The Trump administration is setting rules that will allow hunters to kill bears and their cubs inside their burrows in Alaska.
The Trump administration is setting rules that will allow hunters to kill bears and their cubs inside their Alaska burrows. The provision would also apply to wolves and coyotes.
Another bad news from the source of wildlife conservation in the United States. According to the American media, in fact, the Trump administration, with a new ordinance that goes in the opposite direction to that drafted on the environment and animals in the Obama era, could give the green light to the killing of bears, wolves and coyotes interior of the national reserves in Alaska. In practice, the new measures would allow hunters to use bait to get animals out of their burrows and then kill them. According to Jesse Jesse Prentice-Dunn, director of the Center for Western Priorities, this measure 'would be incredibly cruel and only the latest in a series of measures to reduce wildlife protections at the request of oil companies. and trophy hunters'.
It is not the first time that we have told what is happening in the United States. More than wildlife, the Trump administration thinks about development and economic interests. According to The Guardian, the order will be officially published this week. Alaskan Senator Dan Sullivan said the review was needed 'not just as a matter of principle, but as a matter of states' rights. For the Tanana Chiefs Conference, Obama's rules threatened the sustainable resource management practices of the tribes living in the area.
Both the National Park Service and the US Fish and Wildlife Service are already considering allowing more intense hunting in Alaska's 10 national reserves, a move that has been condemned by conservation groups. National reserves differ from national parks in that they allow hunting, fishing, trapping, and resource extraction. Animals will pay the price as always: therefore, it will also be possible to shoot on puppies and this could represent a very serious problem for the species.
"The Trump administration has reached an incredibly low level in its treatment of wildlife," Defenders of Wildlife president Jamie Rappaport Clark told USA Today - Allow the killing of bear cubs and wolf cubs in their burrows it is barbaric and inhumane ”.
"The killing of animals for fun or sport not only causes mass suffering to wildlife, it threatens entire ecosystems and wildlife habitats," Ben Williamson, director of the US World Animal Protection program.
We also recall that, authorized by Trump, the Department of the Interior has expanded access to public lands for both hunters and fossil fuel companies. Last April, it allowed the exploitation of resources where 97 wildlife refuges are located.
Font: The Guardian/Independent/USA Today
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