Primary school children are filming themselves killing and torturing wild animals and sharing the grisly videos on WhatsApp in a ‘sick’ nation-wide ‘trend’. Around 500 youths across 11 groups, which include primary school children, have shared graphic photos and videos of wounded and dead animals killed using a hand-held catapult. Swans, deer, pigeons, foxes, squirrels, […]
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Arrest warrant issued for Montana man accused of killing thousands of birds, including eagles
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – A federal judge issued an arrest warrant Monday for a Montana man who failed to show up for an initial court appearance on charges of killing thousands of birds, including bald and golden eagles. A second defendant pleaded not guilty. The two men, working with others, killed about 3,600 birds on […]
Thousands of wild animals ‘slaughtered’ every year to protect shooting for sport on grouse moors
An Oxford-led academic study has claimed a staggering 260,000 animals are killed in Scotland every year to protect the grouse population for shooting on country estates. They said the practice of using traps to cull predators on Scottish moors causes “tremendous, unjustifiable suffering” to creatures and must be fully banned. Animals targeted include foxes, weasels, […]
Conservation cops pinch Upstate NY poacher for shooting deer over hood of his car
On Nov. 12, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation police officers (ECOs) stopped a car on a rural road in Malone while investigating a poaching complaint. A man in the car who was covered in blood told ECOs that there was a three-point buck in the car’s trunk. During the interview, the officers witnessed […]
Idaho wolf-killing proposals prompt petition for feds to ban ‘barbaric’ aerial hunts
A group of environmental organizations has submitted a petition to the federal government to ban wolf killing by shooting from helicopters, calling the practice “barbaric.” The Center for Biological Diversity, Western Watersheds Project and International Wildlife Coexistence Network said they were prompted by Idaho’s Wolf Depredation Control Board’s October decision to approve the scope of […]
Oregon elk hunter shoots and kills wolf, prompting investigation
An elk hunter in Oregon has reported killing a wolf in self-defense, prompting wildlife officials to launch an investigation. The Oregon State Police stated Monday that the hunter claimed to have been threatened by the wolf as he tracked elk on Nov. 2 along a ridge in Grant County. The hunter told OSP Fish and […]
Hunter Seth Egelhoff is killed after being accidentally shot in the face by a member of his group at Bay Branch Wildlife Area in Iowa
A 26-year-old hunter has died after being accidentally shot in the face by a member of his hunting party in the Bay Branch Wildlife Area of Iowa. Seth Egelhoff, originally from Chesterfield, Illinois, was shot by a fellow hunter while out looking for waterfowl in the Bay Branch Wildlife Area, approximately 40 miles west of […]
Animal group demands hunter Logan Bogie face animal cruelty charge over shooting Vermont deer and posing for pics while it was still alive
Animal rights activists are calling for a 21-year-old Vermont hunter to face unprecedented animal cruelty charges after he shot and paralyzed a deer before posing with it for social media posts instead of ending its suffering. Logan Bogie, from East Ryegate, shot and maimed the animal with a crossbow last fall. But rather than end […]