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Deadly Thanksgiving Weekend for Wolves in Idaho

This weekend, while you’re recovering from your Thanksgiving feast and possible Black Friday shop-a-thon (or protest thereof), wolves and other predators are running for their lives in Idaho. The 5th Annual Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife Idaho Predator Derby started this morning, and it’s a circus of senseless killing.
Here’s what wildlife advocate Matt Skoglund has [...]

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Russia Bans Baby Seal Massacre, Canada Continues Killing Spree

Baby seals are safe from being massacred in Russia, as the country announced Wednesday that it had banned hunting the animals. The announcement came weeks after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called it a “bloody industry”. Anti-seal hunting protesters had gathered in 20 cities and towns across Russia this week to urge a halt to the [...]

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Protected Gray Wolves Being Illegally Killed

Hunters in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Wisconsin and the Rockies are still shooting down gray wolves despite the animal’s protected status. More than three dozen have been illegally killed in the U.P. within the past five years, and officials in other north central and Rocky Mountain states report many more wolf shootings. About 10 percent of [...]

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Canada Chooses to Kill Over 500 Narwhals Rather than Save Them

Once a year, Canada uses powerful icebreakers so hunters can gleefully kill thousands of baby seals and sell their downy white pelts. And yet, somehow those same icebreakers weren’t available when over 500 narwhals – whales with tusks resembling the horn of the fabled unicorn – became trapped under the ice. Instead of rescuing the [...]

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Sarah Palin’s Record on the Environment? Not so great.

We all know that Republican VP pick Sarah Palin questions global warming science and favors drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But after last night’s Vice Presidential debate in which Palin’s answer to a direct question about climate change was vague to say the least (see below), we thought we’d give her [...]

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