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The Trump administration is systematically rolling back protections for endangered wildlife and expanding rights for hunters, winning cheers from sporting associations but worrying environmentalists who fear it will lead to the extinction of protected species.
The National Park Service (NPS) announced last week it would end an Obama-era protection that prohibited the hunting of bear cubs, as well as wolves and pups in their dens in Alaskas national preserves.
Under the proposal, which is not yet final, Alaska could decide whether to allow these hunting practices, in addition to the targeting of animals from boats and planes and the use of bait to lure in animals for hunting.
Animals rights groups call the hunting practices barbaric, while the administration championed the decision as a win for states rights.
That same day, the Interior Department also announced it was expanding hunting access at 30 National Wildlife Refuges across the country.
The rule would open or expand 248,000 acres to hunting and allow for the first time a number of new activities on the public land, including big game hunting.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/389440-pro-hunting-trump-officials-take-ax-to-wildlife-protections
Wouldn't a stuffed endangered species animal look great in your den? /s
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)All those Billionaires will now be able to Kill off the remain wildlife.
Takket
(21,573 posts)Even if that was legal, why in the WORLD would anyone want to do that?????????????????? do sportsmen really want to be taking down baby animals? i though hunting a fully grown adult was part of the "thrill"
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,343 posts)Is there a market for the pelts? Decades ago, there was much press about harvesting baby seals for their pelts.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)help them understand what a 'refuge' is.