How do you catch poachers who still hunt deer once deer season has ended? The answer: Robo-deer. The newest brilliant idea in wildlife protection coming straight to you from the Florida police. Robo-deer is a dummy buck that the cops can control via remote from a distance of 50 feet. It has a few movements [...]
Council members in South Wales have built three bridges for dormice. Yep, you heard that right. Three entire bridges made for rodents! The structures are made of mesh and allow dormice to cross the road without any threat from cars. Building the bridges used 190,000 pounds of tax payer money. A lot of the locals [...]
Why? Because the locals thought that the goose population’s numbers were too high and that there was too much goose poo on the ground. They loaded the Canada Geese into garbage can sized containers and then gassed them. Locals are having a memorial service for the geese at the park to mourn the loss of [...]
I love hearing stories about people helping wildlife. Especially when that wildlife recognizes what’s happening and displays clear evidence of sentience. Here is a true story about how my friend Damian helped out a duck and her ducklings last week in Danbury CT. Damian writes: “I was walking near a parking garage and saw a [...]
BP’s oil spill is destroying wildlife and habitats with no sign of stopping or even slowing down. Here is a list of links from CNN and Take Part on how you can volunteer to help clean up the mess. From CNN: The Audubon Society, which is affiliated with the Louisiana Coastal Initiative, is making its [...]
I am certainly not a fan of hunting. However, not all kinds of hunting are the same. Internet hunts and canned hunts are in a class all their own. What do those terms mean? The practice of killing animals remotely via the Internet and the abhorrent practice of shooting confined, tame, exotic animals in an [...]
People love to see animals up close. They like them on television, but really, they love even more to be ten feet away and make eye contact with the subject of interest. I don’t think anyone can deny that it’s thrilling to see an animal up close. But does that desire trump the animal’s right [...]
During the annual pig hunt (blech), a rural town in New Zealand has a dead bunny toss for the kids. What’s a dead bunny toss? The kids literally throw dead bunnies as a part of the festivities. Animal welfare groups in NZ have put pressure on the town and they canceled this years bunny toss. [...]
Right now my home town, Hastings on Hudson (in addition to a few other surrounding towns), is considering a deer cull to handle the deer overpopulation issue. I usually don’t write about such local issues. But the Greenburgh Township Deer Committee wrote a 191 page report detailing their thoughts on the issue and why a [...]
NPR did a great little piece on two conservationists: Dereck and Beverly Joubert. They focus their efforts on big cats, photographing them for magazines like National Geographic as a part of their conservation efforts. Their biggest project of late was the task of following one leopard for 5 years. From infancy into adulthood. And the [...]
