An archery hunter has been gored to death by an enraged elk in Oregon. Mark David, 66, shot at and wounded the elk with a bow and arrow the night before in Trask Road area, Tillamook County. David, from Hillsboro, had been hunting on private property when he fired at the bull elk but failed […]
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Dolphin ‘drive hunting’ season begins in Wakayama whaling town
TAIJI, WAKAYAMA PREF. – This year’s dolphin-hunting season kicked off Tuesday in the whaling town of Taiji, in Wakayama Prefecture, using a traditional “drive-hunting” method that animal-rights groups at home and abroad say is cruel. The controversial hunting technique, in which fishermen herd dolphins and small whales into a cove where they can be killed […]
Glue bird traps: Macron suspends use amid EU row
French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered hunters in southern France to stop the controversial practice of trapping birds on glue-covered twigs. The suspension follows a warning to France from the European Commission that it could face legal action at EU level if the practice continued. France is unusual in Europe for still tolerating the glue […]
Swiss to ban foreign trophy hunters from killing Alpine ibex
A Swiss region that has faced heavy criticism for allowing wealthy foreigners to pay large sums to shoot protected Alpine ibexes, a species of wild goat, for trophies decided Friday to end the practice. The southern Swiss canton of Wallis, the only one to allow the trophy hunting, said in a statement that as of […]
Iowa man sentenced for illegally shooting black bears, bringing hides across US-Canada border
BISMARCK — An Iowa man pleaded guilty Tuesday, Aug. 18, to unlawfully shooting two black bears and transporting them from Canada into the U.S. Louis Floden Jr., 69, was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay a $7,500 fine. Last year, Floden left Manitoba, Canada, and entered the U.S. through Pembina, N.D., […]
Swiss game hunters still kill protected animals
Swiss big game hunters kill some 50 protected animals abroad each year, according to Swiss television SRF. Hundreds of protected animals have been imported into Switzerland as trophies, but there are calls for tighter rules. Between 2010 and 2018, authorities allowed the import of 423 protected animals that had been hunted mainly in Africa but also Canada, Mongolia […]
Covid hunger – Kenyans forced to hunt giraffe for food
In parts of Kenya, the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic has been so catastrophic that people have started to kill endangered wildlife for food. Last week, The Telegraph trekked with rangers through the Tsavo conservation area, a region larger than Wales in southeastern Kenya, and found a Masai giraffe which had been stripped […]
World’s largest reindeer herd targeted by poachers for antler velvet
Moscow – The scene was pure carnage. Dozens of reindeer carcasses were sprawled on the sandy shore of the Khatanga River or floating in the current toward the Arctic Ocean, as if the animals had drowned in mid-stream. The story of what actually befell these reindeer on the Taymyr Peninsula, in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region, however, […]