Wild turkey hunting is allowed in Quebec — with a permit, after a safety course and within bag limits — from April 26 to May 17 from 30 minutes before sunrise to noon. POSTMEDIA
Half-a-dozen hunters in a pickup truck were intercepted on Highway 105 after a confrontation with landowners in the Wakefield area Saturday evening.
At about 7 a.m., a 12-year-old boy alerted his aunt and uncle that he’d heard several gunshots on their property on MacLaren Road in La Pêche.
There followed a “verbal altercation” with the hunters, who’d not been given permission to hunt on private property, and they fled.
Soon after, police stopped the truck in which two teenagers, two men and two women were riding.
Police say that one of the men and a 15-year-old youth had disembarked from the truck and fired on a turkey on a…
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The Fur-Bearers is offering a $1,000 reward to identify who is responsible for setting the foot-hold trap that left a raccoon dragging itself in it for days — leaving the animal emaciated, dehydrated, and with a visibly broken leg.
The animal had to be humanely euthanized after it was evaluated by Critter Care.
The (approximately) three-year-old raccoon was found by a resident in the suburban area of 46A Avenue in the Ladner community of Delta on Friday May 3, and then was taken to Critter Care Wildlife Society — where it was determined he was septic and had to be put down, according to the Fur-Bearers.
In a phone interview with Daily Hive Vancouver, Fur-Bearers spokesperson Michael Howie said “the injuries were significant,” adding, “if you look…
Lawson Hill is ideal habitat for bobcats. This photo was taken February 2017. (Planet file photo)
Local veterinarian Dr. Christine Capaldo has spent nearly three years studying the effects of hunting and trapping bobcats in Colorado, a practice she feels allows practitioners to profit “on a natural resource that belongs to all Coloradans.”
In December, she submitted a citizen petition urging Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) to stop issuing bobcat hunting permits. The petition will be discussed during the CPW Commission’s meeting Thursday at the Courtyard Marriott on 765 Horizon Drive in Grand Junction. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. and adjourn at 5 p.m.; it will resume at 8:30 a.m. Friday at the same location and adjourn at 9:15 a.m.
Bobcats share a habitat with the Canada lynx, an endangered species…
James Nash helps his mother, Liza Jane McAlister, run 6 Ranch. He’s always loved fishing and has started a fly fishing guide service there since returning from his service in the Marine Corps in Afghanistan.
Ashley Ahearn, KUOW
The way James Nash recalls it, a bull hippopotamus charged at him out of the Tanzanian brush. It nearly killed him — he fired the last shot with his gun barrel touching it.He killed the animal in self defense, Nash said, and supplied the meat to Maasai families near the Selous Game Reserve. He skinned a bit of the hide to make a pair of boots for his father. The money from his hunting trip aided the fight against poaching.
That’s not the image environmental advocates saw when they looked up Nash’s Instagram account. They saw him standing…
– Environmental NGO files lawsuit against Guangxi regional bodies accusing
them of failing to look after endangered animals properly after rescuing
them
– Pangolins are among the world’s most trafficked mammals because of the
demand for their scales in traditional Chinese medicine
Alice Yan
South China Morning Post
Published: 3:50pm, 7 May, 2019
In the first lawsuit of its kind, a Chinese forestry authority has been sued
for failing to save a group of smuggled pangolins.
The forestry department in Guangxi and its terrestrial wild animals rescue
centre are accused of dereliction of duty in relation to the deaths of 32
pangolins two years ago, a court in Nanning, the region’s capital, heard on
Monday.
The case, filed by Beijing-based non-governmental organisation the China
Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation,is the first
public welfare lawsuit in China involving the endangered animals, according
to The Beijing News.
Pangolins are among the world’s most trafficked mammals and China is the
most common destination for large shipments of pangolins because their
scales are valued as ingredients in traditional medicine, their meat is
considered a luxury food item and their blood is used as a healing tonic.
The foundation said that when the Guangxi rescue centre received the live
pangolins that police seized from smugglers in August 2017, it offered to
help treat the mammals, but the offer was rejected.
The pangolins all died within 66 days. The foundation wants the two
defendants to pay compensation for the ecological losses caused by the death
of the animals and to apologise for their mistake in state media. It is
asking the court to evaluate the scale of ecological losses.
