https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/28/alaska-bears-wolves-trump-rules-hunters
The ‘amazingly cruel’ move by the National Park Service reverses Obama-era regulations which also affect wolves and coyotes
Hunters will be able to lure bears with food, draw them from their dens with artificial light and shoot caribou while they are swimming or from motorboats. Photograph: Tony Campbell/BBC/Shutterstock
The Trump administration is finalizing rules that will allow hunters in Alaska’s national preserves to shoot bears and wolves, and their cubs and pups, while they are in their dens.
The National Park Service is reversing regulations written by the Barack Obama administration, which banned some of the much-criticized practices for hunting the predators, including luring bears with food like doughnuts.
Jesse Prentice-Dunn, policy director for the Center for Western Priorities, called the…
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