To hunt or to protect? Western states struggle with wolf management. HUNTERS, Wash. — Sheep rancher Dave Dashiell got to his feet and wiped the blood from his hands.
A newborn lamb he had just delivered took one breath, then another. He laid the lamb down gently in front of its mother. "I hope he lives," Dashiell said. In this part of Washington state, the hope is not only that the lamb will avoid sickness and injury, but that gray wolves won't make it their prey. As gray wolves multiply and come off endangered species lists in Western states, a new problem has emerged: Packs of wolves are harassing ranchers, their sheep and cattle.
An Endangered Species "How do you cross that divide? However, America has decided it values wildlife, he said, and his job is to help the wolf population recover. In most of the United States, gray wolves are listed by the U.S. In the early 1900s, gray wolves were nearly extinct, except in Alaska. A Certain Number Of Packs Wolves affect cattle and sheep in other ways as well. Hunters are killing millions of animals, and 1 in 8 of those are endangered.
About 1.7 million animal “trophies” have been exported across borders by hunters in the last decade, according to a new report.
At least 200,000 of them are endangered species. The report found that American hunters are by far the largest killers of trophy animals. Half of all the 11,000 lions shot in the last decade were by Americans. The issue came to global attention in July 2015 after an American dentist paid more than $50,000 to kill a lion called Cecil. The male lion was being tracked by conservation scientists in Zimbabwe. The report from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), based on official records, sheds new light on the scale of the international trophy-hunting industry. Starving sea lion pups washing ashore, last link in climate change events. SANTA ANA, Calif. — Every year in June, sea lion mothers on the Channel Islands give birth to a pup.
For the next 11 months, the mothers swim off for days at a time to find food for themselves and provide milk for their progeny. In early 2015, sardines and anchovies — the best food — were hard to find. The mothers were forced to dive deeper and swim farther, and by the time they returned to the islands, they didn’t have much milk to offer. The ocean, which in years past had been full with food, was emptier than before. The pups wound up stranded on mainland beaches in record numbers, emaciated and starving.
As El Nino bears down on California this year, worse is expected. Marine mammal care centers are preparing for a rash of strandings. Treating The Symptom, Not The Bigger Issue “We treat them as sacred animals,” said Geoff Shester, the California campaign director for Oceana, an environmental group. Ecosystem Changes Lower Births “The ecosystem changed,” Lowry said. Facts About Sea Lions. About Animal Testing. October 21, 2012 Humane Society International More than 100 million animals are killed each year in laboratories around the world. iStock What is animal testing?
What animals are used? What's wrong with animal testing? What's the alternative? If animal testing is so unreliable, why does it continue? Are animal experiments needed for medical progress? Read HSI's other FAQs about animal testing What is animal testing? The term "animal testing" refers to procedures performed on living animals for purposes of research into basic biology and diseases, assessing the effectiveness of new medicinal products, and testing the human health and/or environmental safety of consumer and industry products such as cosmetics, household cleaners, food additives, pharmaceuticals and industrial/agro-chemicals.
Animal Testing - ProCon.org. Animal testing has contributed to many life-saving cures and treatments.
The California Biomedical Research Association states that nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years has resulted directly from research using animals. Experiments in which dogs had their pancreases removed led directly to the discovery of insulin, critical to saving the lives of diabetics. The polio vaccine, tested on animals, reduced the global occurrence of the disease from 350,000 cases in 1988 to 223 cases in 2012. 113] Animal research has also contributed to major advances in understanding and treating conditions such as breast cancer, brain injury, childhood leukemia, cystic fibrosis, malaria, multiple sclerosis, tuberculosis, and many others, and was instrumental in the development of pacemakers, cardiac valve substitutes, and anesthetics.
Chris Abee, Director of the University of Texas M.D. Animals are appropriate research subjects because they are similar to human beings in many ways. Animal Testing.