article thumbnail

Virginia Fox Smuggler Gets Six Months

Critter News

Attorney Julia Dudley said Blevins had bought animals for several years from trappers in different states and brought them to Virginia to sell to the owners of "fox pens." Hunters would then pay to hunt in the pens. Tags: wildlife trafficking blood sport fox hunting us. Often they were injured.

Fox 100
article thumbnail

Last Gasp for Sandhill Cranes—Act Now!

10,000 Birds

All eight hunters on the commission think it’s a good idea to shoot cranes in Kentucky. Why allow hunters to shoot right into the middle of them? As you’ll remember, Kentucky’s Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources unanimously passed its sandhill crane hunting proposal. The proposal now goes to the U.S. Quick: what’s this?

Kentucky 260
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

The Eagle Huntress–A Film Review

10,000 Birds

The Eagle Huntress is a documentary about Aisholpan, her path to becoming an eagle hunter, a cultural heritage usually taken on by males, the family that supports her, and the Mongolian Kazakh community that seeks to continue the ancient tradition with its Golden Eagle Festival. It’s constructed in three acts: Home, Festival, Hunting.

Eagles 133
article thumbnail

The Great Bustard Search is On (1)

10,000 Birds

Bustards are very susceptible to any kind of disturbance and, naturally, hunters like to shoot. Not the strictly protected bustards, but Red Foxes, Brown Hares, Pheasants , as well as Hooded Crows and Rooks. Nevertheless, bustards don’t like presence of people, especially that noisy kind of people.

Serbia 150
article thumbnail

At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The author, conservation biologist Caroline Fox, is observing the albatross’s shadow to the side of the boat. Fox notes the albatross in her “soaking-wet notebook” and watches it circle and fly back into the masking glare. Fox does an excellent job balancing these three elements, keeping the emphasis on the birds.

Fox 100
article thumbnail

The Art of Bird Camp

10,000 Birds

Nearly exterminated in Maine by hunters in the 1800‘s, the charismatic, orange-beaked little puffins nested only on one other state island until Dr. Kress painstakingly – and groundbreakingly – lured them back to nest on Eastern Egg Rock in 1977.

Puffins 277
article thumbnail

Why Palin?

Critter News

She's been governor of Alaska for about two years, a world of its own with about half a million people, half of which may be subsistence hunters for all I know. Let's hope McCain is just crazy.and not crazy like a fox. In other words, there ain't too much happening in a town of that size! A small-town mayor running a small-town state.

Alaska 100