The Israeli government has banned the sale of fur in the fashion industry, becoming the first country to outlaw the controversial clothing material that opponents say leads to the slaughter of millions of animals each year. Gila Gamliel, now the former minister of environmental protection following her party’s defeat Sunday in the Israeli Knesset, called […]
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Posted On:Modified On:By Julia Kelm While the sight of an animal carcass might make some people queasy, for Wildlife Museum Curator Anna E. Goldman, it is an area of fascination. “I’ve always been interested in dead things,” Goldman said as she ripped the skin from the body of a recently thawed squirrel for a taxidermy […]
WyoFile An independent, reader-funded, non-profit news organization focused on the people, places, and policy of Wyoming. As people from Wyoming and beyond join in righteous indignation over an ugly incident in which a man tortured and killed an animal simply because it was a wolf, we would do well to examine the policy framework that […]
New preservation methods transformed animal remains into persuasive displays that circulated widely in museums and popular culture.Taxidermy is the art of preserving, stuffing, and mounting animal skins. As historian Alan S. Ross explains, the practice became common across Europe in the early eighteenth century, “upon which it had been adopted with great enthusiasm by collectors […]
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A small and unique mammal calls the Western North Carolina mountains home. Although size can be deceiving, least weasels are known as fierce carnivores!Identified by their size, least weasels have long slender bodies, short tails, dark eyes and stubby ears. Their fur ranges from ginger to dark brown on top with a white underside. During […]
Ten years after its last black bear hunting season, the Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission is considering another one.Florida’s last black bear hunting season was highly controversial, with opponents protesting loudly from the grassroots level to the state legislative offices. News media jumped on the hot story, seeing gold ratings. The Florida Fish & Wildlife […]