The Ochre Project: raising awareness of the dingo cull - Part II - Akron animal advocacy. Jennifer Britton Parkhurst began her quest to save dingoes after doing research on her dog Fred.
Fred is a rescued Carolina Dog. When Parkhurst ran across a photo of an Australian dingo, she was amazed to see the resemblance between the two canines. That was no coincidence, she was to find out. Carolina Dogs, she says, are American dingo, and distant relatives of the wolf and Australian dingo. Parkhurst isn't from Australia. These revelations spurred Jennifer Britton Parkhurst to want to do more for the Australian dingo. Originally created to bring awareness, change and preservation to the dingoes of Fraser Island, Australia, The Ochre Project has grown to create further awareness to the plight and possible demise of all purebred dingoes in Australia. One of the original team members plans to embark upon an "Awareness Walk" encompassing the length of Australia's western seaboard. A virtual, ongoing event is set up on Facebook to help stop the senseless killing of dingoes.
Researcher: State Wolf Hunt Is Unsustainable. August 21, 2013 by wolfpreservation “A UW researcher is growing increasingly concerned about the plight of the gray wolf on Wisconsin’s landscape.
For 15 years, environmental studies associate professor Adrian Treves has studied the ecology of the carnivore’s interactions with people and has surveyed Wisconsin residents on wolf policy and management. Treves predicts Wisconsin’s wolf hunts, at their current levels, are not sustainable. Manual for Sabotaging Wolf Hunts Released. “And in that case, we choose to be saboteurs for the wild.”
The following text is from a press release of the Earth First! Media office, which provides correspondence to news outlets around the world. Download the Earth First! Normally I tend to agree with the outdoors writer Ted Williams as he opines on wildlife issues across the spectrum............I am disappointed that he seems to "throw up his hands", worn out by the tirades pro and con back and forth between "haters and l. As wolves spread through Yellowstone and beyond ranchers noticed that sheep losses were down.
That's because coyotes are naturally more numerous than wolves, and wolves are the only form of coyote control that ever worked. In the park's Lamar Valley, coyotes had consumed 85 percent of the mice; but by killing or evicting most of the coyotes the wolves returned that food base to an enormous array of other predators including foxes, weasels, badgers, owls, and hawks. As wolves ran overabundant elk out of riparian areas, aspen, cottonwood, and willow regenerated and with them leaf-eating insects that had been the base of a food chain sustaining everything from bats to swallows to trout to otters to ospreys to pelicans. BBC Nature - Wolf howl identification technology excites experts. 22 July 2013Last updated at 02:19 By Michelle Warwicker BBC Nature Which wolf is which?
Experts may soon be able to monitor individual wild wolves by just their howls Individual wild wolves can be recognised by just their howls with 100% accuracy, a study has shown. The team from Nottingham Trent University, UK, developed a computer program to analyse the vocal signatures of eastern grey wolves. Wolves roam huge home ranges, making it difficult for conservationists to track them visually. If you put the stress in different places you form a different sound.............This new tool will supplement the GPS monitoring collar that is currently used by biologists to track and study wolves.
By Michelle Warwickerbbc.co.uk Which wolf is which?
Experts may soon be able to monitor individual wild wolves by just their howls Individual wild wolves can be recognised by just their howls with 100% accuracy, a study has shown.The team from Nottingham Trent University, UK, developed a computer program to analyse the vocal signatures of eastern grey wolves. Wolves roam huge home ranges, making it difficult for conservationists to track them visually. Wolf Perceptions. Scarcely without exception, the wolf stir more emotion—from love to loath, reverence to revile—in people than do any other non-human animal.
That’s because wolves embody all that is wild. Those who love wilderness see the presence of wolves as evidence of an ecosystem intact. Now Rancher McIrvin Wants Washington Wolves Poisoned. >McIrvin says killing the wolves is the only solution.
