Jones Has Two Weeks to Get Wildlife off Blackfoot Ranch
New West Boise
29 Mar 2007
N Hoffman
Photo courtesy of IFDG
Area: Idaho USA
Ag issues fines to Jones, five other elk ranchers
East Idaho elk rancher Rulon Jones has two weeks to haze, bait or trap wild deer, elk and moose off of his Blackfoot Mountain elk ranch, a spokesman for the governor’s office said Tuesday. “Rulon’s going to receive a joint letter from Fish and Game and the Department of Agriculture outlining acceptable actions over the next two weeks,” said David Hensley, attorney for Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter. If he cannot remove the animals from the ranch within the two weeks, Jones will get kill permits from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) to shoot the animals at his own expense, Otter spokesman Mark Warbis said.
Meanwhile, Jones has also received a $2,500 Notice of Violation from the Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) for illegally dumping about 10 bull elk carcasses outside his ranch last fall. On March 16, ISDA issued six citations against domestic cervidae operators for dumping carcasses, illegal transfer of domestic elk and failure to submit an annual inventory, according to records obtained by WIN. Warbis said the governor was not aware of the fines and that the alleged violations do not change the need to deal with the wild big game on the ranch. Messages left by Wild Idaho News on Jones’s cell phone were not returned.
Two More Lion Carcasses Found in Gir
Daily News Analysis India
01 Apr 2007
Area: India
Carcasses of two more lions have been discovered in Gir, one of a four-year-old lion near Raval river in Gir East and another three-month-old cub in near a Maldhari hamlet in Athavali range, inside the Gir sanctuary. The only saving grace is that the carcasses are intact and the reasons for the deaths appear natural. Sources claim the lion was believed to be suffering from an infectious disease. “Prima facie, the deaths appear to be due to natural causes.
The lion was found dead with injury marks that appear to be the outcome of a fight with another beast. The cub may have died due to starvation,” forest conservator, Wildlife, Junagadh, Bharat Pathak said. Since all body parts were intact, he said, it did not appear to be a case of poaching. “However, a forensic team has been called to ascertain the exact cause of death,” the official said.
College of Veterinary Medicine to Offer Course on Disease Control
Tennessee Journalist
30 Mar 2007
M Stephens
Area: Tennessee
The University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine will hold an in-depth, week-long course on Foreign Animal and Emerging Diseases from May 13-18 in Knoxville. The event, which is jointly sponsored with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was first held in Knoxville in 2005. The course, which the college plans to offer every other year, will provide an opportunity to raise awareness and understanding of foreign animal and emerging diseases for veterinarians, veterinary technicians and extension agents. Other professionals who are responsible for foreign animal disease outbreak control and response may benefit from the training.
According to Dr. John New, head of the Department of Comparative Medicine in the UT College of Veterinary Medicine, there are many reasons for offering the course. For one, livestock and pets cannot defend against many diseases that occur in some parts of the world but are not native to the United States. New said that foot and mouth disease, which is common in parts of the world such as Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, could be obtained easily by a bioterrorist. If the disease were introduced into the United States, it would virtually destroy the livestock populations.
Goodbye To Wildlife; Beware Of SeafoodAssociated Press (Posted by abc7news.com)
01 Apr 2007
Photo courtesy of Associated Press
Report Expected Next Friday
Global warming is slamming the world's wildlife so hard that "a number of species are going to be lost," concludes a scientific panel's upcoming draft report, which also predicts increasingly toxic seafood. From the micro to the macro, from plankton in the oceans to polar bears in the far north and seals in the far south, global warming has begun changing life on Earth, international scientists will report next Friday. "Changes in climate are now affecting physical and biological systems on every continent," says a draft obtained by The Associated Press of a report on warming's impacts, to be issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the authoritative U.N. network of 2,000 scientists and more than 100 governments.
In February the panel declared it "very likely" most global warming has been caused by manmade emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Animal and plant life in the Arctic and Antarctic is undergoing substantial change, scientists say. Rising sea levels elsewhere are damaging coastal wetlands. Warmer waters are bleaching and killing coral reefs, pushing marine species toward the poles, reducing fish populations in African lakes, research finds. "Hundreds of species have already changed their ranges, and ecosystems are being disrupted," said University of Michigan ecologist Rosina Bierbaum, former head of the U.S. IPCC delegation.
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