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Swedish King Wants to Cull Country's Wolf Population

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Despite the fact that some 100,000 elk are shot every autumn in Sweden out of an estimated population of 3-400,000, King Gustaf believes that the presence of 200 wolves might spoil his annual hunt, so has been advocating the culling of as many wolves as possible. Yet to hunt the elk, he himself uses hunting dogs.

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Camels to be Culled in Australia

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Tags: cull camels australia environment.

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On Egypt's Pig Cull

Animal Person

I received an e-mail from the well-meaning Wendy at Compassion in World Farming (which I find an odd combination of words) regarding Egypt's pig cull and asking me to send my protest to the Egyptian Government. Do the people who are so upset about the pig cull in Egypt realize that the pig cull happens every day, all around the world?

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Another Canada Goose Cull

10,000 Birds

Nackawic, New Brunswick, Canada will cull up to 250 Canada Geese that are leaving too many droppings on the waterfront. This story broke just in time for Canada Day too… a.

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France pledges to end chick culling in 2022

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South African game reserves forced to cull animals as Covid halts tourism

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submitted by /u/AnotherDullUsername [link] [comments].

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Culling the Herd

Animal Ethics

The National Park Service has announced a plan to cull the Rocky Mountain National Park elk herd with sharpshooters.

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New Jersey Bear Hunt to Continue as Planned

Critter News

It's a cull to "control the population." Tags: cull new jersey bears hunting. Despite efforts by animal rights activists to stop this hunt, it is scheduled to continue. That really sucks. From North Jersey.com.

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Wolf Killing in Idaho Under Scrutiny

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Tags: cull montana idaho wolves.

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Case Closed: Double-crested Cormorants Have Their Day in Court

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Birds in the 24 states east of the Mississippi River are now protected from mass culls by a recent court ruling. Fish and Wildlife Service has periodically conducted culls, arguing that removing Double-crested Cormorants from the equation would help support populations of native fish. So the U.S.

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A questionnaire for 18+ in the UK about culling for TB. Would appreciate anyone who answers as it's for my uni dissertaton.

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2017 Bird Images

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Then the culling process begins. These 12 images must be decided upon by November 1st, in order to get them to the printer in the US, printed, and then shipped back to me here in Mexico. This process starts out with about 60 photos. First cut, second cut, third cut, and then, the final.

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Mysterious Sled Dog Deaths

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Throats slit' The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in British Columbia, alleged that an Outdoor Adventures employee was told to cull the dogs in April last year. "We've opened a police file and assigned an investigator," Police Sergeant Steve LeClair told AFP.

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Burning Bunnies in Sweden

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The targeted rabbits are the unwanted inhabitants of capital Stockholm's parks, which are culled to protect the shrubs and trees which they gorge on. In Sweden, the way they deal with rabbit problems is to shoot them and burn them for fuel. Many of them are domestic pets released by uncaring owners which then go on to breed.

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Europe Votes to Ban Seal Products

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A resolution at the end of a three-year campaign, triggered by a public outcry at the annual seal culls in Canada and Norway, condemned the slaughter of seals as "inherently inhumane". From the press release: Euro-MPs have voted overwhelmingly for a total ban on the trade in seal products across Europe.

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Good News?

10,000 Birds

The cullings have happened every year since the 2009 emergency landing of a US Airways plane in the Hudson River after the plane struck geese and was disabled. New York City killed less Canada Geese this year than any year since they started rounding the geese up and slaughtering them.

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Unacceptable Trade in Primate Research Animals

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Better to cull them than subject them to years of pain and loneliness in a lab. They are considered an environmental pest because they are a non-native species that inflict ecological damage.but to deal with them this way is just unacceptable.

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Animal Health Care is Part of the Bottom Line

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However, research based on finishing pig group opportunity costs calculated on mortality, culls and feed conversion to target reveals startling results, with the best to worst sites varying by $11 per pig, with the widest variance per site at $34 per pig. These pigs are simply raw materials.

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Another Thumbs Up for Avian Radar?

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Among the points the National Geographic article makes are that culling birds near airports may do little to solve the problem of birdstrikes, and that radar systems which detect birds in airplanes’ flight paths might be a worthwhile alternative, although the U.S.

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China Gets to Buy Elephant Ivory

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It will allow China to bid for more than 100 tonnes of ivory stockpiled in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe through culling and natural deaths. Britain was one of nine countries which supported the move.

