Montana resident sentenced to six months in federal prison for creating giant hybrid sheep for hunting

Guardian:

[The defendant has] been in the game farm business since 1987

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The US district court judge ... said he struggled to come up with a sentence for [the defendant]. He said he weighed [the defendant]’s age and lack of a criminal record with a sentence that would deter anyone else from trying to “change the genetic makeup of the creatures” on the Earth.

Review of a book about a wounded tiger that took its revenge on a poacher

NPR (from 2010):

At the center of the story is Vladimir Markov, a poacher who met a grisly end in the winter of 1997 after he shot and wounded a tiger, and then stole part of the tiger's kill.

The injured tiger hunted Markov down in a way that appears to be chillingly premeditated. The tiger staked out Markov's cabin, systematically destroyed anything that had Markov's scent on it, and then waited by the front door for Markov to come home.

Detailed look at "the downfall of one of the nation’s deadliest poaching crews"

A grim story by Bryan Schatz for High Country News:

But even after the evening’s staggering discoveries, the officers had no idea how much darker the case would become. [The men] knew something the officers didn’t: For years, the men had been illegally killing wildlife in the wooded Oregon-Washington borderlands, and they hadn’t been doing it alone. The investigation that began that cold night would be unlike any the wardens had known before, ultimately pushing the boundaries of what they imagined people were capable of — and what they themselves could endure.

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Video after video played, each eerily similar to the last, the men’s hands and faces coated in blood spray from point-blank shots.

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The poachers didn’t appear to harvest much meat; they rarely kept pelts. Heads, when they took them, were apparently often chucked behind old trucks. Their trophies mostly seemed to be the pictures and videos they took and shared with each other.

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The first round of videos had turned up acts of brutality, but this latest batch was worse. At times, young children were the ones pulling the triggers