Born Free USA News

Wildlife Agency Looking into Croc’s Death in Keys

2013-05-16T23:27:23Z

Wildlife officials are looking for answers after a crocodile was found dead in Florida Bay. The croc’s body was found floating in the water near Islamorada on Sunday (May 12), according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Link: Miami.CBSLocal.com

Lion Are Not Meals

2013-05-16T22:46:01Z

It's absolutely appalling: Lion meat is appearing with increasing frequency on menus across the land. Just this month, lion tacos debuted at Taco Fusion in Tampa, FL. As Born Free USA showed in a 2011 undercover investigation, the lion meat industry is shady and under-regulated, and places both people and animals at risk. Consumers, restaurant owners and policy-makers are all equally responsible for putting a stop to this risky business by refusing to buy or sell lion meat and by pushing for and passing stronger regulations and prohibitions on the possession, slaughter and sale of lions in the United States. Born Free USA worked with "Inside Edition" to expose the despicable lion meat industry.

Colorado Wildlife Ranger Fined for Poaching Mule Deer

2013-05-15T21:40:22Z

A Colorado Parks and Wildlife ranger has been fined and demoted, but not fired, for using artificial light while poaching a trophy mule deer after legal hunting hours last October.

Link: TheDenverChannel.com

Montana Looks to Expand Hunting of Wolves Despite Criticism

2013-05-14T18:27:29Z

Conservationists are criticizing a plan by wildlife managers in Montana that would nearly double the number of wolves a person is allowed to kill each year, lengthen the hunting season and sanction shooting of wolves near baited traps.

Link: Yahoo! News

South Dakota Wildlife Officers Kill Three Mountain Lions

2013-05-13T19:14:14Z

Life is more relaxed in Keystone these days, following the shooting of three mountain lions that had confronted dogs, strolled through yards and killed deer on city streets. State Game, Fish & Parks Department officers killed an adult female lion and two 40-pound kittens in Keystone on the nights of May 5 and May 6 after a string of cat sightings in town over several weeks.

Link: RapidCityJournal.com

Tiger, Mountain Lions Seized from Kansas Property

2013-05-08T16:40:10Z

A tiger and two mountain lions were among a menagerie of wild cats seized from private farmland in rural northeast Kansas, where they lived in inadequate chain-link enclosures and weren't properly fed or watered, authorities said Monday (May 6).

Link: Yahoo! News

Wildlife Officials Want Help in Bear Poaching Case in Snowmass Village

2013-05-07T17:41:06Z

One of the first poaching cases of the spring has Colorado wildlife officials very worried. They found a bear next to a shed full of dumpsters in Snowmass Village.

Link: Denver.CBSlocal.com

Bear vs. Monkey Bicycle Race Ends Horribly at Shanghai Wild Animal Park

2013-05-06T22:43:25Z

A bicycle race between a bear and two monkeys quickly turned from road rage to road kill, after the bear crashed and savagely mauled the simian. We don't know much about this video past the fact that it begins in glory and ends in horror. Live Leak released it on Sunday, claiming that the bear vs. monkey bicycle race is a stunt put on by the Shanghai Wild Animal Park.

Link: Huffington Post