Hippo hunt: One of Colombia’s biggest fugitives _ literally _ felled by bounty hunters

October 8th, 2009 Hunter shoots bear being photographed near highwaySTERLING, Alaska — A Kenai National Wildlife Refuge enforcement officer has cited one of two hunters who opened fire on a bear in front of people who had been taking pictures as it fished in the Kenai River, next to the Sterling Highway bridge. Discharging a firearm is prohibited along that section of the highway because of high public use.

September 22nd, 2009 Officials target, kill coyotes after attack in LALOS ANGELES — Wildlife officials have conducted a coyote hunt in Los Angeles' Griffith Park after a coyote bit a man's foot. California Department of Fish and Game said Tuesday that trappers killed eight coyotes in a crackdown last week.

September 17th, 2009 SC teen bags 10-foot alligator with a crossbowCOLUMBIA, S.C. — A 16-year-old girl has bagged a 10-foot alligator in a South Carolina swamp.

September 14th, 2009 DHAKA - A 10 km stretch of Teknaf beach in southeastern Bangladesh has turned barren after over 30,000 trees were felled in the last seven days. The forest department remained "a silent spectator of the mindless tree felling", The Daily Star said Monday.

September 13th, 2009 Alaska: Wolf, bear hunts increasing moose, caribouANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska wildlife management program in which wolves are shot from low-flying airplanes and black bears are baited and snared is helping to increase the numbers of moose and caribou, state wildlife officials say. The program has long been the target of wildlife conservation groups who view it as state-sponsored slaughter.

September 13th, 2009 Alaska says predator control having successANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska wildlife management program in which wolves are shot from low-flying airplanes and black bears are baited and snared is helping to increase the numbers of moose and caribou, state wildlife officials say. The program has long been the target of wildlife conservation groups who view it as state-sponsored slaughter.

September 1st, 2009 Wolf hunt is on in Idaho _ for nowBOISE, Idaho — Gray wolves were back in the cross hairs of hunters on Tuesday, just months after they were removed from the federal endangered species list and eight decades since being hunted to extinction across the Northern Rockies. Hunters in Idaho began stalking gray wolves in a handful of districts in the central and northern mountains.

September 1st, 2009 SYDNEY - Scientists have uncovered the remains of a giant hippo-like creature near Alcoota, a find that will shed new light on the territory's prehistoric past. For 25 years, palaeontologsts from the Northern Territory (NT) Museum and Flinders University have been painstakingly extracting the remains of giant flightless birds, wombat-like creatures and crocodiles from a nearly seven million-year-old fossil site near Alcoota.

September 1st, 2009 Idaho's wolf hunt on for nowBOISE, Idaho — The first legal wolf hunt in decades in the lower 48 states is off to a slow start. Hunters in Idaho could begin shooting wolves just before sunrise Tuesday in select hunting districts in the central and northern mountains.

August 3rd, 2009 Web service connects hunters with Texas locationsAUSTIN, Texas — A new free Web service aims to connect hunters with hunting opportunities posted by private landowners in Texas. The Hunt Texas Online Connection was created by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

July 21st, 2009 FBI to pay up to $150,000 after fugitive's arrestLOS ANGELES — Federal authorities in Los Angeles say they will pay a reward of up to $150,000 following the capture of one of the FBI's most-wanted fugitives, who disappeared for nine years following the shooting of a sheriff's deputy. The FBI said Monday at least one tipster would receive money after 37-year-old Emigdio Preciado Jr.'s arrest in rural Mexico last week.

June 21st, 2009 Top Italian Mafia fugitive arrested in CaracasROME — Authorities arrested one of Italy's most dangerous Mafia fugitives as he left his apartment in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, Italian police said Sunday. Salvatore Miceli, suspected of being a key intermediary in the drug trafficking trade, had been under surveillance by Italian and Venezuelan police for three days before he was nabbed late Saturday, Carabinieri from the Sicilian city of Trapani said in a statement.

June 18th, 2009 Number of kills in Canadian seal hunt dropsTORONTO — The global recession, plummeting pelt prices and the prospect of a European ban on seal products dramatically lowered the number of seals killed in this year's hunt, Canadian officials said Thursday. About 70,000 harp seals were hunted this year out of a commercial quota of 273,000 animals, said Fisheries and Oceans Canada spokesman Scott Cantin.

June 18th, 2009 Canadian seal hunt experiences drop in catchesST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland — The global recession, plummeting pelt prices and the prospect of a European ban on seal products dramatically lowered the number of seals killed in this year's hunt, Canadian officials said Thursday.

April 29th, 2009 Happy the hippo leaving DC for Milwaukee, femalesWASHINGTON — Happy the hippo could soon be a lot happier. The National Zoo's solitary male Nile hippopotamus is heading to the Milwaukee County Zoo, where his new home will include a pool, a sandy beach and two potential girlfriends, Puddles and Patty.