{"id":922212,"date":"2026-10-06T02:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/922212\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T02:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:08:11","slug":"conservation-officers-investigate-discarded-ducks-cranes-near-craven-discovermoosejaw-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/922212\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation officers investigate discarded ducks, cranes near Craven &#8211; DiscoverMooseJaw.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saskatchewan Conservation Officers are investigating after several ducks and Sandhill Cranes were found discarded along a rural road southeast of Craven.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Community Safety says the birds were discovered on Russell Hill Road on Oct. 3 with all edible meat still intact.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe the birds were shot earlier that morning before being left in a roadside ditch sometime between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories:\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses encouraged to come forward<\/p>\n<p>Conservation officers are now asking anyone who travelled through the area during that time to come forward with information.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say descriptions of suspicious vehicles or individuals, licence plate numbers, photographs, dashcam footage, and other video recordings could help identify those responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact a local conservation officer or call the Saskatchewan Turn In Poachers &amp; Polluters line at 1-800-667-7561.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The location where the wasted birds were found\" data-caption=\"A map identifies the area southeast of Craven where the birds were discovered. (Saskatchewan Crime Watch)\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"d46a3ce4-e525-4dd9-b47a-eeb94f39b13e\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/wastedbirds_craven location.png\"\/>A map identifies the area southeast of Craven where the birds were discovered. (Saskatchewan Crime Watch)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan Conservation Officers are investigating after several ducks and Sandhill Cranes were found discarded along a rural road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-922212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}