Animal, Game, Hunters and Hunting

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. The Service is committed to strengthening and expanding hunting and fishing opportunities,” said Ashe. “The

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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

It’s a good thing too, because it is the leading gamebird in North America in terms of total harvest and the widespread distribution of hunting effort. Approximately one million hunters annually harvest more than 20 million Mourning Doves , which exceeds the annual harvest of all other migratory game birds combined 3.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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DECEMBER 17, 2014

Developed in the post-frontier era, the NAMWC helped put a stop to wanton wildlife destruction in an era where many species were being hunted and trapped ruthlessly to the brink of extinction. The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests.

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The Wildlife Conservation Stamp: An Additional Income Stream for Our National Wildlife Refuges

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

As a result, animals like the Florida panther and diminishing habitats like the prairie grasslands stand a fighting chance. Proposal: Creation of a Federal Wildlife Conservation Stamp A birder, wildlife watcher, photographer and non-hunter version of the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp (aka Federal Duck Stamp).

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Forest Bathing

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Now that I have driven that to a state of relative completion and I am compelled to return to the forest, I learned that the government here has re-opened the hunting season. From what I’ve been hearing, sport hunters are chomping at the bit to also return to the forest in droves.

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#CeciltheLion is a dangerous direction for conservation

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AUGUST 5, 2015

Another day, another dead lion erupting in the world’s media, another opportunity for me to annoy my few remaining anti-hunting friends. For being a girl that beat a guy in a computer game. For being a feminist with an opinion on comic books, or games. Go read his take. I’ll wait. . For speaking out about bullying.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. Image taken in Uganda’s Budongo Forest by Adam Riley Buffalo The big – to anyone familiar with the wilds of Africa, the Cape or African Buffalo is the most fearsome of all animals.

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Falconry – Bloodsport or Alternative Form of Birding?

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JUNE 14, 2011

Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). One of the primary reasons that these hawks make such excellent falconry birds is because they are one of only two raptor species (the other is the Galapagos Hawk ) that hunt cooperatively.

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Brouwerij Verhaeghe: Duchesse de Bourgogne

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MARCH 22, 2019

While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see. A portrait of Mary (ca. 1490) attributed to Tyrolian painter Michael Pacher.

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Virginia Fox Smuggler Gets Six Months

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AUGUST 16, 2008

pleaded guilty in March to five counts of trafficking in wild animals. Attorney Julia Dudley said Blevins had bought animals for several years from trappers in different states and brought them to Virginia to sell to the owners of "fox pens." Hunters would then pay to hunt in the pens. A statement from U.S.

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Use it or lose it?

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JULY 9, 2014

The first most readers have probably been aware of, the cheerleader hunter who has been in the news for, well, hunting game animals and being attractive and blonde. I’ve written before about how I don’t think shooting game in the name of conservation is necessarily a bad idea. she’s Texan.

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Zero Gravity Brewing Company: Bob White

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APRIL 5, 2019

There’s little doubt that these unwilling but plucky exiles have beaten the odds over the last few months, first evading the sights of eager autumn hunters, and then the jaws of hungry foxes and weasels, only to endure the many privations of the harsh and long North American winter eking out their survival in a strange and inhospitable landscape.

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

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MARCH 29, 2010

I finally read SPECIESISM , by Joan Dunayer, which was published a couple of years after ANIMAL EQUALITY , which I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. To be consistent (and nonspeciesist).

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Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

We know that animals can essentially lose their predator avoidance behaviors. You will see often repeated that the Galapagos are unique in the lack of fear of humans exhibited by the animal inhabitants. First, Darwin wrote quite a bit about lack of fear in various animals, but he did so initially in the context of the Falklands.

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Falakhe’s Story

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Early starts are the rule when monitoring endagered species in Mkuze Game Reserve, in South Africa, but there’s a particular urgency to this morning’s start. Pippa called the park ranger in charge of animals. Like other social animals, his family connections were keeping him alive, as his family was feeding him.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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MARCH 14, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. Kentucky Dept.

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Crows, Contest Killing, and Communication

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MARCH 28, 2014

The subject was not hunting; it was contest killing. At the end of the day, however, no one from the club’s side ever addressed the actual issue: that people who have no problem with hunting do have a problem with mass slaughter, especially when it is being taught to children. As a group, yes, we are anti-hunting,” she said.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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MARCH 20, 2011

So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? That’s what you do with other game, right? Quick: what’s this?

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We Should Kill More Lions

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Hunters go to Africa to shoot lions, and this is without question a good thing; for birds, for ecosystems, and for lions in general! 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.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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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.” ” Obviously the dictionary does not equate hunting with conservation. Of course, by now most people know they have been slaughtered by hunters for their ivory.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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The Wildlife Conservation Stamp: An Additional Income Stream for Our National Wildlife Refuges

Forest Bathing

#CeciltheLion is a dangerous direction for conservation

Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

Falconry – Bloodsport or Alternative Form of Birding?

Brouwerij Verhaeghe: Duchesse de Bourgogne

Virginia Fox Smuggler Gets Six Months

Use it or lose it?

Zero Gravity Brewing Company: Bob White

On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

Falakhe’s Story

ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

Crows, Contest Killing, and Communication

The Nonessential Whooping Crane

We Should Kill More Lions

Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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