The So-Called Sportsmen Act Even Gets Worse - Animal Rights Zone2024-03-28T10:22:37Zhttp://arzone.ning.com/forum/topics/the-so-called-sportsmen-act-even-gets-worse?xg_source=activity&feed=yes&xn_auth=noHERE IS THE LATEST ON THIS LE…tag:arzone.ning.com,2016-06-06:4715978:Comment:1569012016-06-06T16:00:58.851ZRichard W. Firthhttp://arzone.ning.com/profile/RichardWFirth
<p>HERE IS THE LATEST ON THIS LEGISLATION AND ACTION YOU CAN TAKE:</p>
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<p>It's supposedly an energy bill, but the "North American Energy Infrastructure Act of 2016" contains a lethal dose of anti-wildlife amendments that will lead to dead wolves, dead bears and the destruction of many important wildlife protections.</p>
<p>And while the pro-oil, pro-coal, climate change-denying provisions of the bill are despicable, the anti-wildlife measures are equally catastrophic.…</p>
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<p>HERE IS THE LATEST ON THIS LEGISLATION AND ACTION YOU CAN TAKE:</p>
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<p>It's supposedly an energy bill, but the "North American Energy Infrastructure Act of 2016" contains a lethal dose of anti-wildlife amendments that will lead to dead wolves, dead bears and the destruction of many important wildlife protections.</p>
<p>And while the pro-oil, pro-coal, climate change-denying provisions of the bill are despicable, the anti-wildlife measures are equally catastrophic.</p>
<p><a href="http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=3QkjgyEowUQXgQo-xeDV9A" rel="nofollow"><u><font color="#0000FF">Tell your senators including senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell to oppose this bill’s wide array of anti-wildlife provisions.</font></u></a></p>
<p>This bill has incorporated the so-called "Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Opportunity Act," with all of its horrific attacks on wildlife and public lands that we have spoken about before.</p>
<p>The deadly wildlife provisions include:</p>
<p>Forced delisting of Wyoming and Great Lakes gray wolves - you might recall that before the federal courts reversed a premature delisting of Wyoming wolves, over 85 percent of the state had been declared a "predator zone," where anyone could kill a wolf, at any time and for any reason;</p>
<p>Gun lobby-endorsed language that would hasten the extinction of African elephants by hindering U.S. efforts to crack down on the illegal ivory trade;</p>
<p>Provisions that would allow the most extreme forms of wolf and bear hunting on over 100 million acres of federally-protected wildlife habitat in Alaska, including baiting, snaring and killing mothers and young; and</p>
<p>Language that would severely undermine wildlife safeguards and encourage increased logging in the national forests that millions of creatures rely on for survival.</p>
<p>WORST OF ALL IT WILL DESTROY THE CONCEPT FOR WHICH WILDLIFE REFUGES WERE SET UP IN OUR NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM AND EVEN MAKING THEM UNSAFE FOR HUMAN VISITORS</p>
<p><br/>PLEASE CONTACT YOUR TWO FEDERAL SENATORS AS WELL AS SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK: <a href="http://www.senate.gov/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.senate.gov/index.htm</a></p>