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29/4/07
Bartow man is arrested after ospreys shot, killed. He
was annoyed the protected birds were building a nest in his yard, officials
say
29/4/07
The former president a school that bills itself as the "premier outdoor
guide school" has pleaded guilty to illegal possession of wildlife and
hunting without a license.
28/4/07
India's environment ministry has failed to protect the country's rare Asiatic
lions , lawmakers said after poachers killed 13 of the animals in two months,
a news agency reported Saturday.
28/4/07
The head of an illegally killed Alaskan Dall sheep - which was being used by
Utah wildlife authorities to decry the evils of poaching - was
"poached" a second time by the hunter who originally killed it,
according to criminal charges filed this week.
28/4/07
The illegal selling of wildlife items on the internet is proving to be a major
problem in Northern Ireland, according to the PSNI's new Wildlife Liaison
Officer.
28/4/07
If we cannot protect our national animal, the tiger then what can we protect
asks Belinda Wright, executive director of Wildlife Protection Society of
India.
28/4/07
Fox-hunting warning With the Assembly elections looming, fox hunters are doing
their best to ensure their candidates are voted in. As an anti-hunt
campaigner, I feel I must warn people about voting for those intent on
repealing the ban on fox-hunting.
27/4/07
Environment Minister does NOT support foxhunting Environment Minister, Dick
Roche, has revealed that he does not support foxhunting. ICABS has renewed its
call on the minister to urgently act to end the blood sport.
27/4/07
A few hundred aggressive cousins of the threatened northern spotted owl may be
rubbed out by government agents with shotguns under a federal plan proposed
Thursday.
27/4/07
A Parliamentary panel has called for strengthening anti-poaching measures to
protect tigers and Asiatic lions.
27/4/07
A crucial census of tigers will get underway next month in Rajasthan where at
least one wildlife reserve has lost its entire population of the big cat to
poachers.
27/4/07
HSUS sues to reverse timber wolf delisting. Just
over a month ago, federal wolf delisting took effect for the Great Lakes
states of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, where about 4,000 wolves reside.
26/4/07
Wildlife personnel have found the carcass of a leopard buried in the
Kalikabadi Forest in Orissa's Puri District. The male leopard was between
eight to ten years of age and about four feet in length and two-and-half feet
in height.
26/4/07
Bear hunting not guilty verdict in Federal Court. This case serves as a prime
example of the poaching, NOT hunting, that takes place on Tennessee's largest
WMA.
26/4/07
proposal to allow more flexibility, including poisoning, to control prairie
dogs on the Thunder Basin National Grassland as part of a plan to transplant
black-footed ferrets is inexcusable, according to several conservation groups.
25/4/07
The Austrian Parliament voted unanimously for a motion to introduce a national
ban on all seal products. IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare) has
been campaigning tirelessly to achieve national bans in different countries
and is also working towards an EU-wide ban.
25/4/07
Two men have been fined and temporarily denied hunting privileges for killing
wolves in the Upper Peninsula.
25/4/07
Bryan Ferry found himself cold-shouldered by fans last week after he made some
ill-advised comments about Nazi imagery. Now, he's about to face an
embarrassing snub over his views on the British countryside.
Anthony's view the Countryside Alliance makes a mess of things again
excellent.
24/4/07
Two poachers were shot dead by wildlife rangers inside Assam s famous
Kaziranga National Park Tuesday, a day after authorities launched a massive
offensive to hunt down poachers of endangered one-horned rhinos.
24/4/07
Forest officials are investigating the death of at least one leopard suspected
to have been killed and mutilated as part of a religious ceremony in India's
eastern jungles, wildlife officials and activists
24/4/07
Police have launched an operation to snare wildlife criminals who target
badgers and poison eagles. Officers in Argyll have teamed up with wildlife
charity Scottish Badgers to track down those responsible.
24/4/07
An Indian state has ordered the wardens of a national wildlife park to shoot
poachers of endangered one-horned rhinos on sight, officials said Monday
24/4/07
A Bradley County father/son were found not guilty Monday after a day-long
bench trial on charges of killing a black bear in a bear sanctuary in the
Cherokee National Forest.
