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Judge Blocks First Yellowstone-Area Grizzly Hunt in 40 Years

Judge Blocks First Yellowstone-Area Grizzly Hunt in 40 Years

A federal judge on Thursday halted the first Yellowstone-area grizzly bear trophy hunts in four decades. Wyoming and Idaho’s grizzly hunt was set to begin this Saturday, Sept. 1 and would have allowed a potential kill of 23 bears outside of Yellowstone National Park. But U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen in Missoula, Montana granted a […]

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    Wyoming Expands Controversial Wolf Hunting Season

    Wyoming Expands Controversial Wolf Hunting Season

    The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission approved an expanded wolf hunting season Wednesday, with a goal of reducing the population to the bare minimum required to keep it off the endangered species list, Defenders of Wildlife reported. The 2018 season expands on 2017’s season, which was the first in Wyoming since a 2017 appeals court […]

    Big Game Hunter Criticized for Posing With Dead Giraffe

    Big Game Hunter Criticized for Posing With Dead Giraffe

    Tess Thompson Talley of Kentucky has sparked public outcry after photos of her proudly posing with a black giraffe she killed in South Africa last year went viral. The big game hunter posted images of the June 2017 hunt onto her social media page. Then last month, the South Africa-based news outlet Africland tweeted out […]

    Toxic Leftovers From Giant Mine Found in Snowshoe Hares

    Toxic Leftovers From Giant Mine Found in Snowshoe Hares

    By Som Niyogi and Solomon Amuno Even though it was closed decades ago, the Giant Mine on the outskirts of Yellowknife has left a long environmental legacy. The gold extraction process, which required roasting ores at extremely high temperatures, created a toxic byproduct called arsenic trioxide. For about 55 years (1948-2004), arsenic and other toxic […]

    Wyoming Votes to Allow First Grizzly Bear Hunt in 40 Years

    Wyoming Votes to Allow First Grizzly Bear Hunt in 40 Years

    The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to approve the largest grizzly bear hunt in the lower 48 states, despite opposition from environmental groups, tribal nations and wildlife photographers, The Washington Post reported. The vote comes less than a month after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service affirmed its June 2017 decision to […]

    Trump Administration Reverses Ban on Elephant Trophy Imports

    Trump Administration Reverses Ban on Elephant Trophy Imports

    The Trump administration has agreed to allow the remains of elephants killed in Zimbabwe and Zambia to be brought back to the U.S., a reversal of an Obama-era ban. In 2014, the President Obama’s administration banned the imports of elephant trophies to protect the species. “Additional killing of elephants in these countries, even if legal, […]

    Environmentalists’ Surprising Ally to Save National Monuments: Hunters

    Environmentalists’ Surprising Ally to Save National Monuments: Hunters

    Environmentalists who oppose Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke‘s plans to shrink our national monuments might have an unlikely but politically powerful ally on their side—hunters. Many hunters, anglers and other sportsmen are speaking out against the former Montana congressman over his controversial recommendation to adjust the boundaries of a “handful” of the 27 national monuments under […]

    90% of Minke Whales Killed in Norway Are Female and ‘Almost All’ Pregnant

    90% of Minke Whales Killed in Norway Are Female and ‘Almost All’ Pregnant

    Ninety percent of the minke whales hunted and killed each year in Norwegian waters are female and ” almost all” of them are pregnant, according to a documentary aired earlier this month on NRK, a government-owned public broadcasting company. [facebook https://www.facebook.com/havforskningsinstituttet/videos/vb.107340812637299/1770870212951009/?type=2&theater expand=1] The documentary, Slaget om kvalen (“Battle of Agony”), shows grisly footage of Norway’s […]