na’s expanded wolf-hunting season earlier this month, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it has decided to conduct an in-depth status review to determine whether state management plans aiming to aggressively reduce wolf populations threaten the recovery of gray wolves.
The process was initiated this summer when environmental groups asked the agency to relist the animals through two separate petitions. The groups filed the petitions after lawmakers in Montana and Idaho passed laws that encouraged aggressive population reduction by broadening the methods hunters could use to harvest wolves and expanding the trapping season.
In a release about the decision, the agency wrote that the two petitions presented “substantial information that potential…
ByNick KuzmaPublished:Sep. 27, 2021 at 2:59 PM PDT
MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. (RELEASE) – Yellowstone National Park wolf biologists report that the park’sJunction Butte Pack(27 wolves) lost three wolves to Montana hunters during the first week of Montana’s wolf hunting season. The Junction Butte Pack transcends Yellowstone’s northern range and is the most viewed wolf pack in the world.
Multiple recent overflights conducted by the park confirmed the pack size has been reduced from 27 to 24 animals, losing two female pups and one female yearling. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP)confirmsthree wolves were killed outside of Yellowstone in the general vicinity of where the Junction Butte Pack was traveling in mid-September.
Yellowstone wolves in the northern range spend an estimated 5% of the time outside the park, usually in late fall. For over a decade, the state of Montana limited the number…
3VIEW ALL PHOTOSState police ask anyone who was traveling from Arlington to Rufus during that time of day or anyone with information regarding the incident to contact Oregon State Police Dispatch at 1-800-442-2068 or *OSP from your mobile reference case # SP21274660. (OSP)
RUFUS, Ore. – Oregon State Police made a public appeal for tips after an elk hunter returning home to Veneta from Eastern Oregon was found unresponsive with severe head trauma behind the wheel of his pickup parked at the bottom of an Interstate 84 off-ramp.
Troopers responded just before noon Saturday to a 911 call requesting “a welfare check of a subject lying face down in the gravel in front of his silver 2015 Ford F350 crew cab pulling his 2019 Keystone Cougar travel trailer.”
State police said “troopers found a truck and trailer matching that description on I-84 exit…
A Northeastern Iowa man who guided and outfitted illegal deer hunts was sentenced on September 23, 2021, to federal prison. Cory Gene Fritzler, age 46, from Lansing, Iowa, received the prison term after a March 18, 2021 guilty plea to one count of conspiracy.
Evidence at Fritzler’s plea, sentencing, and other hearings established that Fritzler operated a guiding and outfitting business in Northeastern Iowa known as “NE Iowa Outfitters.” The Northeastern Iowa region is nationally recognized as a prime geographic area for hunting mature whitetail buck deer. Hunters travel to Northeastern Iowa from all over the United States to hunt high value, mature buck deer with large antlers. The demand for out-of-state hunting licenses, however, greatly exceeds the supply.
During the 2015 hunting season, Fritzler agreed to conduct an illegal hunt with two hunters from Florida who were actually undercover law enforcement officers…
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Game wardens said the hunter called 911 and rendered aid to the victim until emergency workers arrived. The woman was transported to a hospital and is stable, the service said.
The warden service did not identify the people involved in the shooting. It said it is being assisted by the Maine State Police and other authorities on the investigation.
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Less than an hour after a woman told police a suspect had used a bow and arrow to carjack her in Midtown Atlanta, authorities said the same man was shot by police in Marietta after pointing the weapon at officers who confronted him.
The woman’s car was reported stolen just before 6:15 a.m. in Midtown, police said. The victim told officers she was in her car in the 1400 block of West Peachtree Street when a man approached her with a bow and arrow.
“The suspect fired an arrow into the victim’s windshield while demanding her to exit,” Atlanta police said in a statement. “The victim complied and the suspect fled in her 2014 Toyota Camry.”
The woman was not injured.
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While investigating the carjacking, officers learned that a similar incident had happened moments before in the 1600 block of Peachtree Road.
“A male suspect matching the same description and weapon involved attempted to take a vehicle belonging to a security guard working at the location but was unsuccessful,” the police department said.
Officers soon made contact with a third person who said the same suspect tried to take their car but was unsuccessful.
About 7:10 a.m., Marietta police located the stolen Camry after it smashed into the side of a bridge near the Marietta Square, according to department spokesman Officer Chuck McPhilamy. The car had crashed into the bridge support for a CSX rail that passes over South Marietta Parkway, the GBI said.
When police approached the vehicle, “they were presented with an individual with a bow and arrow,” McPhilamy said.
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Officers at the scene described the weapon as a compound bow loaded with an arrow, which is typically used for hunting.
The man, later identified as Emory, got out of the passenger side of the wrecked vehicle and pointed the bow at police, the GBI said. An officer responded by giving him “multiple verbal commands to drop the weapon,” McPhilamy said.
“When the commands were not followed, the officer drew their handgun and fired it, striking the suspect one time,” McPhilamy said.
