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Critter News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
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Animal Ethics
MAY 30, 2008
Here is a New York Times editorial opinion about the removal of the gray wolf ( Canis lupus ) from the endangered-species list. The editorial board of the Times is intellectually dishonest, so please don't let this be your only source of information about the delisting. Here , for example, is a news release from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Here are questions and answers. Here is the management plan of Idaho's Fish and Game Commission
Oregon Ranchers Want to Kill Wolves That have Been Killing Sheep
Critter News
APRIL 18, 2009
Wolves have been killing livestock in Oregon, and now they want the authority to kill them. Tags: wolves
Obama's Rules Freeze May Help Wolves
Critter News
JANUARY 30, 2009
Wildlife conservationists say the freeze will delay and possibly prevent the removal of gray wolves from the federal endangered species list in Montana, Idaho, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, and also in portions of Washington, Oregon, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Tags: Obama wolves salazar endangered species Let's keep our fingers crossed.
Palin Supports Brutal Method of Killing Wolves
Critter News
AUGUST 29, 2008
The wolves suffer needlessly because hunters simply wound them more often then not firing from an airplane. Tags: Palin alaska wolves I understand there may be some instances where predator control is necessary. I'm not an absolutist on this point. Doing it from low flying aircraft, however, is just barbaric. This is what Palin has pushed for. Here is a video from Defenders of Wildlife that shows the method (it's under 3 minutes).
Wolves & Eagles No Longer Endangered in Michigan?
Critter News
AUGUST 21, 2008
The delisting would not open the door for hunters to kill wolves, the state's DNR notes. That's what Michigan's State Department of Natural Resources says. Michigan's removal of the bald eagle and gray wolf from the list will be the most significant change in species protection the state has seen in years.
Swedish King Wants to Cull Country's Wolf Population
Critter News
APRIL 30, 2012
Wolves kill elk - But King Gustaf wants to kill the elk so he wants to get rid of wolves And why does he want to do that? Despite the fact that some 100,000 elk are shot every autumn in Sweden out of an estimated population of 3-400,000, King Gustaf believes that the presence of 200 wolves might spoil his annual hunt, so has been advocating the culling of as many wolves as possible. elk conservation Sweden blood sport World Wildlife Fund hunting wolves
Defenders of Wildlife Blast Palin in New Ad
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2008
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Wolf Killng Begins in Alaska
Critter News
MARCH 17, 2009
of Fish and Game hopes to kill up to 328 wolves in order to protect caribou calves. Tags: wolves The Alaska Dept. The LA Times Greenspace blog has the story.
Spotlighting Palin's Barbaric Wolf Killing Policies
Critter News
OCTOBER 6, 2008
Bad for wolves, bad for America. Tags: Palin wolves We wrote about it here before Palin became the Republican VP nominee, now people like Andrew Sullivan are catching on to her cruel policies as governor.
Quote of the Week
Critter News
NOVEMBER 11, 2009
"Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them." — Bob Ferris.
The Vet Who Did Not Vet
Critter News
OCTOBER 25, 2008
OK, it doesn't have a lot to do with "critters" per se, other then the fact that it deals with That One that approves of killing wolves and polar bears.
Court Overrules Federal Government on Wolf ESA Decision
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 29, 2008
Good news for wolves in the Great Lakes area. The ruling today affects wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. TRAVERSE CITY - State officials say they're not pleased with a federal court's ruling overturning the government's decision to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list for the Great Lakes region. It's in response to a lawsuit filed by several environmental groups, including The Humane Society of the United States. The U.S.
Frozen Planet
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 14, 2012
We loved seeing penguins, whales, polar bears, and wolves. We were glued to the TV when Discovery Chanel was airing Frozen Planet, and we have been even more enthralled now that we have the entire collection on DVD (they also have it in Blu-Ray).
Canis Lupus
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 6, 2009
Here is an interesting New York Times story about wolves and dogs. It's good to see my old friend Marc Bekoff quoted in the story
From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
APRIL 25, 2009
To the Editor: Re “ Science, Mythology, Hatred, and the Fate of the Gray Wolf ” (Editorial Observer, April 13): Verlyn Klinkenborg is correct that it’s not just the behavior and biology of wolves that will determine whether they survive. And our choices about wolves have significant implications beyond the wolves themselves. Those who find this reminder threatening or inconvenient are first in line to shoot wolves. And as go the wolves, so may go the world.
Stats Are Up!
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2008
It's because she's a global warming denying wingnut who also has rotten policies regarding predator control (in this case wolves). Nothing like glomming on to a popular topic to get those stats up. In this case, it's been Sarah Palin's rotten attitude towards animals. And no, that's not because she is a hunter. And yes, we have posted about her before she became VP nominee.
