Critter News

MARCH 8, 2010

Sea lions are killed here for eating salmon. About 60 have already been identified as nuisance animals with the possibility of future trapping and euthanization. We all know that it's not the sea lions' fault that the salmon runs are either threatened or endangered. Sorry, another Washington State story.

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Critter News

AUGUST 21, 2008

Since 1976, Michigan's endangered and threatened species listing has been modified only six times--a fact [DNR's former endangered species coordinator, Todd} Hogrefe attributed to the tremendous amount of time and effort it takes DNR staff to decide which animals to include and which to leave out.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

We are facing a plague of poaching that is again decimating the species. In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S. The animal slowly walked away from us, stopping every now and then to check on our behaviour.

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Critter News

MAY 18, 2009

The endangered whales, possibly the largest animals ever to live on Earth, have yet to recover from the worldwide slaughter that eliminated 99 percent of their number, according to the American Cetacean Society. The hunting peaked in 1931 with more than 29,000 animals killed in one season.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Over 150 rangers have been killed on duty in this park in the past decade. Rangers are able to identify individual gorillas because each animal's nose is uniquely patterned. Tags: virunga africa congo gorillas endangered species. Many worked for years without receiving a salary. And did you know.

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Gorillas Congo Endangered Species Africa 100

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DECEMBER 17, 2014

Now, in 21st century America, we’re entertaining new considerations, in keeping with our modern understanding of wild animals and conservation. A new willingness among scientists to consider certain moral and ethical implications with respect to wild animals, where previously utilitarian ideas prevailed, including ideas of intrinsic value.

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JUNE 17, 2015

The Sacramento River NWR was established 1989 by the authority provided under the Endangered Species Act, Emergency Wetlands Resources Act, and the Fish and Wildlife Act. It provides shelter for many songbirds and water-associated animals, including the river otter, turtles, beaver, American pelicans, ospreys, and migratory songbirds.

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JANUARY 11, 2012

It concerns the nature of wildlife in Australia, and is perhaps the most remarked about aspect of Australia’s wildlife, at least the impression you’d get if you’ve ever watched ten minutes of Animal Planet. The very dangerous nature of the wildlife. You don’t have to move far off the plane to step into the danger zone.

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Sharks Birds Australia Boars 215

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JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Not from an environmental perspective but from a “don’t you like animals?”

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 257

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MARCH 26, 2014

Well, Copenhagen Zoo is back in the news; a few weeks after killing a giraffe and feeding it to some lions, it went and killed some of those same lions. If the whole thing passed you by then Mother Jones did a good piece on why zoos sometimes have to kill individuals for the good of the species.

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Lions Giraffes Zoos Killing 150

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MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism. Sandhill Hunt: They’re Voting Now.Or

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 239

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

On the islands that make their home, they are rock stars compared to parakeets that dig up storm-petrels to eat ( Antipodes Parakeet ), parrots that kill sheep in order to eat (the incomparable Kea ) and parrots that chew my guttering in the hope that it has turned edible since the last time they tried ( Kaka ).

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Critter News

JUNE 26, 2009

Lots of animals have died since the beginning of the year. Dozens of animals have been killed by armed groups at Africa's oldest national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the start of the year, park officials and environmental groups said Tuesday. They died between May 25 and June 16, he said.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The interests of those working for conservation and those working for animal rights and animal welfare don’t always perfectly align like you might think they do. If you don’t accept that we sometimes have to do harm to individuals to do good for the species, well, nothing I’m going to say is going to convince you.

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

They are all wonderful people and they are all animal lovers. But I’ve learned we love animals in very different ways. And if a feral cat colony is near an endangered species, the colony should be eliminated. We see several different types of species. ” My sister said, “Sounds like a plan to me.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Family 176

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JUNE 28, 2018

The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” One is defined as catching or killing and the other as keeping from injury. .” Some people actually don’t consider human beings as animals. A newly created U.S.

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