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Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: September 28, 2014, 1:22 pm
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[center][font=arial black]Victory for Wolves in
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[font=arial black]Victory: Federal judge reinstates federal
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There were once up to 2 million gray wolves living in North
America, but the animals were driven to near-extinction in the
lower 48 states by the early 1900s.
September 23, 2014
Washington, D.C. — Federal protections for gray wolves in
Wyoming were reinstated today after a judge invalidated the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2012 statewide Endangered Species
Act delisting of the species. The ruling from the U.S. District
Court halts the management of wolves by Wyoming, a state with a
history of hostile and extreme anti-wolf policies.
“The court has ruled and Wyoming’s kill-on-sight approach to
wolf management throughout much of the state must stop,” said
Earthjustice attorney Tim Preso. “Today’s ruling restores
much-needed federal protection to wolves throughout Wyoming,
which allowed killing along the borders of Yellowstone National
Park and throughout national forest lands south of Jackson Hole
where wolves were treated as vermin under state management. If
Wyoming wants to resume management of wolves, it must develop a
legitimate conservation plan that ensures a vibrant wolf
population in the Northern Rockies.”
Earthjustice represented Defenders of Wildlife, Natural
Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club and the Center for
Biological Diversity in challenging the Fish and Wildlife
Service’s September 2012 decision to strip Endangered Species
Act protections from gray wolves in Wyoming. The conservation
groups challenged the 2012 decision on grounds that Wyoming law
authorized unlimited wolf killing in a “predator” zone that
extended throughout most of the state, and provided inadequate
protection for wolves even where killing was regulated.
“Today the court affirmed that delisting gray wolves in Wyoming
by the Obama administration was premature and a violation of
federal law,” said Defenders of Wildlife President and CEO Jamie
Rappaport Clark. “Any state that has a wolf management plan that
allows for unlimited wolf killing throughout most of the state
should not be allowed to manage wolves. Wolves need to remain
protected under the Endangered Species Act until the species is
fully recovered. State laws and policies that treat wolves like
vermin are as outdated and discredited today as they were a
century ago.”
“The decision makes clear that ‘shoot-on-sight’ is not an
acceptable management plan for wolves across the majority of the
state,” said Dr. Sylvia Fallon, senior scientist and wildlife
conservation director at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
“It’s time for Wyoming to step back and develop a more
science-based approach to managing wolves.”
“The court has rightly recognized the deep flaws in Wyoming's
wolf management plan. Wolves in Wyoming must have federal
protection until the state gets it right. That means developing
a science-based management plan that recognizes the many
benefits wolves bring to the region instead of vermin that can
be shot on sight in the majority of the state,” said Bonnie Rice
of the Sierra Club's Greater Yellowstone Our Wild America
Campaign.
“We’re thrilled that protections for Wyoming’s fragile
population of wolves have been restored,” said Noah Greenwald,
endangered species director with the Center for Biological
Diversity. “With Wyoming allowing wolves to be shot on sight
>:( across more than 80 percent of the state, there is no way
protections for wolves should have ever been removed.”
The 2012 delisting of wolves in Wyoming turned wolf management
over to the state, which opened up over 80 percent of its land
to unlimited wolf killing and provided weak protections for
wolves in the remainder. Since the delisting, 219 wolves have
been killed under Wyoming’s management >:(. Prior to the 2012
reversal of its position, the Fish and Wildlife Service denied
Wyoming the authority to manage wolves in the state due to its
extremely hostile anti-wolf laws and policies.
Background
There were once up to 2 million gray wolves living in North
America, but the animals were driven to near-extinction in the
lower 48 states by the early 1900s. After passage of the federal
Endangered Species Act in 1973 and protection of the wolf as
endangered, federal recovery programs resulted in the rebound of
wolf populations in limited parts of the country. Roughly 5,500
wolves currently live in the continental United States—a
fraction of the species’ historic numbers. :(
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is currently proposing to
remove Endangered Species Act protection for most gray wolves
across the United States >:(, a proposal that the groups
strongly oppose; a final decision could be made later this year.
