BY ZOE SOTTILE

OCTOBER 15, 2022 / 10:27 AM / CNN

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You attract more bees with honey — and more bears with doughnuts, apparently.

A New York hunter has been ticketed after he allegedly used doughnuts in an attempt to lure bears, according to a new release from New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation.

Police at the department hiked many miles for multiple days before they found several areas which seemed to be baited with doughnuts, the release explained. Hunting black bears is legal in select zones and seasons in New York, but hunters are not permitted to use any kind of bait to attract the bears.

Doughnuts had been placed in and around trees, including inside tree stumps, police alleged.

On October 2, officers discovered a man using a bow to hunt for bears in the doughnut-studded area. He also had a large package of doughnuts in his backpack, police say.

At first, the hunter claimed the doughnuts were for his own consumption and said he had dropped them, according to the release.

He was ticketed for hunting bear with bait, failing to display a backtag, which is a tag hunters need to legally kill a bear, injuring trees on state land, littering on state land, and failing to label his hunting stands with his name and address, among other offenses, the release outlined.

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The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) has issued an advisory concerning the bird flu in Oregon.

With many duck and goose seasons that opened Oct. 8, the ODFW cautious waterfowl hunters to be aware that Highly Pathogenic Avian influenza (HPAI) has been circulating in wild birds in North America since December 2021.

The current strain of the virus was first detected in Oregon in May 2022 and continues to be found in wild birds and backyard poultry flocks. More detections are expected during fall and winter as waterfowl migrate through Oregon or spend the winter here. Hunters are also likely to come in contact with infected waterfowl during the hunting season.

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Although Low Pathogenic strains of Avian Influenza naturally circulate in wild waterfowl, detections of HPAI strains in wild birds are less frequent, with the last occurrence during the winter of 2014-2015. Typically, HPAI does not cause large-scale mortality in wild waterfowl but often causes severe illness and death in other groups of wild birds and in domestic waterfowl and poultry, according to a release from the ODFW.

However, this strain has caused increased mortality for wild waterfowl, shorebirds, raptors, and scavengers such as vultures. This strain has also been detected in some mammalian carnivores such as coyotes, foxes, and skunks that have likely fed on infected birds.

Wildlife managers are continuing to monitor for the disease by testing birds found dead and sampling live birds and birds harvested by hunters for the disease.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that humans appear to be at low risk for infection with the current H5N1 strain, although individuals who have frequent close contact with wild birds, especially waterfowl, may be at higher risk for exposure and should take precautions.

For more information, visit https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/avian-in-humans.htm

The ODFW urges hunters to practice safe bird handling. The agency has issued the following safe bird handling and cooking techniques, especially important this season due to HPAI:

• Do not harvest birds that are obviously sick or found dead.
• Wear rubber or latex gloves when handling and cleaning game birds.
• Do not eat, drink, smoke or touch your face when handling birds.

• Keep the game bird and its juices away from other foods.
• Thoroughly clean knives and any other equipment or surfaces that touch birds. Use a solution of one third cup of chlorine bleach per one gallon of water.
• Wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds after handling birds (or with alcohol-based hand products if your hands are not visibly soiled).
• Cook all game meat thoroughly (up to at least 165° F) to kill disease organisms including bacteria, viruses, and parasites. Use a food thermometer to ensure the inside of the bird has reached at least 165° F.
• Do not feed dogs raw meat, organs or other tissue from harvested waterfowl.

ODFW asks that hunters and the public report groups of three or more sick or dead wild birds to the Wildlife Health lab at 866-968-2600, odfw.wildlifehealth@odfw.oregon.gov so they can be investigated and tested for avian influenza.

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Typical symptoms in wild waterfowl include cloudy eyes, shaking or swinging the neck around, swimming in circles, and incoordination. In areas where birds have been infected, sick, dead, or neurologically abnormal wild mammals also may be cause for concern and should be reported.

Do not handle wildlife that is sick or found dead. If it is necessary to do so, use a shovel or wear impermeable gloves, wash hands with soap and water, and change clothing before having contact with domestic poultry or pet birds.

Falconers are advised to avoid hunting waterfowl and other waterbirds during the HPAI outbreak because of the risk it presents to raptors. HPAI is killing raptors that come into contact with infected avian prey or carcasses.

Danger to domestic poultry

This strain of HPAI (H5N1) is also deadly to domestic birds (chickens, turkeys, Guinea fowl). The Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) strongly encourages backyard poultry producers to prevent contact between their birds and wild birds. Any sick domestic birds should be reported to the State Veterinarian’s office at 1-800-347-7028 or AHHotline@oda.oregon.gov​

ODFW is part of the State of Oregon’s multi-agency response to highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza, along with the Oregon Department of Agriculture, the Oregon Health Authority and the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS).

For information on avian influenza in domestic birds, visit ODA’s website: https://www.oregon.gov/oda/programs/animalhealthfeedslivestockid/animaldiseases/pages/avianinfluenza.aspx

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Covered head to toe in hazmat suits, gloves and facemasks, sombre figures comb clifftops and tidelines searching for corpses.

