A 32-year-old man, Kalidindi Ashok Kumar, died reportedly after he came into contact with an electric fence installed by the locals to trap wild boars, at Govindapuram village under Jaggampeta police limits in East Godavari district on Wednesday morning.
The locals have reportedly installed the electric fence to trap the wild boars to protect the agricultural crops from the menace.
Jaggampeta Sub Inspector T. Ramakrishna toldThe Hindu; “Mr. Ashok Kumar has died on the spot after he came into contact with the electric wires put by the locals on the fence surrounding to an agriculture field on the outskirts of the Govindapuram village”.
The investigation is on to ascertain the details of the practice of installing the electric fences to trap the wildlife, added Mr. Ramakrishna.
The preliminary inquiry has found that the deceased was not…
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Mr. John “Water Trapper” Wilson has had one heck of a year so far during the 2020-2021 wolf trapping season. Not only has he caught more wolves than he ever has, but he has almost reached his season limit of five wolves! Now, THAT is impressive!
You can check out all three of the wolves he has trapped so far this year here:
Being that the Water Trapper has spent the majority of his time successfully water trapping during trapping seasons in the past, this is pretty awesome, as he sure as heck figured out the right set and the right location to get these wolves to step on that tiny little pan on this big earth. I know that Wilson is a “get it done” kind of guy, and that is exactly what he is…
‘The message is, be safe, take the vaccine — but the officials need to do more research. We need to know the cause,’ said the wife of Tim Zook of Orange
Rochelle Zook holds her husband Tim’s favorite family photo. Zook, 60, died after receiving his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. He was an X-ray technologist at South Coast Global Medical Center in Santa Ana. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
By TERI SFORZA | tsforza@scng.com | Orange County RegisterPUBLISHED: January 26, 2021 at 4:44 p.m. | UPDATED: January 28, 2021 at 7:58 a.m.
Tim Zook’s last post on Facebook brimmed with optimism.“Never been so excited to get a shot before,” he wrote on Jan. 5, above a photo of the Band-Aid on his arm and his COVID-19 vaccination card. “I am now fully vaccinated after receiving my 2nd Pfizer dose.”
Zook, 60, was an X-ray technologist at South Coast…
Ireland has killed more than 110,000 badgers since 1989 in a bid to prevent cattle getting infected with tuberculosis.
The Irish Wildlife Trust has warned that the culls see healthy badgers, including pregnant or nursing females, snared and then shot. It has said levels are TB in cows are still too high and the programme should “now be considered a failure.”
Meanwhile, the UK Government yesterday confirmed that no more mass badger culls will take place after 2022.
It will instead seek to eradicate bovine TB by vaccinating badgers and restricting the movement of cattle.
Animal Rights Groups Call For End To Badger Culling In Ireland00:00:00 / 00:07:20
On Newstalk Breakfast this morning, the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) animal health chairman Pat Farrell said the number of cattle slaughtered over TB fears has dropped from 44,000 a year to 16,000 a year since the badger culls were introduced.
He said farmers see their trade suspended for a minimum of 120 days when they record an outbreak – with no ability to earn an income until the suspension is lifted.
“The department investigates where there is an outbreak of TB at farm level,2 he said.
“If it is found the badgers have infected the cattle, they apply for a licence and there are strict protocols put in place and there are trained personnel within the department
“It is not a willy nilly situation with badgers culled all over the country. It is only where there is an outbreak of TB that this happens.”
Also on the show, John Carmody, John Carmody, founder of the Animal Rights Action Network said it is time for a more humane response to the issue.
He welcomed the UK decision and urged the Irish Government to honour its commitments under the programme for Government and follow suit.
“The reality is that if we placed more focus on humanely vaccinating these animals, we may not have the problems we face today,” he said.
“What irks me so much is that when we appear to have problems with wildlife, for whatever reason, the only answer we seem to come up with every goddamn time is to kill these poor animals.
“The reality is that if we all sit down together and work together on this particular situation we could come about and work towards ending this cull – which I do hope happens.”
Animal rights groups are urging the Government to follow the UK’s example and put an end to badger culling.
Ireland has killed more than 110,000 badgers since 1989 in a bid to prevent cattle getting infected with tuberculosis.
The Irish Wildlife Trust has warned that the culls see healthy badgers, including pregnant or nursing females, snared and then shot. It has said levels are TB in cows are still too high and the programme should “now be considered a failure.”
Meanwhile, the UK Government yesterday confirmed that no more mass badger culls will take place after 2022.
It will instead seek to eradicate bovine TB by vaccinating badgers and restricting the movement of cattle.
Animal Rights Groups Call For End To Badger Culling In Ireland00:00:00 / 00:07:20
On Newstalk Breakfast this morning, the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) animal health chairman Pat Farrell said the number of cattle slaughtered over TB fears has dropped from 44,000 a year to 16,000 a year since the badger culls were introduced.
He said farmers see their trade suspended for a minimum of 120 days when they record an outbreak – with no ability to earn an income until the suspension is lifted.
“The department investigates where there is an outbreak of TB at farm level,2 he said.
“If it is found the badgers have infected the cattle, they apply for a licence and there are strict protocols put in place and there are trained personnel within the department
“It is not a willy nilly situation with badgers culled all over the country. It is only where there is an outbreak of TB that this happens.”
Also on the show, John Carmody, John Carmody, founder of the Animal Rights Action Network said it is time for a more humane response to the issue.
