Another Canada Goose Cull
10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2011
Nackawic, New Brunswick, Canada will cull up to 250 Canada Geese that are leaving too many droppings on the waterfront. This story broke just in time for Canada Day too… a.
157 Good News?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2012
New York City killed less Canada Geese this year than any year since they started rounding the geese up and slaughtering them. The cullings have happened every year since the 2009 emergency landing of a US Airways plane in the Hudson River after the plane struck geese and was disabled.
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Europe Votes to Ban Seal Products
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MAY 5, 2009
A resolution at the end of a three-year campaign, triggered by a public outcry at the annual seal culls in Canada and Norway, condemned the slaughter of seals as "inherently inhumane". From the press release: Euro-MPs have voted overwhelmingly for a total ban on the trade in seal products across Europe.
Another Thumbs Up for Avian Radar?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2013
As you might recall, upon takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York in January 2009, Sullenberger’s plane collided with a flock of migratory Canada Geese and was forced to ditch in the Hudson River. The only fatalities were to the geese.). ” (Note: You’ll need to register for free to read it.)
The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals.
Contrarian Nonsense About the Seal Slaughter
Critter News
APRIL 21, 2009
The increasingly shrill condemnation of Canada's seal cull is based on a view of humans as bloodthirsty destroyers of nature. WHO could defend the slaughter of 300,000 harp, hooded and grey seals by hook-wielding hunters out to make a quick buck from the seals' pelts? And so it goes.
Mysterious Sled Dog Deaths
Critter News
JANUARY 31, 2011
Throats slit' The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in British Columbia, alleged that an Outdoor Adventures employee was told to cull the dogs in April last year. "We've opened a police file and assigned an investigator," Police Sergeant Steve LeClair told AFP.
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