A proposed UK ban on trophy hunting imports risks undermining the conservation of rhinos, elephants and other endangered wildlife, according to a group of leading scientists and conservationists who said African perspectives have been ignored by the government. On Friday, MPs will vote on a private member’s bill to ban trophy hunting imports while, separately, […]
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Investigative Reporters Search For Missing Kingpin In Illegal Sloth Trade
Throughout South America, baby sloths are poached from the wild to be sold to tourists as pets or to be used as photo props. There’s one man, in particular, who is thought to be a leader in the illegal sloth trade: Isaac Bedoya. According to National Geographic, he’s one of Latin America’s most notorious sloth […]
Wild release marks return of giant forest tortoises to Bangladesh hills
Bangladesh’s population of one of the world’s largest tortoise species received a boost last month when researchers and villagers released 10 captive-bred juveniles into the evergreen forests of the Chattogram Hill Tracts. This initiative, in the rugged mountain range in the extreme southeast of the country bordering Myanmar and India, was the first rewilding of […]
The hunter becomes the hunted! Stampeding stag gouges Polish hunter’s eye with its antlers as it bursts out of bushes
A stampeding stag turned the tables on a Polish hunter when it burst from the undergrowth and gouged his eye with its antlers. Gun-wielding Leszek Kaminiski had been on a group hunt in forests near Chelm, southeast Poland, when he came across the terrified animal hiding in some bushes. Video shows him walking towards the […]
Military dog handler is top trophy hunter who has slaughtered hundreds of animals
A Ministry of Defence worker has been revealed as one of Britain’s top trophy hunters who has slaughtered hundreds of animals. Adrian Cawte, from Somerset, keeps his ‘trophies’ as sick souvenirs and has bragged about eating some of them after skinning and slaughtering them. Some of the beasts he has killed for fun include zebra, […]
Hunters kill 20 Yellowstone wolves that roamed out of park
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Twenty of Yellowstone National Park’s renowned gray wolves roamed from the park and were shot by hunters in recent months — the most killed by hunting in a single season since the predators were reintroduced to the region more than 25 years ago, according to park officials. Fifteen wolves were shot […]
Tougher sentences announced in crackdown on illegal hare coursing
People who take part in hare coursing, an illegal bloodsport, face tougher sentences under plans set out by the government on Tuesday. Hare coursing involves dogs being used to chase, catch and kill hares, sometimes in competition. The competition between dogs can be fierce and the hares are not always killed quickly. The practice was […]
Kleptoparasitic bear steals wolves’ kill in filmed Yellowstone drama
Wildlife officials in Yellowstone national park captured the “unusual” sight of a cheeky grizzly bear tagging along with a pack of hunting wolves, then making off with their kill. The enthralling video, posted to the National Parks Service Facebook page, shows the October incident in which the wolves from the Junction Butte pack in northern […]