He welcomed the UK decision and urged the Irish Government to honour its commitments under the programme for Government and follow suit.
“The reality is that if we placed more focus on humanely vaccinating these animals, we may not have the problems we face today,” he said.
“What irks me so much is that when we appear to have problems with wildlife, for whatever reason, the only answer we seem to come up with every goddamn time is to kill these poor animals.
“The reality is that if we all sit down together and work together on this particular situation we could come about and work towards ending this cull – which I do hope happens.”
Climate change has added to the stress bears face, making simple actions for survival, such as finding enough food or staying in their dens long enough to hibernate, difficult.Photo by C MacDonald/iStock.com
Agroundbreaking billintroduced in California today would end all trophy hunting of black bears in the state. If successful, California would be the first state to implement such a ban, setting a magnificent precedent for the rest of the nation to follow.
Thebill was introducedby State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and it reflects concerns over the fragile state of black bear populations in California. The state endured devastating wildfires last year, and wildlife there, including California’s iconic bruins, are struggling to forage and survive in the changing forest ecosystems.
Each year, trophy hunters kill more than 1,000 bears in the state. This places unnecessary pressure on these animals who reproduce…
Mink fur farming poses such a risk that fur farmers in Wisconsin will be eligible for the next round of vaccines in the state, along with educators and essential workers. Above, a mink in the wild. Photo by Wendy Keefover/The HSUS
One more nation, Sweden, announced today that it will suspend all mink fur farming this year to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and its mutations.
Sweden’s announcement contrasted starkly with a media report in the United States this week that authorities in Utah, one of the nation’s largest fur producing states, allegedly did not disclose the fact that a worker at an infected mink fur farm had died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. As we have been reporting, the United States has failed to act on concerns about the pandemic risk posed by fur farms even as other nations with infected mink have acted swiftly to curtail it, with some even ending mink fur farming for good.
A Utah Department of Health spokesperson, in an interview with Newsweek, appeared to continue to downplay the risk, saying, “At the time the person became ill, community spread had been increasing rapidly in the surrounding area. No additional deaths associated with mink farms have been reported. Currently, there is no evidence of mink-to-human transmission in the United States.”
Such continuing failure to acknowledge and act on the terrible risk mink fur farming poses to public health is appalling and dangerous. Utah residents—and residents of Michigan, Oregon and Wisconsin, the other fur-producing states in the United States where mink have tested positive—deserve more transparency and concern for public health from their authorities. In December, there were reports of a mutation of the virus discovered on a mink fur farm in Utah.
Mink fur farming poses such a risk that fur farmers in Wisconsin will be eligible for the next round of vaccines in the state, along with educators and essential workers.
We are hopeful that the Biden administration will take steps to end the fur farming industry in the United States. Around the world, we have seen nations act swiftly and decisively to temporarily or permanently shut down the mink fur farming industry over fears of pandemic spread. The Netherlands, the first country where such infections were reported, moved swiftly last year to announce a permanent end to its mink fur farming industry, two years ahead of a previously set deadline. By December last year, all mink cages on fur farms in that country stood empty.
While Sweden’s ban is temporary, we are urging it to use this opportunity to shut down this cruel industry altogether. Denmark, which suspended mink fur farming temporarily until 2022, is moving to proactively shut down the industry, by offering fur farmers funding to transition to other industries.
In November, Hungary announced a ban on fur farming for certain species like fox and mink, which are not farmed in the country now, to prevent fur farmers from other parts of Europe moving there. Officials attributed the ban to fears of zoonotic disease spread from fur farming.
France also announced plans to end mink fur production and one of the farms there has already shut its doors following a coronavirus outbreak.
With the pandemic raging through U.S. mink fur farms, we need similar action here. There is already great momentum for ending fur farming in this country, and in 2019, California became the first state to ban fur sales. Lawmakers in Hawaii and Rhode Island introduced similar proposals last year. The town of Wellesley, Massachusetts, passed a fur sales ban last year.
As we’ve also reported, the mink industry in the United States is in free fall, with 2019 being the industry’s worst on record, according to latest data in a U.S. Department of Agriculture report. Fashion designers, retailers and consumers are increasingly turning away from fur.
Millions of animals live and die in extremely inhumane conditions on fur farms each year for this unnecessary commodity, as our investigations have revealed. They are denied the most basic needs, confined in tiny cages, bludgeoned to death, and sometimes skinned alive. The pandemic has given us one more compelling reason why every nation that still allows fur farming needs to stop this cruelty for good.
Sara Amundson is president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund.
The Montana trapping bills continue to come, quickly and worsening by the week! Thursday 1/28 Lengthening the wolf trapping season and Tuesday 2/2 Snaring of wolves hearings!
Hearing Thursday, Jan. 28, House Fish Wildlife and Parks Committee:
Montana HB225 Revising Wolf Trapping Season Laws.
(8) The commission may authorize a wolf trapping season that opens the first Monday after Thanksgiving and closes March 15 of the following calendar year, except that the commission may adjust the dates for specific wolf management units based on regional recommendations.” - END
In other wordsincrease the length of the Montana wolf trapping seasonfrom the current December 15 – February 28 to run from the end of November to March 15. Additionally, this billallows different regions of the state to do so.
We need you to speak up for the wolves and the many other innocent victims that will be trapped, injured, and…
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