10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2015

The cargo was meant to be sold as delicacies to restaurants in Italy. But by then, all surviving Turtle Doves are already in Africa, and those less fortunate await in deep freezers for their final flight to Italy. It was only the first in a series of such cargoes. The Turtle Dove is not a trophy animal.

Serbia 270

Serbia Slaughtered Slaughter Turtles 270

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2013

Confiscated from a poacher in Brescia, Italy, this robin will be released to fly away into an uncertain world, where habitat is threatened and predators and poachers await. Volunteers with the Committee Against Bird Slaughter sneak into a grove where a farmer has just placed lime sticks to snag unwary birds.

Cambodia 149

Cambodia Slaughter Slaughtered Cyprus 149

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2022

Shrikes were practicing their own form of butchery – that is, their particular practice of impaling their kills from thorns and barbed wire for later eating – long before we began domesticating and slaughtering livestock on our own.

2019 255

2019 Butcher Livestock 2006 255

AnimalEquality.net

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Between 2023 and 2024, Animal Equality investigators documented conditions inside a pig slaughterhouse in Cremona, Italy. This facility–owned by a company called Belli–slaughters thousands of pigs each year. Veterinarian Enrico Moriconi, who reviewed the footage… Source

Pigs 140

Pigs Investigation Slaughtered Slaughter 140