Critter News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

And no, that's not because she is a hunter. It's because she's a global warming denying wingnut who also has rotten policies regarding predator control (in this case wolves). Nothing like glomming on to a popular topic to get those stats up. In this case, it's been Sarah Palin's rotten attitude towards animals.

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Wolves Hunters Tagged Animal 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

The myths that hunters and anglers pay for the majority of our wildlife conservation (debunked in my post on The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It ) and the misconception that “predator management” is a necessary part of the wildlife conservation equation. What myths am I referring to?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

Take lions, wolves, hyenas to name a few. They have hunted together before, this pack of sky wolves. The thrill of the hunt, the smell and sounds of the desert in the early morning, the ability to see a finely-tuned hunter up close. There are many examples in the animal world of pack behavior. All photos by Charlie Kaiser.

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League Against Cruel Sports Rabbits Falcons Hunting 270

Critter News

AUGUST 30, 2008

For me, I've been deluged for months by Defenders of Wildlife material about Alaska's heartless treatment of wolves. She's been governor of Alaska for about two years, a world of its own with about half a million people, half of which may be subsistence hunters for all I know. This may not seem like an animal issue, but it is.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

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. Who wiped out the wolves and mountain lions? Hunters like him. MARIE BROWN Baldwin, N.Y., EISENMAN Highland Park, Ill., BRINNING Boston, Dec.

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New York Times New York Mountain Lions Deer 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

This almost certainly can be argued to be true just on the basis of logic, because feral Cats are proficient hunters and are entirely out of ecological place. Dogs are similarly dispersed across size ranges, with Foxes, Coyotes, and Wolves taking prey across different parts of the size range. Let me tell you this: They are.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The species was seemingly killed off by feather hunters, but then, after years, reappeared at the site of one of the deserted breeding colonies, Torishima Island in Japan. ” There are amazing stories here. The survival of the Short-tailed Albatross, which once numbered in the millions, is simply amazing.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

” Contemporary environmentalism arrived too late to prevent the passenger pigeon’s demise due to market hunters, but the two phenomena share a historical connection. Of course, by now most people know they have been slaughtered by hunters for their ivory. ” I’ll give you a hint, it’s not hunters!

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