The court has yet to hand down a decision.
Zhang Zhenqiu, deputy director of the forestry department’s protection
section, told the newspaper that the accusation that it had failed to
protect the pangolins was just “hype” because they were difficult to look
after.
The authority said the pangolins died because of they had low immunity and
were stressed by the long journey from being trafficked from Vietnam.
Many had digestive system illnesses as a result of being force-fed by the
smugglers and some had serious injuries.
In February, 130 pangolins intercepted by Guangxi police from smugglers all
died soon after they were sent to two breeding bases – one in Guangxi and
one in Guangdong province.
Great news out of Oregon! Thanks to your help—as well as that of our colleagues with Predator Defense, Oregon Wild, Audubon Society of Portland, and others—SB 580, a bill to ban cyanide devices (also known as M-44s or cyanide bombs),was signed into law earlier this week by Governor Kate Brown. The legislation prohibits the use of deadly M-44s to kill coyotes, foxes and other wildlife in Oregon.
This victory in Oregon—following bans in California (1998/ballot measure) and Washington (2000/ballot measure)—sets a standard for the humane treatment of wildlife in the thirteen states that have yet to ban cyanide bombs. These cruel and senseless devices are still used for predator control in Nevada, Utah, Colorado (only on private land), Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Virginia, and West Virginia. (Idaho placed a temporary moratorium on M-44 use in 2017.)
[Some of this stuff is wtf way out of line, like suggesting that the animals think we were gracious “Hosts”, that the animals got along with homo erectus, or Plestocene age humans, but most of this is timely and right on:]
So you’ve probably heard about the new report saying human-caused climate change is putting about a million different species of animals and plants at risk of extinction, and we just wanted to pop on over and say that it’s true, a lot of us are on our way out the door.
Bye!
Seriously, look at the time! We can’t believe it’s been hundreds of thousands of years already! That’s a pretty long time, when you think about it, and you can’t go on coexisting as humans and animals on the same planet forever. And you know what they say: It’s better to burn out than to fade away. We’re gonna take our cue here and get out of your hair pretty soon. So arrivederci, and adios!
We’ve had some really good times, us and you humans. Who can forget the crazy days of the Pleistocene epoch? Sure, the Ice Age was no picnic, but it was honestly pretty great later on hanging out and watching y’all evolve. We’ve had this whole symbiotic thing going where animals and Homo erectuscould live side by side. Over the years, we’ve gotten to migrate with you as you’ve moved around and really had a chance to find ourselves and flourish in new places. It was paradise. It would’ve been awesome if life could’ve stayed that way forever, you know?
We’re not trying to flake or anything, believe us. Look, you guys are obviously busy with your machines and your wars and your relentless pursuit of profit. Sometimes, people and animals grow apart. And that’s okay. We’ve always been pretty chill with what you guys are doing, so don’t worry, it’s totally cool. A flourishing ecosystem that supports all of Earth’s creatures isn’t going to be everyone’s thing. It’s your habitat now, after all, and you’ve been gracious hosts to us for a long time. So thanks!
Since we’ve got you here, we do want to mention that it hasn’t been all fun and games. If we’re being honest, we’re still not totally keen on poaching, pollution, zoos, deforestation, or raising us in terrible conditions for the express purpose of slaughtering and eating us. Those things are kind of a buzzkill. Don’t get us wrong, we’re not trying to be overly critical, since you obviously have your reasons. We just wanted to get that off our chests before we get going.
Also, it’s sort of weird you breed some of us as pets. Just saying.
Do we wish we could stick around longer? Sure, a little. When the dodo peaced out back in the late 1600s, we were like, really? Already? The party’s just getting started! But now when we look around—the oceans are heating up, the food’s running out, and most of our natural environments are gone—we wonder if maybe the dodo was right to take off when it did. The vibe isgetting kinda weird in here. Not that the last couple hundred years of rapid industrialization have been all bad for us, but let’s just say the Earth’s not quite as fun for us as it used to be.
