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End Aerial Gunning of Montana-Idaho Wolves ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, wolves, aerial hunting, environment, killing, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, habitat )

Cher
- 52 days ago - change.org
This week in Montana, aerial sharpshooters with the U.S. Department of Agriculture gunned down the last four wolves of the eight-member Sage Creek Pack, first targeted this summer for preying on a sheep on the secretive USDA Sheep Experiment Station
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Help End Aerial Wolf Killing: Urge Your Representative and Senators to Co-Sponsor the PAW Act ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, aerial hunting, AnimalWelfare, environment, killing, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 105 days ago - secure.defenders.org
So far, more than 1,000 wolves have been chased down by gunmen in low-flying aircraft and killed with high-powered rifles. This year alone, more than 250 wolves have been killed -- making the 2008/2009 aerial wolf killing season one of the deadliest in
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California Lawmakers to Make It Illegal for Palin to Shoot Wolves From Planes
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, killing, aerial hunting, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 108 days ago - mnn.com
Alaska's infamous predator-control program is being challenged by two California Democrats.
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End Alaska's Awful Aerial Wolf Killing Programs -- Support the PAW Act ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, aerial hunting, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 121 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
In 1971, Congress passed the Airborne Hunting Act banning the use of airplanes to hunt wolves. But the State of Alaska is exploiting a loophole that has allowed private citizens in aircraft to kill of hundreds of wolves annually under what's called
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End Alaska's Awful Aerial Wolf Killing Programs -- Support the PAW Act ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, aerial hunting, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, killing, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 124 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Recently, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) introduced the Protect America's Wildlife (PAW) Act, federal legislation working to end the controversial practice of aerial wolf hunting in Alaska and prevent it from spreading to states in the lower 48.
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Tell Alaskan Officials to Halt Cruel Aerial Hunts ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, Alaska, aerial hunting, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, killing, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 167 days ago - secure.peta.org
The Alaska Board of Game reportedly continues to use aerial hunting to control wolf and bear populations in a misguided effort to increase the number of moose, caribou, deer, and other ungulates available to hunters. Gunning down wolves or any animal
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Support the PAW Act - End Alaska's Aerial Hunting Program ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, aerial hunting, Alaska, killing, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 190 days ago - all-creatures.org
Urge your Representative to sign on as an original co-sponsor of Representative George Miller's re-introduced PAW Act to help end this awful practice in Alaska and prevent it from spreading to places like the Northern Rockies.
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Ask Hawaii to Stop Cruel Aerial Hunts ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, feral cattle and sheep, aerial hunting, Hawaii, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, killing, wildlife )

Cher
- 191 days ago - secure.peta.org
PETA is being inundated with calls from distressed Hawaii residents regarding reports that the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources' (DLNR) Division of Forestry and Wildlife is using aerial hunting to control feral cattle and sheep populations
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Aerial Hunting Bill Moves Towards Approval in Oklahoma
Animals  (tags: animals, feral hogs, killing, aerial hunting, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 227 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Hunters in Oklahoma may soon be allowed to hunt feral hogs from helicopters. The state senate overwhelmingly approved a bill, 37-9, that authorizes the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry to issue aerial hunting permits to holders of
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Help End Aerial Wolf Killing: Urge Your Representative to Co-Sponsor the PAW Act ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, aerial hunting, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, killing, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 230 days ago - secure.defenders.org
So far, more than 1,000 wolves have been chased down by gunmen in low-flying aircraft and killed with high-powered rifles. This year alone, at least 232 wolves have been killed putting the 2008/2009 aerial wolf killing season on pace to become the
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Aerial Shooting Makes Victims of Us All
Animals  (tags: wolves, aerial hunting, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, killing, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 240 days ago - everythingwolf.com
It is a bright, sunny morning on a plateau in Alaska. An alpha female Gray Wolf steps out from the tree line. She has six eight-month old young wolves at home, some not fully independent. A dull drone can be heard as an object emerges out of the sunlight
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Alaska to Kill Over 75% of Wolf Population in New Aerial Hunt
Animals  (tags: wolves, aerial hunting, Alaska, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 256 days ago - planetsave.com
Alaska abruptly resumed shooting wolves from helicopters this weekend in hopes that shooting the wolves will increase the population of caribou for hunters to kill. The state plans to kill up to 328 wolves, sparing under 100 in the Yukon area.
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Mass Slaughter of Wolves Alarm Officials at Nearby National Preserve
Animals  (tags: wolves, slaughtered, aerial hunting, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, death, habitat, protection, wildanimals, killing, wildlife )

Cher
- 258 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
Department of Fish and Game workers shot and killed about 30 wolves from a helicopter Saturday in the Fortymile area east of Tok. The focus area is the Fortymile Caribou Herd's calving grounds adjacent to the national preserve.
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Hunting Wolves From the Air
Animals  (tags: aerial hunting, wolves, animals, AnimalWelfare, Palin, Alaska, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 268 days ago - healthnewsdigest.com
Aerial hunting is mostly forbidden on U.S. public lands per the Federal Airborne Hunting Act, passed by Congress in 1972. But individual states can allow it for the sake of protecting "land, water, wildlife, livestock, domesticated animals, human life
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Palin's Game Board Discusses Alaska Predator Control
Animals  (tags: animals, palin, alaska, aerial hunting, wildlife, wolves, bears, predators, cruelty, suffering, humans, protection, habitat )

Tom
- 271 days ago - adn.com
Hunters, animal lovers and others are at war as the state board that decides Alaska's hunting rules discusses giving the state new predator control options, such as shooting wolves from helicopters, or using poison gas in dens on orphaned wolf pups.
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