Board of Game Plays More Games: Alaska Finds New Excuse to Kill Wolves

March 12, 2008
from Friends of Animals

Darien, Conn. — Friends of Animals president Priscilla Feral today denounced the Alaska Board of Game’s recent approval of aerial wolf control for the first time since the mid-1980s.

Feral stated, “Alaskans have allowed their bureaucracy to be taken over by extremists — people who want to keep an air force to annihilate wolves and other natural predators. Alaska’s bloody spectacles are a blight on the continent.”

The game board plans to have state agents shooting wolves from helicopters before the caribou birth season in mid-May. The target area includes a handful of tiny villages (total population about 3,145) in the southern peninsula. This remote area in the Aleutian arc is also home to some 600 caribou, who may be hunted by wolves or bears, and whose newborns are sometimes eaten by eagles.

The justification for targeting the area’s few dozen wolves? To give human hunters inside and outside the community a steady number of caribou to shoot.

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