Another permit will not help save the endangered oryx- statesman.com
April 5, 2012
By Mike Leggett
Sometimes it’s funny when animal activists put on bunny suits and hop around courthouse steps to get themselves on television.
I admit that.
And it’s funny that there’s always a camera around when they need one. Fast and foolish. My Twitter can outrun your fact every time. That’s the way of our world.
But this new rule on scimitar-horned oryx, for which the group Friends of Animals takes credit, is just wrong, and it’s going to cost lots of the animals their lives. At least their lives as they knew them.
It already has.
If somehow you’ve missed it, FOA sued the government to stop hunting of oryx, which are on the endangered species list in their native African desert habitat. In the wild, they are officially extinct.
Except in Texas. Here they survive on private ranches where private citizens pay to keep them and maintain their numbers.
The issue is that some of these ranches permit limited hunting of these animals for a fee. These fees, which can be quite steep, provide some money to offset the cost of maintaining herds.
FOA says that’s not acceptable. In an Austin American-Statesman story, Priscilla Feral, president of Friends of Animals, was quoted: “If an animal is an endangered species … they shouldn’t be tormented and killed in the interest of some trophy tourism industry. That is unjust. That is not what the Endangered Species Act allows.” Click Link Below For Full Story!
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State canceling pronghorn antelope season
July 15, 2010
By BRIAN GEHRING Bismarck Tribune
This week pronghorn antelope hunters would have found out if their application for the gun season was successful.
They weren’t — for any antelope hunter — gun or bow.
Randy Kreil, wildlife chief for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, said the department will not recommend a hunting season this fall because of back-to-back tough winters and subsequent poor reproduction.
Kreil said department biologists recently completed their annual pronghorn population survey, which shows 37 percent fewer animals than last year and 50 percent fewer than 2008.
Bruce Stillings, the department’s big game biologist in the Dickinson district, said the statewide estimate of pronghorns is down to 6,500.
He said the numbers have been at more than 10,000 antelope since 2003, including two years when there were more than 15,000 animals. Click Link Below for Full Story!
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