Antalya's Alanya district in southern Turkey is becoming more and more popular among foreign tourists who are beginning to soar into the city with the beginning of the hunting season. �The tourism agents are holding various hunting programs for tourists engaged in hunting in the district. It is allowed to hunt ...
A record number of possums were culled by a team of Dargaville cullers during The Great Northland Possum Cull Competition. However, overall cull numbers were down at the annual pest destruction event. Organiser and founder of the cull John Hackett says a record number of possums were culled by one of ...
Animal rights campaigners are in uproar over reports that a pre-school in northern Sweden took its children out elk hunting. It was all pretend but campaigners allege that an ulterior motive lay behind the brutal game.
No bears shot yetThis year's annual bear hunt hasn't resulted in any trophies for hunters. Just two weeks of the authorized hunt remain.The hunt began September 1 and runs until October 15. Licensed hunters have been allowed to shoot a total of 16 bears this season.So far, they haven't shot ...
Whitehorse -- The Yukon has dumped a decade-old lottery system in favour of a new policy that allows a permit to be granted to all eligible bison hunters in an effort to manage the massive animals' population growth. The territorial government has also removed a restriction requiring successful hunters to ...
AHWAHNEE, Calif. -- Wild pigs roaming the Central California foothills are turning rural yards into hog heaven, ripping through lawns and shrubbery as they seek roots, worms and other buried edibles.The pigs have roamed the state for decades, but this year something has driven more of them into inhabited areas, ...
Zimbabwe's once thriving wildlife and tourism industry is under serious threat as authorities continue to kill elephants and other animals at an alarming rate.Johnny Rodrigues, the chairman for the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, said the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management has embarked on what they are calling an ...
More than 2800 wild boar have been killed in the Veluwe, the country's largest nature reserve, since the start of the hunting season on 1 July. At the end of June, there were still 6000 wild boar in the reserve, but the provincial authorities want to reduce their number to ...
BEIJING, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Shooting moose is one way to get ready for the Olympics. That is exactly what American Corey Cogdell did. The Alaskan native bagged the Olympic bronze medal on Monday at age 21, just three years after she said she shot her ...
Bureaucratic red tape cost a professional kangaroo hunter $2500 in Wollongong Local Court yesterday, after he admitted shooting the protected animals illegally to provide for his wife and seven children.Warren Barry Ayre had been working as a shooter in 2004, killing 7000 kangaroos legally on a property called Yarran Ridge ...
STEFFEN Butzeck revs the engine of his little Ford to clear the deep ruts in the sandy forest track, keeping one eye out for unexploded Soviet-era ordnance and the other for wolves' paw prints or droppings. "This is perfect wolf territory," he says when he kills the motor and surveys ...
BARAGA — Throughout the course of a five month period, millions of dollars is generated by hunters in the state of Michigan.“Years ago, it usually cost around $200 per hunter to get ready for the season, but that’s old data,” John Aho, wildlife biologist at the Michigan Department of Natural ...
The number of moose is now considerably lower compared to a few years ago. 80 974 moose were shot last year. Experts believe that the number will be stabilized now except in areas with a lot of wolves and bears.
August 2008. African elephants are being killed for their ivory at the highest rate since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989 according to a new report. But the public outcry that resulted in that ban is absent today, and a University of Washington conservation biologist ...
KwaZulu-Natal residents and animal rights groups, angered by the killing of Nkululeko the hippo, are expected to protest at Umdloti Beach on Saturday. Founder of People Acting Caring Thinking, Pact, Donna-lee Ginsberg, said the aim of the protest was to highlight the "unnecessary killing" of Nkululeko, the wandering hippo, ...