Pro-hunting Trump officials take ax to wildlife protections

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The Trump administration is systematically rolling back protections for endangered wildlife and expanding rights for hunters, winning cheers from sporting associations but worrying environmentalists who fear it will lead to the extinction of protected species.

The National Park Service announced last week it would end an Obama-era protection that prohibited the hunting of bear cubs, as well as wolves and pups in their dens, in Alaska’s national preserves.

Under the proposal, which is not yet final, Alaska could decide whether to allow these hunting practices, in addition to the targeting of animals from boats and the use of bait to lure in animals for hunting.

Animals rights groups call the hunting practices barbaric, while the administration championed the decision as a win for state’s rights.That same day, the Interior Department also announced it was expanding hunting access at 30 national wildlife refuges across…

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  1. These are barbaric practices. And if you want to see barbaric, just go over to Wolf Patrol and see what kind of knuckle-draggers in Wisconsin are enjoying killing coyotes and other wildlife with dogs. It’s probably the most repulsive thing I have ever seen in my life. These people may be human, but just barely it seems.

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