OUTRAGED! - Rare animals could be hunted

[LunaC]

Oct. 17 is the end of the public comment period for this so please let your voice be heard.


"The Bush administration is proposing far-reaching changes to conservation policies that
would allow hunters, circuses and the pet industry to kill, capture and import animals on
the brink of extinction in other countries.

“Giving Americans access to endangered animals, officials said, would both feed the
gigantic U.S. demand for live animals, skins, parts and trophies, and generate profits that
would allow poor nations to pay for conservation of the remaining animals and their
habitats.

“This and other proposals that pursue conservation through trade would, for example, open
the door for American trophy hunters to kill the endangered straight-horned markhor in
Pakistan; license the pet industry to import the blue fronted Amazon parrot from
Argentina; permit the capture of endangered Asian elephants for U.S. circuses and zoos;
and partially resume the international trade in African ivory. No U.S. endangered species
would be affected.

“Conservation groups counter that killing or capturing even a few animals is hardly the best
way to protect endangered species.”

http://www.tribnet.com/news/story/4135499p-4150278c.html

Contact: Chief - Division of Management Authority
US Fish and Wildlife Service
4401 North Fairfax Dr., Room 700
Arlington, VA 22203

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Raise a stink with Congress: http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html

[MinnFats]

1. stunning insanity, but not surprising.

bush has shown repeatedly that when it comes to a choice between money and all other environmental concerns -- endangered species to vehicle mileage to air quality -- the almighty buck wins out....

wouldn't something like this have to be legislated??

the lunatics are running the asylum...

[MinnFats]

2. stunning insanity, but not surprising.

bush has shown repeatedly that when it comes to a choice between money and all other environmental concerns -- endangered species to vehicle mileage to air quality -- the almighty buck wins out....

wouldn't something like this have to be legislated??

the lunatics are running the asylum...

[greyl]

3. They're suffering a psychosis, plain and simple.

Thanks a lot for the info.