A restaurant in Albania is offering diners meat from illegally hunted bears– part of an illicit trade in wildlife that is “out of control” in the country, investigators claim. Researchers said it was the first time they had seen bear meat cooked in Europe, and experts warned that the crude butchering of animals may lead […]
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Trump administration ends ban on killing Alaska bear cubs, wolf pups
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Tuesday overturned an Obama-era rule that barred hunters in Alaska national preserves from baiting bear traps or killing denning bear cubs and wolf pups or other practices that have been condemned by environmental and wildlife protection groups. Under the new National Park Service rule, effective July 9, […]
Federal Government Rolling Back Wildlife Protections to Allow Trophy Hunting on Alaska’s National Preserves and Refuge
It’s well-known by now that the current administration has been trying to rollback much legislation that protects wildlife and the environment. They’ve been trying to weaken the Endangered Species Act and according to the New York Times, 100 environmental rules have been reversed during the administration. More recently, a former trophy hunting attorney was appointed […]
A proposed mine in Alaska will endanger brown bears – and much more
Towering over the average human and weighing as much as a grand piano, the brown bears found in south-west Alaska are considered among the best in the world to observe as they pad around in a largely untouched wilderness of soaring mountains, pristine rivers and rocky beaches. About a third of Alaska’s 30,000 brown bears […]
Female trophy hunter poses with slaughtered bears and boasts about skinning them
A woman who hunts bears and boasts about loving to skin them has hit back at online trolls, calling them uneducated hypocrites. Hunter Alexandra Tyutchevam, 23, has been labelled a “cruel killer” online, while others have told her “I wish it was you lying there instead of the bear”. Alexandra is unapologetic about her hobby […]
Ex-cop runs Trophy-hunting club where rich pay thousands to slaughter animals
An ex-cop runs a trophy-hunting club where the rich pay thousands to slaughter animals. Peter Jones, who worked for the Metropolitan Police as a firearms expert, now rubs shoulders with hunters who join his “exclusive” Capreolus Club. The members-only group arranges trips for gun-toting trophy hunters. It offers them the chance to slaughter all six […]
Petition: Ban Trophy Hunting in the United States!
In the United States, 45 states allow cruel and unsporting wildlife killing contests. These include contests like the South Dakota program that teaches children to kill animals, the squirrel hunt in New Jersey that teaches kids to kill and skin squirrels, and more similarly horrifying contests. According to Humane Society of the United States, American […]
Bears in Ukraine aren’t hibernating because it’s too warm, have started suffering from ‘Insomnia’
Abnormally warm weather is affecting the hibernation activity of Ukraine’s brown bears, conservationists have said. In a Facebook post, Synevyr National Nature Park in southwest Ukraine said winter is a period when all bears should be dormant. However, in its rehabilitation center, just three are currently hibernating. This “bearish insomnia” is affecting 29 of the […]