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BODY OF MISSING HUNTER PULLED FROM THE SELWAY RIVER

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Posted: Jun 13, 2018 9:55 PM PDTUpdated: Jun 13, 2018 9:55 PM PDT

By Dennis Bragg

SELWAY BACKCOUNTRY – The body of one of the four missing bear hunters who vanished into the flood swollen Selway River last month has been recovered and identified.

22-year old Reese Rollins of Terrebonne, Oregon was one of four men who vanished when their SUV ran off a Forest Service road and into the river about 50-miles west of Darby on the Magruder Corridor Road.

Rollins’ stepsister tells the Idaho Statesman that Forest Service employees had found his body in the river late Tuesday about 45-miles downstream from where the accident happened on May 21st.

Three other men, 21-year old Koby Clark of Bozeman, and brothers Raymond and Jesse Ferrieri, both in their 20s from New York are still missing. The search had been called off after a few days by the Idaho County…

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Petition: Justice for Sumomo, the chimpanzee shot dead in Malaysia

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by: Malaysian Friends Of The Animals
target: Perhilitan, the Malaysian Wildlife Department

74,397 SUPPORTERS – 100,000 GOAL

In 2015, three chimpanzees were sent to the Bukit Gambang Safari Park (BGSP), a zoo in Malaysia. They were kept separated in bleak and desolate cages for more than two years.
The three chimps, Botan (17 y.o. female), Gonbay (29, Male) and Sumomo (19, Female) were kept in abusive conditions. Nothing was done by the wildlife authorities (Perhilitan) to stop their suffering.

In December 2017, they were transferred to a new zoo in Malaysia called the Langkawi Nature Park (LNP), which is owned by Sentoria Group Bhd, the same corporation that owns BGSP.

Before LNP was opened to the public, Sumomo escaped her night cage and was sadly shot dead by zoo security. Her tragic death came after years of being exploited in a Japanese TV show and abused at the zoos. No…

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Another day, another dead wildlife ranger. Where is the outrage?

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/10/protect-wildlife-rangers-murder

Every year more than 100 wildlife rangers are murdered in the line of duty. Why do they get so little support? And where is the outrage?

Sean Willmore

Founder and director of the Thin Green Line Foundation and president of the International Ranger Federation

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A ranger from the Kenya Wildlife Service stands guard as pyres of ivory are set on fire in Nairobi National Park
 A ranger from the Kenya Wildlife Service stands guard. Earlier this year pyres of ivory were set on fire in Nairobi in order to discourage the ivory trade. Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP

As we sat by the campfire, Gervais, a ranger from the forests of Malawi, slowly pulled back his hair to expose a 20cm scar left by a machete attack that nearly killed him. Poachers, he told me.

I was at an international rangers’ conference, held 13 years ago in a national park on the southern tip of mainland Australia. Another ranger, Jobogo Mirindi from the Democratic…

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Another day, another dead wildlife ranger. Where is the outrage?

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/10/protect-wildlife-rangers-murder

Every year more than 100 wildlife rangers are murdered in the line of duty. Why do they get so little support? And where is the outrage?

Sean Willmore

Founder and director of the Thin Green Line Foundation and president of the International Ranger Federation

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A ranger from the Kenya Wildlife Service stands guard as pyres of ivory are set on fire in Nairobi National Park
 A ranger from the Kenya Wildlife Service stands guard. Earlier this year pyres of ivory were set on fire in Nairobi in order to discourage the ivory trade. Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP

As we sat by the campfire, Gervais, a ranger from the forests of Malawi, slowly pulled back his hair to expose a 20cm scar left by a machete attack that nearly killed him. Poachers, he told me.

I was at an international rangers’ conference, held 13 years ago in a national park on the southern tip of mainland Australia. Another ranger, Jobogo Mirindi from the Democratic…

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Dumbest Poachers Ever

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BY J.R. ABSHER SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
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Dumb and Dumber

An Oregon poacher and his accomplice were arrested and subsequently charged after they attempted to enter an illegally taken trophy-class blacktail buck in a local grocery store’s big buck contest.

For starters, the numbskulls were unable to produce a valid deer tag to qualify for the contest, initially raising the suspicions of some folks at the Fox Grocery store near Beaver, Oregon. In addition, witnesses also noticed that the buck appeared to have been shot numerous times with a small-caliber firearm–a .22, to be exact.

