A veterinarian said Tuesday that a brown bear cub found exhausted in snowy woods in southeastern Poland has been diagnosed with a disease that will be treated with antibiotics. The young male named Ada has been diagnosed with anaplasmosis, a dangerous disease that has affected the cub’s lungs and is probably behind the neurological symptoms […]
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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 […]
Bodies of drowned deer recovered from frozen lake after being scared by poachers
Warsaw, Poland – Polish rescuers recovered the bodies of a herd of drowned deer on Thursday after illegal poachers scared the animals with firecrackers and drove them onto a frozen lake where the ice then broke. The rescuers, from the Szczecin fire brigade, managed to rescue 13 deer from the lake, partly by lassoing them […]
Foxes starving to death and resorting to cannibalism in Polish fur farms
Starving foxes were forced to feed on the rotting corpses of others, an investigation by animal rights charity has found, highlighting the brutal conditions the animals are subjected to on fur farms in Poland. Open Cages, a British animal welfare charity, was probing a complaint of animal cruelty after a local NGO informed it about […]
Film showing mink ‘cannibalism’ prompts probable ban on fur farms in Poland
Poland’s fur farms could be in their final year in operation if a bill banning production of fur clears legal hurdles next month. And France looks set to follow suit. The Polish bill, dubbed “five for animals” (because it has five main objectives, including the ban) was tabled in early September, much to the dismay […]
POLL: Should the entire wild boar population of Poland be culled?
Conservationists have branded plans by the Polish government to cull almost the entire wild boar population of the country as “pointless, counterproductive and evil”. In a move to tackle an epidemic of African swine fever, the Polish government has ordered a series of hunts, beginning this weekend, with the aim of killing the vast majority […]
POLL: Should Poland’s bison hunting plan be allowed to go ahead?
Environmentalists are fighting Polish plans to allow hunters to shoot bison. Officials say limited hunting allows for a controlled elimination of weak animals and earns money for care for the herds. But opponents say Europe’s largest mammals are endangered and protected by law. Greenpeace has gathered 9,000 signatures on a letter asking the prime minister, […]
POLL: Should Poland’s Białowieża forest be protected?
Europe’s last primeval forest is facing what campaigners call its last stand as loggers prepare to start clear-cutting trees, following the dismissal of dozens of scientists and conservation experts opposed to the plan. Poland’s new far right government says logging is needed because more than 10% of spruce trees in the Unesco world heritage site […]