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Missouri’s spring turkey hunting season concluded Sunday. In four months, local archers will again be seeking gobblers for what they hope is a robust fall season.

Neighboring Kansas won’t have that luxury.

The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parksrecently announced that its fall season will be canceled on account of a dwindling turkey population, the firsttime Kansas has canceled a season in the modern turkey-restoration era.

Kansas wildlife officials hope that cutting the fall season for the foreseeable future will help boost the population, which recently hit a 15-year low. Fall turkey season hunting participation in Kansas has also been reportedly low.

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Kansas also imposed a one-turkey bag limit for the spring of 2024, similar to neighboring states Oklahoma and Nebraska, which also imposed stricter bag limits due to declining turkey populations.

Turkey population declines in the Great Plains states…

Scientists fear a mammal-to-mammal spread could lead to global catastrophe.BY TIM NEWCOMBPUBLISHED: FEB 2, 2023

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• A mink farm in Spain is the site of concerning research regarding thespread of avian influenza.
• Researchers believe the bird flu was transmitted across minks in the farm—a troubling mammal-to-mammal spread.
• Theoutbreakat the mink farm opens a new worry for health researchers.

Last fall, on a mink farm in Spain, H5N1 (avian influenza) likely spread across the animals. The outbreak resulted in the death or culling of the entire group of 50,000 minks.

Why should you care? Because it may have marked the first known case of mammal-to-mammal transmission of the deadly virus known as the bird flu, according to a new study. And that doesn’t portend anything good for humans.

The bird flu has proven scary enough with its occasional spreads from birds…

The sick mammals were found in Florida and Sweden and are both thought to have died from the disease.

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For the first time ever, wild cetaceans have tested positive foravian flu, also known asbird flu. The contagious disease typically infects wild aquatic birds and domestic poultry, but a recent and particularly virulent strain has been popping up in a widerange of species, including a dolphin in Florida and a porpoise in Sweden.Top ArticlesREAD MOREREAD MOREWhat’s Up With This “Underwater Waterfall”In Mauritius?

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The world’s first case of bird flu in a porpoise was detected after a male stranded on a beach in Sweden back in June. It…

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The annual Safari Club International Convention, which celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, boasts being the world’s biggest trade for trophy killers committed to conservation

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Sat as thousands of bloodthirsty big game hunters stroll by, the Mirror is offered the chance “to follow in the footsteps” of dentist Walter Palmer to kill alion.

Despite mounting global outrage over the pay-to-slay industry that sees thousands ofanimalsslaughtered each year, for £73,000 we could take one of the kings of the jungle’s lives.

We were made sickening offers this week at the annual Safari Club International (SCI) Convention – which boasts being the world’s biggest trade for trophy killers committed to conservation.

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Congratulations to Montana wolf hunters and trappers.  The total number of wolves harvested for the 2021 – 2022 season is at 138!  A great number to close out 2021, and we look forward to seeing what the rest of the season brings.  Thank you to all the sportsmen out there helping to manage wolves!

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From destructive land use to invasive species, scientists have identified the main drivers of biodiversity loss – so that countries can collectively act to tackle them

• Read more on the Cop15 talks to negotiate new UN targets to protect biodiversity in the coming decade

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The world’s wildlife populations haveplummeted by more than two-thirds since 1970– and there are no signs that this downward trend is slowing. The first phase of Cop15 talks in Kunming this week will lay the groundwork for governments to draw up a global agreement next year to halt the loss of nature. If they are to succeed, they will need to tackle what the IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and…

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Updated 12:30 PM ET, Sat October 9, 2021

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(CNN)In a year of extreme heat, Antarctica’s last six months were the coldest on record.”For the polar darkness period, from April through September, the average temperature was -60.9 degrees Celsius (-77.6 degrees Fahrenheit), a record for those months,” the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said.The last six months is also the darkest period at the South Pole, which is where the name polar darkness (alsocalled polar night)comes from. Here, the sun sets for the last time around the spring equinox, and does not rise again until near the autumn equinox six months later.

For the entire Antarctic continent, the winter of 2021 was the second-coldest on record, with the “temperature for June, July, and August 3.4 degrees Celsius (6.1 degrees Fahrenheit) lower than the 1981 to 2010 average at -62.9 degrees…

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AUG 24, 2021 —

A new hunt was just approved in Wisconsin allowing the killing of 300 wolves.

We’re fighting to stop it, and you can help.Please give to theWolf Defense Fundtoday.

When a similar hunt was allowed there earlier this year, trophy hunters gunned down 218 wolves in just 72 hours. Now the war on wolves is escalating even further.

Wisconsin is becoming Exhibit A for why wolves need their federal Endangered Species Act protection restored. The state even has a law thatrequiresa wolf hunt each year.

The newly announced 300-wolf quota is more than double the number recommended by a state wildlife agency. Last winter’s slaughter annihilated at least 20% of the state’s wolf population.

Wisconsin allows hunters to use despicable techniques to kill wolves, including using dogs to hunt them down. More tags are sold to kill wolves…

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“The intention is to create an environment where girls feel a little more confident speaking up, less self conscious about some of the questions they have,” says Service Coordinator for the Fish and Game office in Pocatello.

They started classes Monday for girls and ladies.

It’s a setting Atwood says is a bit more easy going than the mixed classes.

“Typically in a mixed class, boys end up dominating our conversations,” says Atwood.

But Wednesday’s focus has been about what to do when you’re out in the field.

Some participants have hunting backgrounds and still wanted to learn more.

“When I was first coming here I was like ‘Oh this is going to be easy. I know all this stuff, I go hunting a lot,” saidShyann Schilhabel, a course participant, “But no I actually learned a lot more than…