In Alaska, Trump Administration Wants To Lift Ban On Cruel Hunting Techniques

Like any practice, hunting is obviously regulated. In Alaska, for example, it is forbidden to stalk an animal in its den and, moreover, an animal that is a baby. Donald Trump's team, however, would like to lift the ban on hunting techniques considered "extreme" in the national reserves of this state, a decision far from the taste of animal defenders.

Trump administration want to lift ban on bear baiting in Alaska

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The Trump administration has proposed this Monday, May 21, 2018 in the Federal Register to revisit the rule implemented in 2015 prohibiting ultra-aggressive hunting techniques in Alaska's nature reserves endangering very young animals and/or hidden in their dens.

It would also like to allow the use of food baits such as bacon or donuts, to allow the use of hunting dogs to pursue bears, to use motor boats to shoot swimming caribou, all on an area of about 81,000 square kilometers of the state.

Jamie Rappaport Clark, president of the US organization Defenders Of Wildlife, responded by explaining to EcoWatch that "Allowing the killing of bear cubs and wolf pups in their dens is barbaric and inhumane" and that "The proposed regulations cast aside the very purpose of national parks to protect wildlife and wild places."

These proposals are massively rejected by many organizations, like the Humane Society. The Humane Society blasted the Trump administration for reinstating "cruel" hunting practices in Alaska and is urging the public to help keep the prohibitions in place.

We knew Donald Trump invested little in the protection of the environment, this will of his team is a new testimony of his lack of concern for nature. This measure proposed by the National Park Service could be adopted within two months.