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By Leah Douglas
(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend $502 million to ensure its rapid response to any future bird flu cases as the country’s worst-ever outbreak of the virus levels off, the agency said Friday.
Bird flu has killed 58.7 million chickens, turkeys, and other birds across 47 states since January 2022, a record number in the U.S., according to June 7 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There have been no new cases in commercial poultry flocks since April 19, 2023, or in backyard flocks since May 18, 2023, USDA said.
The Americas Hunting Equipment Market is estimated to grow by USD 733.75 million from 2022 to 2027, Academy Sports and Outdoors Inc. and American Outdoor Brands Inc. emerge as Key Contributors to growth – Technavio
NEW YORK,June 21, 2023/PRNewswire/ — Thehunting equipment market size in Americasis set to grow byUSD 733.75 millionfrom 2022to 2027 progressing at aCAGR of1.47%during the forecast period.The report offers an up-to-date analysis regarding the current global market scenario, the latest trends and drivers, and the overall market environment.The market is driven by the rising popularity of online sales.The rise in popularity of online sales is notably driving the hunting gear market growth. The e-commerce industry in the Americas has experienced rapid growth, driven by the widespread adoption of…
The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is taking public comment until June 30 on changes in furbearer regulations governing trapping and hunting coyotes with dogs.
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The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is taking public comment until June 30 on changes in furbearer regulations governing trapping and hunting coyotes with dogs.
Iceland’s government has suspended its sanctioning of whale hunting, and has said a permanent ban is under consideration.
Iceland Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Svandís Svavarsdóttir issued a directive on 20 June postponing the country’s whaling season until 31 August, 2023, after concluding the commercial killing of whales does not comply with Iceland’s Animal Welfare Act. The decision came following the release of a government panel released a study that found the hunting conducted by Hvalur, Iceland’s sole remaining company involved in the practice, did not kill whales fast enough so they did not suffer or feel pain.
I have made the decision to temporarily stop whaling in light of the unequivocal opinion of the professional council on animal welfare,” Svavarsdóttir said in a statement. “The conditions of the law on animal welfare are inescapable in my mind, if the government and license holders cannot guarantee welfare requirements, this activity does not see a future.”
Hvalur hunts both fin whales and minke whales, but its license to hunt fin whales expires later this year and it is unlikely to send whale-hunting vessels out in the small window available to it in early September, according to Mongabay. A second company ceased hunting whales in 2020 after deeming it no longer profitable.
Environmental groups, including the Humane Society International and the Animal Welfare Institute, said the move was a major milestone in the protection of marine mammals.
“There is no humane way to kill a whale at sea, and so we urge the minister to make this a permanent ban,” Humane Society International Executive Director for Europe Ruud Tombrock said in a statement. “Whales already face so many serious threats in the oceans from pollution, climate change, entanglement in fish nets and ship strikes, that ending cruel commercial whaling is the only ethical conclusion.”
AWI Marine Life Consultant Kate O’Connell noted video footage taken onboard Hvalur vessels showed 41 percent of the 148 fin whales killed in 2022 did not die immediately, and that 11 were pregnant and one was lactating.
“This is good news for Iceland’s whales, and we thank Minister Svavarsdóttir for her decision to halt the 2023 whaling season before it began, sparing dozens of majestic fin whales a cruel and prolonged death,” O’Connell said. “We will continue to advocate an end to all commercial whaling, an industry that is cruel and unnecessary, as well as illogical, given the enormous benefits that living whales provide to the health of ocean ecosystems and local coastal communities.”
Whaling has been a part of Iceland’s commercial fisheries industry for hundreds of years, but recently public opinion on the practice has shifted in the country, with a majority of the population now opposed, according to a 3 June survey conducted by the Maskina Institute.
Sea Shepherd U.K. Head Robert Read said Iceland’s findings should provide sufficient evidence to the two remaining nations allowing commercial whaling – Japan and Norway – that the practice should be banned. Japan is by far the world’s largest consumer of whale meat, and its commercial fleet resumed whaling in 2019, reducing demand for whale meat imported from Iceland.
“If whaling can’t be done humanely here … it can’t be done humanely anywhere,” Read told The Guardian.
Grizzly bears like this one in Yellowstone National Park could be returning to the Bitterroot Ecosystem along the Montana-Idaho border under a new work plan proposed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.Courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Following another legislative session where Republican lawmakers saw fit to impose their will on wildlife management, we saw the passage of SB 295.
Like so many other Republican efforts to privatize wildlife and destroy predator species, the bill is heavy on rhetoric and light on science.
Grizzly bears have not recovered in Montana. Lawmakers want you to believe they are, but facts do not match rancher and outfitter-infused talking points. What has been lost in this conversation is the fact that grizzly bears should never be hunted, period. At what point is Montana Fish…
Carson Wentzmay be panned for his accuracy on the field, but not so much off it … the NFL free agent QB took down a black bear with a bow and arrow, before posing with the animal.
As you might expect, reaction was … umm, mixed.
The former Super Bowl champ showed off his kill on Friday with a photo of a black bear and his Hoyt Archery bow on a grassy field in the Last Frontier.
“Got the opportunity to spot and stalk black bear in one of our new favorite places on earth— Alaska!” Wentz wrote in the caption.
Adam Smith, 45, of Rio Rancho, was arrested for stabbing his brother in-law and attempting to stab his sister on June 22.
According to a criminal complaint filed with the Magistrate Court in Bernalillo, Rio Rancho Police officers responded to a stabbing at a residence in the Corrales Heights area.
When officers arrived, the brother in-law was being treated for multiple stab wounds by EMS. There was a noticeably large stab wound along his chest. Reportedly, there was blood on the floor to the door of the home, and more trails of blood leading to a larger blood stain on the kitchen floor.
Police were able to talk brother in-law’s wife about the incident.
She told police that she and her husband were getting ready to go for a walk and her husband was looking around…
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources conservation officer truck (Supplied)
Trespassing while hunting and then trying to flee conservation officers has cost a Manitoulin Island hunter dearly.
Tyler Corbiere was found guilty of trespassing while in possession of a firearm, failing to stop for conservation officers, using a firearm carelessly to hunt and unlawfully having a loaded firearm in a conveyance.
A news release Friday from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry said Corbiere received $10,000 in fines and forfeited two rifles with scopes, a spotlight, range finder and binoculars which were seized as part of the investigation.
The incident took place Nov. 18, 2020, when a conservation officer responded to a report that a hunter was trespassing on Great La Cloche Island in the District of…
It’s been one year since theSupreme Courtruled inDobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organizationthat there was no constitutional right to anabortionin the US — a decision thatoverturnedRoe v. Wadeand 49 years of precedent.
Since then, states have moved to restrict abortion rights. People seeking to end pregnancies across a wide geographic swath of America have wholly or nearly lost the right to do so.Doctors have saidthat the restrictions endanger their ability to care for patients. New battlegrounds have emerged over medication abortion, the most common form of…
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