He believes the calf carcass should have been laced with poison to get the “culprits.” “Until somebody gets serious about opening season on these wolves, I don’t know that there is any answer,” he said. Just as he did last year, McIrvin plans to continue to refuse compensation from the state. Western wolf issue is mostly not really about wolves. Wolf controversy is personal and cultural, not over biology- Except for the few people “on the fence” — those who have not chosen sides — the controversy over wolf restoration in the West is not really about wolves.
When the wolves were first reintroduced beginning in 1995, there was some genuine debate over whether it was the best way to restore them, whether the population would grow or wither and die, whether they would greatly reduce, or maybe even increase prey populations, and the effect of wolves on other animals and the ecosystems. Douglas W. Smith. Home Archives Reading Room Search Editorial Info.
Wildlife Recovery Just a Big Game for “Game” Departments. More proof that reintroduction and recovery is all just a big game for state wildlife department managers: Missouri recently reintroduced a mere 100 elk over the past two years, and already they’re talking about implementing a hunting season on them soon.
It seems hunting groups and their “game” department lackeys live by a time-tested formula: 1) Wipe out a species through over-hunting and/or trapping 2) Allow it to recover 3) Open a season and sell tags to kill the animals off again Lately we’ve seen this formula in action with wolves in the intermountain West and Great Lakes states. In addition to their full-scale assault on wolves, Montana recently started up a hunting season on bison, and they’re already talking about one for grizzly bears the minute they lose federal protection.
Now the recovering elk in Missouri may soon be under fire, as a local paper tells us in the following article entitled, Oregon panel OKs ‘last resort’ wolf-killing rule. By JEFF BARNARD, Associated Press Posted July 12, 2013 GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission on Friday adopted provisions of a lawsuit settlement that will make Oregon the only state in the West where killing wolves that attack livestock is a last resort. The rules adopted by the commission amend Oregon’s Wolf Management Plan, along with statutory provisions enacted by the Legislature that will be signed by Gov. Upper Peninsula wolf hunt approved, again, by Michigan's Natural Resources Commission. The Michigan Natural Resources Commission has again voted to allow a wolf hunt in parts of the Upper Peninsula this fall.
The commission voted 5 to 1 on Thursday to designate wolves as a game species and allow the hunt, starting in mid-November. While the wolves will be hunted this fall, an opposition group is working to block any future wolf hunting in the state through a second planned voter referendum. "Managing wildlife through science is far better than managing wildlife through ballot questions, which some organizations support for Michigan," said NRC Chair J.R.
Richardson. "The conservative public harvest proposal approved by the NRC ensures the long-term presence of wolves while providing a valuable tool for managing conflicts between wolves and human populations. " The NRC vote comes after a new law approved by the Michigan Legislature which gave the NRC the authority to establish new game species. Non-lethal Control of Humans Key to Future. After receiving 25,000 comments from across the country and around the world, the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks commissioners refused to listen to wolf advocates and compromise on their proposed plan to increase the “bag limit” on wolves from one to five for each hunter or trapper (except on a few paltry acres around Yellowstone) and extend the hunting season to six months, without any annual cap on the culling. Despite heartfelt pleas from wolf lovers the world over to spare the lives of wolves in Montana, the commission took a “no compromise” position.
Well, two can play at that game (it seems to me I’ve heard the slogan, “No Compromise” somewhere before). God only knows what some folks might resort to when they feel their voice is being completely ignored, as though their side—the wolves’ side—is of no significance. An article in an Idaho paper the other day carried the title, “Non-lethal control of wolves key to future.” Text and Wildlife Photography ©Jim Robertson, 2013. News Releases. Officials: Montana Wolf Hunt Sets Sights on Yellowstone Wolves. July 10, 2013 by wolfpreservation “Yellowstone officials expressed displeasure at a Montana state plan to increase grey-wolf hunting that also rejects the idea of a no-hunting buffer near the Park.The new wolf-hunting rules, as they stand now, would allow a hunter to bag five wolves during a longer season and set quotas in areas outside Yellowstone.