Canis Lupus
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 22, 2008
Here is a New York Times story about gray wolves, who are no longer on the protected list in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. If you haven't read Barry Holstun Lopez 's 1978 book Of Wolves and Men , you should do so. It changed my life
Saving Marine Animals that Are NOT Cute
Critter News
MARCH 13, 2010
Examples include panda bears, wolves, elephants, tigers, etc. We hear about the problem with charismatic land species. It's those species that either have a powerful personality or a cute face that endear people to them and garner news attention. It's easier to motivate people to save them as opposed to other species that are vital, but either boring or ugly. It's the same problem with marine life. People want to save the dolphins and the sea otters, but what about the bluefin tuna?
Domesticated Dogs May Have All Originated in China
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2009
And it may have been for reasons other then what we would like: A new study of dogs worldwide, the largest of its kind, suggests a different answer, one that any dog-owner is bound to find repulsive: Wolves may have first been domesticated for their meat. Here is an interesting article about research out of Sweden that suggests that all domesticated dogs may have originated from China.
Wild Mississippi
4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 8, 2012
You will see everything from bald eagles, wolves and deer, to wild turtles, baby ducklings and other animals. One of the things that I love the most about watching NatGeo Wild is that we always discover amazing places and crazy nature that we didn’t know about before!
10 Reasons Street Dogs Deserve to be Defended
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 14, 2013
Do you really think one generation on the street is going to turn us back into wolves? No dog is happier to be rescued. I remember the first night after I left the streets. My human kept me in an enclosed porch because, let’s face it, I was crawling with fleas and pretty filthy.
The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
Wolves, for example–the probable ancestors of dogs–live in packs that hunt together and have a complex hierarchy. Hare suspects that the evolutionary pressures that turned suspicious wolves into outgoing dogs were similar to the ones that turned combative apes into cooperative humans. Wolves also lick one another’s mouths, particularly when one wolf returns to the pack. They decided to study foxes, which are closely related to wolves and dogs.
Nat Geo WILD!
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 25, 2010
Are you excited for the brand new channel from National Geographic? It’s called WILD and launches on Monday, March 29th, with some seriously cool new shows! I will be sharing sneak peeks all weekend. First up, a show called EXPEDITION WILD.
Why Palin?
Critter News
AUGUST 30, 2008
For me, I've been deluged for months by Defenders of Wildlife material about Alaska's heartless treatment of wolves. I hope that the scrutiny of Palin will do something about Alaska's unfair and cruel treatment of wolves. The following is not necessarily representative of ALL of Critter News. Just me. Why has John McCain chosen Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, as a running mate? This may not seem like an animal issue, but it is.
Palin Now Going After Endangered Whales
Critter News
JANUARY 26, 2009
First wolves, then polar bears, now beluga whales. And those are just the endangered animals (remember the turkey being ground up during her tv interview?) At issue is the population of {the Cook Inlet beluga) whales, which were put under the protections of the Marine Mammal Protection Act eight years ago, which scientists argue hasn't sped their recovery: Palin begs to differ.
From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 31, 2011
Seamus McGraw tells us he has to kill deer in his section of Pennsylvania because “with no predators to speak of—the wolves were wiped out centuries ago and the last mountain lion in the state was killed more than 70 years ago—the responsibility for trying to restore a part of that balance fell to me.” Who wiped out the wolves and mountain lions? To the Editor: In “ Hunting Deer With My Flintlock ” (Op-Ed, Dec.
Sarah Palin Scares Me
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 6, 2008
Keep women in their place and remember to hunt and kill the wolves and any other animal that gets in their way. I'll be honest. I was never planning on voting for John McCain in the first place. But I wasn't freaked out about this election the way I am now. I thought that if we could survive 8 years of w, we could survive 4 years of McCain. He couldn't be worse. Then he picked this woman. And the more I learn, the worse it gets. NOW, I'm freaked out.
Twenty Years Ago
Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 21, 2007
The book that started everything was Barry Holstun Lopez’s Of Wolves and Men [(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978); I finished reading this book on 28 December 1980]. 10-21-87 Wednesday. I had a nice discussion with Clark Wolf this afternoon. It ranged over music, politics, and philosophy, but the most interesting subject was how each of us came to discover and fall in love with philosophy. As I explained to Clark, I came at philosophy in an odd way.
From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
Wolves eat sheep. To the Editor: Re “ Animal, Vegetable, Miserable ,” by Gary Steiner (Op-Ed, Nov.
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