Wolf - ©WSK 2005/Flickr Creative Commons
Tonight, I got lost in the links (hyper, not golf) — perusing other contributors at Wildlife Photography Blogs. I have a history and a breadcrumb trail, but I’m still not sure how I ended up at Howling For Justice. I’m glad I did, though. I came upon a post announcing the end of Idaho’s wolf hunting season.
“Relief” mixed with intense sorrow — is that what I feel? Even that doesn’t seem strong enough to cover my sentiments about this hunt and its pitiful rationalizations. Last year, I wrote briefly about Ken Salazar’s decision to delist wolves, remove them from the Endangered Species roster and thus render them fair game. Well, unfair game from my side of the controversy. The tragic fact is that 186 wolves were killed in Idaho between the time they became legal prey and today, the end of hunt.
Howling for Justice is dedicated to advocacy for these incredible and unjustly maligned animals, so if you’re interested in the wolves and more about these issues surrounding their conservation, head over there to check out some of the posts.
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Is the hunt a controlled decimation or are they really ‘fair game’ again?
Humankind should be glad they just made it off the list again
Nicole, I think “controlled decimation” aptly describes this, since the numbers of wolves killed — relative to how many wolves exist in that area — suggests anything but fairness. Thank you for stopping by. I saw the statue/pigeon photo on your front page and love that. I’m a big fan of photographing urban wildlife and, of course, pigeons are great subjects when caught in great compositions like yours.
Urban nature is usually not my main topic.
Left you the wrong url in the other comment.
Humankind is a species I will never understand.
Here as well as in Hungary and when we have been in Kuwait, I learned of idiots that shoot rare birds, just because they are rare.
Or pay 20.000 Euro for a huge, fine deer to shoot and they can’t do anything with it, not even taking the antlers, just for the hell of it,….
They make me sick
Nicole, I agree. It’s hard to come to terms with that type of cruelty and motivation. I see it all of the time and haven’t yet found a way to reconcile my observations of the human race and its capacity to hurt out of spite or in “fun.” I doubt that I will come to any philosophical reckoning on this.