AGRICULTURE COMMISSION BACKS EFFORTS TO KEEP MICHIGAN PSEUDORABIES VIRUS...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 9, 2008 ;     313 words ......Pseudorabies Virus (PRV) positive transitional swine facilities, requesting Michigan...have been known to transmit PRV to transitional swine - those raised on pasture, game ranches, backyard swine, and 4-H swine...raised swine, but 4-H families and game ranches as well. ...

Colorado's canned shoot conundrum

China Daily;  February 17, 2003 ;     700+ words ......of hunting deer and elk on enclosed game ranches banned, characterizing the so-called...easily defeated, but the controversy over game ranches continues. Supporters of the bill say...Colorado voters in 2004. Most of the big game ranches focus on elk in Colorado, which has...

BILL TARGETS HUNTING OF CAPTIVE ELK GAME RANCHES DON'T GIVE PREY 'FAIR...

Rocky Mountain News;  January 13, 2003 ;     364 words ...Colorado game ranches, where people pay to shoot trophy-si...among elk herds on some Colorado game ranches. She said she is appalled at the...about a dozen of the state's 119 game ranches offer trophy hunting. "People who...

Vic; Game park hunts raise storm over killing

AAP General News (Australia);  June 28, 2001 ;     201 words ......Victorian president of Sporting Shooters Australia, says game ranches aren't new in Victoria and have been successful in the Northern...Field and Game Association chief executive ROD DREW says game ranches are also common in New Zealand, Africa, Europe and North...

Wildlife has been decimated.(News)

Sunday Tribune (South Africa);  July 15, 2007 ;     230 words ......ZCTF) has found that more than 90% of animals on private game ranches, and between 35% and 100% of wildlife in conservancies, have...remained. The average percentage of wildife lost on the private game ranches and conservancies together is estimated at 83%. No figures...

VOA NEWS: HUNGER, ECONOMIC CHAOS THREATEN ZIMBABWE'S WILDLIFE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 8, 2006 ;     656 words ......going to interfere with the wildlife and the [white-owned] game ranches, but with [political] pressure [growing to expropriate white...these 240 farms, 84 were registered with National Parks as game ranches or conservancies. Today, there are about 14 left. One ranch...

Game Farm Owners Sue Over New Initiative

AP Online;  November 11, 2003 ;     664 words ......are. But you can't have it both ways." I-143 banned future game ranches in Montana, prohibited current game ranchers from transferring...groups were among the chief supporters of I-143, arguing that game ranches could spread disease among Montana's wild herds of elk if...

Voiceless victims face extinction in another Zimbabwe land battle

The Scotsman;  May 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ......out an estimated 60 per cent of wildlife on privately owned game ranches and conservancies. Such areas have been overrun by thousands...are two main habitats for wildlife in Zimbabwe, commercial game ranches, which earn their income from tourism and controlled hunting...

PSEUDORABIES IDENTIFIED IN SWINE ON MICHIGAN GAME RANCH: MICHIGAN STATE...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 6, 2008 ;     450 words ......other farms." Effective immediately, MDA is banning the importation of swine intended for: breeding on game ranches, for supply to game ranches, or facilities using swine for sport, hunting, or shooting. Any farms that sold to, or received live...

AG BOARD APPROVES JOINT RULES ON CWD

Rocky Mountain News;  April 30, 2003 ;     233 words ...Regulations aimed at stopping imported elk on game ranches from spreading a deadly brain disease were adopted Tuesday by the State Board of Agriculture. Some commissioners likened the regulations...

AG BOARD APPROVES JOINT RULES ON CWD.(City Desk/Local)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  April 30, 2003 ;     240 words ...Byline: Gary Gerhardt ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS Regulations aimed at stopping imported elk on game ranches from spreading a deadly brain disease were adopted Tuesday by the State Board of Agriculture. Some commissioners likened the regulations...

Culling will 'open the gates to hell'.(News)

Sunday Tribune (South Africa);  March 11, 2007 ;     307 words ...That is why we are doing an audit on all game ranches and conservancies on how many animals we have left. No animal counts have been done in the past five years and, if things continue...

Hunting captive game is a mockery of sport.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  November 27, 2002 ;     700+ words ......gazelles, cape buffalo, lions and even giraffes on so-called game ranches and preserves. The groups who oppose the Captive Exotic Animal...everything they say is wrong. Most hunters I know well find exotic game ranches disgraceful, a mockery of what real hunting is about. But...

Rhinoceros revival.(black rhino population)(Brief Article)

The Economist (US);  January 13, 1996 ;     210 words ......would react to such a change. In particular, would they breed? They do: the past 12 months have seen about ten births on game ranches, including one at Imire-- which, alas, ended in disaster: the calf flourished, but at four months went missing and was found...

Wildlifehas beendecimated.(News)

Sunday Tribune (South Africa);  July 15, 2007 ;     165 words ......In its latest game count, the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force (ZCTF) has found that more than 90% of animals on private game ranches, and between 35% and 100% of wildlife in conservancies, have been killed since 2001. Johnny Rodrigues, ZCTF chairman, says...