23/4/07
Despite the forest department's drive to conserve wildlife by putting a ban on
hunting and killing of wild animals, tribals in Jharkhand have decided to go
ahead with their indigenous annual hunting festival starting April 30.
23/4/07
East Africa's endangered mountain gorillas are making a slow but steady
comeback due to a decade of conservation efforts to counter the impact of war
and poaching, WWF said on Friday.
23/4/07
Fire fighters rescue puppy trapped in wall. A husky with its head trapped in a
brick wall had to be saved by emergency services this afternoon, in a somewhat
unusual rescue operation.
22/4/07
The new digging out site is back on line now see the real side the hunts don't
want you to see and a lot more.
22/4/07
North Carolina's wildlife agency is opposed to the U.S. Navy proposal to build
a jet landing strip next to Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, demanding
that another location be selected.
22/4/07
The US Attorney's Office says a US citizen living in the Czech Republic
pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to illegally selling and
transporting Asian leopard cats to Miami.
22/4/07
Kenyan Farmers Want Land Open to Hunters. Kenyan Farmers, Pleading Poverty,
Want to Open Land to Hunters, Setting Up Fight With Groups.
22/4/07
Dalam Buru Sendra Samity (DBSS), a central body of tribals today said the
tribals will go ahead with their annual hunting festival on April 30 despite
security arrangements being made to prevent them from killing aninals in the
Dalam Wildlife Sanctuary.
22/4/07
Wildlife authorities will begin a census of elephants in the wildlife
sanctuaries across West Bengal from April 23. Wildlife workers will fan out
into the forest area to count the number of elephants.
21/4/07
A major opinion poll carried out across the Irish Republic has shown that
around two in three people here want foxhunting banned. The Millward Brown
survey also found that nearly 70 per cent of the Irish public view foxhunting
as cruel. The results confirm that most people in both rural and urban areas
want the blood sport outlawed.
21/4/07
In 2000, a WSPA member society launched an investigation into Taiwan’s
slaughter industry. Footage from the 74 slaughter-lines investigated was truly
shocking – even for the most hardened investigators.
Video as well.
21/4/07
China has come under fire for allowing tigers to be bred for the production of
so-called tiger bone wine. Chinese delegates at the International Tiger
Symposium in Nepal are arguing for the lifting of a current ban on the trade
in tiger bones and skins But other Asian nations with threatened tiger
populations want the ban to stay.
21/4/07
The parties involved in the Kurt Darner poaching case trial will be in court
Monday, April 23. A grand jury in Cibola County indicted Darner and his wife,
Paula, in 2006 on multiple felony and misdemeanor counts.
21/4/07
Badger baiting is rearing its ugly head again, and I would like to appeal to
readers to help stop this horrific cruelty.
20/4/07
Wildlife rangers condemn the attacks on two deer found dead in Strathclyde
Country Park.
20/4/07
A controversial proposal to help save Kenya's wildlife by scrapping a 30-year
ban on sport hunting split delegates at a conference in the east African
nation on Thursday
20/4/07A
new group tackling crime against wildlife will be launched at Stormont next
week. A host of countryside organisations have teamed up with the police and
the Environment and Heritage for the launch of the Partnership for Action
Against Wildlife Crime (PAW), which will be attended by the PSNI's new
Wildlife liaison officer, Emma Meredith.
20/4/07
RCMP and Fish and Wildlife officers were on the hunt Saturday for a fox with
its head caught in a trap.
20/4/07
Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah today said the probe by Criminal Investigation
Department (CID) in poaching of lions in the Gir Sanctuary was in the final
stage and would submit its report to the state Home Department.
20/4/07
MOST reported incidents of poisoned
wildlife involve birds of prey such as vultures and scavenging eagles.
20/4/07
A man has been banned from keeping animals for ten
years after admitting to causing his dog to suffer.
19/4/07
Four people have been arrested and two bear cubs recovered in Maharashtra
during two anti-poaching operations conducted by the state's Forest Department
and a Delhi-based NGO
19/4/07
The government of Assam is taking steps to protect rhinos after NDTV reported
the killing of six of them at Kaziranga National Park. The killings of the
one-horned rhinos were blamed on poachers and lack of guards at the park.
