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“Trapping defender” Proulx explains why all fur trapping is cruel

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Mammal Trapping,  Wildlife Management,  Animal Welfare & International Standards Edited by Gilbert Proulx Alpha Wildlife Research & Management Ltd. 287 pages.  Free download from: https://cwbm.ca/product/mammal-trapping-e-book/ Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Wildlife biologist Gilbert Proulx,  68,  of Sherwood Park,  Alberta,  may know more about the technology of trapping animals than anyone else who ever lived. Having spent […]

Frustrated Georgia turkey hunters take it out on raccoons & opossums

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Experts warn killing raccoons & opossums won’t boost the over-hunted turkey population––but new open season will give hunters animals to shoot year-round             ATLANTA,  Georgia;  BERKELEY, California––Lest anyone doubt that sport hunting is all about finding the opportunity to kill something,  anything,  on any pretext,  both houses of the Georgia state legislature in late March […]

Garbled stories show why wolverines need a defense lawyer

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Rare 28-pound scavenger accused of killing a ton of sheep RICH COUNTY, Utah––A wolverine alleged to have killed 18 sheep six miles west of Randolph,  Utah was briefly jailed on March 11,  2022,  but––instead of a lynching––got off with a warning,  an escort out of the county,  and a radio collar to follow his whereabouts. […]

Northern Rockies persecution plus verdict could send wolves our way & yours

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Will Yellowstone wolves follow Wile E. Coyote’s roadmap? SAN FRANCISCO, California––If gray wolves could read,  the gray wolves of Idaho,  Wyoming,  and Montana would already be on the run south and west from the Northern Rocky Mountains into every adjoining state with mountains,  elk,  deer,  and other wolf prey. In legal terms,  Judge Jeffrey S. […]

Good days in court for chickens, gamecocks, Wisconsin wolves, & feral hippos

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Decisions may mean better days for animals,  but use & exploitation industries will fight back ROCHESTER, N.Y.;  WASHINGTON D.C.;  MADISON, Wisconsin;  CINCINNATI, Ohio––A flurry of mid-October 2021 court decisions brought good news for plaintiffs against the poultry slaughter industry,  cockfighting in Puerto Rico,  wolf hunting in Wisconsin,  and hippopotamus culling in Colombia. Probably the most […]

Wolves,  bison,  grizzly bears,  and pumas: Montana moving backward

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Big wildlife persecuted as surrogates for change             HELENA, Montana––Wolves,  bison,  grizzly bears,  and pumas scare the staunchly Republican ranching,  hunting,  logging,  oil,  gas,  and mining establishments of Montana,  but what scares them the most appears to be the prospect of becoming more like Colorado and New Mexico,  where Democratic-leaning Hispanic and Native American voters […]

Wisconsin hunters overkill the wolf bag limit by half in just 72 hours

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But Spain,  with twice as many wolves in about the same amount of habitat,  puts wolves off limits to hunters             MADISON, Wisconsin;  MADRID,  Spain––Wisconsin hunters and trappers killed 216 wolves in under 72 hours during the last week of February 2021,  97 more than the “management target” of 119,  obliging the state Department of […]

Barry Lopez, 75, “literary naturalist,” inspired animal advocates

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Death came four months after Lopez lost home of 50 years to wildfire Barry Lopez,  75,  died on Christmas Day 2020 in Eugene,  Oregon,  after a years-long battle with prostate cancer. Sometimes described as a “literary naturalist,”  Lopez wrote often about animals,  but hardly exclusively,  and as often about the animals of Native American myth and […]

Strychnine for Christmas: Alberta gift to wolves, caribou & other wildlife

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Big Bad Wolf blamed for habitat loss due to global warming             EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada––Again this Christmas season,  Alberta Environment & Parks will welcome Santa’s reindeer by setting out strychnine. The strychnine will be not for Santa,  nor for the reindeer,  the North American variety of whom are called caribou,  but rather for the Big […]

Wolves, grizzly bears, wolverines & right whales sacrificed to Trump re-election bid

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Handouts to hunters, fishers, loggers, miners, & the oil and gas extraction industries             BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota––U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt on October 29,  2020 announced that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is removing gray wolves from Endangered Species Act protection throughout the Lower 48 states. The wolf delisting is widely seen as a blatant […]