Every season is special for different occurances in nature. Spring is the time for young. In the forests of the Baltic states one can already meet a moose (elk) cow with the young. Estonian nature portal Looduskalender.ee offers an interesting story about young moose.
The elk calves born this year have already been seen in our forests since early May.
The steady increase in the number of pictures submitted over the years highlights the growing popularity of SWAROVSKI OPTIK’s “Digiscoper of the Year” photography competition. This year is already the seventh time this competition has been held
Colorado (USA) sportsmen contribute more than 80 cents of every dollar spent on wildlife management. So if you love protecting Colorado and its natural beauty hug a hunter. This is a new campaign "Hug a Hunter!" of Wildlife Council in Colorado to educate the general public about the benefits of wildlife, wildlife management, and wildlife-related recreational opportunities in Colorado, specifically hunting and fishing.
Athens, 31 March 2012 – Representatives of the hunting world from 22 countries gathered in Athens, Greece for the 2012 FACE Members’ Meeting. Hosted by the Hellenic Hunters’ Confederation and their President Nicolas Papadodimas, the Members’ Meeting focuses on EU policy implementation and enhances exchange between FACE Members. The 2 day meeting covered a range of topics impacting on hunting in Europe.
Illegal hunting leaves a negative impression on all legal hunters, and that is a practice that should be stopped at any cost. According to ABC News, South Africa says it is tightening hunting rules to try to combat illegal rhinoceros horn trading. They are implementing new rules to apply for the licence to hunt rhinos. Now hunters will have to provide proof of hunting experience, for example, membership in a hunting association, and a passport. That is necessary to make sure that in the foreign applicants' country there are sufficient laws against illegal rhino horn trading.
Nature can provide beautiful and unbelievable moments. It is rare that we have a chance to witness these wonderful stories. Webpage Solon.be has acquired a unique video of a violent struggle between black stork and pine marten.Pine martens are vicious predators that might attack a larger prey.
Hunters are directly involved in nature protection and animal conservation. Hunting is a legal activity, that can have a considerable effect on animal and bird populations, but as long as hunting is sustainable, nature and animals benefit from this practice. There are many things hunters can do to protect nature and animals. World Migratory Bird Day 2012 celebrates the continuing relationship between migratory birds and people.
There are quite a oposition to hunting all over Europe, but it is good to hear that there are communities, who support hunting practices!
In Switzerland, one of the few direct democracies in the world, voters have repeatedly shown approval of hunting with a two-thirds majority at the polls. Recently, a referendum against drive hunting held in the Swiss canton of Aargau was rejected by 103,000 votes against 50,000.
We did not know it, but it might be interesting, that 2 February each year is World Wetlands Day, marking the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea – the Ramsar Convention.
FACE (Federation of Associations for Hunting and Conservation) explains that world Wetlands Day, coordinated by the Ramsar Secretariat puts the spotlight on the conservation and wise use of all wetlands.
The most active period of hunting here in Latvia has ended, but still there are a few animals on the hunting list, for example, foxes and martens. Though martens are not very popular game animals, there are number of hunters who mostly trap them. And besides, even though there are not so many hunters out there at the moment, there is always movement in the forest, and martens are very interesting animals.
With the latest generation of its tried-and-tested Z6 rifle scope and the new EL 32 SWAROVISION hunting binoculars, SWAROVSKI OPTIK is adding two new, technically and optically perfect hunting companions, which are exceptionally easy to use. The Z6 2nd generation rifle scope will go on sale from 1 February and the EL 32 SWAROVISION from 1 May 2012.
Art can be very demanding. Some actors gain weight for the part, others loose weight to prepare for the movie, but some would do even weirder things, for example, eat something that might not even seem edible.
To prepare for the part in the movie The Grey actor Liam Neeson has tasted wolf meet.
National Shooting Sports Federations (NSSF) informs about the results of 2012 SHOT Show. Energized by unprecedented sales nationwide, firearms industry professionals turned out in record numbers to NSSF's 2012 SHOT Show, and many made a point of saying "the best is yet to come." "It's a wonderful time to be in our industry," said Sandy Chisholm of handgun manufacturer North American Arms.
