Rescuers used drones to help find a young hunter lost in the woods in Eastern North Carolina, officials said. The hunter, who officials described as a “young man,” got lost on the afternoon of Saturday, April 23, in the Pulp Road Game Lands in Winnabow, according to a Facebook post from the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said it deployed its aviation and drone units to search for the hunter by air. TOP VIDEOS Top Videos Federal judge strikes down CDC maskmandatefor travelers × Once the units located the hunter, they guided officers with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission to him, the sheriff’s office said. Rescuers then used an ATV to bring the officers and hunter out of the woods. The sheriff’s office posted video of the ATV combing through the heavily-wooded area. Indigenous Affairs Weekly roundup of news affecting Native American communities in the Northwest. SIGN…
John Kerry’s message is simple: The climate crisis cannot take a backseat while the world navigates the energy crisis brought on by Russia’s war in Ukraine.Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesCNN—
John Kerry has a mission: To convince the rest of the world to embracerenewable energyand slash theirplanet-warming emissions. But the US Climate Envoy’s job isn’t getting any easier in year two.
With global temperatures and fossil fuel emissions climbing to new highs, Russia’s war in Ukraine isroiling energy marketsand puttingshort-term climate goals at risk. Countries – including the US and UK – are planning to drill more of their own oil and gas to fill the void of the Russian energy they’ve banned.
Meanwhile, China, the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, appears to be doubling down on coal as it…
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Gregory Andrews was Australia’s first threatened species commissioner, appointed in 2013 by the then incoming Coalition environment minister Greg Hunt. He recently returned to the country, after serving as high commissioner to Ghana, and was disheartened by what he found.
Andrews believes the state of the country’s natural wildlife and biodiversity is the “worst it’s ever been” and calls the ongoing destruction of forests and other habitat “crazy”.
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LAMAR, Colo. — The May family said a wildfire took some of their animals and thousands of acres of their land on Friday in Lamar, Colorado — and they said they’re lucky it wasn’t worse.
Drought conditions are getting worse in the state, and so is the potential for more wildfires.
Coloradoused to prepare for wildfiresin the middle of summer, but now, they are becoming more common year-round — even during one of the state’s snowiest months.
“We don’t have the benefits of moisture in the soil,” Dallas May said. “Friday’s fire was the example of that.”
Protests over the mass destruction of chickens on an Iowa farm have repeatedly disrupted Minnesota Timberwolves post-season games.
The latest interruption of play came during Saturday’s Game 4 NBA playoff with the Memphis Grizzles at Minnesota’s Target Center. With 10:44 left in the third quarter, a spectator seated in the second row behind the Timberwolves’ bench abruptly ran onto the court in the middle of a play. Security tackled her and dragged her off.
Direct Action Everywhere, an animal rights activist organization responsible for two previous fan protests at Timberwolves games, identified the protestor as Sasha Zemmel. She was wearing a “fake ref uniform (that) had 5.3 displayed on the back,” according to USA TODAY Sports Network’s Damichael Cole, who said the number was a reference to the 5.3 million chickens killed after a bird flu outbreak at a farm owned by Rembrandt Enterprises.
Why are animal rights protesters at a Minnesota Timberwolves game?
Glen Taylor, longtime majority owner of the Timberwolves, is listed in Iowa secretary of state filings as a director of Rembrandt, based in Buena Vista County. The destruction of the millions of laying hens at the egg-producing facility came on March 17.
More: Bird flu reappears in Iowa after two-week-plus hiatus
What happens to the birds when a bird flu outbreak happens?
When outbreaks occur, state agriculture departments work with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the producer to ensure the quick destruction of the entire flock and quarantine the surrounding area to prevent the spread of the virus.
The methods used to destroy the flocks, developed by the American Veterinary Medical Association, include smothering the birds with firefighting foam and piping carbon dioxide into barns to suffocate the birds. When there are too many to destroy with those methods, producers use a third veterinary association-approved method, ventilation shutdown.
In that scenario, farmers stop airflow into barns, which raises temperatures to levels at which the animals die. The USDA and the veterinary association recommend that farmers further elevate heat and carbon dioxide levels in barns to speed up the process and limit the animals’ suffering.
The association acknowledges its techniques “may not guarantee that the deaths the animals face are painless and distress free.”
California-based Direct Action Everywhere maintains the method are cruel, in particular ventilation shutdown, which it says Rembrandt used. It has distributed videos it said showed some stunned, traumatized chicken still alive in barns and at a compost site after the procedure.
What happened at the Minnesota vs. Memphis game Saturday?
The organization has said the stunts at the Timberwolves games are part of “ongoing efforts to get Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor to step down and return factory farm bailout money.” On Saturday, the organization confirmed that Zemmel was “dressed as #NBA Ref… while attempting to ‘eject’ #Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor.”
“She attempted to whistle to stop play as she approached Taylor at his courtside seat, to issue a ‘technical foul and ejection,’ along with a ‘fine’ against Forbes’ richest billionaire in Minnesota,” the group said in a news release.
Another protestor seated next to Zemmel also was removed from the game.
What happened during the other two Timberwolves protests?
It was the third protest by the organization at a Timberwolves game this postseason. During the Timberwolves’ play-in game against the Los Angeles Clippers on April 12, an animal rights protester glued her hand to the hardwood along the baseline and sprawled out before security was able to pry her away.
