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Critter News
APRIL 30, 2012
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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Animal Person
MAY 24, 2009
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?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2011
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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JULY 18, 2021
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JANUARY 3, 2021
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Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 17, 2007
The National Park Service has announced a plan to cull the Rocky Mountain National Park elk herd with sharpshooters.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
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.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 6, 2009
Tags: cull montana idaho wolves.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2016
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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JANUARY 1, 2022
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2017
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.
Critter News
JANUARY 31, 2011
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.
Critter News
OCTOBER 13, 2009
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.
Critter News
MAY 5, 2009
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.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2012
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.
Critter News
AUGUST 25, 2009
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.
Critter News
APRIL 24, 2009
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.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2013
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.
Critter News
AUGUST 16, 2008
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.
Critter News
APRIL 21, 2009
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.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2018
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.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
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.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2018
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.
Animal Person
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
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.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
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.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2022
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.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 16, 2012
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.
Animal Person
JUNE 17, 2009
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.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2012
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.
Animal Ethics
JULY 15, 2009
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.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2015
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.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 31, 2011
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.,
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 10, 2009
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.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2013
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.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
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.
Critter News
MARCH 16, 2012
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.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 23, 2006
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!)
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