Emory dropped to the ground, still refusing to comply with the officers’ commands, authorities said. Police took a shield to the area so officers could safely get close enough to the man to place him in handcuffs and provide him with medical attention.
Emory was taken to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, where he was stable, according to the GBI. No officers were injured.
The incident is the 75th shooting involving a law enforcement officer the GBI has been asked to investigate this year. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution also tracks officer-involved shootings that don’t involve the GBI, and those numbers sometimes differ from the GBI’s tally.
Greta Thunberg has excoriated global leaders over their promises to address the climate emergency, dismissing them as “blah, blah, blah”.
She quoted statements by Boris Johnson: “This is not some expensive, politically correct, green act of bunny hugging”, and Narendra Modi: “Fighting climate change calls for innovation, cooperation and willpower” but said the science did not lie.
Carbon emissions are on track to rise by 16% by 2030, according to the UN, rather than fall by half, which is the cut needed to keep global heating under the internationally agreed limit of 1.5C.
The Cop26 climate summit starts in Glasgow, UK, on 31 October and all the big-polluting countries must deliver tougher pledges to cut emissions to keep the goal of 1.5C within reach.
“Of course we need constructive dialogue,” said Thunberg, whose solo climate strike in 2018 sparked a movement of millions of young climate protesters. “But they’ve now had 30 years of blah, blah, blah and where has that led us? We can still turn this around – it is entirely possible. It will take immediate, drastic annual emission reductions. But not if things go on like today. Our leaders’ intentional lack of action is a betrayal toward all present and future generations.”
Thunberg, Vanessa Nakate from Uganda, and hundreds of other young people from across the world are attending the Youth4Climate Summit. It is hosted by the Italian government, the UK’s partner in running Cop26.
The youth summit will consist of working groups of young people debating how to increase their participation in decision-making, their role in helping to transform energy use, nature conservation and climate adaptation, and how education can create a climate-conscious society. It builds on a youth climate summit held at the UN headquarters in New York in 2019.
Thunberg said: “They invite cherry-picked young people to meetings like this to pretend that they listen to us. But they clearly don’t listen to us. Our emissions are still rising. The science doesn’t lie.
“We can no longer let the people in power decide what is politically possible. We can no longer let the people in power decide what hope is. Hope is not passive. Hope is not blah, blah, blah. Hope is telling the truth. Hope is taking action. And hope always comes from the people.”
Image by Andrew Skowron is of Magda, rescued from use as an egg machine
Today the first post I saw was about hens who had been used for eggs and it tore my heart out. I should have known better and not looked at the comments, but I did and guess what? There they all were, the inevitable pro-backyard, ‘know-where-your-food-is-coming-from-and-be-compassionate-like-me’, ‘from- the-lovely-woman-down-the-road’, ‘treats-them-like-her-children’ comments; comments that refuse to acknowledge that the fundamental principle of egg use is wrong, commenters determined to claim that the way they personally use hens is exceptional, so whatever message is being conveyed doesn’t apply to them.
Why is that? Seriously? Why are there so many people who imagine themselves to be ‘animal lovers’, who point-blank refuse to accept that using hens is simply wrong and insist that what they do is perfectly fine? Years of blogs, high quality shared links, science, expert analyses, heart…
2 minutes readhttps://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.481.0_en.html#goog_12887255340 seconds of 14 secondsVolume 0% South Korea hints at banning dog meat
SEOUL, Sept 27 (Reuters) – South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in said on Monday there might be a need to prohibit dog meat consumption amid debate over the controversial practice and growing awareness of animal rights.
While no longer as common as before, dog meat is eaten mainly by older people and is served in some restaurants and can be bought at specific markets.
Moon made the remarks after being briefed by Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum on efforts to improve the handling of abandoned animals and a mandatory registration system for dogs. read more
“After the briefing, he said time has come to carefully consider imposing a dog meat ban,” Moon’s spokeswoman Park Kyung-mee said in a statement.
It was the first time that Moon raised a ban, which is likely to give fresh momentum to debate over whether to curtail the practice.
A dog is pictured in a cage at a dog meat farm in Wonju, South Korea, January 10, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
To boost their popularity, several presidential hopefuls have pledged to ban dog meat in recent weeks, especially as dogs have become popular as pets and advocacy groups have urged South Korea to close down restaurants and markets selling dog meat.
Lee Jae-myung, governor of the country’s most populous province of Gyeonggi and a leading presidential contender from Moon’s party, has vowed to push for a ban through social consensus.
But Yoon Seok-youl, an opposition frontrunner, has said it was a matter of people’s personal choice.
A poll commissioned by animal welfare group Aware released this month said 78% of respondents believed the production and sale of dog and cat meat should be prohibited and 49% supported a consumption ban.
But, another survey by polling firm Realmeter found people were divided over whether the government should ban eating dog meat, though 59% supported legal restrictions on dog slaughter for human consumption.
Dog meat sellers have insisted on the right to their occupation, saying their livelihoods are at risk.Reporting by Hyonhee Shin; Editing by Christian Schmollinger
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Image by Andrew Skowron is of Magda, rescued from use as an egg machine 
