10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2018
The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” Lacey of Iowa introduced the nation’s first wildlife-protection law, which banned the interstate shipping of unlawfully killed game. A newly created U.S. Why is this happening?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2017
But no one who has ever cared for another creature – be it bird, animal, or human – can comprehend, much less cope with, this kind of brutal, pointless killing. What about people who are kind and decent and obey the law? The innocent birds and the decent, law-abiding people who cared for them. Who suffers for these crimes?
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Critter News
FEBRUARY 23, 2012
Dan Richards, president of the California Fish and Game Commission, is shown in the photo, holding a mountain lion he reportedly hunted and killed in Idaho, according to Western Outdoor Press, which published the photo. Hunting mountain lion is legal in Idaho, but illegal in California. KCRA 3 could not reach Richards for comment.
Critter News
AUGUST 27, 2008
"Wildlife Crime Watch" is a new program implemented by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. The ultimate goal of law enforcement is to stop criminal activity before is occurs. This program is a proactive effort to develop a partnership between citizens and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.
Animal Person
MARCH 29, 2010
"environmentalists" would have to value the life of an Atlantic salmon more than the life of a human because, in environmental terms, there are too few Atlantic salmons and far too many humans. To old-speciesists, nonhumans must justify their existence by proving useful to humans; in contrast, some or all humans have inherent value.
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. All individuals share the costs of conserving wildlife.
Animal Person
DECEMBER 17, 2009
During a brief moment of insanity after the death of my pet kitty Brady in 1991 (at the age of 17), I attended Vermont Law School to study Environmental Law. But before my return, I would spend nearly $25,000 on one semester of law school, and learn a frightfully basic lesson that passed me by during childhood.
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