Mountain hares are beautiful little creatures that live in mountainous regions. One of the places they are native to is Scotland. They camouflage into the mountains with their color-changing coat that goes from brown to white in the winter. These precious animals are sadly killed by the tens of thousands every year in Scotland. They […]
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Puffins being hunted and brought back to the UK despite Government efforts to save the species
Puffins are being hunted 100 at a time by trophy collectors who are allowed to bring the carcasses back to the UK, despite the government’s efforts to save the species.Campaigners and MPs are calling on Theresa Villiers, the new environment secretary, to ban the import of puffin trophies and push the international wildlife trade body […]
Hunters are forced to sell their supermarket franchise in France after photos of them shooting big game in Tanzania surfaced online
A French couple have been forced to sell their supermarket franchise after pictures of them hunting big game in Africa surfaced online, causing outrage. Jacques Alboud and wife Martine, who owned a Super U franchise inL’Arbresle, near Lyons, were pictured in Tanzania years ago standing above the corpses of lions, leopards, buffalo and hippos they […]
Trophy-hunting firms banned from gun show after protests
Trophy-hunting businesses targeting big-game hunters in Britain have been banned from a shooting show after public objections. The NEC in Birmingham said that it would no longer be welcoming safari operators selling hunting trips for sport at the Great British Shooting Show in February. The announcement by the NEC yesterday came after organisers had earlier […]
Iconic Namibian elephant ‘Voortrekker’ killed by trophy hunter
Namibia’s most famous elephant bull known as Voortrekker (“Pioneer”) to thousands of tourists was shot last week by a trophy hunter, ten years after he first escaped the hunter’s bullet. The elephant was shot on a “problem elephant “permit, however it appears that this was false, as a letter from three communal conservancies opposing the […]
For the Philippine eagle, a shot at survival means going abroad
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — The courtship involves a partition screen in an enclosure the Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) calls a pairing dome, where two Philippine eagles (Pithecophaga jefferyi) are stationed to adapt to each other. They’ve been in a mating process for the last two years. “They’re inching closer to each other,” Lace Viojan, a […]
Petition: Wildlife Services Killed 1.5 Million Native Animals Last Year
The federal government’s Wildlife Services program has come increasingly in the spotlight for its war on wildlife, and the latest death toll is as heartbreaking as it is shocking. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) ironically named Wildlife Services has been in the spotlight for years over its incredibly cruel and wasteful killing of thousands […]
Trump Opens Hunting on National Wildlife Refuges
This week, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt released a statement: “President Trump is committed to expanding public access on public lands…” So far so good! “… and this proposal is executing on that directive by opening and increasing more access to hunting and fishing.” Sigh. Clearly Trump is (intentionally) missing the point. The American people want […]