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Tag: ban hunting in Spain

  • PACMA, SEPRONA & UCOMA – meet to discuss helping Spanish hunting dogs

    On October 2nd, we held a very important meeting in Madrid with SEPRONA (National Service of the Environment) and the Central Operational Unit for the Environment (UCOMA) of the Civil Guard. I was accompanied by Eva Ramos, legal advisor for PACMA, and our objective was clear: to demand more resources, more inspections, and a greater commitment to protecting hunting dogs.

    We met with Major General Carlos Sarrión, head of SEPRONA, and several representatives from UCOMA to address a reality we can no longer ignore: the neglected situation faced by thousands of dogs used for hunting in Spain. (more…)

  • URGENT! Save this mama galga and her babies in Cordoba

    Cordoba galga puppies 250 2 10 2011This appeal just in today. ‘Subject: URGENT !!!!! Great danger. Save Mama Galga and babies. ABANDONed Córdoba – arqueologa83@gmail.com

    Write to, if you can foster or adopt: arqueologa83@gmail.com

    These pups are at high risk, their mom is a galga (still no pictures of her), she is lame in one leg. We assume she has run for food for her babies and
    goes in search of food leaving them alone with the risk that entails. Besides that, she goes through an area where there are many hunters and now it has started to rain.

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