The U.S. House of Representatives has given the green light for the “Sportsmen’s Heritage Act,” a bill that will widen hunting allowances across national parks. The Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (which certainly sounds like a for-the-good-of-all group) stated...
Hunting for Ratings
Deer Illegally Killed for Movie
While most of us are fawning over the Avengers premiere at the Tribeca film festival, another film’s debut has been stained by criticism for illegally hunting deer during filming. First Winter’s Ben Dickson had an actor shoot and kill a deer for his movie which follows a group...
Trumps Trumped?
Investigating Trump Safari
Animal Rights – Zimbabwean conservationists are questioning the legality of the recent hunting trip by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, Donald Trump’s sons. Their investigation is prompted largely by their specific “big game” kills, including an elephant and an...
Sadistic Safari?
Shocking: Giraffe Hunting
Animal Rights – Despite statistics showing that the giraffe population in Africa has dwindled in the past 24 years from 140,000 to less than 80,000, an alarming trend has taken hold of big game hunters and safari enthusiasts: giraffe hunting. Hunters from the United States, Europe, and...
Goin Huntin!
White Rhinoceros Hunting Permit?
Animal Rights – South Africa has something of a controversy on its hands. The recent decision to auction off a white rhinoceros hunting permit has caused a debate between animal rights activists and national conservationists. The country has decided to auction off the hunting permit (for...
Hunters Beware
Dogs out to Get You
Animal Rights – It seems as if animals are forming their own revolutions these days, what with the Yvonne the cow, Waldo the bull, the hunting dog in Salt Lake City, and now, Eli, a bulldog in Florida. Eli, waiting for his opportunity to play his part in the Animal Revolution, found the...
Hunting Season
No Love For Grey Wolves
Animal Rights – Wildlife advocates appeared in federal court Tuesday seeking to stop grey wolf hunts that are under way in the Northern Rockies, arguing that Congress did not have the authority to strip federal protection from the canines. Federal biologists say the wolf population is...
Even the Awful
Everything Is Bigger in Texas
Animal Rights – Texas park rangers are committing genocide against hundreds of free-roaming donkeys in Big Bend State Park, killing nearly 130 to date with .308-caliber bolt-action rifles on this side of the Rio Grande. The slaughter has ignited a whole new kind of cross-border...

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