| Invasive species cause major damage
Besides threatening the fish and game animals that you value, these unwelcome homesteaders are hitting you in the pocketbook. According to a report put out by the Government Accountability Office, invasive species are costing Americans billions of dollars in damage to crops, rangelands, and waterways every year.
The quagga mussel is one of the invaders that most worries Larry Riley, an Arizona Game and Fish fisheries biologist. They are related to the zebra mussel and cause the same kind of damage. .
2 die in elephant charge in western Zimbabwe
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Two British tourists died when an elephant charged them in western Zimbabwe, the British Embassy in Harare said Monday. A third injured Briton was hospitalized with serious injuries. Zimbabwe authorities declined to identify the tourists until their family was notified, but said the dead were a mother and daughter. They said the injured Briton was the husband and father of the two who died. The family was on a walking safari in the Hwange National Park on Saturday and was accompanied by a guide and a professional hunter. Authorities said the family was attacked by a bull elephant that was exceptionally aggressive because it was in musk. The guide fired a shot at the elephant but missed. Police in the western provincial capital of Bulawayo and wildlife authorities reported investigations were under way to see whether the tour group's armed local guides had been negligent, though guides are often taken by surprise by the speed of such attacks.
MASS KILLER CHO'S INSANE 'MANIFESTO'
END OF THE ROAD. WHAT A LIFE IT WAS. SOME LIFE. By Ryan Parry And Martin Fricker In Virginia 20/04/2007 More Top Stories Have your say: Top Stories forum Article: SON OF A BITCH Article: MANIAC STALKED US, SAY 2 GIRLS Article: HE TOOK NAME OF SAD LONER Article: KILLER IN A MOVIE FANTASY DERANGED Cho Seung-Hui points two guns at the camera - in a picture from a shocking massacre manifesto he sent to a US TV station. The 23-page booklet was filled with rambling, incoherent rants about the "rich brats" he hated at Virginia Tech University. And he included his own epitaph - scrawling across one page: "This is where it all ends. End of the road. What a life it was. Some life." On the first page, below two photos of him smiling, the 23-year-old South Korean loner accused his fellow students of ruining his life.
Kill at your convenience
IF YOU want to shoot a lion without any risk to yourself, you had better hurry. From June 1st it will be illegal in South Africa to shoot a lion while it is caught in a cage or a bear-trap. Farms will no longer be allowed to trot out tame or drugged game to be mown down by wealthy but inept hunters. "Canned hunting", the government proudly insists, has been banned. Animal-rights activists are not so sure. They point out that the law still allows hunters to lure lions, leopards and hyena with bait, and to dazzle leopards and hyenas with a bright light, before blasting away at them. Although hunters can no longer use crossbows to kill the biggest and most endangered species, many others, including buffaloes, hippos and wildebeest, will still be fair game. .
Katto’s pace scares Pearl organisers
EMMA Kattos pace at the recent KCB Safari rally has forced Pearl of Africa Uganda organisers to ignore continental rankings when compiling the start list.
The Ugandan rally ace is at basement of the Africa rally championship table but will start fourth this weekend on account of his pace.
Katto was seeded 16th in the Safari but finished the first leg five seconds behind the leaders, forcing organisers to apologise for the misjudgment.
Katto is a very quick driver, we had to move him ahead on safety grounds. We wouldnt want him to be slowed down by dust, Pearl media officer Dusman Okee explained.
World Junior Rally Champion Rautenbach of Zimbabwe will be flagged off first at Kampala Serena Hotel. Reigning Ugandan champion Ronald Ssebuguzi is eighth.
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