Thursday, April 27, 2006

My Research Proposal

When I had the chance to choose one of many topics to write my essay about, I directly chose “Hunting Wolves in Alaska”, because I like wolves and though they are wild animals, they have the right to live and not be killed in such a tough and merciless way. Wolves’ population in Alaska is falling sharply, and one of the main reasons of this fall is the airborne hunting (Talbott, 2005). As the department of fish and game in Alaska allowed its board to hunt wolves in rural areas and in this ways, it has been hard to control the hunting process. After Judge Sharon Gleason made her decision in the case of the game board the aerial wolf killing in narrow, the game board was caught violating their own regulations (Wittshirk, 2006). People think that wolves are the most dangerous creatures to the moose population in Alaska, while the truth is that they are as dangerous as brown bears and even more useful for us than bears. Alaskans think that moose meat is the only source of meat they have and that they depend on it to survive, while that isn’t true (Wittshirk 2006). Alaskans also ignore the fact that aircraft that is used for the airborne hunting wastes a lot of aircraft fuel and it causes pollution and damages the nature which all creatures live from, including the moose. Flying with aircraft at a low level for hunting upsets animals and terrifies them, which will make them travel to other places to live safely.

I plan to write that we should do three things in order to reduce airborne hunting of wolves. First, we should educate Alaskans that there are benefits of wolves, and that moose meat is not their only survival source. Second, we should make studies and research about finding new sources of food for Alaskans and convince them to make rules to reduce the airborne hunting of wolves, because they have the right to make rules in Alaska. Finally, make Alaskans and other organizations that care about nature and the earth oppose the abundant use of aircraft and other machines for hunting, which causes environmental pollution and damage to nature.

I found a lot of articles that describe the problem and have many opinions and much information about it. I will try my best to show that it is really a big problem and needs to be solved.



References:
Talbott, C. (2005, Nov. 8). Group targets airborne hunting. Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Retrieved from Lexis-Nexis database, March 31, 2006.
Wittshirk, R. (2005, Feb. 24). Machismo, myth, money fuel wolf kill. Anchorage Daily News (Alaska). Retrieved from Lexis-Nexis database, March 31, 2006.

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