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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: June 13, 2016, 9:04 pm
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[center]WATCH: Rescued bears dash to freedom in Russia[/center]
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Watch as Vesnushka and Elka, two rehabilitated orphaned bears,
find freedom once again.
This short video shot exclusively on GoPro cameras shows Vasily,
Katya and Sergey Pazhetnov tranquilizing the bears and
transporting them to their release site before opening their
crate doors to the outside world.
More than 200 bears have been rescued and released at IFAW’s
Orphan Bear Rescue Center located in Bubonitsy, Russia.
Sixteen more bears are currently being cared for at the Center.
Stay tuned for updates on how they’re growing and learning the
skills needed to survive in the wild!
--MD
Mila Danilova, Campaigner, IFAW Russia
Mila Danilova
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is an
International Fund for Animal Welfare campaigner working in the
IFAW Russia office. Mila’s focus is on wildlife rescue and
rehabilitation, and the protection of beluga.
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: June 13, 2016, 9:45 pm
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Watch: The last DRC mountain gorillas again face an uncertain
fate
By Michael Booth
Posted: Thu, 05/24/2012
Yes, it’s happening again.
A few weeks ago, the delicate state of peace in Eastern
Democratic Republic of Congo was again shattered by renewed
clashes between the Congolese army and rebel militias operating
near and inside Virunga National Park.
Established in 1925, the park is the oldest in Africa and a
bastion for the endangered mountain gorilla. This is the site
where conservation icons like George Schaller and Dian Fossey
conducted the first field studies on the Gorilla beringei
beringei.
Out of an estimated 790 mountain gorillas left in the world,
approximately 200 of them live within the park’s territory.
Remarkably, and in spite of a 12-year civil war in the region,
the park’s gorilla population has continued its upward trend;
but for how long?
Dian Fossey was forced to flee Congo and the gorillas she was
studying back in 1967 due to civil unrest in the country. All
these years later, thousands of Congolese refugees follow her
footsteps in yet another wave of violence unleashed a few weeks
ago.
As refugee camps in Rwanda and Uganda struggle to cope with the
influx of people, back in Virunga things are quickly getting out
of hand. The Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la
Nature (ICCN) are evacuating their rangers from the combat zone.
This is bad news for the gorillas and other animals that receive
protection from ICCN.
Back in July of last year, my International Fund for Animal
Welfare colleague Céline Sissler-Bienvenu and I traveled to
Africa and partnered with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund
International to move 6 rescued Grauer gorilla orphans from
Rwanda to a rehabilitation center in the DRC.
After we successfully completed the operation, we joined rangers
from the ICCN and visited/filmed wild mountain gorillas at the
famous park. Take just a few minutes and visit Virunga’s
treasure by playing the video below:
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Trekking up the volcano’s slopes to get a unique 1-hr glimpse of
wild mountain gorillas is an experience I will never forget. I
think about the dominant silver-back Kabirizi and his family
group in these uncertain times and hope they remain safe.
Losing just a single family group would have devastating
consequences for mountain gorilla conservation.
--MB
Find out more about IFAW efforts to save primates.
If you’re as concerned as I am, go directly to the Fossey Fund
website for the latest security reports and help all of us
protect animals in need.
Michael Booth, Program Communications Officer, IFAW Headquarters
[i]Michael Booth
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/>IFAW's communications lead during Emergency Response and
Wildlife Rescue operations.
Since joining IFAW in 2006, Michael's assignments have included
disaster animal.[/I]
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: June 21, 2016, 2:27 pm
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[center]3.2 Million Animals Killed by Wildlife Services in
2015[/center]
Center for Biological Diversity | June 21, 2016 1:01 pm
The highly secretive arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
known as Wildlife Services killed more than 3.2 million animals
during fiscal year 2015, according to new data released by the
agency.
The total number of wolves, coyotes, bears, mountain lions,
beavers, foxes, eagles and other animals killed largely at the
behest of the livestock industry and other agribusinesses
represents a half-million-animal increase more than the 2.7
million animals the agency killed in 2014.
