This is a guest post from Anthony J. Giordano, M.S., Ph.D.. He is the Founder and Executive Director of SPECIES: Society for the Preservation of Endangered Carnivores & their International Ecological Study. In the history of western civilization, no animal has been as systematically vilified as the wolf. Neither spider nor snake, bat nor rat, nor shark of any kind, …
$10 million contributor to Ted Cruz Super PAC enjoys killing lions and other trophy animals for fun
I have yet to hear anything decent about a republican running for President…. Ted Cruz is accepting Donations from TROPHY HUNTERS….. ajor contributor to a Super PAC supporting the floundering presidential campaign of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) has something in common with dentist andRomney supporter Walter Palmer — a taste for big game hunting and a dead lion …
What’s aerial wolf gunning, and why does vice presidential Sarah Palin support the practice?
Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and John Trump’s vice presidential pick, is an enthusiastic hunter who has proposed legislation and cash incentives to encourage aerial wolf gunning, the controversial practice of shooting wolves from an aircraft. Do people in Alaska really shoot wolves from planes? Yes, but only with the government’s permission. Aerial shooting yields better results than …
THE WOLF IN NORTH AMERICA
I. INTRODUCTIONPrior to European settlement, an estimated 2,000,000 wolves[2] lived on the North American continent.[3] Approximately 500 years later, the wolf population in the United States’ lower forty-eight states numbers between 500 and 1,600, with 1,500 to 1,750 located in Minnesota.[4] The wolf population in Alaska is between 5,000 and 15,000,[5] and the number of wolves in Canada ranges …