When setting the new Montana wolf hunt rules, the Montana Legislature specifically prohibited a no-hunting zone near the Park. Wolf hunting in Wisconsin will hurt wolf populations. Project Wolf. Where’s The Money? Don Peay of Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, right, speaks before the House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee. Peay is a founder of Big Game Forever, an anti-wolf advocacy group, who is seeking $300,000 from the Legislature.
(Al Hartmann | Tribune file photo) A very illuminating Sunday morning review of a great new book on Red Wolves(C.rufus) by our friend Helen McGinnis(Puma and Wolf advocate in West Virginia)....The book is entitled THE SECRET WORLD OF RED WOLVES and the author Beeland T. Delene "wades into. Rick, I posted the review below on amazon.com. Patricia Randolph's Madravenspeak: Members of DNR's board should step down over wolf slaughter. Wolf hunting expands even as delisting from federal protection is delayed. From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013: WASHINGTON D.C.––”A recent unexpected delay” has indefinitely postponed the anticipated removal of gray wolves in the Lower 48 states from U.S. endangered species list protection, Associated Press reported on May 21, 2013, citing only “a court filing” by “government attorneys.” (1) SAVE Americas Wolves. Wisconsin Governor Walker and the state Natural Resources Board are seemingly "twisting peoples arms" in smoky backrooms to go along with the increased Wolf removal target set for this Fall at 275.............And on top of this there were no Public writte.
Dear Editor: Words cannot adequately express my disgust over the Natural Resources Board's recent decision to move forward with the killing of 275 wolves from the Wisconsin landscape. It's more than apparent to me and many others who attended last week's board meeting in Wausau that collusion and cronyism with "special interest" groups consisting of consumptive stakeholders, as well as our own governor, rule the board. Tell Sally Jewell to Save the Wolves.
Environmental Action, Inc. is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. Is the far right driving gray wolves to extinction? The Fish and Wildlife Service bows to pressure from antigovernment groups, removing the animals’ endangered status. Wolves: Brutal management, false facts. This letter to the editor by Roger Hewitt, a regular reader and commenter to this blog, appeared in today’s Missoulian. Wolves: Brutal management, false facts.
The wolf is politically managed in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Wisconsin and other states, not scientifically or compassionately, but by a set of minds that are wolf jihad-minded, who intend to marginalize the wolf and other predators in the mistaken belief that nature needs to be controlled by man instead of lived with in a sharing attitude. It is being managed by a set of minds that go forward in their brutal management rationalizing it by claiming basically two false facts. Natural Resources Board Ignored Massive Public Opposition to Wolf Kill Quota. Outdoor writer and naturalist George Wuerthner, PREDATOR DEFENSE "captain" Brooks Fahy, Biologist John Laundre and many other contributors to this blog of. Wolves - Topic page at Spokesman.com.
Study: Wolves Don’t Cause Elk Drop. URGENT! Montana Wolf Hunt Comments Due on 24th Project Wolf. Man vs. Wolf. Should humans intervene to keep a pack of wolves on Isle Royale? Isle Royale researchers debate intervention to help wolf population. Wolf that chased motorcyle on B.C. highway likely ‘accustomed’ to being fed by humans: park officials. "Wolves only occupy a fraction of their former habitat"................"There is still plenty of unoccupied but good habitat in states like Colorado and Utah,
George Wuerthner's take on why Wolf Delisting does not make ecological sense at this point. Conducting Research at Wolf Park. Ridiculous “Testimony” From Sham “Wolf Advisory” Committee Sets Stage for Mass Slaughter of Wisconsin Wolves. Proposed Removal of Gray Wolves’ Endangered Status a Case Study in the Politicization of Science by James William Gibson. Karma is Too Slow and Guns Are Too Damn Noisy. Montana Conservationist Accused Of Declaring War On Wolves. Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) From the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Maintaining Protections for the Mexican Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) by Listing It as Endangered. Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) From the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Maintaining Protections for the Mexican Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) by Listing It as Endangered.