19/4/07
Apart from recovering the pelts, paws, entrails and a couple of lion claws
police investigations have hit a dead-end.
19/4/07
End The Seal Hunt Today More than 300,000 seals will be
cruelly killed this year. 98% of the seals killed in the past 2 years were
between 2 weeks and 3 months old
18/4/07
A new census of the world's most endangered cat, the Amur or Far Eastern
leopard, shows that as few as 25 to 34 are left in the wild, renewing fears
for the future of the species. The census was conducted by World Wildlife
Fund, the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Russian Academy of Science.
18/4/07
Last week NDTV reported how the Kaziranga National Park, once considered a
model of wildlife conservation in the country, was going the way of other
sanctuaries in the country.
17/4/07
Vankarem, Russia - Here on the frozen edge of the country's Arctic expanse,
where a changing climate has brought polar bears into greater contact with
people, Russia has embraced a counterintuitive method of preserving the
creatures: hunting them, legally.
17/4/07
India - Northeast - Rhinos Poaching Wildlife authorities at a national park in
India's northeastern state of Assam have sounded a maximum alert with poachers
killing six endangered one-horned rhinos since January, including two this
month, officials Monday said.
16/4/07
Malta harshly
criticised on hunting by foreign writer. The name of Malta stinks
across Europe”, wildlife correspondent for The London Times, Simon Barnes
wrote in his weekly Wild Notebook.
16/4/07
For saving forest and wildlife in lower Shiwaliks, 24 villages falling in
Kandi area have handed over around 52,000 acre to the govt.
16/4/07
Barbed wire used to be the only thing keeping Emma Ellison's cows from the
Baker Mountain wolf pack. Now This spring, there's a stiffer line of defense:
electrified wire draped with red strips of flagging.
16/4/07
The face of M&S and voice of Roxy Music outrages Germany in newspaper
interview. The singer is a supporter of the pro-hunting Countryside Alliance.
Anti-bloodsport campaigners called for the alliance to disown him.
15/4/07
MP gang admits to killing two lions. Seven arrested from Bhavnagar Railway
Station take police to spot where carcasses were found Seven people arrested
on Friday admitted to killing two lions, whose carcasses were found in a
village near Palitana in Bhavnagar yesterday.
15/4/07
The bald eagle has made a soaring comeback from the edge of extinction but
wildlife experts in two Western states are concerned that eagle populations
may be poised for a nose dive.
15/4/07
Gir lions move closer to extinction. The death of 18 big cats including 12
Asiatic lions and six leopards in a span of just 30 days last month has put a
big question mark over the safety and security of wildlife habitants in the
Gir forest sanctuary.
15/4/07
The smuggling of frogs from the North East to China and Europe has increased.
Frog legs are one of the better-known delicacies of French and Chinese cuisine
and bull frogs in particular are much sought after for their meaty hind legs
14/4/07
The North West League Against Cruel Sports has welcomed the decision by the
Hoghton Tower gamebird shoot in Lancashire, to end the mindless slaughter of
ducks for sport.
14/4/07
Seven Hamilton County men were arrested Thursday on suspicion of poaching
waterfowl including ducks and geese, according to the Ohio Division of Wildlife
District Five Office in Xenia.
13/4/06
The bald eagle has made a soaring comeback from the edge of extinction but
wildlife experts in two Western states are concerned that eagle populations may
be poised for a nose dive
13/4/07
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced this week that the slow-moving West
Indian manatee, one of the first creatures put on the U.S. endangered species
list in the 1960s, no longer qualifies as endangered.
12/4/07
Canada is joining an international group that fights the illegal wildlife trade.
Environment Minister John Baird is scheduled to make the announcement Thursday
at the Washington National Zoo.
11/4/07
The Socialist Party has reiterated its support for an end to blood sports in
Ireland. Responding to correspondence from ICABS, the party confirmed that it
would support a ban on the cruel activities
11/4/07
Two men residing in Western Massachusetts have been convicted in connection with
the killing of federally protected bird species, including a bald eagle,
ospreys, and great blue herons.
10/4/07
Hussein Yahya Al-Asri from Yemen went on trial in the Guangzhou Intermediate
People's Court in south China's Guangdong Province on Monday on charges of
smuggling ivory.
