Guest guest Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Ok, this angers me. I sent a couple articles on this months ago. As wolves were about to be taken of the endangered species list, I detected a connection between a grant that was give to the indigenous Indians to help the feds catch wolves, while nearby in the same area economic development was in the works. My point being that taking wolves off the list had more to do with business wanting to do some profit-making rather than wolves being harmful (the article I sent before stated that wolves go more after small rodents in the wild that ranchers' sheep, etc). So wolves are the "scapegoats' for what business really is after and there are no "big bad wolves". Meanwhile, the tribes, in need of money, get bought-off in the process because they know the nature and animals more intimately. So the govt and business collude. That's how systemic exploitation works. A Bid to Lure Wolves With a Digital Call of the Wild "Money is a driving force behind the research, much of which is being paid for by the Nez Perce Indian tribe in Idaho, which has deep cultural links to the western gray wolf. Traditional tracking tools like radio collars and aerial surveillance were used extensively after wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park in the mid-1990s under the Federal Endangered Species Act. But federal protections will end later this month, and so too will the deep pockets needed for flyovers and catching and collaring." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/science/earth/19howl.html?_r=1 & st=cse & sq=A+Bid+to+Lure+Wolves+With+a+Digital+Call+of+the+Wild & scp=1 & oref=slogin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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