Wolf delisting – comment now! National Cattlemen’s Beef Assoc. has Beef With Mexicans… Salt Lake Tribune Extols Value of wolves. Western Gray Wolf: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. What real public information about wolves looks like. STOP WOLF HUNTS: #WOLFFOLKS !! ALL CONTACT INFO : USFWS > COMMENT COMMENT COMMENT!!!!! Pw2013/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/WY-Comments-wolf-management-proposal-6-Jun.pdf.
Letter From Wolf Scientists to Sec. Sally Jewell. Noah Greenwald: America's Wolves Don't Deserve This. Wolves. STOP WOLF HUNTS: The Obama administration is giving up on America's wolves. BUT WE ARE NOT!!!! USFWS - Gray Wolf Recovery. Don’t Forsake the Gray Wolf. This Is Not What I Voted For……. The Obama Administration may be the most "confused" group of politicians to occupy D.C. in my lifetime................They profess one thing and turn arou.
Obama Administration Proposes Stripping Federal Protections for Wolves Nationally. Obama Administration Proposes Stripping Federal Protections for Wolves Nationally. Wolf slaughter continues: Yes, some people think killing wolves is just fine. When A Wolf Dies. Effects of forest composition on trophic relationships among mast production and mammals in central hardwood forest.
Inhumanity of Wolf Management. Inhumanity of Wolf Management. Feds want to remove gray wolf from endangered species list. Utah Leads the Pack of Anti-Wolf A-Holes. Utah Leads the Pack of Anti-Wolf A-Holes. Project Wolf. USFWS - News Release - Service Proposes to Return Management and Protection of Gray Wolves to State Wildlife Professionals Following Successful Recovery Efforts. National Wolf Delisting: Too Much, Too Soon. Working Hard For Wolves…. Might new Interior Secretary Jewell actually rule this week in favor of overturning Wolf Federal Delisting permanently?..............Noah Greenwald of the. American Indian Tribes To Challenge Michigan Wolf Hunt. Press Release: Settlement Reached in Wolf Legal Fight. Why do we hate wolves so much? - National wildlife conservation. The Wisdom of Wolves Movie. Famous wolf pack has no wolf puppies, soon will have no wolves. STOP WOLF HUNTS: ANOTHER EMAIL BLITZ TO #KEEPWOLVESLISTED : NEW CONTACT:Council on Environmental Quality.
Western wolf issue is mostly not really about wolves. Instead of Science winning the argument about the role carnivores play in optimizing our natural world, biased non-factual messaging by the anti-wolf orga. Minnesota Court of Appeals Dismisses Petition Challenging Wolf Hunting and Trapping. Setback for groups opposed to Minnesota wolf hunt. Anti-Wolf Fanatics Scramble to Counter Pro-Wolf Message. SUIT TO UNCOVER POLITICAL DEALS BEHIND GRAY WOLF DE-LISTING. The Trophic Cascade from the Gray Wolf. Every time a National or State Park is created, there are naysayers who yell "land grab" and Government "overreach"............Think about it though,,,,,, More good news, this time out of Oregon regarding the new Wolf Management policy just put into law there.........."This agreement gets us back to the wolf. Arizona endangered wolves still on the brink.
How bout that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Michigan has put their Wolf killing plans on hold and going to allow a public vote on the issue in 2014..........Anticipating. Scientists to Obama: Don’t End Wolf Protections. Oregon Wild. A Wolf's Role in the Ecosystem - The Trophic Cascade. Wolf Hatred is a Gateway to Bigotry. STOP WOLF HUNTS: DECISION ON DELISTING WOLF PROTECTIONS UNDER ESA IN LOWER 48 STATES DELAYED. DNR “Wolf Advisory Committee” Stacks Deck With Anti-Wolf Groups and Excludes Pro-Wildlife Groups.