Badger cull 'not cost effective'
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Culling badgers is unlikely to be a cost-effective way of controlling cattle tuberculosis, government scientists conclude.
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One of my buddies had a brilliant idea I hadn't thought of: Check Pennsylvania's maps for what's called a co-op farm. It's not a commune, it's a farm which offers up it's land to the public for hunting.  What the Farmer Gets  If the hunters are decent-folk, they generally clean up the trash off the property. I personally built a blind out of rocks I happened to find in a fallow field to give me something to sit on and a hiding place. The blind is next to a power utility pole, so it gives me a great shot at birds coming in slowly to land on the wires. He got his field cleaned essentially for free since I also picked up trash. I don't want my game animals eating garbage.  The other bonus the farmer enjoys is limited crop losses to wildlife. This particular farmer was doing the soy-corn-fallow crop rotation which is pretty typical Pennsylvania crop rotation. Doves love this stuff and eat it up. Probably about 2/3rds of the doves I cleaned had corn in their crop.  What the Hunters Get  A place to hunt with a ton of acreage devoted to what essentially amounts to bait.
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The valuation isn't as high as the bear would have you believe.
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Kingston moves to contain flying rat menace The council of Kingston in Surrey is to carry out a "humane cull" of pigeons in the town's Memorial Gardens, the Surrey Comet reports.â¦
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Recently, a polar bear cub was rejected by its mother in a German zoo.  Had this happened in the wild, the cub would have been left to fend for itself, and would quite likely have died.  In this case, however, zookeepers decided to care for the cub by hand, a decision which has ironically prompted outrage from at least one animal rights group, who have suggested that it would be more humane to kill the cub, rather than allow it to become dependent on humans for its entire life.    This is an interesting point, and one which has dark but intriguing ramifications when applied to certain other species - namely, homo sapiens.  Artificially prolonging the lifespan of genetically inferior instances of the species runs counter to the purpose of evolution.  It makes us all weaker.
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A bill that would require most dogs and cats in California to be spayed or neutered has brought howls of protest from breeders and threats from the American Kennel Club to pull the nation's second-largest dog show from the state.
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KAMPALA, Uganda Feb. 28 -- South African wildlife officials on Wednesday proposed new elephant management rules that would allow burgeoning populations to be culled, a controversial practice banned since 1994 as unnecessarily cruel to the beloved but destructive animals.
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Scientists in China may use a police  dog to teach pandas to fight after the first artificially bred  panda released into the wild was apparently killed after a  battle with other animals, local media reported on Saturday.
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A plan to gift an Indian elephant to Armenia is being opposed by animal rights activists, reports the BBC's Habib Beary.
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Working with cheetahs, the world's  fastest land animal and now an endangered species, is a bit  different from treating cats and dogs, but Bertrand Lafrance  felt he had little choice.
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STONEHENGE, England  - Determined digging by  badgers living near Britain's Stonehenge, a 5,000-year old  circle of megaliths, is damaging ancient archaeological  artifacts and human remains.
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LONDON - Defeated in Parliament, British hunting supporters went to court Friday seeking to uphold their right to chase foxes. The Countryside Alliance, which staged mass demonstrations in the losing battle
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Sept. 23, 2004 - Cougars, wolves, lions and other predators inflict relatively few losses on livestock and farmers gain only a temporary boost if these marauders are culled, the British weekly New Scientist announced Wednesday.
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A gamekeeper is fined Â£5,500 for what has been described as Scotland's worst wildlife crime.
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Â· Zoo birds culled after complaints about noise Â· Horrified locals side with animal rights activists
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Â· 31 animals found dead in field  Â· Charities describe scene of unprecedented cruelty
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WASHINGTON -- An international effort to halt the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks has all but collapsed in most of Africa, leaving officials and advocates alarmed about the survival of the species. A study to be released today estimates that as many as 23,000 animals were slaughtered last year.