Appeal to the Spanish town of Manzanares el Real to exclude bullfighting from its annual fiesta. Please email "Stop the bullfighting in Manzanares el Real" to cartas@manzanareselreal.info; ayuntamiento@manzanareselreal.info CC: info@banbloodsports.com or write to the town's mayor at: Oscar Cerezal, Mayor City Hall Plaza del Pueblo, 1 -28410 Manzanares el Real SPAIN Tel: 00 34 91 853 00 09 Fax: 00 34 91 853 98 25 Thank you for your help.

Despite a majority of Irish people wanting hare coursing banned, the cruel blood sport remains legal. Thanks to a licence from the Environment Minister, thousands of hares are netted from the wild and forced to run for their lives in front of muzzled greyhounds. The Irish Council Against Blood Sports is campaigning for a ban on this and other blood sports. ACTION ALERT: Please ask Minister John Gormley (Green Party) to stop licensing coursing. Email "Stop licensing coursing" to minister@environ.ie For more information on our campaigns and how you can help, please visit www.banbloodsports.com. To join our Animal Voice Action Alerts mailing list, send "Subscribe" to info@banbloodsports.com. Thank you for your support. Video produced by Philip Kiernan Irish Council Against Blood Sports Music Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com

Please email STOP LISTING DOGS THAT MAY BE USED IN BADGER BAITING to info@buyandsell.ie Buy & Sell newspaper has been asked to stop listing adverts for dogs that may be used in badger baiting. The call follows a Sunday Times report last month which revealed that some badger baiters are using the publication to advertise dogs used in the illegal activity. In a letter to the company, ICABS stated: "By including such ads, Buy & Sell is, in some cases, unwittingly facilitating some of the country's worst animal cruelty." Brought to their attention was an extract from the Times report which outlined how the sale of the dogs used in badger baiting "is organised over the internet, by word of mouth, and in Buy & Sell, a weekly newspaper that carries classified ads. In some cases, advertisements which offer Patterdale dogs described as 'working strain', are dogs that are being used for badger baiting." The report referred to a man who placed an advertisement in Buy & Sell offering Patterdale puppies for sale. When approached by an undercover journalist, the man "spoke freely of his involvement in badger baiting, how he treated his terriers for the injuries they sustained in illegal fights, and how he often travelled to Co Meath to bait badgers with his friends." He went on to admit digging out a badger sett and finding a nursing badger and her cubs. "They were only wee cubs and the dog killed one of them," he told the reporter. Please email STOP LISTING DOGS THAT MAY BE USED IN BADGER BAITING to info@buyandsell.ie

On the 8th of the 8th, 2008, please spare 8 minutes for these 8 animals: fox, hare, deer, mink, badger, cock, bull, rabbit. Please click on Campaigns at www.banbloodsports.com and respond to our 8 one-minute action alerts. Thank you very much for your help.

Drag hunting is the humane alternative to hunting with hounds. Instead of chasing a live animal, the pack of hounds follow a scent laid along the ground by members of the hunt. Some draghunts use a cloth soaked in aniseed, animal urine and paraffin and this is dragged across the countryside before the start of the "hunt". Draghunts which use bloodhounds simply follow the scent of a human on foot. There are several drag hunts operating in Ireland at present. Drag hunting is also sometimes practised by existing fox and deer hunting groups - either as a way to exercise the hounds or in addition to their blood sport activities. The same hounds are used in both, proving that the transition from cruelty to compassion, which most Irish citizens desire, is very simple to arrange. Drag hunting is the future for hunting in Ireland. Join our campaign today at www.banbloodsports.com. Thank you.

