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Alaska allows aerial shooting of grizzlies
photo by Arthur Chapman (Flickr CC)
Alaska’s main animal predators are now at risk of being shot from helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. It is already legal to bait and snare bears in Alaska, a practice even some hunting advocates find inhumane.
In order to increase the hunting of caribou and moose in the state, Alaska’s Board of Game has lifted a ban on the aerial shooting of grizzly bears, a threatened species in most US states.
State wildlife officials may now cull grizzlies by shooting them Sarah Palin style – from the sky. But its not just the bears that are at risk. It is also state policy to exterminate wolves.
From the Los Angeles Times:
The controversial “intensive management” moves are the latest in a series of increasingly aggressive control methods targeting bears and wolves in Alaska. In some parts of the state, wolf pups can be gassed in their dens, bear cubs and sows can be hunted, and wolves shot from helicopters.
The National Parks Conservation Association has made their case by testifying against what they see as ‘objectionable’ practices of culling wolves and bears.
From the Environmental News Service:
The need for regulations against bear baiting, snaring, spotlighting and shooting bear cubs in national preserves, among other issues, were raised at the hearing. Backed by letters from nearly 1,700 NPCA supporters in Alaska and throughout the northwestern United States, the group presented its strongest case.
Is this simply a case of humans competing with predators for food sources or is there something more sinister at play?
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Good points, Rachel. If those adventurers want to hang around grizzlies (like Grizzly Man) they’d better be prepared to deal with the risks.
hahahahahhahhha Sarah Palin style huh..That it girl has a lot of haters, I don’t hate her but I don’t like her either…
As for the killings of these wild animals particularly Grizzlies and wolves it’s really upsetting…Aside from TLC also known as travel and living channel , I also love ‘BIO’ channel. There is this show entitles ‘ I SURVIVED’ they tackle near death incidents of the people who fortunately survived , may it be natural, assault or animal related. I’ve noticed that most of the animal related incidents were almost about man and bear confrontations. It’s weird and kinda stupid coz these people knew from the very start that those particular places are bear habitats and yet some will buy vacation houses or properties and some were even get a training in case the confrontation occurs…Here’s the funniest at the end, the dismantled survivor will be of course the victim and the bear ended up what else of course the attacker , the villain but these are my questions… are these animals really the threat to us or we are the biggest threat to them and is it not just their natural defense mechanism to act that way? where are they suppose to inhabit anyway? Are we really stupid that we expect animals to back off every time there’s human presence? aren’t we becoming overly delusional on that, why can’t we avoid them instead? aren’t we the supposedly most rational creatures here? I hope……