Protest Nevada Bear Hunt, ESA Wolf Exemption, Utah Hospital Cat and Rabbit Mutilations
Please click on the following and take action:
1. Email a message to Suzanne Scourby, Nevada Department of Wildlife, opposing the proposed Nevada bear hunt
2. Please Replace Cruel Animal Labs at Conference With Simulators
3. Oppose attempts to eliminate vital, life-saving protections for America’s wolves.
1. BACKGROUND | From No Bear Hunt Nevada
The impetus for forming our group was to oppose the first ever Nevada bear hunt. We believe Tahoe bears should be treated kindly by those of us who share their habitat. The bears are already under stress from habitat encroachment as we spread more and more into their native range. Easy food sources from mishandling trash have disrupted their natural behavior and created urban interface problems. Statistical data shows this problem is being slowly and successfully dealt with due to greater public awareness. For the sportsmen who comprise the majority of the Nevada Department of Wildlife Commission to suggest that we should hunt bears in order to raise monies to teach people to handle trash properly is using the logic that “two wrongs make a right.” The blood of Tahoe bears should not be financing what is a human trash handling problem. Citizens can and are making improvements in this area. Our organization is contributing to non-lethal solutions.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Email a courteous but firm letter to Suzanne Scourby, Executive Assistant, Nevada Department of Wildlife, sscourby@ndow.org expressing your concern over the WLC ruling to introduce for the first time in her history, bear hunting in Nevada. Make clear you are resolved to see the ruling reversed.
Use the Background materials for more information if needed.
Sample Message:
To the Nevada Wildlife Commission,
I am writing to make it clear that I object to the bear hunt regulation on the basis of the procedural abuses, lack of scientific data to prove there are sufficient bears, lack of scientific data on how many bears are indeed required for the hunt, the dismissal and ignoring of 3000 unique emails opposed to the hunt (no copies or duplicates included in that number), the characterization of these emails as spam, the bias displayed by Mr. Lackey in soliciting and facilitating support for the bear hunt and the failure of Commissioner Hal Shrum to represent the general public by voting for the hunt in spite of overwelming public opposition.
These abuses must be addressed before the regulation can move forward. Item #12 on the February 4th Wildlife Commission meeting agenda, “Commission Regulation 11-07, Black Bear Hunt – Chief of Game Larry Gilbertson and Big Game Biologist Carl Lackey – Action,” must be tabled until these issues are satisfactorily addressed to the public who are increasingly enraged by reckless Wildlife Commission statements and irresponsible Nevada Department of Wildlife determinations. Item 12 must be stricken from the agenda.
Please include this email in the public record for the Wildlife Commission hearing on February 4 and 5. (Ms. Scourby, will you please forward this email to all of the Wildlife Commissioners.)
Sincerely,
If you are unable to send an email via the hot link, copy/paste the above letter and email to:
2. BACKGROUND | From PETA
In a cruel and archaic training session at the annual Current Concepts in Neonatal & Pediatric Transport conference, which is sponsored by the Primary Children’s Medical Center (PCMC) and the University of Utah, cats have hard plastic tubes repeatedly forced down their delicate windpipes for intubation training.
The cats used in these training exercises are lost, stray, or surrendered animals who have been purchased from a local animal shelter. Many of the cats are killed at the end of the training session because their throats become badly mutilated during the cruel procedure. Those who survive often suffer bleeding, swelling, scarring, and even collapsed lungs. Trainees also cut up and poke needles into rabbits who have been killed in other experiments.
This abuse continues even though sophisticated infant simulators are widely used for this training across the country. The use of simulators has been endorsed by leading medical organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, and studies have found that simulators are better at preparing medical care providers to treat sick and injured pediatric patients than are cruel and crude animal laboratories.
Please contact officials at PCMC and its parent company and politely urge them to replace the use of animals at this conference with one of the many effective, non-animal training methods that are available.
Putting your subject line and letter into your own words will help draw attention to your e-mail.
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MESSAGE TEXT
I was dismayed to learn that the Current Concepts in Neonatal & Pediatric Transport conference, which is co-sponsored by Primary Children’s Medical Center, will include cruel and archaic training exercises on cats and rabbits even though leading medical organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics endorse the use of humane and effective simulators for teaching these very same skills.
Please replace the use of animals at this conference with one of the many effective, non-animal training methods that are available.
3. BACKGROUND | From DOW
Montana Rep. Denny Rehberg has introduced legislation that would strip federal protections for gray wolves across the country.
Together, these bills would allow states to eliminate all wolves in the Northern Rockies, Great Lakes and Southwest, including the 42 Mexican wolves struggling for survival in New Mexico and Arizona. If passed, this legislation would be the first to exempt a single species from the Endangered Species Act, setting a dangerous precedent for removing protections for other imperiled wildlife.
Urge your U.S. representative to oppose Congressman Denny Rehberg’s legislation and other Congressional attempts to eliminate vital, life-saving protections for America’s wolves.
MESSAGE TEXT
As a supporter of Defenders of Wildlife, a constituent and someone who cares about wildlife, I strongly urge you to oppose legislation by Congressman Denny Rehberg that would eliminate Endangered Species Act protections for wolves across the country.
Rehberg’s two bills would eliminate Endangered Species Act protections for every single wolf in the Southwest, Midwest and Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Rockies.
Together, these bills would allow states to eliminate all wolves in the Northern Rockies, Great Lakes and Southwest, including the 42 Mexican wolves struggling for survival in New Mexico and Arizona. If passed, this legislation would also be the first to exempt a single species from the Endangered Species Act, setting a dangerous precedent for removing protections for other imperiled wildlife.
The restoration of wild wolves was one of the most important American conservation achievements of the last century. The Endangered Species Act remains an important tool for saving wildlife from extinction. Neither should be sacrificed for the sake of politics.
For all these reasons, I urge you to reject Congressman Rehberg’s legislation and any attempts by Congress to prematurely eliminate protections for wild wolves in America.
Thank you for considering my comments. I look forward to your response.
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This Video is HORRIBLE……………..It Hurt so much to watch it, I am in Complete Tears………..I would Take all the Animals Home, and Burn that Lab Down !!!
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Done and sharing, thanks Stacey
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