Wildlife groups condemn approval of ‘barbaric’ Florida black bear hunt | Florida

Wildlife groups condemned the decision to allow “barbar” applications, including the use of arculose, archery and use of archery and dog packages, the regulators in Florida, for the first time in a decade.

In order to approve a limited hunting season in December, the vote of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Protection Commission (FWC) on Wednesday watched a presentation from the personnel who insisted on increasing population and increasing encounters with people.

In May, the authorities investigated what is believed to be the first deadly mauling by a person in the state.

However, many protesters speaking at the FWC meeting in Havana said that the decision has turned the clock back in the healing of once -ending species once extinct species.

They criticized the AV as the “legalized animal cruelty ve and said that the commission members used defective science to justify their approval, including the estimates of the month, rather than an official census that would not be completed for five years.

Susannah Randolph, Director of Sierra Club Department, said, “This badly designed bear hunt will endanger an already threatened animal and open the door of the destruction of critical wild life habitat throughout Florida.”

Mı Does our future stand on dead animals in large concrete parking lots? [Florida governor] Ron Desantis can currently stop this hunt and leave a permanent legacy for our children and grandchildren. “

More than 160 members of the people spoke at a highly loaded meeting of rubber stamped rules, which were temporarily approved by the commission members in May. The FWC will allow Florida’s estimated 4,000 for 187 months on a 23 -day hunting on a 23 -day hunting on a 23 -day hunting from 6 December, about 5% of the total 4,000 of Florida.

Several speakers, including springs and arrows, the bears with food traps, including and in 2027 educated dogs to be allowed to adjust the hunting methods to be allowed to be a protection measure, he said.

Only hunting is allowed 17 out of 32 states This bear allows hunting.

“This is just massacre and torture, Adam said Adam Sugalski, the founder of the Wildlife Defense Group. Defenders.

“Using dogs is legalized for animal persecution. Dogs will be gradually removed in the next few years after being trained, that is, you can only run your dogs in the forest and only have fun and kill them.”

Others pointed out the collapse of Florida’s last prey in 2015, which stopped early When 300 months were killed in 48 hours and a FWC commissioner who voted to approve, hunters were accused of killing pregnant bears, new mothers and pups illegally.

Steve Meyers, a lawyer working on the case to prevent this hunting, said that the seven FWC commissioner existing on Wednesday was appointed or approved by Desantis.

“The images of a ron desantis bear hunting will not be a harvest, and there will be lifeless bodies hanging upside down with blood shed from their mouths,” he said.

“The media does not need paintings from this hunt. The last hunting will be fine. Ron Desantis’s face will depend on these images.”

FWC’s Hunting and Game Management Director George Warthen admitted to the May vote that the people’s reaction was “important and divided ve and argued that the hunting was a preventive movement to any existing problem.

“A high level of hunting will prevent the future negative effects of the extreme population,” he said. “Hunting with dogs and dogs will provide hunters an opportunity to harvest larger male bears selectively and avoid harvesting women or young bears.”

The decision is the latest decision in a series of developments that see that wildlife advocates damage a population of black bear, which was slowly retreated in the 1970s, which were slowly back. They contain desantis Signing the law last year A measure that allows residents to kill any bear without fear of echoing any bear perceived to be threatened for their families, pets or properties.

The protectionists tried to raise awareness about the difficulties faced by black bears in Florida, especially the deaths of vehicle strikes and the loss of habitat through development.

Carlton Ward Jr is an environmentalist with an environmentalist Florida Wildlife Corridor In 2010, to allow the free movement of vulnerable animals, black bears were fragmented in seven sub -populations in Florida, which were still not as healed as some and others.

Ward’s documentary Florida Bear TracksThe nature storytest for National Geographic Society, produced by Wildpath, follows a FWC worker team that trapped and label the bears in Southern Florida and tells about Habitat problems.

“We appreciate the attention of all the public opinion that Florida Black Bears is around this controversial bear hunting, and we also know that Florida Black Bears will be excluded from this speech where they live and where they live,” he said.

“There are only 4,000 months in the state and 23 million people. So bears face many difficulties with the loss of habitat and disintegration. As Florida grows, we need to learn how to exist together with wildlife. It is not optional. This is important.”

Ward, some habitats in the healthy black bear populations, species are not an indication of healing in the state, he said.

“Bears do not develop anywhere. Genetically connected to a state -wide bear population in order to have the specified target of Florida we need more bears more bears,” he said.