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French hunters must stop using glue to trap birds
French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered hunters in southern France to stop the controversial practice of trapping birds on glue-covered twigs. The suspension follows a warning to France from the European Commission that it could face legal action at EU level if the practice continued. France is unusual in Europe for still tolerating the glue method, used to catch thrushes and blackbirds.
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Controversial Alaska hunting techniques to return as bans reversed
Controversial Alaska hunting techniques to return as bans reversed
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Trump administration moves to ease rules for hunting bears and wolves on federal lands in Alaska
Two federal agencies this week took steps to increase hunting and trapping on several national preserves in Alaska and in the popular Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. The moves drew alarm from conservation groups who said the new rules will support extreme measures to kill predators and their young in national preserves in Alaska. They said a proposed rule change would allow brown bear baiting in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge for the first time.
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How Do We Solve the Problem of Predators?
Wolves pose a uniquely difficult conservation issue.
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Hunting has caused a decline in mammals in half of intact tropical forests • Earth.com
Researchers have determined that hunting is responsible for a 40% average decline of large mammals in the remaining small percentage of intact tropical forests.
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On Hating Hunters and Becoming One
Listening to early morning gunfire roll across hills and valleys during November deer season, I used to hear the sound of evil. Hunters were out there committing willful acts of violence, taking the lives of fellow beings. What compelled them to inflict such gratuitous harm, violating the most basic principles of compassion and goodness? Sitting at the kitchen table munching granola, I found it incomprehensible.
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Japan whalers discuss plan to resume commercial hunt July 1
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese whalers discussed plans Thursday to resume their commercial hunting along the northeastern coast on July 1, for the first time in three decades. Their preparation follows Japan's decision in December to leave the International Whaling Commission, abandoning decades-long campaigning in hopes of gaining support within the organization that has largely become a home for conservationists. The Fisheries Agency said whalers in six Pacific coast towns, including Taiji, which is known for dolphin hunts, were expected to bring five vessels to form a joint fleet beginning July 1, one day after Japan formally withdraws from the IWC...
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Humanity's Best Friend: How Dogs May Have Helped Humans Beat the Neanderthals
One of the most compelling -- and enduring -- mysteries in archaeology concerns the rise of early humans and the decline of Neanderthals. For about 250,000 years, Neanderthals lived and evolved, quite successfully, in the area that is now Europe. Somewhere between 45,000 and 35,000 years ago, early humans came along. They proliferated in their new environment, their population increasing tenfold in the 10,000 years after they arrived; Neanderthals declined and finally died away.
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Italian vet who posed next to dead lion he killed dies while shooting wild birds
A big game hunter who sparked worldwide fury when he posed next to a lion he had killed has died after falling 100ft down a ravine while shooting birds. Vet Luciano Ponzetto, 55, received death threats and hate mail after he posted the snaps of him with the lion on social media last year.
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On The Hunt With The Basque Whalers
After the wreck of a Basque galleon—thought to be the San Juan—was discovered off the coast of Canada, National Geographic wrote about its exploration (July 1985 issue). Now, we revisit the 16th-century ship’s history. By Fernando G. Baptista, Riley D. Champine, Eve Conant, Patricia Healy, Shizuka Aoki, Elijah Lee,
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Hunter fighting for life after bear he shot lands on him
A hunter is fighting for life after a bear he shot tumbled down a slope and landed on him. Alaska state police said William McCormick, 28, was also struck by a rock dislodged by the bear as it fell on Saturday afternoon. He was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Anchorage, where he was in a critical condition.
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It's Time for Hunters to Leave the NRA
Hunting is possibly the proudest outdoor tradition our country has: It’s why we have such abundant animal populations. It’s how millions of American families put affordable healthy protein on their dinner plates. And, in large part, it’s what pays for the rest of us to enjoy so much wild land. That’s why it’s unconscionable that the NRA uses hunting as an excuse to pollute American politics with its toxic agenda.
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Rule to Allow Hunting Could Doom Rare Red Wolves
The red wolf, which once roamed all the way from Texas to New York, has dwindled to a wild population of around 35, found only in one peninsula in eastern North Carolina. On Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed allowing landowners to legally kill those wolves once they leave the confines of a small protected area known as Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. The proposal was panned by wildlife experts.
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Neanderthals’ Lack of Drawing Ability May Relate to Hunting Techniques
Neanderthals had large brains and made complex tools but never demonstrated the ability to draw recognizable images, unlike early modern humans who created vivid renderings of animals and other figures on rocks and cave walls. That artistic gap may be due to differences in the way they hunted, suggests a University of California, Davis, expert on predator-prey relations and their impacts on the evolution of behavior.
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Canada goose knocks out US hunter
A hunter in the US has been knocked unconscious by a dead goose that fell out of the sky. Robert Meilhammer was hunting in Easton in the state of Maryland, when he was hit by a Canada goose that had been shot by a fellow hunter. The bird weighed between 10 and 14 pounds (4.5-6.5kg), police say. The 51-year-old suffered injuries to his face and head but is in a stable condition in hospital.
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Video: Deer Gores Hunter to Death with its Antlers After Being Cornered
A deer hunter in France was gored by a stag deer during a hunt just recently, and it’s being reported that the man has died from his injuries. According to The Local, the man was acting as a “beater,” and was attempting to corral the deer into a certain area when he was gored by it’s antlers. “He was charged and pierced by a deer which stabbed him with his antlers,” a police spokesman stated. The man died before emergency paramedics could get to the scene.
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Elephant tramples and kills hunter trying to shoot it
An Argentinian man has been killed in Namibia after he was trampled by an elephant, local media report. The Namibia Press Agency said the hunter, identified as 46-year-old Jose Monzalvez, was killed on Saturday afternoon in a private wildlife area 70 kilometers (43 miles) northwest of the small town of Kalkfeld.
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Son of Cecil the lion killed by trophy hunter
Six-year-old Xanda was shot and killed by hunters when he roamed outside the protected area of the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe
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Man shoots himself in chest with crossbow while hunting
A man accidentally shot himself in the chest with a crossbow while he was hunting with a group of people in the Marlborough Forest on Sunday night, according to Ottawa paramedics. It happened at about 6 p.m. Sunday in the woods near Dwyer Hill Road and Roger Stevens Drive, north of Merrickville, Ont., and south of Richmond, Ont. The 45-year-old man was trying to disarm the crossbow after a day of deer hunting when he accidentally shot himself, paramedics said.
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Hunting Wild Pigs Could Save Hawaii's Coral Reefs
Chad Wiggins, Marine Program Director at The Nature Conservancy Hawaii, is working towards solutions to manage the hooved animals’ growing population numbers, and in effect, hopefully provide relief for coral to survive the effects of climate change.
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