The Arizona Game and Fish Department has been busy promoting recently published research which documents ample habitat for Mexican wolves in Mexico. This supports the recovery criteria in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s official recovery plan and the Department’s desire to assume management of Mexican wolves, which will occur when the delisting criteria have been met.
A bill that would ban most trapping on public lands in New Mexico cleared its first committee Tuesday, but not without concerns raised by some senators.
As we navigate a holiday season tempered by the challenges of a turbulent and unsettling year, I am reminded of what matters most: Compassion, Gratitude, Respect, and Love ~ for all beings.
After being nearly extirpated from overhunting and habitat loss, Missouri’s small black bear population is slowly making a recovery. However, rather than celebrate the successful return of these iconic bruins, the Missouri Department of Conservation is following the lead of other states whose motto is “Grow them to shoot them.”
This year’s catastrophic events have laid bare the interconnected nature of human and nonhuman life.
The Missouri Department of Conservation would have you believe its proposed black bear hunt is a science-based management tool and recreational opportunity.