Study urges cull of half Britain's deer population

Half of Britain's deer population needs to be culled each year in order to preserve woodlands and birdlife, according to a scientific study published Thursday. The report in the Journal of Wildlife Management...

Australian Kangaroos Found With Crossbow Arrows In Their Bodies

Two Australian kangaroos have been found with meter-long crossbow arrows sticking out from their bodies. One of the animals had its jaw punctured through by an arrow, surviving for a week before it was found near...

350,000 deer must be culled in UK each year to control numbers

An annual cull of about 350,000 deer will have to be done to keep the population under control, as the growing number are causing accidents and damaging the countryside. In the most recent years, the deer...

Rhododendrons 'should be culled to save UK gardens'

Rhododendrons are loved by the British public but plant experts from the UK National Trust are calling for the plants to be 'culled'. They fear that the rhododendron, which is an alien plant species to Britain, is...

Greenpeace calls off anti-whaling mission in Japan

Greenpeace will not be following Antarctic whale boats this year to help stop the Japanese catching whales, and instead will be focusing on defending activists accused of stealing whale meat.They have said that...

Namibia licences elephant cull

Environmentalists are angry at Namibia's decision to allow a cull for of elephants for 'trophy hunters'. Some including the government of Namibia feel the herds can sustain the loss but with money to be made from...

MP calls for mass squirrel cull

I have yet to photograph a red squirrel.I am not convinced that culling grey squirrels will solve the current problem and I would much prefer to see other solutions such as supplying red squirrels with additional...

Australian pokes shark in eye during attack

Sharks are often known to attack humans but in a bizzare incident An Aussie swimmer survived by attacking a white shark in the deep water. " An Australian swimmer survived a great white shark attack by poking...

Gibraltar to cull Barbary apes that terrorise tourists

I visited Gibraltar when I was about 7. The only thing I remember from the visit is the apes. Gibraltar is famous for their apes. There is a theory that if the apes were to ever leave Gibraltar, then the territory...

Ottawa Pays $50 million to kill 150,000 pigs

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWhoa, for a second there, I though all our Self Serving Politicans, Bureaucrats, Lawyers and British Columbias Judges had Hit Contracts put on them. But I digress to...

Leakey backs elephant cull in South Africa

One of the most prominent conservationists in the world, who spent most of the 1980s campaigning for the suspension of elephant culling, is now calling it "a necessary part of population management." South Africa...

Bird flu could strike again in high risk areas, FAO

""The virus could still be present in the environment despite heavy slaughtering and extensive disinfection of affected areas, or it could be reintroduced from other countries," FAO`s Chief Veterinary Officer Joseph Domenechhe said.But, India is to be commended for its...

India struggles with bird flu

"Laboratory workers on Saturday analysed new samples from dead chickens amid fears that India's worst-ever bird flu outbreak may have spread in eastern India as locals resisted a massive cull. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called the outbreak of avian flu among...

Global warming will 'cull world's species'

"Warning from Leading Scientists Global warming could cut a swathe through the planet's species over the coming centuries, warns a study which shows a link between rising temperatures and mass extinctions reaching...

Scotland's forgotten farmers fight for industry's future

"IT WAS a day like any other for Kelvin Pate, tending to cattle and sheep on his 350-acre farm in Scotland yesterday. But his future, and the survival of thousands of other farmers, depends upon the outcome of a crisis that has been ignored or forgotten by much of the...

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