Signable Petition Demands Zinke to Reject HJR 69, Trump’s Bear Cub/Wolf Pup Killing Bill

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(EnviroNews World News) — PETITION WATCH: The Center for Biological Diversity (the Center) has launched an online petition via the Care2 platform demanding …

Signable Petition Demands Zinke to Reject HJR 69, Trump’s Bear Cub/Wolf Pup Killing Bill

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(EnviroNews World News) — PETITION WATCH: The Center for Biological Diversity (the Center) has launched an online petition via the Care2 platform demanding Department of the Interior (Interior) Secretary Ryan Zinke “deny any request by Alaska for predator control in wildlife refuges.” This, after House Joint Resolution 69 (HJR 69) was signed into law on April 3, 2017, by President Donald Trump.

The highly controversial bill rescinded the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) Alaska National Wildlife Refuges Rule (Refuge Rule) which defaults wildlife management on Alaska’s 16 national refuges to the Alaska Board of Game (BOG). BOG’s wildlife management plan includes what is know as the Intensive Management Law (IM) — a code that allows extreme predator hunting methods such as killing bear sows with cubs, shooting predators from helicopters, luring bears to bait stations and shooting them pointblank, using steel-jaw traps for bears and killing wolves with pups in their dens.

The Center writes in its petition:

President Donald Trump recently signed a cruel bill into law repealing protections for wolves, bears and other wildlife on Alaska’s national wildlife refuges. The law – rushed through Congress under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) — repealed an Obama Administration rule that prohibited killing wolves and their pups in their dens, gunning down bears at bait stations and shooting them from airplanes. And it’s all in an attempt to artificially boost caribou numbers to placate sport hunters.

So far, the Center’s petition has gathered nearly 29,000 signatures and is growing fast online. The Center also points out that it recently filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration over HJR 69, which it says is “no ordinary lawsuit” because it challenges the constitutionality of the CRA itself, alleging the 1996 law violates separation of powers laws inherent to the U.S. Government.

27 thoughts on “Signable Petition Demands Zinke to Reject HJR 69, Trump’s Bear Cub/Wolf Pup Killing Bill

  1. Signed. I notice that for all the general blathering about Trump, there isn’t any concern about animals except for committed activists. No protests for nonhumans. Big surprise.

    • Exactly! If liberals cared about animal welfare issues, we would not be in this situation now.
      I am asking my cousin who is a committed Republican but a compassionate person to sign the petition. I think we should all start talking to Republicans who are not necessarily blood thirsty to help us.

  2. Secretary Ryan Zinke,
    Please deny any requests by Alaska for predator control in Wildlife Refugees. Deny any requests from any agencies or persons that want to kill wolves and their cubs in their dens, gunning down bears at bait stations and shooting them from airplanes!!!t This is an abomination, and it’s being done to artificially boost caribou number do sportsmen can kill them!! STOP this cruelty!!!

  3. Please do not kill these majestic animals. They have every right to live. They are Gods creatures. You are a man of faith. Stop this.

  4. Stop this killing…what sport is it to kill a sleeping baby….that takes no skill ..makes me want to vomit

  5. What a shame How would you like it if someone shot and killed your little kids right in front of you that poor mother pear is crying & crying how would you Trump like it if someone just take away you kids put a stop to killing Bear cubs shame on you

  6. Sarah Palin gave permission for wolf pups to be gassed, while she was in office in The State of Alaska. How is it right, to kill wolf, bear, or any other types of wildlife or Domestic Animal Pups? They haven’t yet reached adulthood. They’re not even given a chance. Animals were on this Earth before Mankind, & they have a right to be here, the same as we do. It’s essential to The Ecological System, that certain things remain in place. Otherwise, we’ll cease to exist. Controlling the population on certain animal species, doesn’t mean making the animals become extinct is the whole answer.

  7. Disgusting bill and anyone who kills using this bill as their shield is a chicken of a human.

    How do I sign the petition?

  8. This is animal abuse killing baby animals and moms. We are supposed to share the earth not destroy living animals . This is for human greed. Please don’t let this happen.

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