It is very difficult to keep politics away from animal welfare, especially with the most odious President arguably in American history seeking to mark his last month in the Oval office by looking to leave his mark - the mark of a Texan 'hunter' - on an animal poulation that cannot fight back.
He has showed his total lack of careand disdain for animals during his presidential tenure which continues. In his last days his blood stained hands are all over the following pieces of his administartaion's brutality and total disregard for the environment:
1. Wolves can't outrun guns. The new Bush policy would mean that nearly 1,000 wolves could be massacred by hunters and state agents next year.
2. Utah's Redrock wilderness could be turned into an industrial wasteland.
3. Alaska's Tongass Forest will be invaded by bulldozers and chainsaws if the Bush Forest Service gets its way. It's do-or-die for America's greatest temperate rainforest.
4. Polar bears are now completely at the mercy of the oil companies and polluters. Under Bush's new policy, the Endangered Species Act cannot be used to protect polar bears against massive oil development and global warming pollution.
Make no mistake: the final 20 days of the Bush Administration could be the most destructive in its eight-year history -- and the schemes they ram through today will be extremely difficult for the Obama Administration to reverse.
Thankfully, animal welfare organisations and environmental groups are joining to oppose this tyrant.
So what signs are there for change? A small but nevetheless significant gesture from Barack Obama. When his children declared that they would like a puppy, he kept to his word but went to a Rescue not a Breeder. From acorns....
