10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2024

However, the region’s dominant river — the Columbia River — which serves as the border for much of Oregon and Washington, also flows through these rangelands. Part of the mitigation for the McNary Dam was the creation of McNary National Wildlife Refuge. Much of that original habitat has now been lost to agriculture.

Washington 234

Washington Oregon Birds Wildlife 234

Critter News

JANUARY 15, 2010

So, it's not just rednecks in Washington State who are doing this. Tags: wildlife trafficking gall bladders bears. From the Seattle P-I: A Japanese psychiatrist with a home in Seattle is facing poaching and gun-possession charges following allegations that he poached several black bears and tried to smuggle gallbladders back to Japan.

Trafficking 100

Trafficking Seattle Bears Washington 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

But in Iraq, and more exactly, Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan, they are supposed to be there (and are regularly hunted and eaten) and the fighting is not supposed to be there. They feed on animal plankton and build their nests by burrowing in the dirt on offshore islands. BBC has the story as a video.

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Science Iraq Research Birds 152

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2012

One of the animal keepers brought her to me, and I put her in my clinic. She was clearly not a young bird and was banded, so once she was warm and fed, I called the Bird Banding Lab in Washington, D.C., She taught them how to hunt, and when they were released in the fall she stayed on her perch, dozing in the sun.

Rabbits 253

Rabbits New Jersey Neglecting North America 253

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

No wildlife species, especially a migratory one shared in common by many nations, can withstand commercial hunting without end. All commercial hunting was banned, and those species were carefully managed for sport hunting only. Commercial hunting of wildlife was always a losing proposition on land.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Sharks United States 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. More states will doubtless join the queue of those proposing hunts. Another thing to consider. Now, it’s time to go to the top.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 244