10/4/07
Alarmed at the recent spate of deaths of Asiatic lions in its last habitat, the
Centre today constituted a committee for spot appraisal of their recurring
mortality in Gir National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary in Gujarat.
10/4/07
Hope is fading in the fight to save the tiger in India, the animal's last
stronghold, according to Indian conservationists. Resurgent poaching and feeble
official protection have combined to put the animal, India's national symbol, on
the road to extinction, say the country's leading tiger experts in a BBC
documentary to be screened tomorrow.
10/4/07
Skinned remains of three Asiatic lions and a hyena have been found in the Gir
wildlife sanctuary even as a team of police and forest officials were
investigating into the poaching of three lionesses early this month.
10/4/07
Officials announced plans Sunday to beef up security at a sanctuary for rare
Asiatic lions after 13 poaching deaths over the past two months raised fears for
the future of the species.
10/4/07
Conservation police are investigating the shooting deaths of two bald eagles
since January in a rural central Illinois county, authorities said today.
10/4/07
City officials have adopted a written policy prohibiting the shooting of coyotes
in residential areas unless someone is in danger.
9/4/07
Rival lobby groups battling it out over the future of fox hunting in Ireland
have clashed over calls for an outright ban.
9/4/07
Animal protection groups want the United States Environmental Protection Agency
to ban two poisons widely used by farmers, ranchers and the U.S. Department
Agriculture to kill wildlife. Animal advocates say they kill endangered animals
and pet dogs.
9/4/07
Texas Parks and Wildlife commissioner John Parker voted "no" Thursday
on the statewide hunting and fishing proclamation approved by the Parks and
Wildlife Commission
8/4/07
New Page added to site How to connect and help set up programs on a computer or
fix them even if you are thousands of miles away.
7/4/07
Wildlife Smugglers Test Their Skills, Even at the Airport. Wildlife smuggling is
the nation’s second-largest black market, just behind narcotics, accounting
for $8 billion to $10 billion a year
7/4/07
California is a hub for wildlife smugglers. Wildlife smuggling is the
second-largest black market in the United States, and California's location
makes it a prime spot for catching people who kill, smuggle or do other untoward
things with rare species
7/4/07
Two men have received jail time and a hefty fine for poaching a trophy elk on
private land in Rich County last year, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
announced Friday.
7/4/07
The case against two Westcountry huntsmen charged with illegally hunting with
dogs has been adjourned
6/4/07
A Rapper from Washington DC joined a county pro-hunt lobby only to later change
his mind.
6/4/07
Several of my colleagues have just returned from visiting an IFAW funded bear
rehabilitation center in Russia.
5/4/07
Central Africa's spreading network of roads is leading poachers to endangered
forest elephants that are being slaughtered for their ivory, a new report warns.
4/4/07
A systematic survey of 68,000 square kilometers throughout Central Africa
reveals that the forest elephant -- distinct from the savannah elephant -- is
severely threatened by poaching, despite a near universal ban of trade in ivory.
4/4/07
Investigations into the poaching of Asiatic lions in Gir wildlife
sanctuary have indicated that a gang of at least eight persons was involved in
brutally killing the endangered cats with poison, traps and sharpened bamboo
sticks.
3/4/07
IFAW witnesses suffering as Canadian seal hunt begins – despite global warming
crisis.
3/4/07
The RSPCA is celebrating the arrival of the Animal Welfare Act - a new law which
will mean a brighter future for neglected pets and other animals.
3/4/07A
trio of bills that would crack down on poaching and illegal outfitting won House
approval Tuesday, with both Republicans and Democrats throwing their support
behind the measures.
2/4/07
Federal officials have agreed to review a proposal that would allow states to
kill wolves that are depleting numbers of elk and other wildlife.
2/4/07
Kentucky wildlife officials tranquilized and relocated a 9-year-old, 220-pound
female black bear and two of her four yearling cubs from the Hensley-Pine
Mountain Wildlife Management Area near Kingdom Come State Park last week. The
bears were released about 55 miles away.
1/4/07
Poachers are being blamed for their slaughter of two rare Asiatic lions and a
cub in India. Ten of the big cats have been found dead in the past two months,
raising fears for their future survival.
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