A professional trophy hunter shot and killed the largest ‘tusker’ elephant in Botswana after paying $50,000 to join a hunt.
Botswanan hunter Leon Kachelhoffer claims he killed the big tusker, which was carrying 200lb (91kg) of ivory, on the country’s northern border with Namibia.
The elephant was in its early-50s and killed with a single shot, a hunting industry spokesperson confirmed.
There are only 40 ‘hundred pounder’ tusker elephants with at least one tusk weighing 100lb left roaming in Africa.
Although wild birds are much more likely to survive bird flu than domestic fowl, Montana wildlife officials are still noticing fatalities.
In a press conference Friday, employees of state Fish, Wildlife and Parks said that while waterfowl seem likely to survive Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, wild turkeys are dying. The discovery comes as the state’s male wild turkey season begins. Hunters are advised to avoid birds that appear sick.
“It appears these birds, at least the ones in Montana, these animals, several of them died in one location. So, it might be highly fatal to them,” said Jennifer Ramsey, FWP veterinarian.
FILE – The logo for Twitter appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Nov. 29, 2021. Twitter said Friday April 22, 2022, it will no longer allow advertisers on its site who deny the scientific consensus on climate change, echoing a policy already in place at Google. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
BERLIN (AP) — Twitter says it will no longer allow advertisers on its site who deny the scientific consensus on climate change, echoing a policy already in place at Google.
“Ads shouldn’t detract from important conversations about the climate crisis,” the company said in a statement outlining its new policy Friday.
There was no indication that the change would affect what users post on the social media site, which along with Facebook has been targeted by groups seeking to promote misleading claims about climate change.
The Calf Fire burns northwest of Las Vegas in San Miguel County Friday, April 22, 2022. Destructive Southwest fires have burned dozens of homes in northern Arizona and put numerous small villages in New Mexico in the path of danger, as wind-fueled flames chewed up wide swaths of tinder dry forest and grassland and towering plumes of smoke filled the sky.(Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
New Mexico faces a long and potentially devastating wildfire season, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Saturday, as Southwestern wildfires cause destruction and force people from their homes.
Hundreds of structures were lost in a growing number of wind-driven blazes across drought-stricken New Mexico, Lujan Grisham said Saturday.
Over 20 active wildfires were burning in at least 16 of the state’s 33 counties, in the wake of winds that gusted up to 90 mph (145 kph) on Friday, Lujan said during a briefing streamed online. “So half the state has a fire issue.”
With so many fires burning in April, well before the normal May or June start of the wildfire season, “our risk season is incredibly and dangerously early,” Lujan Grisham said.
Wildfire has become a year-round threat in the West given changing conditions that include earlier snowmelt and rain coming later in the fall, scientist have said. The problems have been exacerbated by decades of fire suppression and poor management along with a more than 20-year megadrought that studies link to human-caused climate change.
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New Mexico as of Saturday had the most major wildfires burning of any state, though neighboring Arizona also had large fires that included one that burned 30 homes near Flagstaff on Tuesday.
THE Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism says it is currently developing a crocodile management plan involving hunting quotas and population management.
This was announced by ministry spokesperson Romeo Muyunda this week, following recent crocodile attacks in the Kavango East and Kavango West regions.
This comes as the body of a 13-year-old boy, who was attacked by a crocodile at Mupapama village in the Mashare constituency in the Kavango East region on Thursday last week has still not been recovered.
Mushongo Manga, who was a pupil at Sambyu Primary School, was attacked by a crocodile at the beginning of the Easter weekend when he and his two siblings went to the river to bath.
Muyunda said the ministry is at an advanced stage of developing a crocodile management plan to consider effective ways to manage crocodiles, and identify economic opportunities following…
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two Idaho men have been sentenced to jail time and banned from hunting for years after pleading guilty to poaching a grizzly bear near Yellowstone National Park.
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game said in a press release that Rex Baum, 79, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in connection with the female grizzly’s death last year. He was ordered to serve 3 days in jail and was banned from hunting for a decade. Baum’s son, Jared Baum of Ashton, was sentenced to 30 days in jail and banned from hunting for life after pleading guilty to a felony in connection with the incident.
Fish and Game officers discovered the grizzly’s carcass on April…
Troy Ellis, 11, was killed May 1, 2020, when he was fatally shot by a former U.S. Marine during a turkey hunt for disabled veterans. (The Troy Ellis Foundation)
The father of an11-year-old boy killed during a turkey huntorganized for a disabled veteran nearly two years ago on Tuesday gave an emotional account of the final moments of his young son’s life.
Troy Ellis, then a fifth grader in Trussville, was killed May 1, 2020, on his father’s hunting land in eastern Jefferson County.
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In the heart of Silicon Valley in Palo Alto, California, there’s a group of retired physicists and engineers working on a nozzle to save their grandchildrens’ lives. The team, affectionately dubbed “the Old Salts,” designed the nozzle to spray sea salt particles in a specific size and concentration into the air. Once finished, it’ll be used to inject the substance into the skies over certain regions of the world.
It’s all part of an experiment to see if this approach can “brighten” clouds so they’re capable of reflecting more sunlight away from the Earth. While the tests would be small, they will attempt to uncover whether a larger scale operation like this could cool downthe planet—albeit temporarily. Then…
The biggest elephant in Botswana has been killed by trophy hunters for its near 8-foot-long tusks.
The elephant had been carrying 200 pounds of ivory in itstusks, and was the largest to be hunted in the country since 1996, according to Wildlife At Risk International.
Thetrophy hunter hadtraveled to Botswanaand paid $50,000 to partake in the hunt along Botswana’s northern border,The Timesreported.
Photographs of the trophy hunter standing next to the ginormous tusks have sparked debate on social media.
