Hunting Ranches

For immediate release: 25 July 2012

Contact: Lee Hall, Friends of Animals Email

Mark Salvo, WildEarth Guardians, 503-757-4221 or Email

Advocates Urge Senate to Oppose Regressive Measure

UPDATE: Judge Denies Texas Hunters' Injunction to Suspend Ruling

LA Times

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske

April 3, 2012

Houston- The scimitar-horned oryx was listed as endangered seven years ago, but a special exemption from the federal Endangered Species Act allowed breeders of the rare African antelope to nonetheless sell and hunt the animals -- at $5,500 a head. As a result, herds grew exponentially on exotic hunting ranches nationwide, especially in Texas.

March 30, 2012

Houston Chronicle

By Tony Freemantle

Its horns, sometimes up to 4 feet long, arc gracefully over its back, almost reaching its hindquarters when it lifts its head to sniff the wind. Vast herds of them once roamed the semi-arid plains of North Africa and the Sahel, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.

It was named in an inscription on the Egyptian tomb of Sabu of Sakkarah nearly 23 centuries ago, and is thought to be the inspirational template for the unicorn.

Darien, CT-Friends of Animals recently celebrated a victory for scimitar-horned oryx, addax, and dama gazelles who are routinely bred and killed on hunting ranches here in the United States. These animals, on the brink of extinction in their native homelands in northern Africa, have been the targets of paying trophy hunters seeking a thrill-kill.

For Immediate Release: Friday 6 January 2012

Contact: Lee Hall, Friends of Animals: (610) 964-0090 or email

Taylor Jones, WildEarth Guardians: (303) 353-1490 or email

Persistence Has Paid: Animal Advocates Gain Formal Protection for African Antelopes Trophy-Hunted in U.S.

Act'ionLine Autumn 2009

by Priscilla Feral

The Y.O. Ranch is a Texas legend. It began with a young immigrant from Alsace-Lorraine named Charles Schreiner, who, according to its promotional materials, single-handedly "fought outlaws, Indians, and Mother Nature." Schreiner's descendants still run the cattle ranch, talking up their role in what they call the conservation of Texas Longhorn cattle.

For Immediate Release

Contacts:

Priscilla Feral, President, Friends of Animals, Darien, Connecticut
Current tel: (at Primarily Primates sanctuary): 830.755.4616, or mobile: 203.219.0428. E-mail

Lee Hall, Legal Director, Friends of Animals, Tel: 610.964.0090. Email

Let's Stop Promoting "Man's Dominion" Over Nonhuman Life

On 9 February 2005, Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced a bill (S. 304) with the short title "The Sportsmanship in Hunting Act of 2005." Proponents of the bill claim it will "crack down on 'canned hunts,' the abhorrent practice of confining tame, exotic animals in an enclosed space and shooting them at close range." [1] As Senator Lautenberg has acknowledged, it is important to note what the bill does and does not do.