![]() ![]() It’s important to understand why actions like this by Idaho aren’t ‘wildlife management’ issues to many tribal people. “Grant perversely but cleverly packaged trophy killing as an articulation of conservation before seeing his theories on wildlife management transposed to human beings by the architects of the Third Reich. “Idaho is continuing in the tradition of the white supremacists and eugenicists who were the patriarchs of how the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation is still applied, foremost amongst them being Madison Grant, the author of The Passing of the Great Race, justifiably called ‘the Bible of scientific racism,’” said Rain, film director (Somebody’s Daughter/Family) and executive director of the Global Indigenous Council. “The fact that the states of Idaho and Montana have seen fit to complicate the natural processes by allowing the incidental take of other predators is a compounding, and negative effect on our overall wildlands.” “Since wolf reintroduction of 1995, it is generally agreed wolves have had an overall positive behavioral effect on elk and on other primary and secondary impacts within the ecological niche of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem,” said Clint Nagel, president of Gallatin Wildlife Association. “Litigation is essential to fight the cancer that is our Idaho legislature in their war on wildlife, we stand with protecting lynx and grizzly bears from our medieval ways of killing, these are their lands and they share them with Idaho’s magnificent wolves,” said Stephen Capra, executive director of Footloose Montana. The failure to take any effort to protect threatened grizzly bears and lynx while pushing the slaughter of wolves violates the Endangered Species Act.” “Traps and snares are indiscriminate and the dangers to non-target species are well known. ![]() “Even before Idaho expanded its efforts to kill more gray wolves, grizzly bears and lynx have been getting caught in the crossfire,” said Benjamin Scrimshaw, associate attorney for Earthjustice’s Northern Rockies office. ![]() The state’s disregard for all of their lives is outrageous and unacceptable.” “Other animals, like federally protected grizzly bears and lynx, will be injured or die in these cruel traps and snares. “It’s sickening that Idaho has approved what amounts to unregulated hunting and trapping in an effort to wipe out its wolf population,” said Andrea Zaccardi, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. Idaho’s new laws establish a permanent wolf-trapping season on private property across the state, eliminate limits on the number of wolves one person can kill, permit the continued use of poison bait that attracts non-target animals at high rates, and introduce state-sponsored, private-contractor killing of wolves. The groups also filed for a temporary restraining order asking the court to halt all wolf trapping in grizzly bear and lynx habitat until the merits of the case can be decided.Įarthjustice represents the Center for Biological Diversity, Footloose Montana, Friends of the Clearwater, Gallatin Wildlife Association, Global Indigenous Council, the Humane Society of the United States, International Wildlife Coexistence Network, Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment, Sierra Club, Trap Free Montana, Western Watersheds Project, Wilderness Watch, and Wolves of the Rockies in the lawsuit. The lawsuit contends that continued and expanded wolf trapping and snaring will injure and kill non-target grizzly bears and Canada lynx, which are federally protected species. Contact: Suzanne Asha Stone, International Wildlife Coexistence Network, (208) 861-5177īOISE, ID - Ten conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging Idaho’s extreme wolf-trapping rules, which facilitate the slaughter of up to 90% of Idaho’s gray wolf population. ![]()
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