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achieve and sustain a Viable Biosphere instead of using the
technofix greedily and stupidly to expand the economy and the
population), we can make it do our work without it working our
undoing." Amory Lovins[/I][/font][/quote]
Natural Capitalism is the only type of capitalism that won't
destroy our biosphere. The Industrial Capitalism we have had
since the industrial revolution is stupid.
Amory Lovins is a scientist that thinks, correctly, that making
money and providing a viable biosphere are not mutually
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😈 Capitalism and adopt 🎍 NATURAL Capitalism.
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: November 13, 2014, 8:07 pm
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Do We Really Need to Keep Killing One Species to Save Another?
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by Alicia Graef
November 11, 2014
SNIPPET:
The bigger problem is that even if the proposed experiment
appears to help northern spotted owls, there’s no end for it in
sight. Cornwall writes:
Even if we manage to negotiate the moral thicket of killing one
owl to save another―and emerge at the other end with gun
at the ready―we run headlong into a practical question:
What’s the exit strategy? Can we kill 10,000 barred owls every
year forever?
He notes that’s the number some experts believe it will take to
help spotted owls. Some believe as the forests continue to
recover, the killing may eventually stop, but others worry that
recovery will bring more barred owls and end up “creating a
never-ending killing operation.”
Earlier this year, Friends of Animals and Predator Defense,
refiled a lawsuit in Oregon to save the barred owls, arguing the
plan violates the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the National
Environmental Policy Act.
While that plays out, other species still continue to be
targeted and killed as a result of our shoot-first mentality.
Fortunately, going forward, the emerging field of “compassionate
conservation” is continuing to gain traction. Marc Bekoff, a
University of Colorado professor emeritus and animal behavior
expert, explains the guiding principle of this field is ‘First
do no harm’ and that every individual animal matters.
As more and more species become imperiled, conservationists and
wildlife advocates fear the problem is just going to get worse.
While there aren’t any easy answers, hopefully we can take a
more reasonable approach than simply looking at numbers and
continuing to murder our way out of problems that are mostly a
result of our own actions.
Separately, Bekoff says:
What animals feel matters to them and it must matter to us. The
lives of individual animals must be taken very seriously and
researchers must make this a priority (see also). We are
responsible for who lives and who dies. We can do anything we
want but this power does not give us the license to ruin a
spectacularly beautiful planet, its wondrous webs of nature, and
its magnificent nonhuman residents.
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Compassionate conservation is a wonderful “meeting place” — a
much-needed paradigm shift and social movement — for everyone
concerned with protecting all animals. When we ignore nature we
not only harm other animals but we do so at our own peril.
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: November 29, 2014, 3:18 pm
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Success!
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Feds Cancel Idaho’s Disgraceful Wildlife Killing Contest
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by Alicia Graef
November 28, 2014
In a victory for wildlife, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
has withdrawn the permit it issued that would have allowed a
multi-year wildlife killing contest to take place on more than
three million acres of public lands in Idaho.
The controversy started last year when a hunters’ rights group
ignited outrage after it decided to hold the first predator
killing contest targeting coyotes and wolves in decades >:(.
Despite the trouble it caused, the group, Idaho for Wildlife,
came back this year seeking a Special Recreation Permit from the
BLM that would allow it to hold more of these contests on public
lands annually for the next five years, with the first one
scheduled for the beginning of this January.
The “hunt” would have allowed up to 500 participants, including
children, to compete in a three-day event with the goal of
killing the most wolves, coyotes and a number of other species
for cash and prizes.
Wildlife advocates raised concerns about how killing in the name
of fun and recreation harms wildlife, threatens public safety,
conflicts with public land uses and supports the same mentality
that led to the eradication of species like wolves in the first
place, in addition to pointing out the vital role predators play
in maintaining healthy ecosystems.
Despite an outpouring of public opposition – including over
28,000 petition signatures from the Care2 community and comments
from organizations including Project Coyote, the Western
Watersheds Project and WildEarth Guardians, among others — the
BLM granted the permit. It also simultaneously denied a permit
request for a “wildlife viewing” contest submitted by
conservation organizations.
Now the BLM is backing down after several wildlife advocacy
organizations headed to court earlier this month to stop this
event from taking place.
