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Demand For Apples And Mangoes Soars In Massachusetts After 80-Year-Old Otilia Martins Defeats Armed Robbers With Aforementioned Fruits

A spirited defense of firefruit!... more

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The New War on Wolves

Los Angeles Times... . PHOTO: Congress removed wolves in Montana and Idaho from... more

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45 Australian Species Face Extinction Within 20 Years

45 Australian Species Face Extinction in 20 Years by David DeFranza, Washington, DC... more

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African Lions Under Threat From A Growing Predator: The American Hunter

American hunters are emerging as a strong and growing threat to the survival of... more

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Bringing Home a Buck: The Top 50 Deer Hunting Blogs

If you live in the United States and go hunting, chances are deer is your subject.... more

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Endangered Whooping Cranes Were Shot to Death in Georgia

Endangered whooping cranes shot dead Only about 400 whooping cranes exist in the... more

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Sarah Palin Wouldn't "Shoot An Animal for Its Fur or for Fashion"..... Uh-huh...

Robin Roberts (GMA) asked Sarah Palin about the controversy surrounding her hunting on... more

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Another [Fill-In-The-Blank] Hunter Shoots Yet Another [Fill-In-The-Blank] Hunter

Man accidentally shoots fellow hunter December 11, 2010 A man was in serious... more

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The Real Fox-Coyote Enclosure | Animal Exploitation at Its Worst | Graphic Video

Music by Eddie Vedder This video shows the truth behind fox-coyote enclosures... more

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Lion movie highlights trophy shooting in SAfrica

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'Hunting for Lion Conservation' Backfires - ScienceNOW

African lions are one step away from becoming an endangered species, and a measure... more

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South Florida Animal Rights Activists Decry Penning of Wild Foxes and Coyotes - Capturing Wild Animals, Then Setting Dogs Upon Them to Tear Apart and Kill

South Florida Animal Rights Activists Decry Penning
June 20, 9:39 AMWest Palm Beach Animal Rights Examiner Michelle Rivera

Activists from South Florida will be attending The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) meeting on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 to hear arguments for ban on wildlife penning.

"Penning" is the practice of throwing wild animals into pens and setting dogs upon them. Wild foxes and coyotes are trapped in their natural habitats and transported, sometimes across state lines.

Penning involves releasing the foxes or coyotes from their pens into an unfamiliar environment. The dogs, having been worked up into a frenzy to get them started; chase the animals to the point of exhaustion. The event can go on for several hours a day over more than one day, depending on how long the wild animals, and dogs, can hold out. Once the wild fox or coyote is caught, the dogs are free to tear it apart. If the wild animal is lucky enough to survive the chase, it is returned to the pen area so that it can be used for bait once again. It does not matter if they are wounded, they are used again the next day anyway.

The hunters who take part in the blood sport of penning say that it is part of a training program to teach hunting dogs to track target animals. The dogs compete and are judged on how well they perform during the chase, however, so animal activists say it is a cruel blood sport that should be banned.

According to Florida state statute 828.122, also known as The Animal Fighting Act, baiting is illegal in the state of Florida. The pertinent component of the statute defines baiting as “to attack with violence, to provoke, or to harass an animal with one or more animals for the purpose of training an animal for or to cause an animal to engage in fights with or among other animals…”

Since the coyotes, and/or foxes clearly are fighting for their lives, animal rights activists charge that this statute applies to penning. Proponents of penning argue that pens fall under the exemptions to the baiting law. However, if that is true, penning is in the same category of sport as those activities prohibited and the spirit of the law must be taken into consideration.

Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) Legislative Representative Jennifer Hobgood says “Last fall, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission arrested 12 individuals for illegal activity related to fox pens. Also during this time a family living next door to a pen in Holt, Florida witnessed coyotes being repeatedly torn apart by dogs up against fence lines.” The neighborhood has organized an effort to stop coyote and fox penning and has a website called Training Not Torture where people can access a video.

The HSUS asserts that the vast number of Floridians would not condone this activity. “People who participate in fox and coyote penning have attended past meetings in large numbers, which makes it appear that more people support this activity than the few who actually do.” Says Hobgood.

Animal rights advocates and hunters who engage in penning are expected to square off at the meeting which is expected to begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Orlando Marriot in Lake Mary.South Florida Animal Rights Activists Decry Penning June 20, 9:39 AMWest Palm Beach... more

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Leopard Goes Down With a Fight

(no audio) - Hunters cornered a leopard and get a little surprise from the cat, he... more

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Queen Guitarist Fights To Keep Blood Sports In Past, Where They Belong

Besides being a phenomenal musician and closet scientist, Brian May is looking out for... more

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Tofu Hunter

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The Joy of Killing and Euphemisms

by Stephanie Ernst

Published December 15, 2009 @ 06:55AM PT Took, harvested, bagged, downed, secured, dispatched. A whole lot of euphemisms for one very basic concept: brutal killing.

