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« Thread Started on Dec 4, 2004, 6:07pm »
Discuss the issues surrounding our endangered plants and animals.
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Re: Endangered Wildlife
« Reply #1 on Dec 5, 2004, 11:50pm »
This New York Times article discusses how another Bush appointee to the Interior Department is trying to deny sage grouse the protections afforded under the endangered species act. If the grouse is given protected status, it will be inconvenient to the energy and cattle industries due to environmental factors. Ms. MacDonald does not have a wildlife biology background, but she does have a "strong property-rights background." That's helpful here, I'm sure. Based on her extensive knowledge therefore, she downgrades and denigrates the opinions of actual wildlife biologists in her bid to stop the protection of these birds. The final decision in the matter will be made by Dec. 29
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Re: Endangered Wildlife
« Reply #2 on Jan 2, 2005, 3:40pm »
Have we decided that wild animals are unnecessary and should be exterminated as pests? One would almost think so:

Aerial Hunting in Alaska Kills First Wolves Of Season
Snow Leopard Project Faces Finish
Congress Ends Federal Protection Of Wild Horses
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Re: Endangered Wildlife
« Reply #3 on Jan 15, 2008, 8:55pm »
While the primaries are occupying our attention center stage, Bush, Cheney & Co. – Demolitions, are busy in the background tearing down the environmental safeguards which happen to inconvenience their good ole buddies in the energy business.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/opinion/15tue2.html?th&emc=th

What with climate change messing up their feeding grounds and exploratory drilling doing the same to the rest of their habitat, it’s not easy being a polar bear.

Of course there is a kind of consistency, both the drilling and the warming being by-products of petroleum.
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