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Nick of time: International Animal Rescue's photo shows a baby orangutan holding onto its malnourished mother while being rescued in Borneo's West Kalimantan province. The pair had escaped a forest fire before being set upon by villagers

An endangered Borneo orangutan and its baby escaped from raging fires in Indonesia that destroyed their forest habitat - only to be attacked by angry villagers.  The malnourished mother and youngster, called Gito, were found distressed and clinging to one another as locals hurled rocks at them and tried to tie them up before they were saved by International Animal Rescue (IAC).
 
Many apes have fled their forest homes which have been engulfed by fires lit to clear land, only to be attacked by villagers, who regard them as pests.
 Holding on tight: Rescuers quickly anaesthetised the mother to give her treatment with her frightened baby clinging on tightly throughout

Continue reading, and see link to recent article about the tradition of skinning and blowtorching dogs alive.  Asians believe animals taste better that way.

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

SKINNING AND BLOWTORCHING DOGS ALIVE AT MEAT MARKETS - A CULINARY TRADITION IN INDONESIA AND OTHER ASIAN COUNTRIES

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UPDATED
PLEASE WATCH VIDEOS CENSORED BY THE DAILY MAIL

I posted this article on September 23.  I have updated it so that you can watch these videos where CONSCIOUS DOGS ARE BLOWTORCHED ALIVE.
 
Unless people can actually see with their own eyes the excruciating torture these angelic animals endure at the hands of humans in Asia, there cannot be enough OUTRAGE to stop it.  Tourists are still flocking to those countries, and we are still doing business with them.  
 
PLEASE WATCH THESE VIDEOS AND ADVOCATE FOR SOME EFFECTIVE ACTION FOR THOSE GOVERNMENTS TO COMPLETELY OUTLAW THESE CRIMES. 
SIGN the petition but only as a starting point for more effective action. 
Online petitions alone are often ignored and sometimes used to divert public outrage towards something harmless to the countries involved.  You think you are doing something, but you are in fact being duped into doing nothing. 
Talk to your government representatives and international animal welfare organizations. Respectfully write to embassies of countries that engage in this practice. 
Something more needs to be done, perhaps in the area of international trade to make those governments pay attention.
 
Click on Read More further on and watch those censored videos.

Burned alive: Horrifying footage and images taken this week show dogs being burned with a blowtorch while they are still alive 
Cultural Asian tradition:  Skinned and then blowtorched alive in INDONESIA  - According to Asian tradition they taste better that way because the stress hormones released during torture add to the flavor.
Look at the way customers leisurely shop in the background, indifferent to the suffering going on just a few steps away

Cultural and moral relativists tell us that we have no right to criticize other cultures, that there is no good or bad culture, that it's all relative, and that judging other countries' customs is a sign of bias, racism, and worse.
 
Continue reading and learn more about the torture of cats and dogs at food markets in Asia.