{"id":232874,"date":"2025-10-18T02:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T02:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/232874\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T02:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T02:32:09","slug":"someone-illegally-killed-a-lynx-in-the-maine-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/232874\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone illegally killed a lynx in the Maine woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game wardens are looking for whoever killed a Canada lynx in Aroostook County.<\/p>\n<p>The lynx was shot to death sometime within 24 hours of its discovery along Mouse Island Road in Perham on Wednesday, according to Emily MacCabe, a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>Canada lynx are a federally protected species, making it illegal to trap, harass, hunt or kill them, MacCabe said Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe shooting of this animal was unnecessary, conducted without regard for its protected status, and left to waste,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Maine Warden Service is offering a $3,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever was responsible for the lynx\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the killing can contact Operation Game Thief at 1-800-ALERT-US or submit a tip online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maineogt.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">maineogt.org<\/a>. Tips can be made anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game wardens are looking for whoever killed a Canada lynx in Aroostook County. The lynx was shot to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[129258,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-232874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-canada-lynx","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}