Aerial Hunting od Wolves in Alaska
I was doing some research and I came across one of the most gruesome things that I have ever heard of. In Alaska they are allowing people to fly small helicopters around to chase down wolves and then shoot them at point blank range. I am not going to write alot, but I am going to copy and past the article and then the sit name. I am doind my part to sace them, and now it is yours. We are all that they have to save them, it is time that we took a stand to save these beautiful creatures. They need your help and I am asking that even if you dont give a crap less, please at least go to the site and watch the video mabye it will change your mind. www.savewolves.org
Over the past 3 years, Alaska has engaged in an illegal and barbaric annual aerial wolf kill whereby wolves are tracked and gunned down by aircraft. And today, not only is the program set to expand the areas where aerial gunning is permitted and to make permanent the five existing aerial gunning programs, but there are also plans to expand the use of snowmobiles to chase and kill wolves.
The Federal Airborne Hunting Act was passed in 1971 specifically to prevent this sort of aerial wolf kill. However, the present federal administration is unwilling to enforce this law and the state of Alaska claims that its actions are technically legal, because it doesn’t allow “hunting” of wolves, but rather the “control” of wolves to protect game populations (which, by the way, are being “protected” so they can be killed largely by urban and out-of-state big game hunters).
Alaska continues with this program, even after a 1997 National Academy of Science study found that many of the biological relationships assumed in Alaska's predator control programs are not well understood and concluded that insufficient information often exists to conclude that such programs increase prey or game populations.
This year, 152 wolves were already killed by this aerial shooting campaign. Despite two ballot measures in past years that have banned this practice, the Alaska Board of Game continues to promote wolf kills and is presently considering killing plans like these to “control” the populations of brown and black bears as well. Moreover, this practice could soon become a model for other states to follow as they consider their post-ESA plans.