There’s a monument near Brora, 60 miles short of John o’Groats, that claims to mark the spot where the last wolf in Sutherland was killed. I pass it often in the car. The wolf, it says, was killed by the hunter Polson in or about the year 1700. I know this story. Polson, so it […]
Tag: Deer
Petition: Video Game Lets You Hunt Deer in Scotland
Animal rights activists are fighting back against a hunting video game. Hunting Simulator is made for gamers that want to stalk deer and other animals in the Scottish Highlands. Protestors are using the game to draw attention to real-life hunting and the harm it causes animals. Robbie Marsland, the League Against Cruel Sports director in […]
8-Year-Old Girl, Encouraged by Mom, Proudly Kills a Buck
Animals are sentient beings who deserve to be respected and allowed to naturally live out their lives. Unfortunately, there are people who hunt for fun and believe it’s their right to take the life of an innocent animal. But even worse, this is something that is passed down by generations. Children are taught that animals […]
Arkansas hunter dies after being attacked by deer he thought was dead
In what officials are calling a bizarre incident, an Arkansas hunter was killed by a deer that he thought he had shot dead. Thomas Alexander, 66, was hunting deer near Yellville on Tuesday night when he believed he had successfully shot a deer, officials said. Alexander, who lived in the area and was an experienced […]
He bragged about his ‘big game’ hunt on Instagram. It was a baby deer he let his dog kill.
He said it was a “big game kill,” something usually associated with the controversial, sometimes illegal sport of hunting large wildlife in Africa — lions, elephants, leopards and rhinoceroses. But the photos Michael Garcia posted to Instagram were decidedly not big game. They were of a baby deer, a fawn that Garcia had just allowed […]
Petition: Demand The Termination of Cop That Repeatedly Ran Over a Suffering Deer
In Lethbridge, Alberta Canada, a gruesome scene took place resulting in the long and painful death of a deer. On January 5, a cop was caught on camera running over a deer several times. The deer had been hit by a car and was left there for the police officer to find. He decided to […]
POLL: Should the eating of roadkill be legalized?
Long the butt of dumb jokes about rural living, eating roadkill is finally having its moment. When I was young, I had the kind of entrepreneurial idea that might only come from the irreverent brain of a quirky, vegan teen: Roadkill fur coats. The biggest shame was in paving through wildlife habitat and driving our […]
POLL: Should wolves be restored in Japan to control sika deer and save forests?
From the peak of Mt. Rausu, a clear view of the Shiretoko Peninsula opens from the Okhotsk Sea on the west to the Pacific Ocean on the east. Below, a dense green boreal forest of conifers, maples, and birch hides hundreds of brown bears and 590,000 sika deer. Japanese wolves once roamed this wilderness but […]