20/1/07
Judy Gilbert, a hunt monitor for Protect Our Wild Animals - an Oxfordshire
anti-hunt organisation - was filming the Heythrop Hunt in Dean, when she
claims a supporter of the hunt attacked her.
20/1/07
A hunt hound was seen entering a private garden and killing a cat, according
to a report in the Limerick Leader.
19/1/07
Wildlife Department officials arrested five persons on charges of poaching and
recovered carcass of four musk deer from them at a wildlife sanctury in Pir
Panchal ranges in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.
19/1/07
Ohio Anonymous tips to a state poaching line led to the arrest of five hunters
accused of being part of a ring that illegally killed deer, turkeys, raccoons
and a beaver.
18/1/07
An investigation into an alleged wildlife poaching ring in Marion County has
resulted in several local men facing over 100 violations.
17/1/07
A conservation programme for some of the world's most bizarre and unusual
creatures has been launched by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).
17/1/07
Cambodian officials are receiving training to improve their skills in the
fight against wildlife trafficking, a U.S.-based wildlife conservation group
said Tuesday.
16/1/07
London MEP, Robert Evans, is today tabling a motion in the European Parliament
calling for a complete ban on bullfighting and an end to EU subsidies for
farmers who breed bulls for the “sport
15/1/07
Bears are still dying to make new hats for the Guards. The Ministry of Defence
has spent more than £320,000 over the past five years on ceremonial hats for
guardsmen, each made from a single bearskin. The policy has caused an outcry
among animal welfare campaigners who say using synthetic fur would be more
humane and far cheaper.
15/1/07
Even as the Man-animal conflict in Kashmir is assuming alarming proportions
the state government appears somehow unconcerned. So far its wildlife
protection department has been only demonstrating its helplessness to save the
situation either for the wildlife or the human population.
14/1/07
Oven Dog' May Change Utah's Animal Torture Laws. With
Video
14/1/07
The trade in wild birds is to be permanently banned across the European Union
starting in July, EU animal health officials have decided
14/1/07
Wildlife hangs by a whisker some are among Scotland's rarest animals and
plants, their existence at risk because of loss of habitat, human intervention
and pollution. Others have not been seen for many years. A third group are
alien invaders posing a serious threat to the country's native wildlife
14/1/07
The total number of animals across the world has declined by a third since
1970, according to wildlife campaigners. The WWF's Living Planet Report
revealed that land-based species decreased by 31 per cent, freshwater species
by 28 per cent and marine species by 27 per cent in the 33 years between 1970
to 2003.
14/1/07
One of the strangest wars ever fought between two sets of nature lovers
seems set for another battle with the publication of new scientific evidence
which could stop the wholesale slaughter of hedgehogs on remote Scottish
islands.
14/1/07
Urgent, get your consultations in to the Scottish Parliament before 28th
February 07 consultation on snaring in Scotland
13/1/07
Coyote Killing Contest Prompts Howls. The barren buttes surrounding this small
ranching town will offer scant places for coyotes to hide this weekend as
hunters converge for a "calling" contest to see who can shoot the most
coyotes.
13/1/07
The rotting carcasses of over a thousand game birds have been discovered in a
pit in Beulah, South Wales.
13/1/07
The Amravati police and forest department officials picked up a six-member
inter-state gang of poachers, who were engaged in smuggling of wildlife animal
skins and bones
12/1/07
In a bid to save tigers from poaching, the Rajasthan government has decided to
set up a special tiger cell.
12/1/07
China, host of the 1998 Olympics, has launched a campaign to highlight its
“Green” side but Philippine environmentalists and government officials say
poaching activities of its nationals veer toward “organized crime.”
12/1/07
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will review the state’s rules for fur
trapping after two animal rights groups reached a settlement with state wildlife
regulators because endangered Canada lynx were being caught in traps
11/1/07
Further to an appeal by ICABS, Teagasc has removed a page from its website which
recommended that farmers should shoot, snare and dig foxes out of the ground
before killing them.
11/1/07
A dead fox found with "horrendous injuries" in Kent may have had a dog
set on it, the RSPCA has said.
11/1/07
The worlds largest tiger reserve, the Hukaung Valley Wildlife Sanctuary in far
northwest Burma, is threatened by extensive gold mining operations, says a
coalition of NGO`s working in Burma.
11/1/06
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials have charged five
Central Florida men with poaching after in the killings of 10 deer and one
alligator.
10/1/07
Anti-hunt protesters in Somerset have called for the prosecutions of huntsmen
who they allege illegally charged across a nature reserve with a pack of hounds.
10/1/07
Poaching of wild birds has soared three-fold in the past five years, mostly
because fewer exotic birds are being offered for sale in pet shops, experts say.
10/1/07
Cutbacks in DFO enforcement staff have created a ‘poachers’ paradise’ in
B.C.. according to the BC Wildlife Federation.
10/1/07
Additional oil and gas wells on the Pinedale Anticline would create barriers to
wildlife and fragment habitat, according to an environmental impact statement
released in December.
10/1/07
Zimbabwe has launched a massive security operation in its key nature reserves
after poachers killed 17 elephants and two rare black rhinos during the holiday
season.
9/1/07
The National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority will spend the bulk of its
2007 budget on protecting wildlife, the director-general, Dr Morris Mtsambiwa,
said
8/1/07
Wildlife officials in Uttar Pradesh released over 1600 endangered turtles today,
which were being smuggled to West Bengal for consumption and trade.
7/1/07
Millions of birds and animals were slaughtered in England and Wales under a
Tudor law which is now being blamed for bringing many native species close to
extinction.
3/1/07
Parks Authority to Intensify Anti-Poaching Program
2/1/07
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