East Alabama woman 'giving God the glory' for taxidermy business |… – 1819 News

Ashley Rollins is just a small-town country girl. Born and raised in Alabama, she has always been a little different.She loved the great outdoors and seemed to have more guy friends than girl friends. Even as a child, she played football and was a self-proclaimed tomboy.Now, as a God-fearing wife and mother of two, Rollins […]

Trooper: Illegal Internet sales of big game trophies on the rise in Alaska – Anchorage Daily News

An Anchorage man has pleaded guilty to illegally selling a brown bear rug even after Alaska State Troopers warned him the sale was illegal. Attempted Internet sales of game Alaska trophies and furs have risen the past few years, according to troopers, boosted by online classified ad sites like Craigslist.Last month, Ryan Ziegler pleaded guilty […]

Preserving hiss-story: conserving a taxidermy snake – Royal Museums Greenwich

Discover the work involved in treating a 100-year-old puff adder – and its connection to HMS Terrible  Rachel Roberts Object Conservator Published 08 Dec 2023 A look at the treatment of a taxidermy puff adder captured by the crew of HMS Terrible When this taxidermy puff adder came into the conservation studio at The Prince Philip […]

X-rays show skull of extinct thylacine in collector's auction find – ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation

EmergencyBackstoryNewsletters中文新闻BERITA BAHASA INDONESIATOK PISINBy Susan Oong936 ABC HobartTopic:Endangered and Protected SpeciesJames Cranfield poses with his "ridiculously important and special specimen", which he snapped up at auction. (Supplied: Instagram/@thetaxidermist)X-rays of a taxidermied head advertised as a fox at auction have confirmed the specimen is an extinct thylacine, with the animal's near-perfect skull shown intact within.UK collector […]

Reintroducing Wolves: A New Hope for Japanese Ecosystems – JAPAN Forward

JAPAN Forward Gray wolf (Wikimedia Commons) このページを 日本語 で読むDuring a recent visit to the Hokkaido University Botanical Garden in Sapporo, I found myself standing before two haunting figures: the taxidermied remains of the now-extinct Ezo and Honshu wolves. Preserved behind glass, their forms felt frozen in time, ghosts of a lost species that once ruled […]

Despite upswing in prices, trapping declines in much of rural Alaska – Anchorage Daily News

When Heidi Hatcher decided to do an interview project documenting community involvement in trapping across rural Alaska, she figured she might as well gain some first-hand experience. “I wanted to know what I was talking about,” she said.So last winter, Hatcher, a graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks studying natural resource management, started […]