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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. The Service is committed to strengthening and expanding hunting and fishing opportunities,” said Ashe. “The

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Dreaming of Congo rainforest: Gabon, Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic

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Logging roads have opened up vast areas to commercial hunting, leading to industrial-scale poaching and a more than 60 per cent drop in the region’s Forest Elephant population in less than a decade. The region also provides food, fresh water and shelter to more than 75 million people of nearly 150 distinct ethnic groups.

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A Pennine Challenge 

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The grouse season opens on 12 August: the birds are shot by driving them over the waiting guns (to call them hunters is inappropriate, as they are merely shooters, as no hunting is involved). Driven-grouse shooting is a very expensive sport, and is disliked by many people who would like to see it banned.

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Looking for Waterfowl in Gulf Islands National Seashore

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As a duck hunter, he had seen Redheads and scaups and mergansers throughout the winter, but as I did not relish getting up at 3:30 a.m. From his time hunting, Brian knew where rafts usually sheltered from the wind on the Santa Rosa Sound, and we strolled down the shore towards the black dots in the distance.

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From Today's New York Times

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To the Editor: “ Getting Bacon the Hard Way: Hog-Tying 400 Pounds of Fury ” (front page, June 21), about Texas hog hunters, illustrated the barbarity of hunting with dogs. As the dogs tear chunks of flesh from the terrified pig, the hunters undoubtedly feel proud of their accomplishment. June 23, 2008

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Hunters kill members of endangered species. Most believe that it's wrong to hunt animals for sport, but sport hunting is legal. And perhaps my favorite: "[I]f healthy, homeless humans were rounded up and killed, no one would call the killing facilities 'shelters'" (55). To be consistent (and nonspeciesist).

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Striding Snake-killers

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Watching them hunt is fascinating. On several occasions I’ve seen animals that are making a beeline towards shelter double-back when the wings are spread straight into their waiting talons. We stayed with the larger bird as it settled down to the serious business of hunting. Note the huge wings.

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