According to a recent report by MPs, the US hunting lobby has spent £1 million trying to persuade the government to postpone the trophy import ban. Three years ago, Boris Johnson pledged to outlaw the importation of these medals, but the legislation has yet to pass the legislature. Henry Smith, a Conservative lawmaker and advocate […]
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Polar Bears Found Surviving in Greenland Despite Lack of Sea Ice
Few animals represent the face of the Arctic like polar bears. The largest bears in the world, polar bears are excellent swimmers who spend more time in the sea than they do on land. Sea ice is the platform from which they hunt the seals needed to obtain the necessary calories to survive. Now, scientists […]
Sick trophy hunting trips to shoot African elephants, rhinos and lions on sale in UK
Sickening trophy hunting trips to shoot elephants, rhinos and lions in Africa were on sale at the UK’s first ever stalking show. Nearly 90 exhibitors attended the two-day event. Among the Brits at the Staffordshire County Show cashing in on the bloodthirsty safaris was Venari UK, an agent offering trips to South Africa. A representative […]
Bushmeat trade poses a new threat to Tanzania’s endangered giraffes
Increasing human activities and settlement across wildlife corridors fuel poaching incidents of giraffes for game meat and animal fat in Northern Tanzania. Mussa Juma investigates Giraffes, the national animals of Tanzania, have recently become targeted by bushmeat traders and are now under increased threat in the northern parts of country. Recent investigations on wildlife crime […]
Apparels And Kits That Women Should Load Before Hunting
Are you about to go on a hunting trip for the first time? Do you just need to upgrade your gear? Here are some essential items that all women should pack before they head into the brush. There is this strange belief among marketing managers that women need smaller products than men, with pink packaging. […]
Engine noise, sonar, and seismic shocks abound in today’s maritime waters hurting marine life
We were out photographing whales with a flotilla of a dozen other tourist boats from ports all across the Salish Sea. In August 2001, it was one of my first visits to the area. The fuzz and beep of ship radios knitted a net over the ocean, a hazy mimic of the whales’ own aural […]
Cash-strapped Zimbabwe pushes to be allowed to sell its ivory stockpile
HWANGE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe’s government recently concluded a conference to attempt to rally international support for the sale of its ivory stockpile. It argues that selling some of the 136 metric tons of elephant ivory and rhino horn that it’s holding — mostly from animals that died of natural causes — could fund its conservation […]
Without a hunting ban, there is high chance that narwhals will become extinct in Greenland by 2025
Since he was a child, Hammeken Danielsen has been hunting narwhals. He and his father would cruise through the fjords of Greenland in a tiny speedboat, equipped with rifles and harpoons and clothed in polar-bear fur trousers and sealskin boots to keep warm in the cold. Danielsen, aged 33, is a licensed hunter in Ittoqqortoormiit, […]