Wolves Hunting By Using "Aircraft"

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 is not 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 damage 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.

We should reduce the airborne hunting in Alaska, because they are being killed in huge numbers in short periods. If that continued and no body stopped it, wolves will become extinct.

Unlike bears, wolves can be very useful to humans in so many ways. Wolves can pull cargos and trained to hunt and guard. Alaskans also do not know that there are other sources of meat and survival than the moose. They have fish, since Alaska has many fish around its coasts, for example. We should educate Alaskans about these things and show them the benefits of wolves and the sources of food hey have rather than the moose.

Alaskans have the right to make new laws. We should take advantage of this situation by making some studies and research and introduce ways to find new sources of food and to use wolves in their daily lives. We should provide centers of training wolves to hunt and guard. We should also indicate areas where other animals that can be feed on, such as fish and whales, goats…etc. That way we can convince Alaskans to strict laws that can reduce or even stop airborne hunting of wolves.

As we know, aircraft and other machines that are used in the airborne hunting depend on fuel to work. Burned fuel is a source of CO2 and greenhouse gasses that cause a lot of environment pollution and damage to the nature. Aircraft also scare animals that Alaskans feed on, such as the moose, when they fly at a low level to hunt wolves. We should make people and environmental organizations that care about the earth to oppose this airborne hunting process and force the government to strict laws that protect the nature and not allowed airborne hunting in big numbers.

We have to reduce the airborne hunting of wolves in Alaska, because they are part of the nature and they are animals that have the right to live. We were not given this intelligence and power to harm animals by killing them for fun.


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.