We don’t want to belabor our departure—no one likes a guest who overstays their welcome—so we’ll just do a quick soundoff of who’s heading out soon so you can say a quick toodle-oo: the Bengal tiger, Amur leopard, hawksbill sea turtle, Chinese giant salamander, Javan rhinoceros, Sumatran rhinoceros, black rhinoceros, giant panda, vaquita, eastern gorilla, Sumatran orangutan, Borean orangutan, saola, gharial, Asian elephant, Philippine crocodile, Chinese pangolin, Malayan tiger, mountain pygmy possum, Andaman shrew, western swamp turtle, Philippine forest turtle, Ploughshare tortoise, Cross River gorilla, eastern lowland gorilla, saola, South China tiger, pika, giant otter, red wolf, Tasmanian devil, peppered tree frog, northern tinker frog, mountain mist frog, armored frog, Eungella torrent frog, Sumatran elephant, African wild donkey, Saiga antelope, giant muntjac, addax, bowhead whale, beluga whale, Balkan lynx, Asiatic cheetah, gloomy tube-nosed bat, Armenian whiskered bat, Hill’s horseshoe bat, Thongaree’s disc-nosed bat, Aru flying fox, central rock rat, pygmy hog, Gilbert’s potoroo, Allan’s lerista, Carpentarian rock rat, Kangaroo Island dunnart, Darwin’s fox, Peruvian black spider monkey, the red wolf, spoon-billed sandpiper, Siberian crane, Bengal florican, regent honeyeater, orange-bellied parrot, great Indian bustard, sociable lapwing, white-billed heron, whooping crane, red-vented cockatoo, Himalayan quail, Hainan black-crested gibbon, Bulmer’s fruit bat, Philippine naked-backed fruit bat, Fijian monkey-faced bat, Northern white-cheeked gibbon, indri, Andohahela sportive lemur, Manombo sportive lemur, Sahamalaza sportive lemur, all the other sportive lemurs, Celebes crested macaque, Pagai Island macaque, Sarawak surili, kipunji, hirola, tamaraw, wild Bactrian camel, white-rumped vulture, red-headed vulture, Indian vulture, slender-billed vulture, longcomb sawfish, Ganges shark, red-finned blue-eye, finless porpoise, squatina, northern river shark, Pondicherry shark humphead wrasse, orphan salamander, cloud forest salamander, Monte Escondido salamander, El Cusuco salamander, Zarciadero web-footed salamander, Cerro Pital salamander, blue whale, black-footed ferret, Yangtze finless porpoise, Zapotec salamander, and basically everyone from the wetlands.
We’re definitely missing a bunch who are just slipping out really quickly without saying farewell. We hope that’s okay. You probably won’t even notice they’re gone! We’re not all leaving yet. Just a lot of us.
But we don’t want to go out on a bad note. We have so many wonderful memories of the pre-Anthropocene era, and we don’t want those fond recollections of vibrant, life-sustaining forests and jungles and prairies to be forgotten. But it’s time for us to mosey on out down the dusty trail. Sayonara!
Oh, and we hope you don’t mind, we’re taking most of the plants with us too.
There is only one week left to submit public comments on the Trump Administration’s ill-conceived proposed ruleto strip Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for gray wolves in the lower 48 states. The deadline to submit comments to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is 11:59 pm ET / 8:59 pm PT on Tuesday, May 14th. If you haven’t already done so, please speak up to ensure continued protections for gray wolves!
The rule is a premature decision unsupported by science that will further threaten an imperiled species. Federal protections for gray wolves brought them back from the brink of extinction following decades of persecution. This rash decision to delist wolves would allow states to open killing seasons on wolves, permitting special-interest trophy hunters and trappers to senselessly kill wolves before the species has made a full recovery. As demonstrated in Idaho where wolves have already been stripped of…
Polk County (WQOW) – A Polk County teen who shot a woman while hunting last fall was sentenced on Monday.
It happened in November 2018. A 33-year-old Clear Lake woman was hunting on her parent’s property. As she was leaving her deer stand she was shot.
According to the criminal complaint, Nicholas Sempf-Nyren and two of his friends were sighting in the gun when Sempf-Nyren said he wanted to look at something across the field. After he did, they heard a scream and took off running. They did not call 911.
Sempf-Nyren originally told police they hadn’t been out shooting, but later said he wasn’t sure what he was shooting at because it was so dark.
The shooting victim had multiple holes in her large and small intestines, damage to her liver and spleen and had to have part of her colon removed.
Exposing the Big Game 