A trophy hunting convention in the US is auctioning off a week-long “dream hunt” with the US president’s son Donald Trump Jr.

There are about 450,000 dogs in Ireland and, according to one guesstimate, over 500 million worldwide, writes Richard Collins.

Dogs and SUV-type vehicles are being used to chase deer to exhaustion, lamps are being used to dazzle them and hunters are also using firearms and infrared equipment as reports of illegal hunting soar this season.

Reading Amy Lewis’s informative and well researched article (Ireland’s battle to save our wildlife: Irish

A whaling company in Iceland said it is preparing its fleet to bring back the commercial hunting of fin whales after a two-year freeze.

Real-life "care bears" in Sweden have responded to human hunting by increasing the time they look after their cubs, researchers have found.

The Trump administration has decided once again to allow Americans to import the body parts of African elephants shot for sport, despite presidential tweets decrying the practice as a "horror show".

A judge has said the State agency responsible for wildlife is not doing enough to kill sufficient numbers of deer resulting in motorists facing the danger of the animals landing on their car bonnets.

The prospect of a nighttime ban on hunting and shooting in the autumn/winter period is coming under fire in the southwest, where the issue of criminals lurking with intent, rather than genuinely looking for rabbits or foxes, is of concern.

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An independent investigation has been launched in the UK into a fox-hunting group amid allegations of animal cruelty.

In the early 1960s, a member of my family touched a star. 

US airline Delta has had a major change of heart about shipping hunting trophies, announcing that it would no longer accept lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo trophies.

Rocker Ted Nugent has defended a dentist who killed a protected lion in Zimbabwe, as the country seeks his extradition from the US.

Two Zimbabweans arrested for illegally hunting a protected lion named Cecil have appeared in court as anger at the kill by an American dentist escalated.