Shots were fired on Wednesday at two houses near the Miksebaan in Brasschaat, Antwerp Province, probably with a shotgun, according to local police.
Since there is a hunting ground next to the houses, investigators suspect this was an accident. However, an investigation into the incident is ongoing.
A local resident had notified police on Wednesday afternoon that he thought he had heard some kind of explosion. Soon after, the impacts of bullets were detected in two homes.
Since the bullets came from a shotgun, police believe this was either a hunting accident or a prank.
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CLAREMORE, Okla. —
An Oklahoma wildlife sanctuary is mourning the loss of a bald eagle after rescuing the animal twice.
“There has been so much love coming through,” said Annette King, the founder of the Wild Heart Ranch Wildlife Rescue.
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On New Year’s Day, Wild Heart Ranch in Claremore had to say goodbye to one of its bald eagles, Clay. The eagle was a two-time rescue, a fan favorite and named after a local game warden.
“We lost our Nowata game warden just a few days before this eagle came in,”…
A 59-year-old man was found dead on the first day of 2023 as a result of a possible hunting accident in West Flanders, the local prosecutor’s office confirmed on Monday.
A kayak that overturned on the Great Miami River left one man dead Sunday evening.
PIQUA, Ohio (WKEF) — A kayak that overturned on the Great Miami River left one man dead Sunday evening.
Two fisherman found the kayak partially submerged, and duck hunting decoys around it near the Piqua Power Plant at about 5:11 p.m., according to Piqua Police Deputy Chief Marty Grove.
Grove said one fisherman later found a man’s body in the river near a low dam.
Crews were able to pull Kyle Ratcliff, 29, of Quincy from the river. Life-saving measures were performed and Ratcliff was taken to Upper Valley Medical Center. Ratcliff was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Jonas Danielsson, hunter and co-organizer of the hunt in Tinäs wolf territory, Sweden, aims his gun. Groups will be going out across Sweden all month as they attempt to take down the large predators.Photograph: Beata Furstenberg
Helena Hortonand Beata Furstenberg in SandvikenMon 2 Jan 2023 11.40 EST
The biggest wolf cull in modern times has begun inSwedenas nature organisations warn it could drastically harm the population.
On Monday, the Guardian accompanied 200 hunters as they went to kill wolves in the frost-covered forests between Gävleborg and Dalarna, hunting from midnight until the sun set at 3pm. Groups will be going out across Sweden all month as they attempt to take down the large predators.
There is no evidence that wolves would harm the Utah economy.
This Nov. 7, 2017, photo provided by the National Park Service shows a wolf in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Wolves have repopulated the mountains and forests of the American West with remarkable speed since their reintroduction 25 years ago, expanding to more than 300 packs in six states. (Jacob W. Frank/National Park Service via AP)
The impending reintroduction of wolves to western Colorado will surely result in wolves soon returning to Utah after nearly a century of absence. Whether they will still be protected under the Endangered Species Act is less certain. If not, there is little doubt that the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, with the blessing of the Utah Legislature, will make plans for “lethal control” in the form of wolf hunts, ostensibly to reduce losses of big game and livestock animals.
The public deserves to know that there is no solid scientific evidence that wolf hunts will benefit prey animals or livestock. None! In fact, there is substantial evidence that killing of the more knowledgeable and capable pack leaders will lead to more predation on livestock by the remaining wolves. Skillful hunting takes skilled hunters.
Utah’s chief anti-wolf crusader is Don Peay, founder of Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife. The article quotes Peay as saying wolves will be “a billion-dollar problem knocking on Utah’s door,” and alleging that wolves have already laid waste to Idaho, Montana and Wyoming big game herds; also “Three thousand wolves are about 75,000 dead elk … Wolves of that number would kill every elk in Utah.”’
In more than 25 years, I have never heard Peay back up his outrageous fear mongering with references to peer-reviewed scientific publications; nor have I ever heard anyone from DWR challenge his assertions. Why do he and his enablers, like Dracula, fear the light of day? It’s time to face the facts.
