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In Wyoming’s Grand Teton Mountain Range lives a Bighorn Sheep herd of about one hundred. They once measured in the thousands, but their numbers continue to decline. This has much to do with human competition for land, as they are now limited to areas of very high elevation, where they suffer each winter and are unable to migrate like they used to.
The Jackson Hole Ski Resort occupies some of their territory, and has placed areas off limits to skiers to protect the Bighorns.
This video reports on how these animals continue to survive, despite their diminished range.
Read more: bighorn sheep, environment & wildlife, grand tetons, jackson hole, sheep, wyoming
Photo credit: Alan Vernon
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+ add your ownThese beautiful animals need to be protected!! Thank you Cris!!
I have'nt had the privilige of actually seeing them yet, but just love to know the beautiful Bighorns are/were living happily in the Grand Tetons. But people are so greedy, and too numerous, just taking animals' habitats from them without caring. Internationally perhaps countries can be encouraged to restrain their population growth to numbers their economy and environment can actually sustain for the good of all. Countries should also put a financial value on their ecology, e.g. bees, who work unpaid pollinating our fruit and veg - which otherwise would cost us billions to do ourselves; and these goats which are a tourist draw for people like me; etc. etc. I think a government financial value for all wild animals, insects, natural places, would probably get more respect and protection for our wildlife and their homes.
The Grand Tetons are beautiful, as is the the herd of Bighorn Sheep. If man can't live with them, then man needs to respect them enough to not make them become extinct. Just how much space do we (humans) need? There are plenty other skiing resorts that exist. Go to them and leave nature and the animals live peacefully and naturally.
Just an example: if any other living thing were spreading over the land like humans, we would find some way to kill every one of them. If we were more consciencous and didn't want to kill anything off totally, we would kill most of the humans, put the rest in a reservation (most likely one that would be a difficult place to live for anything), and then we would neuter the vast majority to keep their population down forever more.
Don't get upset. Think about it. What living thing on earth is not now suffering this type of ideal? If not all living things yet, it is only a matter of time!
It´s just so depressing and scary how humans keep stealing the habitat of all other animals...
Humans need to be contained.
humans need to back off and try to let nature take it`s course. Maybe by the grace of what we hold dear, they will begin to repopulate again.
Humans and animals can live and survive together...if only there wasn't so many humans that just can't accept this..
"Will human population growth threaten many animal species?"
Excuse me, aren't we already doing that??
These goats must be saved along with all God's creatures.
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