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, ...
WASHINGTON - Bears, foxes and even coyotes may come to mind when you think about wildlife in our area. But bobcats are actually more common here than you would think. The hunting and trapping of bobcats is permitted in Virginia, but not in Maryland. Read the whole article ...
With the growth of the trophy hunting industry in the past few years, Namibia should see wildlife as an agricultural enterprise that has great potential, the Namibia Professional Hunting Association (Napha) has said."We have come to a point where we need more wildlife production to keep demand and supply in ...
TROPHY hunting should not only be regarded as a specialised division of Namibia's tourism sector, but as an opportunity for communal and commercial farmers to diversify their operations and earn extra income, an expert said yesterday.Speaking at a workshop for emerging commercial farmers, Diethelm Metzger said 80 per cent of ...
EDMONTON, Alberta, July 11 (UPI) -- The western Canadian province of Alberta has ordered all free-roaming wild boars be shot on sight because they are multiplying rapidly and becoming a menace.Read the whole article
Check out the latest issue of the magazine for Big-game hunters: Sports Afield. • The Modern Buffalo Rifle: Craig Boddington examines new caliber and ammo choices to pick the best combo for buff • Rifles for the Mountains: Choosing and rigging up the perfect mountain rifle ...
Over the past two decades, the worldwide population of lions has fallen from over 200,000 to approximately 35,000 presently.In Kenya, they have reduced from 10,000 to 2,000 over the same period.The once-feared king of the jungle is quickly being pushed out of his habitat.With the population of humans growing faster ...