Further proving that poachers aren’t rocket scientists, when his entry was disallowed, Michael Wert, 32, proudly posed for a photograph with the deer. The snapshot was enough to lead state police officers to a residence, where they arrested Wert and convicted felon Steven Klahn, 40, on multiple charges, including waste of…

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The fight over Alaska’s hunting rules runs deeper than using doughnuts to bait bears

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“Most of the people who are against hunting of bears and wolves have never seen one in their life, and paint us as bloodthirsty killers,” one hunter said.
by Jon Schuppe /  / Updated 
Image: Tyler Freel

Tyler Freel demonstrates taking aim with his .300 Win Mag rifle at his home in Fairbanks, Alaska.Eric Engman / for NBC News

Some hunters in Alaska use bacon grease or doughnuts to bait bears.

Some use headlamps to find and shoot bears in their dens.

Some kill swimming caribou from motorboats.

These facts are undisputed.

But whether such rare, unconventional methods should be used — and who can tell Alaskans how they kill the animals they eat — is an entirely different matter.

A years-old conflict has pitted the state against the feds, conservationists against preservationists, and people who feed their families by stalking game in the wilderness against those who see certain types of…

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Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Way Faster Than Expected, Scientists Warn

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The planet’s largest ice sheet is losing more than 240 billion tons of ice every year — a threefold increase from what it was less than a decade ago.
By Dominique Mosbergen

The Antarctic ice sheet is melting at a faster rate than at any previously recorded time, according to a comprehensive new study.

The planet’s largest ice sheet is now losing more than 240 billion tons of ice every year ― a threefold increase from less than a decade ago. The melting is happening so fast that it could cause sea levels to rise 6 inches by the end of the century, the study projects.

The accelerating pace of melting means rising sea levels could threaten coastal communities far earlier than scientists had expected. North America, particularly the East Coast of the U.S., could be particularly hard-hit.

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Antarctica has lost 3 trillion tons of…

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Clan of the Cougar (and Wolf) Slayers

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[Surprise, surprise, the White’s are at it again…]

A Young Girl’s Family Secret

11-year-old Shelby White grabbed headlines when she reportedly shot a cougar stalking her brother in rural Washington state. But there’s a bit more to the story—the White family actually has a long, bloody history of poaching endangered wolves and other wildlife

AUTHOR: Shane Dixon Kavanaugh  Mar 10, 2014
Shelby White’s shot was heard round the world. But her family’s cold-blooded past didn’t make it into the newspaper reports.

The 11-year-old girl captured hearts and headlines last week when she reportedly whipped out a rifle and bravely gunned down a cougar sneaking up behind her brother in rural Washington. It wasn’t the first time the White family has drummed up publicity for killing exotic animals.

The pint-size slayer comes from a clan of convicted poachers that slaughtered a pair of endangered gray wolves and tried to smuggle…

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South Dakota man sentenced on state, federal hunting charges

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By The Associated PressJune 12, 2018 7:52 pm

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota man accused of illegally baiting a mountain lion with dead deer has been sentenced on state and federal charges.

The Rapid City Journal reports 21-year-old Mason Hamm of Rapid City recently pleaded guilty in federal court to hunting with an unregistered firearm and was sentenced to eight months in prison. He admitted killing a mountain lion in January 2016 using a rifle with a silencer that wasn’t registered to him on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives database.

Hamm also was sentenced to serve four days in jail on state hunting misdemeanors to which he pleaded guilty.

Hamm’s hunting companion, William Colson VI of Rapid City, was sentenced in February to probation, banned from hunting for nine years and fined $11,000.

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This story has been corrected to show that the silencer was not registered to Hamm on the ATF database, not that the silencer was not registered with the agency.

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Information from: Rapid City Journal, http://www.rapidcityjournal.com

Copyright © 2018 The Associated Press

Colorado man attempting to shoot raccoon shoots himself

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 Jun 13, 2018
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Police say a 67-year-old Colorado man attempting to shoot a raccoon on a utility pole shot himself in the lower leg instead.
The shooting was reported just after midnight Tuesday on the southeast side of Colorado Springs.
Colorado Springs police say the man was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police say the man told them he was using a handgun to shoot at the raccoon.

http://www.chieftain.com/news/national/colorado-man-attempting-to-shoot-raccoon-shoots-himself/article_6d97f307-6e0d-5e74-9671-8c00937130f8.html

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