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NJ Bear Hunt Horrifies Commuters on Highway (Bear Cub Dies) - 2007/02/25 12:49
Don't laugh, or laugh too quickly about the reaction of the people who ended up crying when they saw this. This kind of thing happens when there is hunting, of course (and happens in different ways in slaughterhouses), but still, many people regret that the bears had to be killed instead of transported elsewhere.
The eastern USA is full of wildlife that even if they often are pests or hazards (deer, bear, other animals), it still hurts many who would rather be able to see the animals than never have a hope of seeing them at all -- and not in this way.
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[ANC -- activist site, but the recounting of the story is typical]
Mortally Wounded, Hunted Bear Cub Staggers Onto NJ Highway
New Jersey's first bear hunt in 33 years started this week, and the kill may reach 500 before its scheduled end on Saturday. Many bears were killed without any witnesses, but there was one victim whose hapless circumstance told volumes of the cruelty of this hunt.
The bear cub, shot and mortally wounded by a hunter, managed to stagger out of the woods and onto a busy highway roadside Tuesday morning.
Many commuters, stuck in traffic, got a front-row view of the horror of this hunt as they watched the cub collapse and die before their eyes.
When police arrived, they found not only the dead bear cub, but several cars pulled over, with people crying and visibly shaken by what they had witnessed.
This hunt has come on the watch of Governor Jim McGreevey, who earlier this year gave a written pledge to Humane USA (a political action committee working on animal protection issues) that, if elected, he would support a five-year moratorium on bear hunting.
Governor McGreevey's decision to renege on his explicit and unambiguous pledge has produced a grisly body count that humane-minded
New Jersey residents will long remember.
Though the hunt is in progress, the Governor and his DEP Commissioner,
Bradley Campbell, can put a stop to it at any point and spare the bears that have thus far survived the onslaught of 6,000 hunters.
Concerned individuals can call both the Governor and the Commissioner and let them know that Americans from coast to coast are disgusted and want this hunt canceled now.
RELATED:
'Sterilize - Don't Shoot - NJ's Black Bears'
http://www.anc.org/wildlife/wildlife_archive_article.cfm?identifier=2003_1012_bears
(For those species nearing extension, CLONE THEM!!!
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