“General licenses” mean open season on 22 non-game species LONDON, Edinburgh––Birds are in steep decline over Europe, as they are over the U.S. and Canada, reports the British-based organization BirdLife International, monitoring bird populations since 1922––but the chief cause of the European bird crash appears to be simply that hunters, including the British royal family, […]
U.K.: “Nation of animal lovers” or of wildlife assassins?
Royal SPCA, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, et al disregard & even promote cruelty on a shocking scale LONDON, U.K.––The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Great Britain, the world’s oldest western-style animal advocacy organization, founded in 1824 and granted a royal charter in 1840 by Queen Victoria, wants […]
Are sick factory-farmed salmon running amok in Puget Sound?
Wild Fish Conservancy study suggests yes SEATTLE, Washington––Are salmon throughout the Pacific Northwest at risk from a crippling disease spread by estimated 162,000 hatchery-bred Atlantic salmon who on August 20, 2017 made a jailbreak from a ruptured sea pen at Cypress Island in Puget Sound? If so, will further losses to the already overfished wild salmon […]