During the Grizzles and Timberwolves series opener on April 16 at Memphis’ FedExForum, a woman chained herself to the back of the basket and threw fliers onto the court. There was a brief delay as security cut the protestor’s chain and carried her out the arena. According to Cole, “She was pumping her firsts while being carried out by security.”
Iowa, the nation’s leading producer of eggs and seventh-largest turkey producer, has lost the most birds from commercial and backyard flocks in this year’s wave of bird flu. at 13.3 million.
An animal cruelty activist is taken away in handcuffs after she attempted to protest during the Minnesota Timberwolves and Memphis Grizzlies Game 4 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series Saturday, April 23, 2022, in Minneapolis.
AP Photo/Craig Lassig
Animal rights activist Sasha Zemmel was tackled to the floor by a security guard during a playoff game on Saturday at Minneapolis’s Target Center between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Memphis Grizzlies.
Video footage of the incident, shared by the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere, shows some of the scene unfolding after Zemmel stormed onto the court dressed in a referee jersey as fans watched in apparent confusion.
After her detention, the St. Louis resident was released from custody on Sunday morning, according to Direct Action Everywhere, which described her in a release to the press as participating in their protests.
In a tweet Sunday, Direct Action Everywhere said Zemmel was detained after protesting Timberwolves billionaire owner Glen Taylor over claims of animal cruelty.
The group said Zemmel briefly attempted to whistle to stop play during Saturday’s game as she approached Taylor at his courtside seat in order to issue a so-called “technical foul and ejection,” along with a “fine” against him.
Zemmel was wearing a jersey with the number 5.3 on the back, in reference to the 5.3 million chickens killed at Rembrandt Enterprises, an Ohio egg farm that Taylor owns, Direct Action Everywhere Said.
Neither the group nor the Minnesota Target Center or the Timberwolves immediately responded to PEOPLE’s request for comment. It was unclear if Zemmel has obtained an attorney.
In addition to Zemmel, another animal rights activist that was sitting next to her and dressed in all black with a blue jacket was reportedly removed after also attempting to protest at the game.
An animal cruelty activist is taken away in handcuffs after she attempted to protest during the Minnesota Timberwolves and Memphis Grizzlies Game 4 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series Saturday, April 23, 2022, in Minneapolis.
AP Photo/Craig Lassig
Direct Action Everywhere also claims a similar protest attempted Thursday night by another animal rights activist named Matt Johnson was prevented. The group said Johnson was “aggressively shoved to the ground” by security and police officers at the center and faced a disorderly conduct charge.
“Johnson says he was treated with excessive force as a peaceful demonstrator, and is considering his legal options,” the group said.
Thank you, Animals 24-7, for your coverage. First off, mass-production of living creatures can NEVER be made “humane.” It’s an insult to the animals to use the word humane to describe their human-imposed suffering and sicknesses in mass-production operations of any size. Back when Whole Foods developed its Compassionate Standards program, appallingly all of the farmed animal advocacy groups, as far as I can recall, signed on to it with the exception of Farm Animal Reform [now Rights] Movement and United Poultry Concerns. How could anyone, I wondered, think that “compassion” had ANYTHING to do with purely profit-seeking enterprises? How could animal protection organizations add insult to the injuries inflicted on chickens, turkeys, cows, pigs, aquatic animals and others born strictly to be killed and otherwise used for mass-consumption of their bodies and “products”?
The Global Animal Partnership (GAP) program, referenced in your article as a public relations marketer for Whole Foods, is yet another insult to the chickens and other animals whose body parts are displayed, ignominiously, in meat counters.
Urban/suburban Whole Foods shoppers have no idea what the GAP rating scale of 1 to 5 actually means or looks like in actuality. Most shoppers will choose the cheapest level of “welfare,” which at all five levels does not mean that the animals are Faring Well. Quite the contrary.
Mountaire Farms, mentioned in your article, has a big presence on the Delmarva Peninsula comprising Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, as well as in other U.S. states. Mountaire Farms raises chickens on a massive industrial scale, poisons local well water, and has no concern for anyone’s welfare: human, animal, the planet, or otherwise – except for themselves, their profits.
As for the American Humane Association, this organization has NOTHING to do with advancing farmed animal welfare. AHA should never be viewed as a “humane” organization with respect to farmed animals, laboratory animals, or even for animals in entertainment – their signature “welfare” project. American Humane is an arm of agribusiness, as is the American Veterinary Medical Association, which at the top tier is an arm of industrialized animal agriculture and animal experimentation. The AVMA serves and identifies with its wealthy, animal-abusing corporate clients and interests.
Once again, thank you for your coverage of the investigative revelations of the fraudulence of the lying organizations that cater to animal consumers’ fairy-tale wishes and willful blindness to the miserable reality of farmed-animals’ pitiful, tormented lives.
Karen Davis, PhD, President, United Poultry Concerns. www.upc-online.org
Saturday marks the beginning of the annual youth turkey hunting weekend.
Saturday and Sunday will see turkey hunting in Upstate New York open to hunters aged 12-15. Hunters must have a turkey hunting permit in addition to their hunting license. Shooting hours are from one-half hour before sunrise to noon each day.
The DEC offers these tips for a safe and successful hunt:
Don’t stalk. More than half of turkey hunting injuries happen when one hunter stalks another.
Always assume any call or footsteps you hear are from another hunter. Don’t shoot until you clearly see the whole turkey and know its sex.
If you see another hunter, talk to him or her clearly, and don’t move. Never wave or use a turkey call to alert another hunter.
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