A Vermont hunter is facing charges for allegedly shooting and critically injuring another hunter earlier this month that he said he mistook for a bear, the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department said Tuesday.
The 35-year-old victim from Fairfax was hit in the abdomen by a single gunshot as he was walking to a tree stand on private land in a wooded area in Huntington on Sept. 10, according to the department. A third hunter called 911. The victim was taken to the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, where he remained in stable condition Tuesday, the department said.
A 25-year-old hunter from Bolton is facing felony charges of aggravated assault and negligent use of a gun, as well as a misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment, the department said. He is expected to be arraigned in court on Thursday.
Neither hunter was wearing blaze orange at the time of…
A wild boar named Frieda runs between two cows on Thursday in a pasture near the river Weser in Holzminden, Germany. The herd has gained an unlikely following after adopting the lone wild boar piglet.
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BERLIN — A cow herd in Germany has gained an unlikely following, after adopting a lone wild boar piglet.
Farmer Friedrich Stapel told the dpa news agency that he spotted the piglet among the herd in the central German community of Brevoerde about three weeks ago. It had likely lost its group when they crossed a nearby river.
Wild boar Frieda eats next to a cow Thursday in a pasture in Holzminden, Germany.
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Stapel said while he knows what extensive damage wild boars can cause, he can’t bring himself to chase the animal away, dpa reported Thursday.
The local hunter has been told not to shoot the piglet — nicknamed Frieda — and in winter Stapel plans to put it in the shed with the mother cows.
“To leave it alone now would be unfair,” he told dpa.
Movement aims to make the mass damage and destruction of ecosystems a prosecutable, international crime against peace
US Stop Ecocide proponent Julia Jackson, center and in sunglasses, demonstrates in New York City on Friday. Photograph: Courtesy of Julia Jackson via Getty
California winemaker Julia Jackson has long grasped the threats posed by the ongoing global climate change crisis, from more intense wildfires and hurricanes to rising sea levels. But for her, those ideas crossed over from the abstract to the tangible when her home was razed by the Kincade wildfire that devastated her native Sonoma county in 2019.
“I lost everything – all my belongings,” Jackson said. “It shook me to my core.”
But Jackson didn’t just use the resources she’s accumulated through her second-generation proprietorship of the US’s ninth-largest wine company, Jackson Family Wines, to rebuild her life following that disaster. She’s since signed on to lead the US chapter of a global movement to make the mass damage and destruction of ecosystems a prosecutable, international crime against peace known as ecocide.
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Jackson and her compatriots in Stop Ecocide spent the last week in New York City, meeting with dignitaries participating in Climate Week events as well as the United Nations general assembly. They also marched from Foley Square to Battery Park in Manhattan in one of 450 strike demonstrations planned worldwide on 23 September as part of the Fridays for Future movement, which demands climate reparations and justice.
Among other things, they urged voters to cast ballots in the US’s upcoming midterm elections in favor of candidates who are against things like deforestation and want to limit greenhouse gas emissions, which are some of the factors contributing to global warming and its effects: longer-lasting wildfires, more potent hurricanes and coastal erosion.
Yet topping the group’s list of demands was for countries across the world to recognize ecocide as an offense against peace – carrying fines and even prison time – through the UN’s international criminal court.
Jackson was quick to point out recently that Stop Ecocide doesn’t want to see everyday, working-class car drivers or frequent airline passengers be charged as international criminals and hauled into the same court which prosecutes genocide and wartime atrocities. They just want an ecocide charge to be an arrow in the quiver of those trying to rein in government-level policymakers whose agendas are exacerbating the climate crisis.
As others have done over the years, Jackson – who also leads the climate-focused non-profit Grounded – singled out the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, as an ideal candidate to be prosecuted for ecocide because of the accelerated rate at which the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed under his administration.
Bolsonaro, among other things, has eliminated environmental protection programs meant to shield the Amazon, which absorbs greenhouse gases and is an important line of defense against global warming. He has also sought to open Indigenous reservations – along with other protected lands – to mining and agricultural business ventures, exacerbating harmful emissions.
“It’s not chopping down one tree” that ecocide would aim to criminalize, Jackson said. “It’s severe mass destruction of the Earth.”
There are hurdles, including procedural ones, for the movement to overcome. Two-thirds of the countries recognizing the UN’s international criminal court would need to approve adding ecocide as an offense.
That translates to a total of more than 80 countries whose approval is required, and even then nations opposed to ratifying it could limit its enforcement over their territories and citizens.
Nonetheless, Jackson estimates about two dozen countries at this point have expressed a recorded interest in the concept of classifying ecocide as an international crime, including the United Kingdom, Spain, Iceland, France, Mexico and Chile.