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Despite increasing calls for reform a century after the federal
wildlife-killing program began in 1915, the latest kill report
indicates that the program’s reckless slaughter continues,
including 385 gray wolves, 68,905 coyotes (plus an unknown
number of pups in 492 destroyed dens), 480 black bears, 284
mountain lions, 731 bobcats, 492 river otters (all but 83 killed
“unintentionally”), 3,437 foxes, two bald eagles and 21,559
beavers. The program also killed 20,777 prairie dogs outright,
plus an unknown number killed in more than 59,000 burrows that
were destroyed or fumigated.
“Despite mounting public outcry and calls from Congress to
reform these barbaric, outdated tactics, Wildlife Services
continues its slaughter of America’s wildlife with no public
oversight,” Michael Robinson of the Center for Biological
Diversity said.
“There’s simply no scientific basis for continuing to shoot,
poison and strangle millions of animals every year—a cruel
practice that not only fails to effectively manage targeted
wildlife but poses an ongoing threat to other animals, including
pets.”
Agency insiders have revealed that the agency kills many more
animals than it reports.
The data show that the Department of Agriculture boosted its
killing program despite a growing public outcry and calls for
reform by scientists, elected officials and nongovernmental
organizations.
“The Department of Agriculture should get out of the
wildlife-slaughter business,” Robinson said.
“Wolves, bears and other carnivores help keep the natural
balance of their ecosystems. Our government kills off the
predators, such as coyotes and then kills off their prey—like
prairie dogs—in an absurd, pointless cycle of violence.”
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Agelbert NOTE: I signed a petition that was sent to Senator
Sanders. He wrote to the USDA and they answered with a pack of
lies. The chief liar is Shea. He is in charge and has been
advocating this murderous policy for several years.
[move]The "We are very responsible, good and caring for wildlife
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/>BULLSHIT from Kevin Shea, USDA Administrator, in a letter to
Senator Sanders:[/move]
Prize quotes for world class innocent sounding Kevin Shea
doubletalk, duplicity and hard to disprove (the lawyer liars
must have vetted the letter first - wink) statements among the
pack of lies told by Kevin Shea in his May 6, 2016 letter to
Senator Sanders:
"In fact, some 9 out of 10 wild animals are chased away from the
place they are casuing problems, and WS lethal predator control
work removes only a minuscule number of predators when compared
to their native populations in the wild."
"We assure you and your constituents that we are dedicated to
advancing the coezistence of people and wildlife and that our
Agency is committed to developing and utilizing socially
acceptable and biologically sound methods od wildlife damage
management. "
The only thing missing is "Trust us, we are lawyers". LOL!
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THE TRUTH, as stated clearly since 2013:
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Congress: Kill Wildlife Services’ Wildlife-Killing
Budget[/center]
By Ralph Maughan On August 9, 2013
This is a guest editorial by Wendy Keefover, Director of the
Carnivore Protection Program at WildEarth Guardians-
The New York Times editors largely got it right when they
recently editorialized critically about the cruel work of a
little known program within the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) that annually spends over $100 million to kill some four
million animals each year. But we believe the Times should have
gone further with their recommendation: abolish Wildlife
Services altogether because it represents a huge waste of
taxpayer funds, it harms wildlife communities and ecosystems,
and uses indiscriminate, brutal methods to kill millions of
wildlife and domestic animals each year.
Not surprisingly Kevin Shea, one of the USDA’s top
administrators for the government’s war on wildlife reacted
defensively and claimed the Times editors “misunderstood” the
federal government’s animal-killing “program.” He argues that
unless one lives in “Rural [sic] America or work(s) in
agriculture” one just cannot comprehend[i] the need for the feds
to kill “wolves, coyotes, bears that prey on livestock, as well
as birds that can devour a field of sunflowers or a pen of
farm-raised catfish in a morning.”[/I]
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[I]But Shea’s notion of rural exceptionalism is fundamentally
about the bottom line of agribusiness and is a complete
dismissal of the [size=12pt]growing support for non-lethal
coexistence[/i][/size].
