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Idaho bill seeks to kill more than 1,000 wolves Rico Moore © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Jeff Roberson/AP Lawmakers in Idaho are pushing to drastically reduce wolf numbers in the state, perhaps by as much as over 90%, complementing other US efforts to shrink their population. Idaho’s gray wolf population was recently estimated at 1,556, but sponsors of a bill approved in the state senate last week say that the preferred number of wolf packs in the state is 15. Because a wolf pack in the region averages 10 wolves, this means the bill could lead to hunters killing ...

As Canada’s federal and provincial budgets swell, sales-tax increases may follow Erica Alini © Provided by Global News Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland walks to a news conference before delivering the federal budget in Ottawa, Monday April 19, 2021. Canada's provincial and federal government debt has ballooned during the COVID-19 pandemic, as it has for governments around the world, as they cope with both the costs of a health emergency and the need to use taxpayer dollars to prop up their economies. But in Canada, some of the new public spending will settle at a per...

Spain’s power company, Endesa, sued over electrocution of birds Stephen Burgen © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Samuel Aranda/AFP/Getty Images In Leonard Cohen’s famous song, a bird on a wire is a symbol of freedom, but for thousands of birds it is the equivalent of being sent to the electric chair. Now, in a landmark case, a Spanish electricity company is being prosecuted over the deaths of hundreds of birds electrocuted on pylons and overhead cables and for failing to comply with regulations designed to protect wildlife. Following a three-year investigation, Ant...

Soleiman Faqiri died after 11 days in a prison cell. A new podcast lays bare what happened. Craig Offman: Filmmaker Yusuf Zine hosts the TVO series 'Unascertained,' a methodical and moving reconstruction of events leading to Faqiri's death By Craig Offman April 13, 2021 A small group of family and friends of Soleiman Faqiri, hold a vigil at Nathan Phillips Square on February 7, 2017, for the man who died during an altercation with guards in jail in Lindsay, Ont. (Rick Madonik/Toronto Star/ Getty Images) In December 2016, Soleiman Faqiri entered a Lindsay, Ont., prison unharmed. Ele...

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