by Associated Press Published: May 15,2013
Tags: animal, animal cruelty, animal rights, appeal, federal agency, judge, justice, license, tourism, tourist, visitor, zoo, zoological park
COLLINS — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has revoked the exhibitor’s license of the Collins Zoo following a hearing before an administrative law judge. The decision adds to the stack of legal troubles facing zoo owners Gus and Betty White following the most recent Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks raid of the U.S. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 14,2013
Tags: agriculture, animal, damage, destruction, economy, ecosystem, environment, farm, farmer, farming, outdoors, wild hog, wildlife
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi’s rapidly growing wild hog population is cutting its own destructive swath through the state, and along the way exacting a heavy toll on the state’s ecosystem. Wild hogs, sometimes referred to as feral pigs, are swine that were once domesticated and were released or escaped into the wild. Their ability to [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: February 13,2013
Tags: agriculture, animal, auction, bid, cow, farm, farmer, farming, goat, hog, lamb, livestock, pig, sheep, steer, youth
JACKSON — After a week of intense competition, 42 animals and their exhibitors qualified for the 44th annual Dixie National Sale of Junior Champions, Mississippi’s premier youth livestock auction. Thirteen hogs, 12 lambs, nine goats and eight steers were auctioned off at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds’ Trade Mart. For the first time, the animals were [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: February 6,2013
Tags: animal, bill, environment, federal government, fishing, foundation, habitat, hunting, lawmaker, legislation, legislative, nonprofit, outdoors, park, reauthoriziation, wildlife
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) is supporting legislation to reauthorize the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), which leverages federal funds with private resources to promote fish and wildlife conservation. Cochran is cosponsoring the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Establishment Act (S.51), which would reauthorize a program created by Congress in 1984 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 16,2013
Tags: agency, agriculture, animal, bench, bull, cattle, cattleman, court, cow, crime, farm, farmer, farming, federal government, fraud, fraudulent, guilty, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, livestock, loan, plea, plead, sale, steer, stock
ABERDEEN — Court records say a man will plead guilty to hiding the sales of cattle and using fake invoices to avoid paying back a federal loan. A filing in U.S. District Court in Aberdeen says Clint Mann intends to change his plea. He pleaded not guilty Aug. 19. Court records say Mann obtained a [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 6,2012
Tags: alligator, animal, environment, game management, habitat, harvest, hunt, hunter, hunting, hunting season, outdoors, reptile, sportsman
SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI — When state wildlife officials decided to expand alligator hunting this year — not once but twice — local officers got a tiny bit worried. At first, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks said the hunt could take place on public waterways across two-thirds of the state, including all of southwest [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 26,2012
Tags: agriculture, animal, bat, ecosystem, education, environment, Extension Service, farm, farmer, farming, fungus, higher education, insect, insecticide, mammal, mortality, pesticiade, public university, research, researcher, science, scientist, wildlife
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Bats, an organic method of pest control, may become rare in the United States and Canada. The primary predators of night-flying insects, bats reduce the need for chemical pesticides and save the agriculture industry an estimated $3 billion per year in pest-control costs. But bat populations across the Eastern United States are [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 25,2012
Tags: animal, application, city, deer, government, homeowner, hunt, hunter, hunting, municipal, municipality, permit, white tail deer, wildlife, wildlife control
OXFORD — Officials are trying to control the local deer population, and they’re urging homeowners to let certified bow hunters harvest deer from their property. Emergency management coordinator Jimmy Allgood tells The Oxford Eagle he has all the hunters he needs. But for the program to be effective, he needs homeowners to sign up. Allgood [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 21,2012
Tags: animal, bench, court, federal government, investigation, judge, judicial, judiciary, law, raid, state government, state law, tourism, tourist, violation, visitor, wildlife, zoo
COLLINS — A Covington County Justice Court Judge has asked the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks to create a comprehensive list of state regulation violations at the Collins Zoo and submit the list within 30 days. Judge Bobby Wayne Mooney said he would give the zoo owners six months from receiving the list [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 4,2012
Tags: animal, cleanup, dead, disaster, disaster recovery, drown, ecosystem, environment, hurricane, mammal, natural disaster, nutria, rodent, severe weather, storm, tropical storm, tropical weather, Weather, wildlife
HANCOCK COUNTY — Crews are pitchforking dead nutria into front-end loaders on Hancock County beaches. The Sun Herald reports an estimated 16,000 to 18,000 of the semiaquatic rodents and other dead animals washed in Hancock County up after drowning in Hurricane Isaac’s storm surge. A federal contractor, U.S. Environmental Services, will dump the bodies in [...] [...]
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