Poachers in West Hunt Big Antlers to Feed Big Egos
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A wave of poaching has alarmed state and federal wildlife officials in several Western states.
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By Hillary Borrud, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Mar. 11--LYTLE CREEK -- It still takes some luck or knowledge to sight bighorn sheep in the San Gabriel Mountains, but the chances of spotting one have grown.
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Conservationists in the Indian Himalayas want to set up a programme to breed an endangered Tibetan antelope that is slaughtered in huge numbers to make super-fine shahtoosh wool.
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Gleaming hotels, the region's best pastrami sandwiches and the planet's largest population of wolves: these are things Kazakhs want the world to know about their country &#151; not the outrageous claims of the British comedian who portrays them as primitive and bigots.
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Chimpanzees living in the West African savannah have been observed fashioning deadly spears from sticks and using the tools to hunt small mammals -- the first routine production of deadly weapons ever observed in animals other than humans.
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DNA from seized ivory could help conservationists and police identify hotspots where elephants are in particular danger from poachers.
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The European Union's heavy fishing off West Africa may be causing a rise in poaching of Africa's wildlife as hungry Africans seek alternative protein, a new study suggests.
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The giant stag was no Bambi. It stood 7 feet tall at the shoulders and carried a spread of antlers 12 feet wide. It would have been easy to spot in the cool woodlands of Ice Age Europe, but perhaps hard to kill.
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Reseachers have linked the survival of the Acacia tree-ant relationship to Africa's big browsing mammals
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In an effort to sustain the threatened sturgeon population around Oregon's Bonneville Dam, wildlife workers have been attempting to drive away sea lions.
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Illegal poaching and demand from Western zoos are fueling the extinction of the Asian elephant, animal welfare groups said Thursday.
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When 100 farm-raised elk fled his private hunting reserve through a bear-dug hole under the fence, owner Rex Rammell &#151; a man with a long history of locking antlers with the state &#151; didn't realize he'd wind up in the governor's crosshairs.
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Australians try to tame the giant.
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Amid an intense lobbying effort by energy and ranching interests in the West, a team of Interior Department biologists has recommended that the sage grouse, a bird
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As the men bumped away from camp in the four-wheel-drive pickup, over rutted dirt roads and through tiny streams, the sun revealed open plains around them, dotted with scrawny oak trees. Paul Tyjewski, Paul Royce and their guide, Kal Katzer, began glimpsing exotic wildlife gathering under the trees, using the cover of daybreak to feed before predators arose. Only, in this instance, the animals' instincts had failed them, since the predators were wide-eyed, eager and getting ever closer with their 7mm Remingtons. In one area, skittish kudu, African antelopes with twisting horns rising two feet out of their skulls, hopped from tree to tree. Nearby, aoudads -- massive versions of sheep from the Barbary rocks of North Africa, with horns curving out and back from their skulls -- playfully butted heads. Katzer pointed out ibex, exotic goats with thick, scaly horns.
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FOND DU LAC, Wis. - Rick Lisko hunts deer with a bow but got his most unusual one driving his truck down his mile-long driveway. The young buck had nub antlers - and seven legs. Lisko said it also had both male and female reproductive organs. "It was definitely a freak of nature," Lisko said.
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Environmentalists claim a million wild animals are snared annually for their meat, bringing 50 cents a pound.