Transformed sleepy Scottish Anti-Vivisection Society into butt-kicking Animal Concern DUMBARTON, Scotland––John Frederick Robins, 64, probably the most colorful and dynamic animal advocate in Scottish history, despite his self-conferred title “The Eejit,” has announced his impending retirement after 41 years of directing pro-animal campaigns initially for Friends of the Earth, but chiefly as campaigns manager and […]
Hunter gets 7 to 20 years for killing teen he mistook for a groundhog
Rare stiff sentence for “hunting accident” DOYLESTOWN, Pennsylvania––Kenneth Troy Heller, 52, of Warminster Township, Pennsylvania, was on July 7, 2021 sentenced to serve from seven to 20 years in prison for a so-called “hunting accident” that on October 24, 2020 killed 18-year-old Jason Kutt at Nockamixon State Park, Bucks County. The unusually stiff sentence […]
South Africa debates end to “canned lion” industry & ivory sales
“High-Level Panel Report on Lions, Rhinos, Elephants & Leopards” recommends turnabout in national wildlife policy JOHANNESBURG, South Africa––A South African government wildlife policy study recommends an end to breeding captive lions for cub-petting, trophy shoots of captive-bred and raised lions, and exports of lion bones for use in traditional Chinese medicine. The paper also […]
Bad Hare Days, by John Fitzgerald
Olympia Publishers (60 Cannon St., London, U.K. EC4N 6NP), 2008. 397 pages, paperback. $14.45 U.S., £9.99, 12.99 euros. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Northern Ireland banned hare coursing on June 23, 2010, six years after the rest of the United Kingdom. Ireland banned hounding deer on June 29, 2010. The Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission banned […]
Wolves, bison, grizzly bears, and pumas: Montana moving backward
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
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
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 […]
Talk can’t stop pigeon-shooting psychopaths, by Steve Hindi
Why is Showing Animals Respect & Kindness alone in fighting pigeon shoots? [Guest columnist Steve Hindi founded Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, https://sharkonline.org/, in 1992.] The cowardly psychopaths of the Philadelphia Gun Club, located in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, began their slaughter season on Friday the thirteenth of November 2020, shooting emaciated, dehydrated live pigeons tossed out […]
Celebrity bowhunters Josh & Sarah Bowmar face justice in Nebraska
TV hunting show star Rod Owen & two prominent outfitters already convicted OMAHA, Nebraska––Self-promoted online celebrity bowhunters and physical fitness trainers Josh and Sarah Bowmar are expected to be next to go to trial for their roles in the biggest poaching case ever busted in Nebraska. Exactly when that will be, though, is uncertain. The […]
DNA & vets agree: pit bull Curtis, not hunting hounds, killed Elisa Pilarski
Findings could lead to prosecution of fiancé of pregnant victim, who found her body, has denied both that Curtis did it and that he is a pit bull PARIS, France––DNA test results released on November 3, 2020 by Eric Boussuge, prosecutor for the district of Amiens, support the finding of two court-appointed veterinarians that […]
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