Hunting

 

Ethical Considerations Regarding Aerial Gunning
AGRO: A Coalition to End Aerial Gunning of Wildlife, essay — February 2006
Not only arbitrary, aerial gunning can result in the harassment of animals not targeted for killing. Aircraft noise and disturbance disrupts feeding behavior and reproductive success. In short, slow flying, noisy aircraft keep animals from foraging and disrupts breeding and parenting...

Shoot to Kill: Inside the Hidden Links Between American Big-game Hunters and Zimbabwe's Mugabe Dictatorship
Joshua Hammer, Newsweek World News — January 2006
It is on these ranches, Zimbabwe conservationists charge, that some of the worst abuses of the country’s environment are taking place — abuses that could threaten the survival of Zimbabwe’s rich wildlife, especially the endangered black rhino...

Hunters as Endangered Species?
Mark Clayton, Christian Science Monitor, feature — September 2005
Indiana's first statewide youth hunt is one of many state and private initiatives emerging this fall that aim to ensure that hunters don't become an endangered species...

Sport Hunting and the Humane Treatment of Animals?
Laura Nirenberg, Wildlife Orphanage, commentary — April 2005
State wildlife agencies rarely operate in the best interest of all citizens or the wild animals they supposedly protect...

Hunt Now on the Pay-never Plan
Mike Markarian, HSUS, feature — April 2005
Trophy hunters are shooting rare animals around the world and donating their mounted prizes to non-profit museums in order to take a tax deduction...

Ten Reasons to Oppose Sport Hunting
Glenn Kirk, Environmentalists Against Recreational Trophy Hunting, essay — 2005
Hunting-oriented "game management" is ecologically destructive...Hunting leaves smaller and weaker individuals to reproduce and carry on species' vitality...

Five Galgos Rescued From a Well in Spain
Danielle Ring, feature — January 2005
When hare season ends each February, hunters typically thank their loyal companions by hanging them slowly, throwing them into wells to starve, dragging them by cars or simply leaving them to die in the cold...

Sacrificial Ram
Daniel Duane, Mother Jones, investigation — March/April 2005
Conservation groups think they’ve found a way to save endangered animals — by selling off the right to kill a few... “A lot of antihunting types make the mistake of looking at the individual animal as most important”...

Digging the Dirt: A Special Investigation into Fox Hunting in Upland Wales
League Against Cruel Sports, investigation — March 2004
Secret footage filmed during an undercover League Against Cruel Sports investigation reveals — for the first time — the barbarous activities of a typical Welsh gun pack...

The Big Lie
Dino DiGiacomo, commentary — 1996
All sports share certain conditions to ensure a sense of fair play and create equal opportunity for all participants. What the animal killers call sport hunting meets none of the conditions of real sports...

Where Violence Begins: Animal Industries and the Cult of Aggression
Irwin Feldman, commentary
As children we learn that animals can be exploited for human benefit. We quickly grasp the reason: they can't defend themselves. Might makes right is the foundation of our interspecies relations...

A Hunter's Poem
Lem Ward Crisfield, poem
The male bird lay at the water's edge / And just before he died, / He faintly called to his wounded mate / And she dragged herself to his side...

 

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