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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. Now, in 21st century America, we’re entertaining new considerations, in keeping with our modern understanding of wild animals and conservation.

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JANUARY 3, 2009

The RSPCA is investigating whether Prince Edward beat his dogs while hunting. Tags: animal abuse. Here is a link to the Daily Mail , complete with pictures. He alleges that he was merely trying to break up a fight between the two dogs.

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

A new book by author and Stanford professor Shelly Fisher Fishkin reveals that Mark Twain was an early advocate against animal cruelty. Called Mark Twain's Book of Animals , the book contains a number of his writing about animals. Tags: anti-cruelty. Interesting. You can buy it here.

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MARCH 22, 2009

From the article, animal activist group Equanimal is working on it from the European end. Tags: canada barbarism seals. The only way it will end is if the market for this product in Europe dries up. The US already has such a ban in place. Here is a link to the Google translated page of this group (it's in Spanish).

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AUGUST 12, 2009

ALF activists burned the hunting lodge of Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella. If you think it's fun killing animals in your own forest in Austria and bring them to your hunting estate, we will destroy it. Tags: ALF. Understand this: This will continue until you sever all ties with Huntingdon Life Sciences. We will destroy them.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

A declawed, defanged bear is chained to a stake as hunting dogs bark and snap, trying to force the bear to stand on its hind legs. Animal rights advocates say it's cruel to the nearly defenseless bears and harms them psychologically. Statutes banning animal fighting have a specific exemption for dog training. From the AP.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why. Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture."

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APRIL 12, 2010

They also want an exemption for hunt kennels which do not breed dogs for commercial purposes. Tags: Ireland legislation puppy mills dogs. Fine Gael and rural Fianna Fáil backbenchers have called for greyhound breeders to be exempt because the industry is already regulated by existing legislation.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. than with any genuine concern for species diversity or even animal welfare."

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MARCH 22, 2010

Dr Scott Roberton, head of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), said that hunting wild animals for meat and trafficking had been happening in many countries, especially developing ones. In Viet Nam, hunting and trade in wild animals had been alarming, he said.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

She's referring to the pie thrown in the face of Fisheries Minister Gail Shea by a PETA member protesting the Canadian seal hunt. I'm wondering whether the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in the US is making the rounds of Canadian politicians. Tags: canada animal enterprise terrorism act seals PETA.

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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. Howard Glen Blevins, 68, of Asheville, N.C.,

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Brian Golie, FWP game warden in Wolf Creek,classifies serial poachers as people who target trophy animals and will do anything to kill them. In some instances people kill an animal and cut off its head for the antlers. Tags: wildlife crime fish and wildlife montana poaching us trophy hunting.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2009

The Inuit harvest, or hunt, polar bears in Canada. "In He said that a lot of Inuit feel betrayed by the animal rights movement, and by some biologists when it comes to polar bears. The polar bear is the WWF's poster animal in its campaign against global climate change, said Nirlungayuk, and "the Inuit are caught in the middle.".

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 11, 2010

The International Fund for Animal Welfare ( IFAW ), is a non-profit organization working to save animals in crisis worldwide, to help protect our oceans’ whale population. IFAW advocates for the protection of wildlife in their habitats, works to prevent cruelty to animals, and rescues individual animals. Whales in danger.

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MARCH 16, 2009

A limit on the hunting of polar bears by sportsmen and native Arctic people will top the agenda at an international summit in Norway tomorrow, seen as vital to the survival of the predator. Tags: polar bear. Native and sport polar bear hunters may be facing more restrictions due to increasing threats to bear populations.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Bea directed me to an interview with Dr. Elizabeth Parker , the "chair man " (my emphasis) of the Animal Agriculture Alliance at CattleNetwork, which apparently is "The Source for Cattle News." If any "drastic measures" are employed, they are to remove animals from suffering, not to impose our dietary choices on others.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Seems that the guy that wrote Sarah Palin's convention speech was none other then noted conservative and alleged animal rights supporter Matthew Scully. Palin is known as an avid hunter; Scully is best known for his vigorous defense of animal rights. Tags: Wingnuts Palin. I guess he likes putting lipstick on pitbulls.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

In charging documents filed in King County Superior Court, prosecutors contend Dr. Tohru Shigemura made repeated trips to Washington to hunt bear, taking animals out of season and on tribal lands. Tags: wildlife trafficking gall bladders bears.