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The close confinement of chickens can create the perfect breeding ground for new types of diseases to emerge (Picture: Jamie McDonald/Getty Images)

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It’s an all-too familiar scene, particularly in these pandemic times. Yet, this was no twist of Covid. Instead, it was the devastating impact of a new disease ravaging wildlife: highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).

Rangers usually seen counting colonies swirling with seabirds were instead painstakingly collecting carcases of dead birds before bagging them up for incineration. It’s a devastating task going on across the islands and coastlines of Scotland and elsewhere in a battle to prevent more carnage from further infections.

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NatureScot, the public body responsible for Scotland’s natural heritage, is “extremely concerned” about the impact of the current H5N1 strain of avian flu on internationally important seabird populations.https://d-4692997541946405647.ampproject.net/2209142312000/frame.html

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The fear is that long-lived and slow-breeding seabirds like gannets and great skuas could see their numbers plummet and take decades to recover. Even greater are concerns that the disease could get into really rare species like red-necked phalaropes, dainty little shorebirds with a tenuous foothold at best.

The first signs of HPAI in Scottish seabirds were detected toward the end of the 2021 breeding season. Great skua colonies were found to be affected in Shetland, Orkney and St Kilda. The disease was then found in gannets at the national nature reserves of Noss and Hermaness.

Many seabird species have now tested positive for HPAI. By mid-July 2022, infected birds had been found at more than 140 sites across Scotland involving 28 different species.

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A perfect breeding ground for disease

It’s a tough lesson in how our food choices affect everything else. HPAI, which now regularly devastates poultry populations around the world, didn’t originate in wild birds.

Instead, it emerged in farmed birds during the massive expansion of the poultry industry in China and east Asia at the end of the 20th century.

Now, chickens and wild birds alike have become victims of this most devastating disease.

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The rise in intensive chicken farming has provided the perfect breeding ground for new and more deadly strains of disease. The explosive growth of cheap chicken on supermarket shelves is now coming home to roost.

Evolution of the virus

The low pathogenic version of the avian influenza virus is common in birds, both domesticated and wild.

Its evolution into a much more deadly form is due to the huge numbers of birds kept at close quarters in the global poultry industry.

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The science behind the emergence of dangerous disease strains isn’t complicated.

These days, most chickens are crammed in their tens of thousands in each steely-looking barn. A ‘farm’ can now have any number of these long, low buildings lined up in rows.

Keeping too many animals in too small a space, often in dark, filthy and overcrowded conditions, provides the conditions a virus like avian influenza needs to spread and evolve.

As the virus races through the flock, new – and potentially more deadly – strains can and do emerge.

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Rampant across Europe and Asia

Contrary to what some in the farming industry want us to believe, keeping farmed animals indoors increases the risk of disease.

With the highly pathogenic bird flu virus now rampant across Britain, Europe and Asia, farms of all shapes and sizes are being hit.

According to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), by far the most common reason for the disease spread in poultry is through farm-to-farm transmission. In other words, it’s being carried on the trucks and boots of the industry.

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The shocking reality is that HPAI in Britain and Europe could become endemic in wild birds, causing immense damage to wildlife already fighting for survival.

As it is, farmland bird species have plummeted in recent decades due to the rise of intensive agriculture. Skylarks, corn buntings and lapwings are among the species particularly affected.

Spreading to wild mammals

Now, that same farm intensification is devastating a wider range of wildlife previously thought out of harm’s reach, such as seabirds on remote islands.

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According to NatureScot, great skua, gannet and guillemot have been hardest hit. Surveys suggest Shetland’s gannet numbers have dropped by a quarter. Great Skuas in Orkney have seen declines of up to 85 per cent.

There is worrying evidence that HPAI is starting to spread into wild mammals such as foxes and seals. All of which underscores how we’ve created a world out of balance and increasingly out of control.

As a lifelong conservationist, I’ve long believed in the importance of nature reserves in giving nature a home. And I still do.

Yet, this latest tragedy, now playing out across some of the remotest and wildest of locations, shows nothing is safe anymore. Even the best protected wildlife is vulnerable. It’s a big lesson in how everything is connected; that the well-being of society and the ecosystem we depend on is interlinked with the health of farmed animals.

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Pandemic risk

Thankfully, HPAI rarely affects people, at least for now. Official government advice is that avian influenza is “primarily a disease of birds and the risk to the general public’s health is very low.”

The bird flu virus is not easily transmitted between people, but scientists have suggested that just a few mutations would allow it to become as infectious as seasonal flu.

An editorial in New Scientist magazine described the risk of a pandemic as “fact, not fiction”.

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What is becoming clear is that the intensive poultry industry’s damage to wild birds and potentially other wildlife is growing year by year.

Cheap chicken on supermarket shelves looks set to become one of the most important global threats to biodiversity, and a possible pandemic threat to people too.