In this horrifying blog post for "sportsmen" on a Pennsylvania news site, about the joyful "successes" of area bear hunters, the above euphemisms for killing were used 20 times. And animal advocates, I'll warn you now: you may not want to put yourself through reading the story and seeing the bloody photos. The animals' final, frightened, fleeing moments are recounted gleefully, with not a single thought given to what their experience of this "sport" was like.

The callousness and disregard, from both the blogger and the hunters, are disturbing. Take this, for example, which happened minutes after a human dad gunned down a two-year-old female bear, with the help of a "driving gang of 20-25 hunters":

When Dave discovered that other hunters in the gang had shot at and maybe hit another bear in the same area but were not concerned with confirming a hit, kill or miss, he went in search of any evidence he could find.

He soon found a blood trail and followed it into a thick stand of laurel, where he spotted an injured bear struggling to rise among a tangle of fallen trees. Only after dispatching the animal did the senior Mrksic discover that it was a smaller bear than his sons.

No sympathy for the struggling, suffering, terrified young animal. Just excitement that someone else had made this an easy kill for them. Just anticipation of getting matching father-and-son "shoulder mounts made from their bears" for a wall display at home. Such an enormous disconnect here, such a lack of connection with and understanding of what it is they're doing, of how that bear is feeling.

Someone want to tell me yet again about how hunters are "respectful" of the animals they kill? How we should respect and work with them, rather than challenge their mindset and perspectives, when it comes to conservation and protection of free-living animals?

Screw that. Hunt sabs and challenges to -- and frankly, outright violations of -- hunter harassment laws look better and better sometimes, don't they?

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Photo by Flickr user brownpauby Stephanie Ernst Published December 15, 2009 @ 06:55AM PT Took, harvested,... more

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ParaAbnormal Case #1 Episode #1

In the Premiere webisode, the ParaAbnormal Team investigates an infamous ghostly... more

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New Ghost Hunters taking web one Ghost at a time!

www.paraabnormal.tv Losers by day -- ghost hunters by night. From the garage of his... more

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Deer in Water was Crime of Poachers - See Removal

Yesterday I had found a dead deer in the Prentice Cooper State Forest and its carcass lying in water that flows into Suck Creek in Marion County just north of Chattanooga, Tennessee. I reported it to the State Forestry officials upon my finding it. No one from the Tennessee State Forestry Prentice Cooper Division called me back. So, I went prepared today to remove the deer from the water of the Prentice Cooper State Forest property. I discovered that this deer had been killed by poachers. The video shows that the area where the antlers were was cut out with precision. I, on the video, had said someone had removed its brain, but I was kind of upset and not thinking clearly. What I should have said was that someone had removed its antlers.
When I got home, I tried to contact the Prentice Cooper State Forest officials to tell them that I had removed the deer and they could come retrieve the carcass and dispose of it, however, I could not reach them. So, I called the Tennessee Environmental Assistance Center of the Tennessee Department of Conservation and spoke thoroughly about this matter describing it to him. He told me that based upon what I was telling him, poachers had killed this animal and cut off the antlers and bone out of the head with a saw. He was very concerned and said that I could rest assured that he was as concerned about this matter as I was and that he would follow through on this matter and have the carcass picked up. He also went on to say that this was a crime and that the officials of the Prentice Cooper State Forest should have immediately followed up on this from the initial report and that they would be hearing from his office. I admit I do not remove dogs or animals on a daily basis and this was kind of an emotional incident for me and at the same time it made me angry. I do not mind getting my hands dirty. I do not mind taking part in keeping our natural resources clean and well-kept. I am very much for the protection of our natural resources and am not afraid to say it or show it.
So, anyway. I hope that everyone will try to bare with me and understand that this was a threat to the health of others; it also is a federal offense to kill deer when out of season as it is against the law to kill other animals; it is also an outright shame and is disgusting to throw the carcass of a dead animal into the area of a State Forest or anywhere in the water that leads into our creeks and rivers. This is a felony. Should they ever catch someone committing or taking part in this activity there will be grave penalties. It is a highly punishable crime to kill wildlife when it is prohibited or no license or not in season.
I know that looking at it from the sick individuals point of view that did this, they did not have time to take it away, "man, just cut it off and lets go." Well, that view is WRONG! So suck it up if you want to argue about this. Because it is flat out WRONG! Take a stand for what you say you believe in.Yesterday I had found a dead deer in the Prentice Cooper State Forest and its carcass... more

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super fun video to watch!

music is weird. but video is great!

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