Shortcast #66 Sue Bliss | Ban Snares

01/17/22 • 12 min

A shortcast by activist Sue Bliss about snares - part of Off the Leash's series of shortcasts supporting Animal Aid’s petition to make the use free-running snares illegal

Animal Aid petition Make the use of free-running snares illegal for trapping wildlife (Deadline 9th May 2022)
Sue Bliss Twitter feed

A shortcast by activist Sue Bliss about snares - part of Off the Leash's series of shortcasts supporting Animal Aid’s petition to make the use free-running snares illegal

Animal Aid petition Make the use of free-running snares illegal for trapping wildlife (Deadline 9th May 2022)
Sue Bliss Twitter feed

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Shortcast #65 OTL | Standing up for Turkey's Street Dogs

Off the Leash's Charlie Moores and Dominic Dyer discuss the brutal crackdown on street dogs in Turkey - and just to be clear at NO stage do we go into graphic or upsetting detail.
Street dogs and cats have always been a part of life in Turkey's cities. Mark Twain wrote in 1867 that “The dogs sleep in the streets, all over the city. ...They would not move, though the Sultan himself passed by,” and filmmaker Elizabeth Lo, whose documentary “Stray” had its streaming release in early 2021, said she was struck by “seeing dogs roaming around freely, living life on their own terms, in this very developed city,” and by the relationship she observed between them and Istanbul’s human residents.
Istanbul is home to some 400,000 to 600,000 stray dogs and cats, according to Ahmet Atalık who oversees veterinary services for the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. There has long been a live and let live attitude to street dogs in Turkey, so what has changed so that they are now being persecuted?

DuvaR.english Animal rights defenders fear for dogs' lives after Erdoğan targets stray dogs (26 Dec 2021)
The Independent Turkey’s Erdogan shows bark and bite by targeting stray dogs in culture war (29 Dec 2021)

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Shortcast #67 Kwesia | City Girl in Nature

Shortcasts are short standalone audio comments and statements from conservationists, campaigners, charities, authors and members of our audience. If it needs to be said – say it here!
A shortcast by Kwesia, aka City Girl in Nature, a young woman from Deptford in South London who after a trip to the Amazon was inspired to work with young people in her community, some of whom have never had the opportunity to experience anything other than poverty and hardship.