New Jersey is once again continuing with its highly controversial bear hunt after a two-judge panel ruled against a bid by animal rights organizations to stop the hunt. The two State Appellate Division Judges, Lisa Rose and Carmen Messano, ruled that the animal rights organizations failed to demonstrate they are entitled to injunctive relief. In […]
Tag: New Jersey
Petition: Governor Phil Murphy, It’s Time to End Bear Hunting Season in New Jersey Which Starts This October
According to an email from the Humane Society of the United States, New Jersey will open its bear hunting season on October 12. New Jersey is one of two states that allow hunters to shoot and kill bear cubs. Brian R. Hackett, New Jersey state director for the Humane Society of the United States, said […]
152 bears killed so far in latest New Jersey hunt
Hunters have killed 152 bears so far during New Jersey’s latest black bear hunt, according to the New Jersey Division of Fish & Wildlife. Wildlife officials say that 58 bears were culled on Tuesday, a day after 94 were killed on the hunt’s opening day. The hunt is restricted to five zones, as Gov. Phil […]
Feisty Egrets
Here’s a lovely snowy egret with gold feet on display and plumes blowing in the wind. It’s in a great fishing spot near the outflow from a water gate at one of the ponds at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, New Jersey. It’s a spot worth defending, apparently, and any unwary egret […]
Victory! New Jersey Just Became the First State to Ban All Wild Animals in Circuses
Animal advocates are celebrating an epic win with the passage of Nosey’s Law in New Jersey, which makes it the first state in the U.S. to ban all wild animals in traveling circuses. The law was appropriately named after Nosey, an elephant who had suffered decades of abuse at the hands of her owner, Hugo […]
Saving the Wild Parrots of New Jersey and How You Can Help
Alison Evans-Fragale was dumbfounded when she got a call from Lonely Grey Rescue bird sanctuary to say that PSE&G had dropped off 27 baby parrots who had been living in nests removed from utility poles in Englewood, NJ. Six of the babies were dead. For the past decade Evans-Fragale, a nurse practitioner and founder of […]
POLL: Should bear hunting in New Jersey be banned?
Louis Webber has shot a black bear. He proudly poses with the animal as it is weighed, the butt of his shotgun wedged in his armpit. The tableau is punctured by the shouts of a handful of people who are holding placards. “You’re a piece of shit,” a man yells at Webber. “You’re garbage. A […]
Milk Snake
I saw this milk snake, Lampropeltis triangulum, being moved from a dangerous parking lot into the woods at Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in northern New Jersey last year around this time.