Campaign video exposing the disturbance and cruelty caused when hunts and their packs of hounds enter Coillte forests. The tranquility of the forest is shattered by the hunters and the forest experience is ruined for others. The wildlife present in the forest (including protected species), along with their habitats, are also severely disturbed. Some animals will also be cruelly ripped apart by the pack of hounds. Coillte, the Irish forestry board, currently allows foxhunts access to some of its property. The Irish Council Against Blood Sports finds this entirely unacceptable. Please join is in calling on Coillte to make their forests strictly off limits to all hunts. Email the message "Coillte! Keep hunters out of our forests!" to pr@coillte.ie For more details, click on Campaigns at www.banbloodsports.com

Please join the campaign against foxhunting in Ireland by clicking on Campaigns at www.banbloodsports.com Foxhunting is a cruel blood sport in which foxes are chased to exhaustion and ripped apart by a pack of hounds. If the fox manages to escape underground, the hunt's terriermen are called in to dig the fox out of the ground. A majority of Irish people want foxhunting banned. Join the campaign today to convince the government that the time has now come to follow the example of England, Scotland and Wales and finally ban this deplorable abuse of one of the country's favourite wild creatures. *** ACTION ALERTS *** Appeal to the Minister for Agriculture Please join us in appealing to the Minister for Agriculture to give wild animals the same protection that is given to domestic animals. Tell the Minister that since all animals are capable of suffering, all animals should be protected from cruelty. Urge the Minister to amend the Protection of Animals Act so that foxes and all wild creatures are protected from unnecessary cruelty. Minister Brendan Smith Department of Agriculture Agriculture House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Email: minister@agriculture.gov.ie Tel: 01-607 2000 or LoCall 1890-200510. Fax: 01-661 1013. Appeal to the Environment Minister Please also contact the Minister with responsibility for the Wildlife Act. Urge him to amend the Wildlife Act so that foxes are given full protection from the cruelty of hunting with hounds. Minister John Gormley Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government Custom House, Dublin 1. Email: minister@environ.ie Tel: 01 888 2403. Fax: 01 878 8640.

30 second video exposing the Ward Union deer hunt's abusive treatment of deer. Join our campaign against cruel carted deer hunting - email the message 'I support a ban on the Ward Union hunt' to Minister John Gormley - minister@environ.ie - or phone Minister Gormley on 00 353 1 888 2403. For more information, click on "Campaigns" at www.banbloodsports.com Thank you.

Slideshow conveying the cruelty of the Irish Department of Agriculture's badger snaring operation. Tens of thousands of badgers (a "protected" species in Ireland) have been cruelly snared and killed by the Department. Our slideshow presents images of just some the victims of this so-called TB Eradication Scheme, a failed operation that has been discredited and described as "slaughter masquerading as science". To join the campaign against this assault on the badger species, please click on Campaigns at www.banbloodsports.com

Drag hunting is the humane alternative to hunting with hounds. Instead of chasing a live animal, the pack of hounds follow a scent laid along the ground by members of the hunt. Some draghunts use a cloth soaked in aniseed, animal urine and paraffin and this is dragged across the countryside before the start of the "hunt". Draghunts which use bloodhounds simply follow the scent of a human on foot. There are several drag hunts operating in Ireland at present. Drag hunting is also sometimes practised by existing fox and deer hunting groups - either as a way to exercise the hounds or in addition to their blood sport activities. The same hounds are used in both, proving that the transition from cruelty to compassion, which most Irish citizens desire, is very simple to arrange. Drag hunting is the future for hunting in Ireland. Join our campaign today at www.banbloodsports.com. Thank you.

Hare coursing sadly remains a legal blood sport in Ireland. Hares are netted from the wild and forced to run for their lives in front of muzzled greyhounds. The Irish Council Against Blood Sports is campaigning for a ban on this and other blood sports. Join our campaign today at www.banbloodsports.com. Thank you.

May 17th 2007 was a historic day in the campaign against bullfighting. It was the day anti-bullfighting campaigners from all over the world came together to voice the opposition of the world's majority to the barbaric blood sport of bullfighting. This short video documents our collective protest outside a bullring in Lisbon from where the message was loud and clear: bullfighting is unacceptable in a modern world and it will be banned. Video filmed and produced by Irish Council Against Blood Sports. For more information on how you can help, click on Campaigns at www.banbloodsports.com

[Warning: This video shows the reality of bullfighting and contains graphic scenes of cruelty] French group, CRAC, presents a shocking expose of bullfighting in the south of France. For more information on their campaign against this horrendous blood sport please visit www.anticorrida.com. To find out more about the Irish Council Against Blood Sports' campaign against bullfighting, please click on Campaigns at www.banbloodsports.com