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Contrarian Nonsense About the Seal Slaughter

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The increasingly shrill condemnation of Canada's seal cull is based on a view of humans as bloodthirsty destroyers of nature. WHO could defend the slaughter of 300,000 harp, hooded and grey seals by hook-wielding hunters out to make a quick buck from the seals' pelts? I would rather stand with the seal bashers than with these people bashers.

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Cats and chicks

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There is a cat curfew for domestic animals in some states and a cull has been instigated to try to reduce the number of feral felines, currently estimated at 2 million. In Australia where the endemic prey population has evolved without cats, the problem has reached the stage where drastic measures have been imposed.

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Nature is Tough

10,000 Birds

Peregrine Falcons are excellent at culling the weak. Instead, another bird that managed to not get injured will use those resources and pass on its genes. That is how it is and how it should be. But I still wish this little bird had made it.

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Five Things To Do When It Is Too Cold To Bird

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Cull (and organize) your photos. Neaten up so you know what is where and to avoid harming visitors with a book-avalanche. I’m slightly embarrassed to say that the last time I sorted my books I realized that there were at least three books of which I had two copies. Here’s another aspect of my birding life that is kind of messy.

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Forget About Equal, How About Alive

Animal Person

Since January the program has culled about 230,000 cows nationwide." "Desperate to drive up prices by stemming the gusher of unwanted milk, a dairy industry group, the National Milk Producers Federation, has been paying farmers to send herds to slaughter.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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The 32-page insert of color plates presents 63 images of paintings, book plates, mosaics, photographs, and a map, culled from Wikipedia Commons and other sources. The images tie directly to the text.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 6)

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They can create significant crop damage … Permits are regularly issued in Western Australia and sometimes issued in Victoria for the culling of this species.” ” At the same time, they are popular as pets, as they may be the best talkers of the Australian cockatoos. Talk about schizophrenia.

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“A Little Bird Told Me” … Happy Birthday Charles Darwin

10,000 Birds

Variation in finch beak shape is constantly arising due to the usual sources of genetic variation, and that variation is then culled across generational time, but which direction the culling happens in depends on the climate of that particular year or season. Thus, to the Grants, a dead finch is a very important piece of data.

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Note to Those Wanting Promotion: Pay Attention

Animal Person

On Egypt's Pig Cull. And if Compassion in World Farming wanted to see if I knew of their campaigns and might want to support them, they could have easily Googled CIWF right at Animal Person, at which point they'd find: On Compassion in World Farming. Eat More Veal? How About Be More Honest. On Graphic Images We DON'T See.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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What’s even more frustrating is when animal rights people learn of plans to cull nonnative species. on a daily basis, both legally and otherwise.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

It leaves the National Park Service full latitude to determine which elk should be culled. You also suggest that my proposal would result in shooting of bulls (male elk), as opposed to cows (female elk). My proposal does no such thing. Finally, you suggest that it would be less expensive to use “hired sharpshooters” than volunteer hunters.

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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

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And culls of Nyala have been proposed. Lions from Tembe have founded new populations across Africa, reducing the pressure on Tembe’s other predators. Attempts have been made to fence off parts of the endangered forests. That conservation uses the death of the species it is trying to save is both paradoxical and not.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

It is only the prejudice of our species that justifies culling the deer population while protecting our own. But whether with a flintlock or a modern rifle, hunting cruelly takes the life of a living, sentient being that has as much right to live as any hunter or writer. EISENMAN Highland Park, Ill.,

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Robert Young on Killing Animals

Animal Ethics

Systematic cullings in the absence of feasible alternatives, therefore, may be morally permissible. It is worth noticing that my proposal does not rule out killings which have the effect overall of fostering the wants of the largest subset of some group like a wild herd where otherwise the wants of an even larger subset will be thwarted.

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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

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This was proposed as an example of what we now call “stabilizing selection” … variation is constantly introduced into populations, but every now and then “selective forces” culls the variation out.

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

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Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals.

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Feds Approve Killing Sea Lions in the Columbia River

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The Federal government has approved the killing of California Sea Lions in the Columbia River, blaming them for killing and eating endangered salmon. Never mind the main reasons for the problems with the salmon: hatcheries, human harvest, hydropower and the destruction of habitat.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

Even hunters try to justify their killing of animals with reasons, e.g., "If we don't cull the deer herd, there will be massive starvation of deer come winter, so we are doing the deer a favor by providing them a quick death (assuming accurate shooting, which one really shouldn't assume!)