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  • Turkey. Alanya to attract foreigners for hunting tourism

    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 ...
  • New zealand. Three thousand possums bite the dust. Oct 29, 2008

    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 ...
  • Sweden \'Elk hunting is no child\'s play\' Oct 18, 2008

    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.
  • Norway. No bears shot yet. Oct 2, 2008

    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 ...
  • Canada. Yukon allows more bison hunting. Sept 24, 2008

    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 ...
  • Hungry herds of wild pigs invade California yards, hills. Aug 26, 2008

    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: Elephants Slaughtered At Alarming Rate. Aug 23, 2008

    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 ...
  • 5200 wild boar to be culled in Dutch nature reserve. Aug 25, 2008

    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 ...
  • USA: Olympics-Shooting-Moose hunting helps American win bronze

    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 ...
  • Australia. Red tape costs kangaroo hunter $2500. Aug 13, 2008

    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 ...
  • Germany hears the call of the wild as wolves return after 200 years. Aug 16, 2008

    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 ...
  • USA. Big bucks mean big dollars. Nov 12, 2007

    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 ...
  • Sweden: 80974 moose were shot last season. Aug 2008

    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.
  • Elephant poaching reaching record levels. Aug 2008

    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 ...
  • South Africa: Animal groups to protest after hippo killing. Aug 1, 2008

    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, ...

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