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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2014
Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the death of two Whooping Cranes in Hopkins County, Kentucky. Making bad news worse, officials speculate that the Whooping Cranes likely weren’t killed by hunters, but instead by thrill-seekers. What thrill there is in murdering an endangered species, I’ll never know.).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 8, 2014
As if the last month’s revelation of a pair of murdered Whooping Cranes wasn’t devastating enough, the bad news just keeps on coming. The female was killed but experts suggest the male will survive, although perhaps without the ability to fly. Image above by AP Photo/Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.).
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Critter News
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
of Wildlife Services , which is involved in mainly predator control programs (coyotes are a big target). Animals killed also include threatened and endangered species, a number which has steadily increased since 2005. The aerial gunning program has killed at least 10 agents and injured 28 more.
Critter News
JANUARY 4, 2010
He says inflated wildlife smuggling numbers are hurting the fight against the crime. In other words, puffing wildlife smuggling to sell stories hurts efforts to fight crime. Recall any wildlife smuggling story you've ever read or watched in the past 20 years. Weak reporting kills wildlife. He makes a lot of sense.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. We are facing a plague of poaching that is again decimating the species. In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. One may say so. And it gave me a hope.
Critter News
APRIL 18, 2009
Four senior Wildlife Officers have been arrested and imprisoned after the state Congolese Wildlife Agency (ICCN) pressed charges for complicity in the destruction of the protected forests of Virunga National Park in the east of DR Congo. Tags: wildlife crime virunga congo gorillas endangered species.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2012
Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species list. The good news is that Kirtland’s Warbler numbers are up, 1,828 singing males counted in the 2011 census. history; they killed a young boy just to prove they could commit the perfect crime and were the models for the murderers in Hitchcock’s film Rope.
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