Defenders of Wildlife, the Center for Biological Diversity,
Western Watersheds Project and Project Coyote sued the BLM and
Idaho District Manager Joseph Kraayenbrink seeking an
injunction, arguing that the permit flies in the face of
everything that has been done to help restore wolves to the
landscape and that the agency failed to fully assess how it
would impact the environment and public safety.
“It’s repugnant and shocking that wildlife-killing contests are
still being allowed in the 21st century,” said Amy Atwood,
senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, who
represents the Center, Western Watersheds Project and Project
Coyote. “In approving this contest, the BLM is out of step with
an American public that no longer supports the slaughter of
wildlife for sport. Indeed, more than 90,000 people submitted
comments opposing the contest, yet the permit was still issued.”
WildEarth Guardians, Cascadia Wildlands and the Boulder-White
Clouds Council simultaneously filed a nearly identical lawsuit
that also faulted the U.S. Forest Service for failing to require
a permit or analyzing the contest’s impacts.
While Idaho for Wildlife reportedly remains intent on continuing
to hold derbies, Bryan Hurlbutt, an attorney with Advocates for
the West, countered that the BLM withdrawing its permit “thwarts
the derby organizers’ attempt to expand the small derby held in
Idaho last year into a major event, and gives us momentum to
ensure these backwards events are never permitted on our public
lands.”
“We’re so glad that the deadly derby has been canceled this
year,” said Atwood. “These sort of ruthless kill-fests have no
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As they celebrate the news, wildlife advocates are also still
working to stop these wildlife killing contests from taking
place elsewhere. In California, the Fish and Game Commission is
preparing to vote next week on whether or not to ban this type
of barbaric event throughout the state.
Those supporting the proposed ban are hopeful the commission
will vote on the side of wildlife and that a win there will help
set a precedent for other states to follow.
Read more:
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Can the World Really Set Aside Half of the Planet for Wildlife?
By: AGelbert Date: December 4, 2014, 10:03 pm
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Can the World Really Set Aside Half of the Planet for Wildlife?
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The eminent evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson has an audacious
vision for saving Earth from a cataclysmic extinction
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By Tony Hiss
Smithsonian Magazine September 2014
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New England would seem to be a Half Earth slam dunk, a landscape
on the upswing of a yo-yoing transformation. The region was 90
percent forested when the Pilgrims arrived, but almost 200 years
later farmers chopped down all but 20 percent of the trees
during a “sheep fever” that can in part be blamed on Napoleon
and the first stirrings of globalization.
When Napoleon overran Portugal in 1810, a Vermonter carried off
a herd of merino sheep, prized for their soft, premium-priced
wool, which until then had been a monopoly of the Portuguese
aristocracy. The 30-year wool craze that followed has been
called “a mania as powerful as any religious fanaticism.” ;D
New England’s famous stone walls, rocks piled up by hand, like
the Egyptian pyramids, and with more stones than the pyramids,
are a remnant of that period. 8) Then this vast series of
sheep pens was abruptly abandoned as farmers and herders moved
west.
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Pinus strobus, commonly known as the eastern white pine, white
pine, northern white pine, Weymouth pine, and soft pine
The forests returned, though no one in the 21st century will see
anything like those first forests’ practically sequoia-size
Eastern white pines, trees that awed early settlers. Timbering
is common in the newer woods, and even if left strictly alone,
white pines need 400 years to tower over everything in sight.
The “reforests,” if you can call them that, instill their own
wonder, though. Self-seeded, they’ve spread again to cover 79
percent of New England, and a recent report refers to the entire
six-state region as a “continental-scale habitat corridor.” If
the pace of land conservation can be doubled, says this same
clarion-call report, “Wildlands and Woodlands,” then 50 years
from now New England can stay 70 percent forested forever. The
area, it says, is something rare in the biosphere: a
“second-chance landscape.”
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: December 6, 2014, 7:40 pm
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Victory! California Becomes the First State to Ban Wildlife
Killing Contests
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by Alicia Graef
December 5, 2014
5:30 pm
In a historic victory for wildlife, this week California became
the first state in the nation to officially ban barbaric
wildlife killing contests for good in a move that wildlife
advocates are hopeful will set a precedent for other states to
follow.
