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Palin Supports Brutal Method of Killing Wolves

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The wolves suffer needlessly because hunters simply wound them more often then not firing from an airplane. Here is more video from Current on the subject (this one is a full 10 minutes), but explains how this is mainly for the benefit of trophy hunters, not subsistence hunters that Palin claims it is for.

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Wolves & Eagles No Longer Endangered in Michigan?

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The delisting would not open the door for hunters to kill wolves, the state's DNR notes. Killing would be permitted only if a wolf posed a direct threat to humans. State environmental groups are showing "cautious optimism.".

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Nyala, Southern Africa’s Stunning Antelope

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Nyala are much appreciated by hunters and tourists, which has led to their being introduced to many parks and reserves around Southern Africa outside their natural range. Like many of its close relatives the males and females are different in appearance, with the females looking most like their relatives. A female Nyala in Imfolozi.

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Falakhe’s Story

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And the morning before the Mkuze pack of Painted Wolves, or African Wild Dogs, had been very close to one of the park’s few Lions, as far as tracking collars had told. And the two species were not inclined to get on, by which I mean that Lions will kill other large predators including Painted Wolves.

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Stats Are Up!

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And no, that's not because she is a hunter. 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.

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Why Palin?

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For me, I've been deluged for months by Defenders of Wildlife material about Alaska's heartless treatment of wolves. She's been governor of Alaska for about two years, a world of its own with about half a million people, half of which may be subsistence hunters for all I know. This may not seem like an animal issue, but it is.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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This almost certainly can be argued to be true just on the basis of logic, because feral Cats are proficient hunters and are entirely out of ecological place. Dogs are similarly dispersed across size ranges, with Foxes, Coyotes, and Wolves taking prey across different parts of the size range. Let me tell you this: They are.