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This is Fieldsports Channel News.
The Americans have got rid of Piers Morgan. The anti-gun British chatshow host suffered
from falling ratings on CNN and so lost his job. Pro-gun groups are delighted - and so
are the internet vloggers:
I would like to buy him a one way ticket to any country he would like to go to.
The RSPCA's future hangs in the balance. The chief executive Gavin Grant, who preferred
the RSPCA to be an animal rights group rather than an animal welfare organisation, left
suddenly last week due to ill health. After Grant spent hundreds of thousands of pounds
on prosecutions of a handful of hunts, the RSPCA Council commissioned a review of the
charity's work as a prosecuting body.
Tanzania is fighting it out over big-game hunting. The Tanzania Association of Tour
Operators is trying to link legal hunting, which brings in US$75 million a year, with
poaching, and wants legal hunting banned. In reprisal, the Tanzania Professional Hunters
Association is calling for heavy taxes on tour operators to raise funds required to
equip anti-poaching squads.
A church in Kentucky is finding a new congregation by offering them guns. In what its spokesman
calls "outreach to rednecks", the Kentucky Baptist Convention is leading "Second Amendment
Celebrations," where churches around the state give away guns as door prizes to lure in nonbelievers
in hopes of converting them to Christ.
If that is what will bring them to Jesus Christ then that is what we will do.
Viral wildlife film of the week goes to GoPro: Hovercraft Deer Rescue. Two men who spotted
deer stuck on a frozen lake in the USA used a hovercraft to tow them off. Thanks to viewer
Steve McGee for sending in the link.
And finally viral hunting video of the week goes to Close Combat With Wild Boar by Pär
Karlsson. You never know where that boar is going to come from. Thanks to Mark Gilchrist
for sending this one in.
You are now up to date with Fieldsports Britain News. Stalking the stories. Fishing for facts.
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