Bears and wolves in danger again in Alaska. The American Congress in recent days approved a project that will also allow puppies to be hunted. There is no good news for the environment either
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himBears and wolves in danger again in Alaska. Il Congress American in recent days has approved a project that will make it possible to hunt bears, foxes and wolves in national parks. But not only. It will be possible shoot these animals even from airplanes and kill cubs in burrows.
The Obama administration's rule on hunting ban in Alaska, la Alaska National Wildlife Refuges Rule, had been criticized and viewed as a violation of the rights of a single state by the federal government. They will be happy i hunters as Congress voted in favor of resolution, with 52 votes in favor and 47 against.
The previous law protected predators of 16 federal shelters in Alaska, banning extreme hunting practices, which involved killing wolves and their cubs in burrows, bears and foxes with steel traps and brown bears from airplanes.
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Environmental associations are trembling and are announcing that he is doing it Alaska National Wildlife Refuges Rule will be canceled, these practices will spread to all Alaska parks, devastating the wildlife heritage.
“Killing wolves and bears in this cruel with this unsportsmanlike fashion is scandalous, especially in the national wildlife refuges that belong to all Americans. Repealing these protections also undermines predators that play a fundamental role in favor of the health of ecosystems ", he said Brett Hartl, director of government affairs at the Center for Biological Diversity.
Jamie Rappaport Clark, president and CEO of Defenders of Wildlife, also said that by passing the resolution, Congress harms not only bears and wolves, but the American people:
“This resolution tolerates extreme practices such as killing predators and loco pups, it is a disturbing abdication of federal authority over public lands and resources owned by all Americans. President Trump should veto this threat to wildlife and our natural heritage. "
Now only the President's signature is missing. As soon as the new tenant of the White House will put the seal on him, the hunters will be able to unleash those "predators" who at that point will turn into victims.
Predators, it will no longer be possible to define them as such as man will in a certain sense take their place.
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There is no good news for the environment either. The US president has also given the green light to a plan that revisits the rules on climate change and for the reduction of polluting emissions by industries putting an end to what he himself defined the "coal warfare". In this way, this obsolete and polluting fossil source is rehabilitated and production in the mines is relaunched.
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The new signed decree changed the rules contained in the Clean Air Act which he said would cause a drop in jobs. Far from wanting to praise the work of the previous US administration, it is in fact a big step backwards in terms of environmental protection and public health.
The miners will be happy, probably the only ones to rejoice in this new American opening towards coal.
Francesca Mancuso