His arguments are out-of-step with Americans’ conservation
values. In fact some rural producers readily use non-lethal
methods to deter wildlife and prevent losses to their
agricultural products. A few ranchers ride with their herds that
graze on open range, or use barns or pens to protect lambing or
calving mothers. Some farmers use scarecrows and electronic
devices to scare off flocks of birds that might eat sunflower
seeds or rice.
Shea conveniently omitted facts about the enormous problems
associated with this federal animal-killing program. Each year,
Wildlife Services kills millions of animals, including animals
that are federally listed as “endangered” or “threatened” with
extinction under the Endangered Species Act. It also kills
hundreds of common species each year from meadowlarks, to
beavers, to American kestrels. Wildlife Services slays hundreds
of domestic pets, and occasionally and ironically the very
cattle, sheep, or deer they are working to protect.
While Shea claims that: “we target just those animals causing
the damage.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Wildlife
Services uses a veritable arsenal that includes a variety of
indiscriminate deadly poisons; cable neck snares; dynamite,
steel-jawed, and leg-hold traps. None of these things target the
individual animals that have caused agricultural damage. And
neither can the federal snipers who shoot wolves, bears,
coyotes, and ravens from helicopters and airplanes. They just
shoot the animals they see.
Shea also forgot to mention the brutality that characterizes
some Wildlife Services employees. Recently, one federal trapper
was criticized for apparently siccing his dogs on trapped
coyotes. The trapper then apparently took photos and posted them
to his Facebook page.
In another recent incident, a government trapper, who was
working for his wife with his supervisor’s approval, set up
leg-hold traps in his own yard. He captured his neighbor’s dog
who was left in traps for hours. The dog sustained permanent
damage to her body. The trapper has been charged in Arizona for
felony animal abuse and recently left his employment.
Wildlife Services wastes enormous resources in its bid to kill
America’s most majestic native carnivores such as wolves,
coyotes, bears, and cougars. What makes no sense is that only a
miniscule number of livestock actually die from predation – less
than a quarter of one percent of the cattle inventory according
to USDA figures. Most cattle and sheep succumb to illness,
disease, and birthing problems, according to the USDA’s own
data, killing wolves and other native species creates enormous
ecosystem problems, and disrupts the social structures in these
animal communities.
Finally, Mr. Shea failed to tell his readers that tax dollars
largely pay for all this killing. Wildlife Services receives
funds from taxpayers at every level of government – from
municipalities, to states, and from the federal treasury as
well.
Worse, Wildlife Services operates under a veil of secrecy, often
failing to account for its actions. Wildlife Services is
notorious for its failures to respond to Freedom of Information
Act requests. It won’t tell the public how much it spends on
what it does, although a peek at some of its record keeping from
its databases indicates a culture of precise record keeping.
Wildlife Services has even evaded requests from Congress for its
budget records.
Wildlife Services has been around in various guises since the
late 19th Century with its primary mission to exterminate our
nation’s wildlife so as to benefit those in agribusiness. Times
have changed. Sadly Wildlife Service has not. It’s time for
Wildlife Services to go. It’s out of step with Americans’ values
toward wildlife and wildlands conservation.
With ingenuity and persistence, producers can choose to co-exist
with wildlife rather than killing – because the amount of
killing is expensive, harmful, misguided, and wholly
unnecessary. In an era of economic uncertainty, it’s time to
kill Wildlife Services’ budget so as to spare our nation’s
wildlife and pets.
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: September 30, 2016, 12:32 pm
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Sep. 29, 2016 04:51PM EST
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Defenders of Wildlife Defenders of Wildlife
SNIPPET:
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North
Carolina today issued a preliminary injunction that orders the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to stop capturing and
killing—and authorizing private landowners to capture and
kill—members of the rapidly dwindling population of wild red
wolves.
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: October 13, 2016, 1:46 pm
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Despite 40 years of protection efforts and billions of dollars,
America's rarest animals and their habitats continue to decline.
Existing approaches are not capable of protecting habitat
quickly enough and at a large enough scale to restore healthy
wildlife populations, in large part because a challenge between
wildlife and development typically ends in costly and
time-consuming court battles. But EDF has come up with a
solution that allows people and wildlife to thrive together.
