(ANIMAL VIDEO) In honor of Earth Day, feast your eyes on these adorable wolf pups! The pups, found on a trail in Central Idaho’s Frank Church – River of No Return Wilderness, are an instance of wolves returning to the area after 50 years of near absence! — Global Animal
(WOLF PROTECTION) CALIFORNIA — Last month, a lone gray wolf traveled over 1,000 miles before reaching California. This was the first time in 87 years that such a wolf had been seen in The Golden State. Read on to learn more about the legal controversy surrounding this gray wolf. — Global Animal
(TAKE ACTION) CANADA — Wildlife biologists are warning that the expanding oil and gas production in Alberta is contributing to the rapid decline of caribou herds. Canada’s Minister of Environment Peter Kent decided that rather than restoring the caribou’s habitat, the best way to deal with the situation is to shoot or poison the wolves that prey on caribou, an excruciating and prolonged way to die. Read on for more information on this devastating situation and how you can help the animals affected by the pipeline. — Global Animal
(MOVIE REVIEW) The Grey, starring Liam Neeson, is about an oil drilling team stranded in the middle of Alaskan wilderness after their plane crashes. But it’s not the dangerous weather that poses the biggest threat to these men, it’s a pack of wolves that are portrayed as blood-thirsty, vicious creatures. It’s hard not to get irked while watching The Grey since wolves just got delisted as an Endangered Species. It’s even harder to then read interviews with Joe Carnahan, the director, defending his portrayal of wolves as realistic, instead of simply admitting that it’s completely fictional. The idea that a pack of wild wolves that have never had contact with humans would go after humans in a territorial blood war is implausible at best, dangerously misleading at worst.
(ANIMAL RIGHTS) WASHINGTON — A new rule proposed by the Obama administration would allow endangered species to have the same protection across state lines, giving the government a greater ability to enforce the Endangered Species Act and animals under it. State governments would be forced to adhere with national protections, or lack thereof, for animals such as the gray wolf. The rule would allow better chances for locating and recovering listed species. Unfortunately, placing newly declining species or keeping some remaining species on the list could be a difficult task with stricter interpretations enforced. Read on for the full story. — Global Animal
(ENDANGERED SPECIES) – Conservationists are already fighting congress’ shortsighted decision to delist gray wolves with a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service. Despite its endangered species status, the gray wolf population is not fully recovered and they were hunted as recently as 2009. With wolf hunts already planned within hours of the delisting announcement, conservationists are acting as quickly as possible to save the unjustly targeted wolves. –Global Animal
GRAY WOLVES/ENDANGERED SPECIES – In a hotly contested and shortsighted move, the Interior Department has caved to pressure from ranchers and hunters to allow regular wolf hunts, in addition to outright killings of ‘problem wolves’ that attack cattle. Gray wolves have been brought from the edge of extinction to a total and still tenuous population of just 5,500 in eight states in the Northern Rockies. What is the purpose of taking almost 50 years to reintroduce and revive a species hunted to near extinction, a necessary predator in the chain of life, only to open them up to hunting? Apex predators are necessary to naturally balance deer and elk populations. When an apex predator is removed, other problems arise.
We share conservationists’ frustration at this decision. It’s the sort of shameful move that comes from the failure to learn from mistakes. Add to that the weakness of the very governmental bodies there to be stewards of nature and a pandering to hunters and ranchers. The decision to remove wolves from legal protection is a multi-faceted assault – on wolves and all wildlife, and citizens who care about fellow beings in the natural world. – Global Animal
(TAKE ACTION) – Bad news for the Missouri puppy mill initiative, Prop B, and the wolves in the Rocky Mountains.
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