Namibia: Uproar Over Elephant Killing
The killing of an alpha elephant bull at Omatjete last week has been highly criticised by Namibian conservation and tourism groups. The elephant, named 'Voortrekker' of the rare Ugab desert-adapted
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Badger cull faces fresh legal challenge
The Badger Trust is back in court on Thursday with a new legal challenge over the government’s badger cull policy. It is seeking a High Court ruling that there has been an unlawful failure to put in
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Namibia Refuses to Cancel Desert Elephant Hunt After Protests
Namibia won’t withdraw permits granted to hunt desert elephants, a group of the pachyderms that live in the country’s arid northwest, despite protests, the country’s Environment and Tourism minister said.
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Idaho suspends plan to kill wolves in wilderness
Conservationists claimed victory on Tuesday after Idaho wildlife managers suspended the killing of wolves in a protected wilderness area for preying on elk prized by commercial hunters. The state's
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Conservation group demands U.S. restore grizzly bears to native range
The outsized, hump-shouldered bruins were hunted, trapped and poisoned to the edge of extinction in the lower 48 states before being added to the federal endangered and threatened species list in 1975.
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Fifa and Brazil are failing threatened armadillo, say conservationists
Ironically, the same property that makes it so suitable as the figurehead for the World Cup also makes it easy to bag up and barbeque. The combined forces of illegal subsistence hunting and habitat destruction
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Poachers turn active in Sundarbans
The poachers have turned active in Sundarbans under Khulna district due to negligence of the authorities concerned. Particularly, the poachers, in collusion with the local influential people, are hunting
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WWF condemns hunting of 2,100 houbara bustards
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-Pakistan) has condemned the hunting of around 2,100 houbara bustards in Chagai District of Balochistan Province. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the WWF-Pakistan
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China to outlaw eating of protected animal species
China will jail people who eat rare animals for 10 years or more under a new interpretation of the criminal law, state media reported, as the government seeks to close a legal loophole and better protect
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China to outlaw eating of protected animal species
China lists 420 species as rare or endangered, including the panda, golden monkeys, Asian black bears and pangolins, some or all of which are threatened by illegal hunting, environmental destruction and
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Saudi prince hunted endangered birds, Pakistan officials say
A Saudi prince is alleged to have poached over 2,100 endangered and internationally protected birds in a 21-day hunting safari in southwest Pakistan's Balochistan province, bringing the focus back on the