10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2011
Illegal capture for the wild animal trade is an obvious peril for such a charismatic species, but this big blue bird is also hunted both for its meat and feathers. Last but certainly not least, the macaw suffers along with the other species in its ecosystem from rampant habitat destruction and deforestation.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2020
Since these are the same neighbors who illegally cut down several other trees (habitat that was used by wintering warblers), it appears that they also suffer from the all too prevalent affliction of environmental disconnect that has been steadily bringing our Planet to the edge of biome collapse.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2016
But their lawyers argued that prosecutors did not prove that the group had engaged in an illegal conspiracy that kept federal workers — employees of the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management — from doing their jobs. Are you kidding me? References: 1 National Wildlife Refuge Association.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2011
Between 1985 and 1991, the ducks suffered a further drastic decline with fewer than 100 birds estimated from Grand Cayman. A reduction in illegal hunting on Little Cayman has also allowed the ducks to recover there, and in 1995, they bred on Cayman Brac for the first time in many years.&#
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2024
However, controlling predators is controversial, and has been further tainted by gamekeepers illegally shooting Hen Harriers, which are serious predators of grouse. Whether this would be a good thing for the moors, and the birds that currently inhabit them, is doubtful, while local communities would undoubtedly suffer from loss of income.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2019
The only wildcat I found was illegally killed by hunters during closed season. Photographed within Beljarica: five White-tailed Eagles by Snezana Panjkovic. I barely started when some sulphur (a.k.a. clouded yellow) butterfly and one Brambling greeted me.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
John Dodd, the multimillionaire co-founder of Edinburgh-based Artemis Investment Management, has lost £107,000 after illegal pesticides were found on the Scottish shooting estate he owns.
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