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[center]Lesser Prairie Chicken[/center]
The lesser prairie-chicken is a ground-dwelling grouse, known
for its elaborate mating dances, and found only in the United
States. Once abundant throughout the southern Great Plains, the
bird is now limited to select portions of New Mexico, Colorado,
Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. Its habitat overlaps with farming
and ranching operations as well as oil, gas and wind energy
development.
EDF is among the leaders in an effort to save this species. By
participating in the Lesser Prairie-Chicken Habitat Exchange,
farmers, ranchers, and other landowners can earn income by
creating, maintaining, and improving habitat vital to the
survival of the lesser prairie chicken.
There were once an estimated 1 million Attwater's prairie
chickens living in the coastal prairie of Texas and Louisiana.
But rapid loss of prairie habitat in the early 1900s took a
devastating toll. Today, the only living Attwater's prairie
chickens are born in zoos. :(
Prairie chickens need millions of acres of prairie habitat in
order to survive extended droughts and a multitude of other
threats—far more than can ever be preserved through purchase and
the establishment of federal or state refuges and preserves.
Enjoy Spectacular slide shows and a wealth of valuable
environmental information at the link below: [img
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: November 6, 2016, 4:46 pm
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[center]America's wolves at Risk[/center]
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: November 6, 2016, 6:43 pm
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[center]Shades of Gray: America's Wolf Dilemma[/center]
[center]
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[center]Wolf Howling Compilation ;D[/center]
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: November 9, 2016, 5:43 pm
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[center]Sweet Kangaroo Who Was Rescued as an Orphan Thanks Her
Caretakers for Saving Her Every Day
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Full story with heart warming pictures:
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: December 11, 2016, 5:30 pm
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[center]Love and Relation With Wild Animals - Full
Documentary[/center]
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[center]Love and Relation With Wild Animals - Full Documentary
P.2 [/center]
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Re: Defending Wildlife
By: AGelbert Date: December 24, 2016, 2:52 pm
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[center]Sea Shepherd
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in Southern Ocean[/center]
December 23, 2016 by Mike Schuler
[center]A whale tied to the side of the Japanese whale research
vessel Yushin Maru No. 2 taken February 15, 2013. Photo (at
article link) courtesy Sea Shepherd Conservation
Society[/center]
Activists with the controversial Sea Shepherd Conservation
Society have located the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern
Ocean setting the stage for what is sure to be another season of
high seas drama and possibly violent confrontations in the
remote Antarctic waters.
Sea Shepherd said its vessels, including its new Ocean Warrior,
intercepted part of the Japanese whaling fleet Thursday night in
the South Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
“The crews of the Ocean Warrior and The MV Steve Irwin have been
battling through thick fog and ice to protect the whales in the
Australian whale sanctuary,” said Captain Adam Meyerson, Captain
of the Ocean Warrior. “The [Yushin harpoon ship] was hiding
behind an iceberg and came out on a collision course.”
The organization said the Japanese whaling ship was located
approximately 165 miles northeast of Australia’s Casey base,
inside the Australian whale sanctuary.
“Sea Shepherd’s vessels are now on the hunt for the centerpiece
of the illegal Japanese whaling fleet, the floating
slaughterhouse known as the Nisshin Maru,” Sea Shepherd said in
a statement.
“Finding one of the hunter killer ships hiding behind an iceberg
in a thick fog means that the rest of the fleet is nearby. We
all hope to have whaling in the Southern Ocean shut down by
Christmas,” said Meyerson.
Sea Shepherd is currently on its 11th Antarctic Whale Defense
Campaign, named Operation Nemesis. This year the organization is
equipped with a brand new, multi-million patrol ship that is
faster and more capable than any ship Sea Shepherd has ever had
in its fleet.
Sea Shepherd says this year the Japanese whaling fleet has set a
quota of 333 Minke whales. Japanese whaling is conducted by the
Institute of Cetacean Research, which skirts an international
moratorium on commercial whaling under a provision that allows
whaling only for purposes of scientific research.
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