Note: The contents in words and pictures of this article are
based on the facts when it was first published
(18.11.2005).
VGT points out explicitly, that these facts, like the state of law, business conducts, the situation in livestock husbandry, etc. can have changed. |
Austrian activists get in the way of a battle
18./19th November 2005
On the 18th and 19th November a pheasant hunt was held as part
of the
European championship in retrieving injured and dead animals by
retriever dogs in Würmla NÖ.
To this end, pheasants were stuffed into boxes spread about in
the fields, to be released in front of the hunters’ guns.
Pheasant in a so-called “Kistl” (box).
One of the prepared boxes in the fields. In this one there are
8 pheasants.
and animal rights activists (in the yellow jackets) distribute
themselves in the field
A marten and a fox are the victims of the hunt in Böheimkirchen.
Their ‘crime’ was that they compete with the hunters for the pheasants.
.
One of the victims whose death could not be prevented despite
of the presence
of the activists.
A tyre of one of the activists’ cars was punctured.
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