Help Shape the Future of the National Wildlife Refuge System: Deadline — Friday, April 22
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is asking for our input—and it’s crucial that animal advocates weigh in on the future of our National Wildlife Refuge System. The National Wildlife Refuge System, which is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, contains more than 150 million acres—with the stated intent to “conserve America’s fish, wildlife and plants.”
Contradicting that objective, the Refuge System also allows hunting and angling in some areas. These allowances are an affront to the animals meant to be under protection. Animal advocates must deliver a clear, powerful message: No more angling — No more hunting — No more trapping
Animal exploitation needs to be challenged in every aspect of society—but to allow guns, traps, and killing in our national parks is a tragedy we shouldn’t tolerate (there are over 300 hunting programs within the Refuge System!). According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, nearly 41 million people visit the Refuge System annually—mostly to observe, enjoy and photograph the natural world. Hunting is a dying obsession—let’s keep it out of our public spaces, for everyone’s sake.
Visit America’s Wildlife to share your ideas, and to deliver a powerful message to the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service. You’ll have to register at the website—it only takes a second!—and then you’ll be able to submit ideas and vote on others.
Please participate. Animals need your voice.
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6 Comments
On April 19, 2011, Marilin Engelman wrote:
HERE IS MY MANTRA THAT SHOWS YOU WHERE I AM COMING FROM…
EVERY SPECIES ON THE EARTH IS PART OF OUR LIFE CYCLE. WITHOUT BIODIVERSITY WE ARE ALSO DOOMED TO EXTINCTION.
On April 19, 2011, Melissa Merizalde wrote:
Help animals in whatever way you can
On April 20, 2011, Maryanne Appel wrote:
A wildlife refuge should be just that, a place where birds, mammals, and fishes are protected from hunters’ guns, from trappers’ medieval devices, and from anglers’ hooks. To permit these blood sports in what is touted to be a refuge, a safe haven for free-living animals, is contemptible.
On April 20, 2011, Marguerite Blake wrote:
There should never be allowed any hunting, angling, or trapping at a wildlife refuge. The name refuge says it all! This should only be a place where all wildlife can come and find peace and rest without being hunted,or trapped in any manner. This is how my family, friends and myself want to see a wildlife refuge being run. A safe place for all who enter or live there.
On April 23, 2011, susan krause wrote:
Trapping is incredibly barbaric and unnecessary. Please do not allow it on refuge land.
Thank you.
On May 2, 2011, brandon wrote:
I have a great idea for the future of ANWR: NO DRILLING FOR OIL OR GAS, NO HUNTING, NO TRAPPING, and NO ANGLING