According to Project Coyote, more contests than we care to know
about continue to take place under the radar because state
wildlife agencies don’t monitor them, but they’ve been making
headlines recently and a growing number of people have been
speaking out against them. Thankfully wildlife officials and
land managers are listening to the calls from wildlife advocates
and are taking the problems with these unjustified events
seriously.
Project Coyote petitioned the Commission earlier this year after
news that a three-day Coyote Drive was taking place in Modoc
County sparked outrage. Not only would the contest result in the
cruel and senseless deaths of coyotes, but concerns also were
raised that it threatened gray wolves who were protected earlier
this year under the state’s endangered species act. California
doesn’t have an established population, but the area was part of
where OR-7, the first wolf to venture into California in 87
years, was known to visit.
In a 4-1 vote on Wednesday, the California Fish and Game
Commission approved a proposal that closes loopholes that allow
so-called hunters, including children, to participate in
contests, tournaments or derbies that offer prizes or other
rewards for killing the most, or biggest, predators.
“Awarding prizes for wildlife killing contests is both unethical
and inconsistent with our current understanding of natural
systems,” said Michael Sutton, President of the California Fish
and Game Commission. “Such contests are an anachronism and have
no place in modern wildlife management.”
While these competitions are held under the guise of wildlife
management, or predator control, wildlife advocates and
scientists argue that they’re not only cruel but counter to the
goal of reducing conflicts with “nuisance” animals and that the
indiscriminate killing of predators also ignores the valuable
role they play in maintaining healthy ecosystems.
Sadly many of the wild animals who are targeted in these events
are left without legal protection and can be killed year round
in unlimited numbers. Now, thanks in part to the public’s
reaction and those who spoke up on behalf of species targeted in
these disgraceful events, things are starting to change.
“Wildlife prevailed at this historic meeting and the public made
it clear through thousands of letters and thoughtful testimonies
that they want to see predators protected in California,” said
Camilla Fox, founder and executive director Project Coyote. “We
hope that this is a first step in reforming the state’s predator
management regulations, policies, and codes.”
“We commend the commission for this enlightened decision and for
setting a precedent for the nation,” she added. “We should not
be killing wildlife for fun and prizes in the 21st century.”
The move also comes just a week after the Bureau of Land
Management pulled a permit that would have allowed a hunters’
rights group to hold a predator derby targeting wolves, coyotes
and other wild animals annually for the next five years on more
than three million acres of public land in Idaho.
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: December 19, 2014, 10:05 pm
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The Shoshone National Forest covers more than 2.5 million acres
on the eastern flank of Yellowstone in Wyoming. The Shoshone has
some of the finest wild lands and wildlife habitat in the
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The Forest Service has been
working on a new management plan for more than ten years, a
process we have been involved in since its onset. After the Plan
was released earlier this year, we helped lead a number of
conservation partners, friends from the community of Cody,
Wyoming, and members of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, to
overturn some harmful 11th hour changes that reduced protections
for some crucial wildlife areas. We detailed the importance of
these areas for grizzly bears, bighorn sheep, elk, and mule deer
and for the outstanding wilderness characteristics of these
lands.
Earlier this week, we received notice from the Forest Service
that our efforts were successful!
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DuNoir Special Management Unit. Additionally, more than 900,000
acres of the forest are now off limits to oil and gas drilling.
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/>This is a wonderful outcome; the result of some very hard work
by dedicated public servants of the Forest Service and thousands
of Greater Yellowstone Coalition supporters and partners. We are
on the verge of a great victory in Wyoming for the Greater
Yellowstone Ecosystem.
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LAST DAYS
By: AGelbert Date: December 23, 2014, 7:58 pm
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[b]Last Days[/b]
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: December 24, 2014, 10:31 pm
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12/22/2014 04:17 PM
Another Victory For Wolves! Protected Again In Great Lakes
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SustainableBusiness.com News
Heartwarming story at link:
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: December 27, 2014, 4:22 pm
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Elephant Rescue! Unfortunately, one moment of tragedy occurred
but the efforts of these people of GOOD WILL and the community
are worthy of admiration, praise and support.
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: December 27, 2014, 4:26 pm
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[move][font=verdana]Please pass it on. Empathy SHOULD get more
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