Nepal Celebrates A Full Year Without Poaching
By Elana Pisani
(WILDLIFE/POACHING) This month, Nepal celebrates one year without wildlife poaching. Nepal’s success is due to its hard-line on illegal hunting.
Poachers face long prison terms and swift justice thanks to authorities’ ability to prosecute on a local level, an uncommon system compared to other countries with poaching problems. In addition, every level of government is working together and efficiently to ensure the safety of Nepal’s wildlife …
Global Animal – March 13, 2014
www.globalanimal.org/2014/03/1…
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The Killing Fields – End Animal Sacrifice In Nepal
AGONY OF MILLIONS, KILLED FOR RELIGION
Fields weep with the blood of endless slit throats — where a quarter million buffalo, pigs, goats and more animals lay mutilated. The crowd wields dull knives, old swords. Babies cry near beheaded mothers… This is the Gadhimai Festival, the biggest of Nepal’s many blood rituals, to honor the Hindu goddess of power. Apparently Gadhimai requires deliberate torture before she’ll grant the wishes of her human disciples. The two-day homage occurs in the village of Bariyapur in the Bara District. In 2009, five million people were present. Blood rituals occur routinely in Nepal. Animals are skinned and burned alive, smashed and shredded. The Gadhimai repeats every 5 years, next up in 2014. Voices worldwide hope to shut it down, along with all live sacrifice in Nepal.
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