Deer stags often quarrel over an alluring doe, and since she will only be fertile for the autumn season, competition is even tighter. The pair of men, father and son duo Charlie and Adam Anderson, pulled up to the scene on a rowboat after one buck had already been exhausted to death by the outdrawn […]
Tag: Stag
Fashion influencer branded ‘disgusting’ for her hobby of trophy hunting
A fashion influencer now shares her kills on social media – but her followers aren’t sure about her new hobby. Kristyn Higdon, 28, from Lexington, Kentucky, has interwoven trophy hunting into her online content. She says the pictures of her hunts were met with mixed reaction. Focusing on Wildlife strongly opposes trophy hunting and regards […]
POLL: Should hunters be allowed to use night-vision and infrared optics?
Hunters pursuing foxes, coyotes, raccoons, opossums, striped skunks, weasels, bobcats and porcupines in Pennsylvania may now use handheld and sporting-arm mounted night-vision and infrared (thermal) optics. A law permitting those devices in hunting furbearers became effective November 6, when it was published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners in September gave […]
Petition: Coronavirus Grants and Loans Used for Stag Hunts Instead of Funding Struggling Businesses
According to the Independent, a stag hunt in the UK received a £10,000 grant and a £50,000 loan from funds that were made for businesses struggling to survive the coronavirus.  Source: BJHoldsworth/Youtube According to a hunt report, Devon and Somerset Staghounds is one of the multiple hunts that received funding from government programs during […]
POLL: Should drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge be banned?
For thousands of years, the Porcupine caribou herd has migrated to give birth and nurse their young in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The route they take varies every year, but it takes them thousands of miles, making it the longest migration of any land mammal on earth. The spectacle of […]
Should shooting stags be allowed during the rut?
La chance me sourit pour l’image ces jours-ci mais elle ne sourit pas aux cerfs porteurs de beaux bois. Non seulement les chasseurs ont droit à 3 jours de battue pendant le brame par semaine, mais aussi à des tirs sauvages ou à l’affût tous les jours. Je suis montée sans trop croire aux possibilités […]
Pyrenean stags
I will not talk again about this magnificent animal, my point will be different, bear with me. These photos were taken in a 37 hectare animal park in the oriental Pyrenees mountains at 1800 meters high where the animals live in semi freedom in natural surroundings. It is neither a zoo with animals confined in […]
Plea for the Pyrenean stags
The largest and best reproductive males are systematically culled for their trophies even during the bellowing period. Result: these males are not seen any more and the younger ones hesitate to come down in the Pyrenean valleys to join the females; this is what’s left to admire… A sad situation. As the wild boar, this […]