She hopes the movement’s momentum only continues building from there, especially after the last week.
As the executive director of the global Stop Ecocide movement, Jojo Mehta, put it in a statement: “We have to … prevent mass damage and destruction of the living world … by recognizing it as the crime we all know it to be.
“Ecocide law is a powerful solution to protect nature, climate and our future while providing a guiding legal framework for positive change.”
The word ‘chicken’ has come to represent a cooking ingredient. Despite – or perhaps because of – a world where information has never been easier to discover, those with vested interest in making money from using animals, and the powerful advertising propaganda they wield to ensure their continued profitability, have become more ruthless than ever before. No one is ever encouraged to understand the consequences of their demands as consumers, particularly when these consequences run counter to every single value that the majority of people believe that they hold. In adverts and programmes on every available form of media, in stores, and in restaurants, a steady stream of soothing reassurance veils the grotesque trade in suffering and death with a carefully constructed facade of acceptability. ‘Everyone does it. Everything is fine. Don’t worry. We’ll keep selling if you keep buying.’
I was shocked to read recently that around 1 TRILLION (1 trillion = 1,000,000,000,000) individual insects are currently raised for consumption and killed on farms every year. It’s a staggering number, all the more so for the fact that it’s almost never publicised. Despite over a decade living vegan, I was previously completely unaware that the exploitation of insects is so extensive. And that exploitation is booming.
The INFOODS program at Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome has published the Food composition database for biodiversity with the aim of making nutritional values of wild and underutilized foods available. In the latest version (2017 version 4.0) of this database, a total of 471 entries of edible insects were included. Looking more closely, I discovered that there are six common commercial edible insect species at present, including cricket (Acheta domesticus), honeybee (Apis…
Longtime Haines firefighter, EMT and ambulance crewman Al Badgley underwent nine hours of surgery after breaking his back in a hunting accident on Friday, Sept. 16.
Badgley said on Wednesday that he was moose hunting near Nenana when he fell about 20 feet from a tree limb, landing on his bottom. He was helicoptered to Fairbanks and transported by medical jet to Anchorage for surgery.
Badgley said he expects to spend at least two weeks in physical therapy. “We’ll get back to Haines as soon as we can,” he said.
In the film “Jurassic Park,” billionaire John Hammond, played by Richard Attenborough, brings paleontologists Alan Grant, played by Sam Neill, and Ellie Sattler, played by Laura Dern, as well as mathematician Ian Malcolm, played by Jeff Goldblum, to help him bring dinosaurs back to life for his dinosaur theme park. Hammond’s fascination and desire to revive dinosaurs backfires when many of them break free and start to terrorize the park-goers.
Maybe the dinosaurs were meant to stay in their time. If that is so, when did the dinosaurs go extinct?
When did dinosaurs go extinct?
According to National Geographic, dinosaurs went extinct about 66 million years ago. Paleontologists have yet to discover rocks with a trace of a dinosaur younger than 66 million years, during the Cretaceous period.
According to the United States Geological survey, dinosaurs roamed the Earth for 165 million…
ENTERPRISE, Ore. (KTVZ) — Two Oregon men convicted of illegally guiding hunters in Wallowa County forfeited mules and gear, among other penalties, following a multi-state investigation, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said Monday.
The case activated a new Turn In Poachers (TIP) reward program, directed by the Oregon Outfitter Guide Association, according to law enforcement.
David H Ravia, 69, from Dayton, and Caleb L Richmond, 48, from McMinnville, guided out-of-state hunters in Hells Canyon National Recreation Area for at least the last 10 years, according to Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Lieutenant Ryan Howell.
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A complaint led to an investigation and subsequent charges in a case that spanned two years and stretched from Oregon to Ohio and Michigan.
Law enforcement officials served a warrant at Ravia’s home in Dayton and interviewed…
Goffstown, NH– On September 18, 2022, at approximately 2:00 p.m., A New Hampshire Fish and Game Conservation Officer was informed of an incident of a hunter falling out of a tree.
A Conservation Officer responded to Serenitas Lane in Goffstown accompanied by Goffstown Police. Officers learned that 58-year-old Casey Barry of Goffstown, NH had been setting up his treestand in the woods off of Serenitas Lane. Barry began ascending the tree stand after securing the lower straps and the stand shifted and began to fall over. This resulted in Barry falling from the treestand and sustaining serious, but non-life threatening injuries.
Barry was able to call a friend who called 911 regarding the incident. Goffstown Police and Goffstown Fire and Rescue personnel were able to assist Barry out of the woods and…
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Acheta domesticus or House cricket 
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