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Animals News tagged with livestock

State Offers Payments for Wolf Kills of Livestock
Animals  (tags: washington state, payments, wolf kills, wolves massacred, livestock, ranchers )

Simone
- 51 days ago - komonews.com
Hoping to ease Washington ranchers' concern about gray wolves, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife is proposing what may be the most generous compensation in the West for livestock losses to the newly returned predators. Under the preferred plan
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Loss Of Top Predators Causing Surge In Smaller Predators, Ecosystem Collapse
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, sharks, cougars, lions, predators, hunting, ranchers, livestock, sheep, science, investigation, research, humans, wildlife, wildanimals, extinction, environment, habitat, ecosystems, nature, coyotes, rodents, economy )

Tom
- 64 days ago - sciencedaily.com
The catastrophic decline around the world of "apex" predators such as wolves, cougars, lions or sharks has led to a huge increase in smaller "mesopredators" that are causing major economic and ecological disruptions, a new study concludes.
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Troublesome Cougar Killed in Jefferson County
Animals  (tags: cougar, death, livestock, horses, alpacas, habitat )

Raffi
- 89 days ago - kitsapsun.com
A 100- to 120-pound female cougar, apparently responsible for a series of livestock deaths on Toandos Peninsula, was shot and killed Tuesday when the animal returned to retrieve a goat it had killed the day before. The cougar killed three goats early
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New 'One-Stop-Shop' for Farm Animal Welfare
Animals  (tags: animals, livestock, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 173 days ago - wspa.ca
WSPA is pleased to be involved in a new 'one-stop-shop' internet portal providing the latest information to help improve the welfare of livestock, launched by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
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Sign Petition: Save Mexican Wolves From Trapping, Shooting
Animals  (tags: animals, mexican, gray, wolves, wolf, endangered, extinction, death, environment, humans, extermination, poisoned, trapped, shot, cattle, livestock, carcasses, ranchers, law, government )

Tom
- 181 days ago - change.org
Mexican gray wolves were exterminated from the wild by U.S. government poisoning and trapping. At the end of last year there were only 52 wolves and two breeding pairs in the wild. They are now being lured into preying on cattle, then trapped or shot.
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Federal Program Allows Wolves That Prey on Livestock to Be Trapped and Killed
Animals  (tags: federal program, wolves, livestock, hungry, trapped, killed, no protection )

Simone
- 206 days ago - miamiherald.com
Though wolves have enjoyed federal protection from trapping and hunting since 1974, Hart and other federal wildlife agents killed 143 gray wolves last year alone. They have special permission to do so under the Endangered Species Act, as a controversial
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Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, wolf, wildlife, endangered, suffering, cruelty, environment, death, humans, dogs, bites, fatalities, ranchers, livestock, demonized, bush )

Tom
- 208 days ago - riverjournal.com
In the past 300 years there were a total of four possible wolf-related human fatalities in the United States--all of them prior to 1911. By comparison there are 4.7 million dog bite victims annually in the U.S. with 33 fatalities in 2007 and 23 in 2008.
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Wolf Delisting Might Hinder Wyoming Ranchers
Animals  (tags: animals, wildlife, wildanimals, wolves, wyoming, ranchers, livestock, delisting, endangered, species, protection )

Tom
- 217 days ago - jhnewsandguide.com
Conservation lawyers say the removal of gray wolves in Idaho and Montana from the endangered species list could mean Wyoming ranchers will lose the ability to shoot wolves in the act of harming or killing livestock. There are about 300 wolves in Wyoming.
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More Than 100 Neglected Animals Taken From Union Co. Farm
Animals  (tags: animals, neglected, livestock, death, arrested, AnimalWelfare, environment, suffering, protection )

Cher
- 221 days ago - pal-item.com
A Richmond man was arrested Thursday in Union County on charges of animal neglect and failing to dispose of dead livestock
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Why Animals Matter in a Disaster
Animals  (tags: animals, disasters, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, pets, livestock )

Cher
- 235 days ago - wspa-international.org
WSPA protects the welfare of animals in disaster situations because we believe they can suffer and feel pain. Our work benefits the human victims of disasters by saving fragile rural livelihoods and loved companions.
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Camp Will Show How Wolves & Livestock Can Share Space
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, livestock, co-existing, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 250 days ago - islandparknews.com
How wolf populations and livestock operations can coexist is the topic of a three-day camp the Madison Valley Ranchlands Group and Keystone Conservation plan to host in May.
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Ethiopia Doubles Livestock Export in the Face of Starvation
Animals  (tags: animals, animalcruelty, livestock, environment, habitat, humans, sadness, slaughter, suffering, wildanimals, wildlife )

Maria
- 262 days ago - ethiopianreview.com
Ethiopia plans to more than double earnings from livestock exports to $85 million in 2009 by curbing illegal trade and opening new marketing centres, a government official said on Friday.
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Cruelty Laws Apply to Livestock, Lawsuit Says
Animals  (tags: lawsuit, livestock, treatment, suffering, slaughter, sadness, killing )

Kathy
- 290 days ago - seattlepi.nwsource.com
In an attempt to expand animal cruelty criminal laws to cover the treatment of livestock, a Seattle-based animal rights group has filed a lawsuit arguing that existing laws give industry undue control over how animals are housed and slaughtered.
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RSPCA Charges Esperance Farmer for Animal Cruelty
Animals  (tags: animals, cruelty, livestock, charges, fined, banned, AnimalCruelty, environment, protection )

Cher
- 298 days ago - news.com.au
AN ESPERANCE farmer charged with cruelty against animals has this afternoon been fined $25,000 and been banned for owning livestock for 10 years.
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Texas Drought Worsens, Cattle Dying
Animals  (tags: texas, animals, livestock, cattle, drought, dying, lack of grazing forage )

Jacquelin
- 327 days ago - foxnews.com
LUBBOCK, Texas -- Drought conditions in Texas are so bad cattle are keeling over in parched pastures and dying. Drought conditions worsened significantly in the past week, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday. Seventy-one percent
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