Critter News
JULY 12, 2009
From Wildlife Extra. Of 679 whales reported to have been killed during the 2008-2009 whale hunt in Antarctica, 304 were female. Tags: whales Japan hunting whaling. Leave it to the Japanese. Always classy. Four of the female whales were lactating, and 192 were pregnant at the time of death.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
They are also hunted. Ackerman skirts around a related problem, the trade in owls in markets in southeast Asia and Japan, an outgrowth of Harry Potter mania. They roost and hunt, at night (mostly) when we can’t see them. Sprigs of Wolf Lichen spring from the Douglas firs, a gorgeous, almost iridescent lime green.
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Critter News
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
I seriously doubt it, despite the Greenpeace report in Wildlife Extra News. Tags: Japan hunting greenpeace whaling. It's too much a matter of international pride. (I I know, I know, I'm always a pessimist.but I'm so good at it!)
Critter News
JANUARY 15, 2010
From the Seattle P-I: A Japanese psychiatrist with a home in Seattle is facing poaching and gun-possession charges following allegations that he poached several black bears and tried to smuggle gallbladders back to Japan. Tags: wildlife trafficking gall bladders bears.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 11, 2010
IFAW advocates for the protection of wildlife in their habitats, works to prevent cruelty to animals, and rescues individual animals. The number of whales each country will have permission to hunt is yet to be determined, and may ignore estimated sustainable whaling limits.
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2013
White-faced Ibis at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge – Larry Jordan, 10,000 Birds. Roseate Spoonbills at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge – Corey Finger, 10,000 Birds. They are birds of the march, with long billed particularly adept at probing mud and extracting prey critters from well-dug trenches.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Fish and Wildlife Service. They bred on a number of islands near Japan and Taiwan, and ranged widely and abundantly from the Aleutian Islands south through California. Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. Somebody won a Nobel Prize.
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