A hunter in the Pyrenees. According to figures by the French Office for Biodiversity, there were 90 hunting accidents in 2021-22.Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images
The French government has angered anti-hunt campaigners after refusing to ban hunting on Sundays during the season.
Instead, it has declared a ban on drinking alcohol and taking drugs while hunting, a move activists say is unenforceable, and will set up a voluntary application for hunters to indicate where they are active.
Bérangère Couillard, the ecology minister, said hunt organisers would be required to undergo training and there would be tougher sentences for those convicted of causing an accident.
The government bowed to pressure to address hunt safety after a senate inquiry prompted by the death ofMorgan Keane…
Just three years ago, on Jan. 30, 2020, the head of the World Health Organization made a landmarkdeclaration: A “novel coronavirus” that had first been identified in China had spread to a degree where it was now a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).”
The virus now known as SARS-CoV-2 — which causes the disease COVID-19 — is still spreading. But for those who study infectious diseases, talking about possible next pandemics is a necessity.
Hidden viruses: how pandemics really begin
NPR is running a series on spillover viruses — that’s when animal pathogens jump into people. Researchers used to think spillovers were rare events. Now it is clear they happen all the time. That has changed how scientists look…
It’s the most confounding event to rock the Dallas–Fort Worth area in 60 years. Over the past month, a series of break-ins have terrorized the residents of the Dallas Zoo with enclosures cut open, an animal killed, and two monkeys apparently stolen — and now found — as police search for the culprit.
The tumult began January 13, when the zoo reported that a clouded leopard named Nova was missing from its habitat. The endangered cat was in her enclosure as of 1 a.m., but zookeepers knew she was missing after they found a “suspicious” tear in the mesh fencing surrounding her enclosure. The police were called and the zoo remained closed that day as they searched for the 25-pound leopard, which was found safe and returned by sundown.
“It was clear that this opening wasn’t habitat failure, wasn’t exhibit failure, and it wasn’t keeper error,” the zoo’s president said. The cuts to the clouded-leopard area weren’t the only compromised enclosures: On January 14, the Dallas Police Department reported that the langur-monkey habitat was also cut into, though the primates didn’t get out.
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The next target wasn’t so lucky. On the other side of the 106-acre zoo, a lappet-faced vulture named Pin was found dead with what the zoo called a “suspicious” wound. Zoo officials said they could not share information surrounding the endangered bird’s death during the police investigation into the matter, but they noted that the zoo had boosted overnight security and added more cameras between the leopard escape and the vulture’s death.
Then came the strangest break-in of all: On January 30, the zoo announced that someone had “intentionally compromised” the habitat of the emperor tamarin monkeys and apparently stole two of the little bearded guys.
Zoo break-ins are uncommon but not unheard of. In 1986, eight animals were stolen from the Central Park Zoo including a boa constrictor and a yellow-headed parrot that could say, “Let’s go, Mets.” (In 1998, another parrot was grabbed from the Central Park Zoo by a man who said he “wanted to make stew out of that bird.”) And over the weekend, a dozen squirrel monkeys were taken from the 45-acre Zoosiana outside Lafayette, Louisiana, about a seven-hour drive from the Dallas Zoo. “The coincidence is a little concerning,” said Ed Hansen, CEO of the American Association of Zoo Keepers.
“When someone takes an animal from a zoo, they quickly find that, no pun intended, they bit off more than they can chew,” Hansen added. “These are endangered species with a specialized diet — they’re not a regular house cat. Usually, people realize they can’t handle them and turn them loose.”
Passenger aircraft as seen flying over the Netherlands.
With business continuing as usual, climate pollution from aviation could nearly triple by 2050 as demand for air travel grows, according to a newstudypublished yesterday in the journalNature Sustainability. It would cost up to $1 trillion to try to remove enough of that pollution from the atmosphere to meet global climate goals — an untenable situation.
To put that enormous cost into context, the global airline industry only netted$26.4 billion in profitsin 2019 before the covid pandemic curbed travel. And even if airlines can pay to remove all their emissions from the atmosphere, that’s still not guaranteed to slow climate change. While carbon offsets — paying to…
As Mark Gutsmiedl checked his muskrat trapline in December and hauled out his daily catch, he felt blessed to be in constant pain and 1½ inches shorter than he’d been in August.
After all, the Winchester resident could easily have been three months in his grave by then.
No, Gutsmiedl’s life didn’t flash before his eyes Aug. 28 while tumbling 20 feet to the ground after his treestand broke free. But maybe that’s because he spent those milliseconds calculating how to survive his pending crash-landing.
Gutsmiedl, 62, a self-employed flooring installer in Winnebago County, recounts that day’s events in hopes others won’t repeat his mistakes. First, he was in a hurry. He had “101 things” to do that day. He was leaving the next day for his annual trip to Alaska to guide bowhunters for bear and…
Aglobal nuclear war will “immediately” break out should any attempt be made to return Crimea to Ukrainian control, the head of Sevastopol’s Civic Chamber said on Tuesday.
“Any attempt to seize Crimea and return it to Ukraine will immediately escalate into a thermonuclear global conflict. Russia will not forgive this,” he warned.
Formanchuk, who has led the chamber since May 2021, was responding to recent comments made by former
The difference between the carbon emissions of the rich and the poor within a country is now greater than the differences in emissions between countries, data shows.
It also shows there is plenty of room for the poorest in the world to increase their greenhouse gas emissions if needed to reach prosperity, if rich people globally – including some in developing countries – reduce theirs, the analysis has found.
Most global climate policy has focused on the difference between developed and developing countries…
In New Hampshire any taxpayer who is eligible to vote has the constitutional right to petition the Superior Court if that citizen believes a government entity is misusing public funds.
Right now, one citizen is doing just that, with alawsuit against the NH Fish and Game Department. The lawsuit alleges that the NH Fish and Game Department, which is funded by taxpayers, caters to a minority of the population — those who hunt, fish, and trap — rather than representing the interests of all New Hampshire citizens.
To read the case (Case No. 213-2022-CV-00199), click below:
Cheshire Superior Court Case No. 213-2022-CV-00199
The Malta Union of Teachers has clarified a statement issued on Saturday afternoon in which it had showed no aversion to an exhibition about hunting inside Gozitan schools, now saying it does not approve of theKaċċaturi San Ubertu exhibition being sponsored by the Gozo ministry.
“The MUT is hereby issuing a clarification following the misinterpretations of its position regarding the hunting exhibition. The MUT does not approve or back the hunting exhibition in schools. It has always condemned any killing of living species and its promotion in schools. The union has always supported the work carried out to conserve nature and living species and urges educators to pursue…
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