Once again grizzly bears need your urgent help so please don't delay! This time it is the bears of the Cabinet-Yaak area. Seems like since the Yellowstone grizzlies were delisted last spring, people are just itching to get all bears off the list (Endangered Species List).
Photo: NPS archives
Natural Resources Defense Council states:
"Grizzly bears in the Cabinet Yaak ecosystem, which are hovering at dangerously low numbers, are of particular concern. Without endangered species protection, the last remaining 30-40 bears could go extinct. At a December meeting, state wildlife officials passed a draftresolution requesting that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servicecomplete a study of the northern Montana grizzly populations bythe end of 2008. It appears that state officials are demanding an expedited studywith the hope that small, isolated bear populations will be put together and evaluated as a single group. If that is indeed the case, overall population numbers might appear robust enough to warrant the removal of federal protection. But according to wildlife biologists, stripping these bears of protection now would drive them back to the brink of extinction."
Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks is the place to send comments and/or calls to. Or use this handy link to sign the letter designed by NRDC:
Cabinet-Yaak Grizzly Delisting Petition
Where is the Cabinet-Yaak area?
Map: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Cabinet-Yaak Grizzlies Need Your Help
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2 comments:
Hi Heavenabove!
We clearly would never want the bear population to be robust and healthy, it is far better for it to teeter on the edge of extinction….
Makes you shake your head….
The only shots we want to take of bears are with our cameras. If they kill the bears there are no reasons for us to come and spend all our tourist dollars.
All that without me getting into all the moral aspects of this…
Seems to be the same sad tale for all animals these days.
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