Hunters' multilingual internet portal Yeswehunt.eu has published a quite scary article on a disease that affects foxes and dogs and might be lethal to humans.
We are winning the battle against rabies in Europe but fears are growing that foxes are spreading a new disease that is fatal to humans. The problem has now reached as far as Sweden and hunters and anyone else coming into contact with infected foxes won’t even know that they are diseased until 10-15 years later, by which time their internal organs are so damaged that up to 90% of patients die.
The disease is called Aveolar echinococcosis in humans and is caused by an infection with the larval stage of Echinococcus multilocularis, an exotic tapeworm found principally in foxes and dogs.
If a hunting club in Latvia receive, for example, ten red deer licences, the hunters would be happy, as the whole hunting bag limit for 2011./2012 season is 8273 animals of total population of 43682 red deer. So reading that in the USA only in one state more than 200 thousand deer have been harvested on Latvian scale might seem unbelievable.
According to news portal KSPR.com Missouri's (USA) Conservation Department says hunters took nearly 239,000 deer during the 2011-2012 firearms hunting season. Conservation officials said the season's total was up about 7,400 from last year, but roughly 13,000 below the 10-year average.
Wolf hunting is quite important issue not only here in Latvia, but also in other parts of the world. While Swedes have problems protecting their hunting dogs from wolf attacks, we are quite lucky to be able to shot wolf legally.
The limit for this hunting season was 150 wolves, but State Forest Service has evaluated the situation and issued another 50 licenses. So total wolf bag for this season will be 200 animals.
State Forest Service has evaluated the impact of this season’s hunting on the population, as well as has looked upon the risks of loss for owners of the livestock caused by the density of wolf population and possible behavioral changes of animals.
Sweden’s hunters are faced with a grave problem. In order to hunt moose they use their moose dogs. Dogs go out, find the moose, start to bark and the hunter can locate the animal, approach it and shoot it. But there are wolves in Sweden’s forests that have learned the easiest way to get their dinner. When the dog in the forests starts to bark the wolf knows it’s dinnertime. Many hunters have lost their dogs but they cannot fight the initial problem as wolf hunting have been banned in Sweden. So they have to use their imagination to protect their dogs.
The Local (Sweden’s News in English) have published a story about an invention how to protect moose dogs from wolf attack.
Body armour filled with flaming Indian spices mixed with anti-freeze is the latest invention to protect dogs from wolf attacks when hunting in the Swedish woods.
Bowhunting is illegal practice in Latvia at the moment, but the amendments to our Hunting Act have been on the table for a while. This is a rather emotional issue here in Latvia as many hunters believe that the only suitable weapon for killing animals in a hunt is a shotgun or a rifle. They believe that bowhunting could be cruel and make animals suffer.
As there are no bowhunting traditions in Latvia we require opinion of people who have practiced this sport for a while and have some experience. Melissa Bachman, a professional hunter and a producer from the USA, has allowed us to use the material on her webpage to illustrate the essence of bowhunting. Here is her experience.
Fox hunting in Great Britain has been a very painful issue for the supporters of this activity. It has been seven years since Hunting Act of 2005 made it illegal for hunters to pursue foxes, deer, hares and mink with hounds. But it seems that things might change. According to Countryside Alliance Jim Paice MP, Minister of State for Agriculture and Food, has claimed that the ban does not work.
Jim Paice MP, Agriculture Minister, said:
“The current law simply doesn’t work. I personally am in favour of hunting with dogs – and the Coalition Agreement clearly states that we will have a free vote on whether to repeal the Act when there is time in the Parliamentary calendar to do so.”
The story goes… after long negotiations we succeeded in persuading on landowner to lease to our hunting club the hunting rights, but with one condition – to take care of the beavers damaging the property. In Latvia the hunting rights belong to the landowner, who can lease these rights to a hunting club. On the property the ditches had been made into a pond with a big beaver house in the middle. As we had the agreement with the owner, we did not have any time to waste.
Since autumn we tried to fight the beaver family living there by bringing down the dams, putting traps, waiting for the animals with a gun, but the rodent turned out to be cleverer than we were. The dams where rebuilt, traps avoided, hunters evaded. We only managed to get one young beaver in the trap.
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Elk with Their Young Ones Roam in the Forests
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