WILDLIFE PROTECTION NETWORK PROTECTS WILDLIFE
The Wildlife Protection Network educates the public about the scientific and humane treatment of wildlife, so that the public can stop the trend of species extinction and habitat destruction.
The Wildlife Protection Network is dedicated to educating the public about wildlife, and the environment. The W.P.N. endorses the use of nonlethal and humane methods for the control of wildlife populations when deemed ecologically necessary based on scientific evidence. The W.P.N. opposes all lethal methods of wildlife population control. The W.P.N. endorses only humane options for resolving wildlife-human conflict. The W.P.N. focusses primarily on the state of Pennsylvania but includes some wildlife protection issues in other states. Please donate your land to HSUS the only land conservancy which does not support hunting.
This is an activist website. The W.P.N. provides information and links which allow you, the public, to alert the media and lobby law makers to pass legislation for nonlethal, humane solutions for to wildlife-related problems.
Please, always include your name and address when sending email to legislators or the media. Otherwise, your email will be trashed.
Nonlethal Options for Animals
1-866-6ANIMAL (1-866-626-4625)
www.NOAsavesanimals.org
WILDLIFE REHABILITATORS
Find a List of Pennsylvania Wildlife Rehabilitators by Location and Specialty
-VICTORY HR 211 PASSED 5/13/03 Pennsylvania House of Representatives unanimously forcing the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) to use services provided by licensed wildlife rehabilitators in situations involving injured or orphaned wildlife instead of killing them. Print out the legislation.
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives support the important, vital public service that licensed wildlife rehabilitators provide to citizens and wildlife in this Commonwealth; and be it further RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives direct the Pennsylvania Game Commission to investigate the use of services provided by licensed wildlife rehabilitators when situations involving injured and orphaned wild animals are presented; and be it further RESOLVED, That the findings of the investigation be presented by the Pennsylvania Game Commission to the Game and Fisheries Committee of the House of Representatives by June 30, 2003.
"I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being." ~ Abraham Lincoln
June 16, 2007
Shooting exotic animals on Ted Turner's Ranch help Gov. Richardson "bag" the party nomination?
Canned-hunting trophy ranches like Turner's usually offer "no kill, no pay" policies says the Washington Times, providing guides who know the location and habits of the animals, permitting the use of dogs, and supplying "feeding stations" that lure unsuspecting animals to food while hunters lie in wait. Animals are even drugged according to some reports. The operations are strictly legal.
Secret Service agents say Cheney was drunk when he shot lawyer
Humor - But it's not funny.
- Dr. Michael B. Feldman Professor Department of Computer Science The George Washington University
VICE PRESIDENT CHENY SHOOTS MAN WHILE HUNTING QUAIL AND HE WAS DRINKING 2006 - Comedian Lewis Black - Dick Cheney the Vice President who shot his friend in the face while hunting. Cheney gets to shoot someone, and the only consequences are a few lousy jokes made at his "expense," so to speak.
The consequences to others are far more serious. Now a man will live with leadshot in his body, "upland game birds" are living, dying, or dead with leadshot in them, raptors and carrion feeders have ingested or will ingest lead on the far from pristine property that is a hunt site for the rich. - Comedy Central - Cheney Analysis
- CHENEY'S GOT A GUN !
One of the most galling aspects is realizing who paid for Cheney's pleasure trip to kill birds. You got it, you and I did. What surfaced during his latest hunting trip was that Cheney travels with a medical team and no doubt a slew of bodyguards, and at least to one hunting destination, he arrived in grand style on Air Force Two.
For The Deer: The Bringers Of Happiness
Deer kill includes fawns (phillyBurbs.com) Intelligencer The statement about closing all hunting seasons is a lie.
2006-07 HUNTING SEASONS AND BAG LIMITS
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=460&q=171601
SPRING GOBBLER (Bearded bird only): Special season for eligible junior hunters, with required license - April 21, 2007. Only 1 spring gobbler may be taken during this hunt.
SPRING GOBBLER (Bearded bird only): April 28-May 26, 2007. Daily limit 1, season limit 2. (Second spring gobbler may only be taken by persons who possess a valid special wild turkey license.)
WOODCHUCKS (GROUNDHOGS): No closed season, except: Sundays; during the antlered and antlerless deer seasons; and until noon daily during the spring gobbler turkey season.
2006-07 FURBEARER HUNTING SEASONS
COYOTES: No closed season. Unlimited. Outside of any deer or bear season, coyotes may be taken with a hunting license or a furtakers license, and without wearing orange. During any archery deer season, coyotes may be taken while lawfully hunting deer or with a furtaker’s license. During the regular firearms deer and any bear seasons, coyotes may be taken while lawfully hunting deer or bear, or with a furtaker’s license while wearing 250 square inches of fluorescent orange. During the spring gobbler season, may be taken by persons who have valid tag and meet fluorescent orange and shot size requirements.
RACCOON & FOXES: Oct. 21-Feb. 17, unlimited.
OPOSSUM, SKUNKS & WEASELS: No closed season, except for prior to noon during the spring gobbler season. No limits.
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A Billion Birds Die in Plate Glass Plate
First produced in the third century and manufactured in large sheets since 1903 - is so commonplace, and so aesthetically pleasing, that we tend to think of it like air itself. That's exactly what birds mistake it for; they simply can't see it, which is why they fly into it. And die. "Short of habitat destruction, my studies clearly indicate, at least to me, that more birds are killed at sheet glass rather than any other human-associated avian mortality factor worldwide," he recites, with a requisite pause for effect. "Glass is not only universal, but also totally indiscriminate, killing the fit and the unfit."
BODY COUNT - Our Country's War on Wildlife
NUMBER OF ANIMALS KILLED ANNUALLY ACROSS THE U.S. FOR SPORT
"Defenders of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our contry of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying 'the game belongs to the people.' So it does; and not merely to the people now alive, but to the unborn people. The 'greatest good for the greatest number' applies to the number within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wild life and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method." Theodore Roosevelt, U. S. President 1916
The morality of a nation can be judged by the way society treats its animals. ~ Mahatma Ghandi
Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved. ~ Dr. Jane Goodall UN Award Ceremony 4/16/02 Human beings are currently causing the greatest mass extinction of species since the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. If present trends continue one half of all species of life on earth will be extinct in 100 years Source Ulansey