Latest Wildlife management News
17,000 axis deer were killed on Maui this year, but they just keep coming
About 50 axis deer crowded around the fence line separating Maui Nui Botanical Gardens and Keopuolani Regional Park, startling the gardens staff on a recent Thursday afternoon. The threat posed by the invasive deer was alarming because the gardens serve as a seed bank and are home to...
Too many wild deer are roaming England's forests. Can promoting venison to consumers help?
WINCHESTER, England (AP) — In the half-light of dusk, Martin Edwards surveys the shadows of the ancient woodland from a high seat and waits. He sits still, watching with his thermal camera. Even the hares don’t seem to notice the deer stalker until he takes aim. The bang of his...
Florida’s iconic Key deer face an uncertain future as seas rise
BIG PINE KEY, Fla. (AP) — The world's only Key deer, the smallest subspecies of the white-tailed deer, are found in piney and marshy wetlands bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico on the Florida Keys. For years, their biggest threat was being struck by vehicles speeding along U.S....
Coyote calling contests: Nevada’s search for a compromise that likely doesn’t exist
A blanket of snow covered the ground as a group of hunters, bundled up from the cold, gathered around a scale in a Northern Nevada parking lot. One by one, dozens of freshly killed coyotes were weighed, their blood streaking the snow. After being weighed, their bodies were tossed...
Pine martens are returned to southern England for the first time in a century
LONDON (AP) — Conservationists have released 15 pine martens into the wild in southern England in an effort to reestablish the cat-sized mammals in the region for the first time in more than a century. The animals, which are tree-climbing members of the weasel family, became...
Sweden begins brown bear hunting season with conservationists warning of a 20% drop in number
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Brown bear hunting in Sweden started Wednesday with 486 licenses to kill them, but conservationists warned that the move would result in a 20% drop in the country’s predator population. “Bear hunting is very much about pure trophy hunt," Magnus...
