Top scientists back federal plan to protect Alaska predators
by Oliver Milman from Environment | The Guardian on (#18N3B)
New rules would ban 'non-subsistence' killing of bears, wolves and coyotes - some of the 'most iconic yet persecuted species'- in the state's 16 wildlife refuges
A group of scientists has backed a federal plan to restrict the trapping and gunning down of bears and wolves in Alaska's wildlife refuges, in the face of bitter opposition from the state government.
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