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Animal Person

JULY 15, 2010

Let's deconstruct: What we have here is the myth that killing animals in the wild and then eating them is somehow a compassionate act. When one calls animals of any kind a "problem," that's usually code for: they're inconvenient or they're a nuisance to us or they are in some other way reminding us that they exist.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Both groups will be protesting the seal hunt using the Olympic torch ceremony as the backdrop. PETA and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) are holding a joint news conference this week, and I would like to offer you an exclusive advance scoop on it. Tags: IFAW PETA.

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APRIL 8, 2010

The psychological impact of over-hunting on the highly intelligent and sociable animals has been identified as the latest threat to the survival of the species. Paris naturalist Yves Paccalet said: 'It may be that these intelligent animals are so exhausted from their combat with humankind that they have simply have given up the fight.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2009

BLUE whales, the world’s largest animals, are reappearing in parts of the oceans where hunting once wiped them out, signalling that they may finally be returning from the brink of extinction. Tags: blue whales endangered species. And here's some good news for today.

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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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JUNE 28, 2010

A restaurant owner who put lion burgers on the menu in honor of the World Cup has felt a roar of anger from outraged animal rights activists. But the burgers also attracted international attention and the scorn of animal rights activists, who picketed outside the restaurant. Tags: exotic meats phoenix arizona lion.

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OCTOBER 23, 2008

The endangered animals are often hunted for their ivory tusks. The International Fund for Animal Welfare will say more than 4,000 ivory products have been listed on eBay. Tags: ivory elephants. An eBay spokesman said the move was the best way to help African and Asian elephants.

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Animal Person

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. Tags: Books Ethics Language.

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OCTOBER 17, 2008

A judge has found five animal-rights activists not guilty of getting too close to seal hunters during the 2006 hunt off Canada's east coast. Tags: seal hunters humane society. That's good news. Lawrence, not far from Cape Breton. They are representatives of Humane Society International and Humane Society of the United States.

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JANUARY 2, 2009

The amendments to the Marine Mammal Regulations, which include strengthened federal enforcement, come just over a month after newly appointed federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said Canada is "going straight ahead for the 2009 hunt. Tags: canada seal hunters seals. We're proceeding as usual." "No

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AUGUST 6, 2009

Whenever I read about dolphins in places like Sea World, I think of an ex-co-worker named Gretchen who admitted she had "issues" with animals. Once penned, some dolphins are picked out by dolphin trainers and animal brokers for purchase and transport to amusement parks and resorts. The cries of the dolphins are pathetic.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Where's the hunting? Basically the animal was five feet in front of him, and the boy shot him in the head, killing him. And in this case we are told exactly where they come from, therefore we don't need to make any assumptions: The child's father taught him how to use a gun (at age 4) and takes him hunting. Killing them is fun.

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AUGUST 1, 2009

He added that the forest ministry, state governments and a separate authority on the management of tiger reserves had agreed to work together to ensure conservation of the endangered animal. This will increase the habitat area for tigers, who prefer to live and hunt in thick vegetation.

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Animal Person

MAY 17, 2009

Let's deconstruct the concept: Do you think that people who have spent their lives harming animals by eating them, just like I did and much of my family still does, deserve a second chance? Is what he did like hunting? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. Is fighting and killing dogs the same thing?

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JANUARY 6, 2009

I’m glad that Obama didn’t select Charles Stenholm, a former Texas congressman with a long history of defending animal abuse, who had sought the position with support from the factory farming industry. As Iowa’s Governor, Tom Vilsack took steps to protect animals, including vetoing a bill that allowed dove hunting.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

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FEBRUARY 14, 2010

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