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February 12, 2013
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A report from the University of Florida' International Shark Attack File says that there were more shark attacks last year than there have been in a decade.
But, don't rush out to get a bigger boat just yet. There were 53 attacks nationally last year and only one was fatal. Florida led the U.S. with 26 attacks. Hawaii had 10 attacks, followed by California and South Carolina with five each, North Carolina with two and one each in Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon and Puerto Rico. One attack in California was fatal.
[ Read Full Post ]February 7, 2013
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Leave it to PETA to complain about the gyrating beauty that was Beyoncé at Sunday’s Super Bowl.
The animal right’s organization criticized the super star for her costume that was made of cow, iguana, and python. The group moaned in a released statement: "We would take a bet that if Beyoncé watched our video exposés, she'd probably not want to be seen again in anything made of snakes, lizards, rabbits or other animals who died painfully."
[ Read Full Post ]February 7, 2013
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As a fourth generation Texan, I know two things as fact (yes, only two):
1) Everybody loves Mexican food
2) Coyotes will eat anything
Someone in Boulder, Colorado must know the same things as he or she placed a mound of 10 burritos on the Boulder Creek Path which is a known gathering spot for coyotes.
[ Read Full Post ]February 6, 2013
by The South Dakota House of Representatives voted 55-13 Monday to add a $1 surcharge to hunting licenses in an effort to raise money to deal with the state’s growing predator problem. Rep. Betty Olson, R-Prairie City, said the move would generate about $300,000 annually to counter the coyote problem that "has exploded.”
“We have way more predators than we have money to deal with them,” Olson told the Rapid City Journal.
[ Read Full Post ]February 4, 2013
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North America’s abundance of snow geese – and the damage they’re causing to their fragile Arctic breeding grounds in northern Canada – has prompted state and federal fish and wildlife agencies to expand this year’s hunting season in an attempt cut the species’ numbers in half.
[ Read Full Post ]February 4, 2013
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An Australian boxer has become the target of Internet outrage and an investigation after he posted a picture of himself with a shark that he caught off Perth.
Last week Danny “The Green Machine” Green posted two pictures of himself and a tiger shark and his intention to eat his catch on Facebook. In one of the pictures, Green is lying alongside the shark and the two appear to be the same length, about 6 foot 1.
[ Read Full Post ]February 1, 2013
by It's not much of surprise that wolf hunting, hunting with hounds, and bear hunting have all been protested against in one way or another in the last year. But squirrel hunting?
This from ABC13: "The '7th Annual Hazzard County Squirrel Slam' sponsored by the Holley Fire Department, lasts most of the day on Saturday, February 16. Teams of two compete to bring back the biggest squirrel, and kids as young as 12 with a junior hunting license are allowed to compete as well, which has raised concerns with some in the community.
[ Read Full Post ]January 31, 2013
by While the war on ivory poaching has most of the world – and almost all of Hollywood – up in arms, the battle seems to matter little to some in Keya.
Four Chinese citizens caught smuggling ivory through Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport were fined $340 USD this week for their crime. This slap on the hand has conservationists, anti-poaching groups, activists, and hunters up in arms. Even the magistrate that handed down the fine was disgusted but said his hands were tied given that ivory poaching is still considered a petty crime in Kenya.
[ Read Full Post ]January 31, 2013
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Isn’t it time we had kinder and gentler shark attack terminology?
Because labeling a shark attack as a…well…shark attack might confuse the public into thinking the attack was an actual attack. Not only that, it would continue to stigmatize sharks.
[ Read Full Post ]January 30, 2013
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My grandma’s cat, Mitzi, was fairly pleasant as cats go—or at least she seemed that way during the daytime. What she did at night was another matter entirely. She was a stone-cold killer and a damn good one judging by the daily deposits of critter parts—her trophies—she’d leave on the doorstep each day. Hell, I never realized that our cottontail rabbit population was that high.
A new study just published in the journal Nature Communications, quantifies what we outdoorsmen who have been paying attention have known for years. Cats, especially feral ones, are a huge threat to wildlife.
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