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Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.

The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine! The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.

It is edited by CFZ Director Jon Downes, and subbed by the lovely Lizzy Bitakara'mire (formerly Clancy), scourge of improper syntax. The daily newsblog is edited by Corinna Downes, head administratrix of the CFZ, and the indexing is done by Lee Canty and Kathy Imbriani. There is regular news from the CFZ Mystery Cat study group, and regular fortean bird news from 'The Watcher of the Skies'. Regular bloggers include Dr Karl Shuker, Dale Drinnon, Richard Muirhead and Richard Freeman.The CFZ bloggo is updated daily, and there's nothing quite like it anywhere else. Come and join us...

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Sunday, February 02, 2014

BASTARDS!

Youngsters watched on as countrymen with dogs unearthed and shot two foxes, in pictures released by anti-hunt campaigners.
The images show children thought to be as young as five standing just yards away as the animals are dug from an old badger sett and killed.
The incident happened after a hunt on December 28 by the Modbury Harriers, which rides in South Devon.
It was reported to the League Against Cruel Sports by a nearby farmer who took photographs and was appalled to see young children being taken on a hunt.
The RSPCA is said to be investigating to see if it breaches the laws that govern huntsmen, though the Hunting Act, which banned hunting foxes with a pack of hounds, doesn’t cover the use of dogs to flush out animals underground.
The Countryside Alliance said there was "no question" the behaviour was legal, describing the killing as "professional and humane".
Spokesman Tim Bonner said nobody associated with the Modbury Harriers was embarrassed by the pictures, adding that the "sensational" coverage by the LACS showed that people do not "understand the realities of the countryside and country life".
The farmer – who wishes to remain anonymous, but keeps a flock of 140 breeding ewes and a few chickens, said: “I sat there in disbelief - how could those guys think any of what had played out was fit for young children to witness?


Read more: http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Farmer-appalled-hunt-young-children-witness-foxes/story-20502102-detail/story.html#ixzz2s5CK3IbE
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HIT PARADE FOR JANUARY (CFZ PRESS/FORTEAN WORDS)

Whoops! I should have done this weeks ago but totally forgot. My only excuse? I am an idiot.

UK

1.   Pygmy Elephants by Matt Salusbury (-)
2=. The Great Yokai Encyclopaedia by Richard Freeman (1)
2=. Journal of Cryptozoology Vol 2 by Karl Shuker (6)
4.   In the Wake of Bernard Heuvelmans by Michael Woodley (-)
5=. Giant Snakes by Michael Newton (-)
5=. Haunted Skies Volume Three by John Hanson and Dawn Holloway (6)
5=. Haunted Skies Volume Four by John Hanson and Dawn Holloway (-)
5=. Alien Zoo by Karl Shuker (-)
5=. Green Unpleasant Land by Richard Freeman (-)
10. Only Fools and Goatsuckers by Jonathan Downes (-)

US

1. Journal of Cryptozoology Vol 2 by Karl Shuker (4)
2.   Pygmy Elephants by Matt Salusbury (-)
3. The Great Yokai Encyclopaedia by Richard Freeman (1)
4. The Cryptid Creatures of Florida by Scott Marlowe (-)
5=. Extraordinary Animals Revisited by Karl Shuker (7)
5=. Tetrapod Zoology - Book One by Darren Naish (-)
7. Those Amazing Newfoundland Dogs by Jan Bondeson (6)
8. Monster! by Neil Arnold (-)
9=. MYSTERIOUS CREATURES: A Guide to Cryptozoology - Vol 1 by George Eberhart (1)
9=. Big Bird by Ken Gerhard (9)

Last month's positions in this pinky colour, which I think is called cerise. The slow sales are continuing. The politicians who claim we are out of the recession are, I believe, talking nonsense. 
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OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

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Saturday, February 01, 2014

TURTLES IN IOWA NEED OUR HELP

From Jeff Leclrere, Zoologist performing amphibian and reptile surveys at MN DNR

Just attended commercial turtle harvest meetings in Muscatine and Des Moines, Iowa. If you care about wild turtle populations, your help is needed! - read on. The Iowa DNR has proposed closing the season on turtle harvest from January 1 - July 15. This will benefit IA turtle populations by completely eliminating harvest during the female's egg development and nesting seasons. Please consider sending a quick email (contact listed below) to SUPPORT the IDNR's recommendation to impose a season on turtle harvest. The email can be very brief and take just a couple seconds to compose. Simply state "I support the IDNR's recommendation to impose a season on commercial turtle harvest". Feel free to add a sentence or two more such as "I believe IA turtle populations cannot sustain continued harvest over time due to certain aspects of their life history" or something similar. Commercial turtle harvesters have, and will, definitely voice their opposition, so every person's email counts! Iowa residents AND non residents can comment. The comment period begins now and will end by Feb 23, 2014. Please send comments of support to: Martin.Konrad@dnr.iowa.gov Share this with others and thank you!
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TODAY'S BIG CAT ROUND UP


The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 

There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we are publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. 

The worldwide mystery cat phenomenon (or group of phenomena, if we are to be more accurate) is not JUST about cryptozoology. At its most basic level it is about the relationship between our species and various species of larger cat. That is why sometimes you will read stories here that appear to have nothing to do with cryptozoology but have everything to do with human/big cat interaction. As committed Forteans, we believe that until we understand the nature of these interactions, we have no hope of understanding the truth that we are seeking. 
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FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES

What has Corinna's column of fortean bird news got to do with Cryptozoology?

 Well, everything actually!

 In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in. 







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Rare turtle usually found in Gulf of Mexico washes up on Woolacombe beach (Via Helen Taylor)

Kemp's ridley turtle
Kemp's ridley sea turtles are usually found in the Gulf of Mexico.

A rare turtle usually found in the Gulf of Mexico has washed up on a North Devon beach.
The small Kemp’s ridley sea turtle was found dead on Woolacombe Beach on Tuesday by a member of the public and was reported to the Marine Conservation Society.
The endangered turtle, measuring approximately 30cm in length, is not the first to wash up on UK waters this year.

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