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New Jersey Bear Hunt to Continue as Planned

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Despite efforts by animal rights activists to stop this hunt, it is scheduled to continue. New Jersey’s first bear hunt in five years is just a week away and set to go on as planned despite a last-ditch effort by several animal rights organizations to have the hunt postponed. The bear hunt, set to take place from Dec.

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Evidence of earlier humans in Madagascar is unconvincing but interesting

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It was after that date that many of the great and strange animals of that island went extinct, presumably because of human hunting. Actual cut marks made by actual stone tools are in fact never unequivocal. It was always thought that humans first inhabited the island of Madagascar about four or five thousand years ago or so.

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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

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I get that you’re really angry, I mean, he was a popular lion and yes, his cute widdle cubs will probably die to, but I can’t help feeling you’ve kind of missed the point a bit, and well, ending all hunting in Africa will not solve much and maybe make things worse and… No, no, I’m not a hunter. I’m sorry.

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Use it or lose it?

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The first most readers have probably been aware of, the cheerleader hunter who has been in the news for, well, hunting game animals and being attractive and blonde. Harnessing the power of money is therefore a very important tool for conservation then. Not the solution to every problem, but a powerful tool for many problems.

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Duck Numbers And Duck Stamp Sales No Longer Correlate

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The number of people who hunt waterfowl in the US has declined since the mid 1990s. From the abstract of the study: Current waterfowl populations provide liberal hunting seasons, but waterfowl hunter numbers have declined since the mid–1990s. allowing access for duck hunting with a reduced bag limit, another ($30?)

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The Duck Stamp and The Wildlife Conservation Stamp Living in Symbiosis?

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Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp (Duck Stamp) sales were at their peak in the 1970′s with 2.1 We don’t believe that this will change no matter how hard the FWS tries to change their marketing to encourage the non-hunting community to purchase the stamp. Let’s look at some facts. A 2011 survey by the U.S. million hunters.

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#CeciltheLion is a dangerous direction for conservation

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Another day, another dead lion erupting in the world’s media, another opportunity for me to annoy my few remaining anti-hunting friends. Often just for being a woman (its telling how many of these “outrages” about hunting involve women, not men. And the internet is a powerful tool to hold the powerful to account.

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