There will never be 3,000 wolves in Utah — a few hundred at most. Colorado has a larger prey base than Utah and can support far more wolves. According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, there are about 300,000 elk in Colorado. Assuming a population of 500 wolves, we know from data collected in Yellowstone that approximately 12,500 elk will be killed by wolves each year. By contrast, hunters will kill about 40,000.
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A significant difference is that hunters take elk (and deer) in their reproductive prime, while wolves minimize risk to themselves by focusing on diseased and old animals. Consequently, predation by wolves has little or no impact on the size and demographics of ungulate herds. In fact, wolves benefit prey species, as anyone with even a minimal understanding of evolution and ecology knows.
The Spring 2022 publication of “International Wolf,” by the International Wolf Center in Minnesota, lists the estimated number of elk in each of Montana’s seven hunting regions along with the population objectives set by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. All but one of the regions is over objective, with the two that border Yellowstone National Park significantly over. Based on the most recent counts, Region 3 is 31% over objective and Region 5 is 183% over objective.
Data from Idaho and Wyoming also indicate more elk since wolf reintroduction. In fact, the most recent counts indicate that there are now some 50,000 more elk in the three states.
Also, wolves have not hurt hunter success rates in any of the three states. No doubt it takes more knowledge, commitment and skill to successfully hunt elk and deer now that they are no longer standing about in the open like cows — but this is something that real hunters welcome.
The article states that “Utahns are not so enthusiastic about the return of the apex predator,” which is at odds with public opinion surveys. A 2002 Utah State University survey found that more than three times as many Utahans “like” or “strongly like” wolves than “dislike” or “strongly dislike” them. Another USU survey from 2004 found that, with the notable exception of big game hunters, most Utahans believe wolves “are a necessary component of healthy ecosystems.”
There is no evidence that wolves will negatively impact any sector of the economy, particularly with a generous livestock predation compensation program in place. On the contrary, not only will wolves attract nature tourism to benefit rural economies, as has happened near Yellowstone, they will promote biodiversity to help combat the extinction crisis, in turn creating more functional watersheds that soak up and retain that most precious natural resource: water!
In the midafternoon of Dec. 20, while some people were tying up work ahead of the long holiday, and others were shopping for presents, Anne McKinsey was trudging about a half-mile through the snow, trying to get her dog to the veterinarian.
McKinsey and her 3-year-old Shetland sheepdog, Clara, had been walking along one of their usual trails, not far from their home in East Corinth, when McKinsey heard her pet yip in pain.
She found Clara’s neck caught between two hinged metal bars, a device known as a conibear trap, which was set about 50 feet from the wooded trail.
She was able to remove the trap from a makeshift enclosure at the base of…
Kumram Bheem Asifabad:An intermediate student was electrocuted when he accidentally touched an electric snare set for hunting wild animals on the forest fringes in Pardhanguda village ofKaghaznagaron Saturday night.
Kaghaznagar Rural police said Ade Vishnu (18) from Kosini village in Kaghaznagar mandal was found dead. He had gone to guard cotton crop on Saturday night and was returning home at the time of the mishap. He and his friends reportedly celebratedNew Yearin his agricultural field.
In a horrifying development, a pregnant woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Mahoba was allegedly shot at by men who were hunting for bluebuck in a field in the district.
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The 30-year-old victim, identified as Vandana, was allegedly shot in her stomach by two men while working in the field.
The victim’s husband, Bhupendra Singh Rajput, said the men arrived at the field in a bid to hunt down a bluebuck. Bhupendra and his wife were working in the field when the men accidentally fired to hunt the bluebuck.
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As soon as the men fired the shot, Bhupendra reportedly rushed towards his wife and saw her gasping for breath. Bhupendra also alleged that the said men fled the spot after the incident.
A big part of fighting for coastal defense from climate crisis includes giving to support effective climate action organizations. One of the best is 350.org. Special showing by Cat about mid-way through this livestream ;).
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