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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