Aerial hunting of wolves-opinions?
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Aerial hunting of wolves-opinions?
| Wed, 09-10-2008 - 11:36am |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr183lk-wQk
After watching this video, what is you opinion? Is this okay? Should it be illegal?


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I have no issue with it.
Wolves have been romanticized by animal rights activists and some environmentalists to be some sort of "symbol of the wild".
I could find all of one wolf attack in north america that was not from a pet or from someone in a zoo going in the cages.
Yes wolves are predators....hunting their natural prey ( ie....deer.. caribou...etc) to survive. They don't hunt for fun...they hunt to live. I have never seen any site proclaiming that wolves are cuddly domestic creatures. They are wild predators who hunt to live.
When wolves are shot from the air they aren't usually killed, just injured severely enough that they will die...eventually. I have a friend from Alaska and she
The video shows one side. What it shows is clearly repulsive. But, I've seen anti-hunting videos in the past which have misrepresented the facts. I don't know that this one does, but I'm not ready to just accept it either.
I think we should consider the facts - the actual, relevant facts, all of them - before making a decision about it. I'm not saying anyone on here doesn't have the actual facts, but I know that I'm not aware of them.
Ive heard that she did pass this law before but i cant find it anywhere on the internet if she did or she didn't. I would be interested in hearing what the other side of this is, is it because wolves kill the caribou and the moose, because im not sure if that is a good reason.
All i found was this:
Today Defenders of Wildlife, the Alaska Wildlife Alliance and the Alaska Chapter of the Sierra Club asked the Alaska Superior Court to shut down Governor Palin's $150-per-wolf bounty program citing the fact that Alaska's bounty laws were repealed in 1984 and the State has no current legal authority to implement the bounties.
http://www.defenders.org/newsroom/press_releases_folder/2007/03_27_2007_judge_asked_to_shut_down_wolf_bounty_program.php
And if you have a dog, remember that it is a subspecies of gray wolf, sharing 99% of its DNA.
This is exactly the sort of romanticizing
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