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Sanctuary Lost - How Wildlife Refuges Became Hunting Grounds (Paperback)
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Sanctuary Lost - How Wildlife Refuges Became Hunting Grounds (Paperback)
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Loot Price R240
Discovery Miles 2 400
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How can it be that wildlife is not safe on a wildlife refuge? By
statute and long-standing principle, all human activities on
national wildlife refuges must take second place to the animals
that live there. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages
the system, proudly declares it thus: "Wildlife comes first." Which
only seems right, in places called refuges. Bird watchers, as much
as they love seeing the plovers and curlews and cranes, are not
allowed to disturb waterfowl on their nests. Vehicles are kept off
the beach in North Carolina to avoid crushing the eggs of shore
birds. In Oregon, volunteers help take down barbed wire fences to
make life easier for fast-running pronghorn antelope. On refuges,
you can help with bird banding, guard a sea-turtle nest, fight
invasive plants, and in general do all sorts of things to learn
about, appreciate, and help protect wild animals. And, you can kill
them. You can shoot them. You can catch them in leg traps. You can
pierce them with arrows. You can take their dead carcasses home and
hang their heads on your wall. "Sanctuary Lost" tells the story of
how wildlife refuges, once inviolate safe zones for animals, became
the nation's prime hunting grounds; and corrects the inaccurate
claims of hunters that they were the first conservationists and are
still the major supporters of wildlife in America. Do hunters
deserve more than other citizens? Why are hunters permitted to
permanently remove animals from a national wildlife refuge when
non-hunters are forbidden to pick wildflowers? Is it right that
hunters should have access in the fall-a splendid time to see
wildlife-while others must search outside refuge boundaries for a
glimpse of animals in their seasonal prime? Is it right that
hunters are allowed to put wildlife to flight, scatter herds and
flocks, disturb the natural soundscape, and generally alter the
experience for everyone else? Should hunting on refuges be expanded
while hunting becomes less popular and non-lethal users greatly
outnumber hunters? Hunters say: "We built the refuge system." They
didn't. "We pay for them." They don't. "We're the best
conservationists." They aren't.
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