From the CBD..............
Somewhere a while back I remember seeing where someone on here was talking them up over habitat issues?
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author: Center for Biological Diversity
target: Joel Hard, Deputy Regional Director of the National Parks Service
signatures: 24,099
we've got 24,099 signatures, help us get to 30,000 by December 3, 2014
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petition
Increasingly the state of Alaska has been targeting wolves and bears, even in our national preserves, in an effort to boost moose and caribou populations for the benefit of human hunters.
In addition to being cruel, this behavior threatens to upset the area’s natural balance.
Unsporting hunting practices include shooting bears over bait and killing wolves, coyotes and bears in their dens, when they're raising young or when they're very young themselves. Such acts are considered taboo throughout much of the world; yet the state of Alaska will allow any measure, so long as it kills off as many wolves and bears as possible.
It's a management style that has nothing to do with sound science and directly conflicts with the National Park Service's mandates to conserve wildlife and maintain natural processes on national preserves. For this reason the Park Service has proposed permanent rules exempting these preserves from the state's hunting methods.
Take action — tell the National Park Service you fully support its new rules to protect wildlife and defend the natural character of our national preserves.
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