{"id":1544,"date":"2008-02-26T15:16:47","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T15:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/26\/nature-news\/"},"modified":"2008-02-26T15:16:47","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T15:16:47","slug":"nature-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/26\/nature-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hunting Wolves; Killing Elephants<!--more-->The Bush administration on Thursday announced an end to federal protection for gray wolves in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, concluding that the wolves were reproductively robust enough to survive.&#8221;Wolves are back,&#8221; said Lynn Scarlett, the deputy secretary of the Department of the Interior, in a telephone conference call with reporters. &#8220;Gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains are thriving and no longer needA coalition of wildlife and environmental groups dismissed the government&#8217;s claims and announced plans for a lawsuit to reverse the decision, which is to take effect next month.Advocates for the animals said there were too few wolves to make a genetically sound population, and that state plans to manage wolf populations were underfinanced and fueled by a long-simmering animosity against wolves that could drive them back to threatened status.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/22\/us\/22wolves.html?ex=1361422800&#038;en=4f6f32413fa2c40c&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">[Read the rest here:  New York Times]<\/a>I&#8217;m not sure what I feel about elephant culling.  Too many elephants is a bad thing.  Killing elephants is a bad thing and it also gives the elepants a bad attitude and a hatred of humans.  I&#8217;ve been on the business end of an elephant with a bad attitude, and it is not fun.The debate is heating up as South African&#8217;s park service ends a 13 year ban on culling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news123181488.html\">South Africa Allows Killing of Elephants<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\" title=\"Science and technology news\">PhysOrg.com<\/a> <br \/>(AP) &#8212;  South Africa said Monday that it will start killing elephants to reduce their burgeoning numbers, ending a 13-year ban and possibly setting a precedent for other African nations.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news123181488.html\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they should just do this:  <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/how_to_catch_a_herd_of_elephan.php\">&#8220;How to catch a herd of elephants&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunting Wolves; Killing Elephants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[49,203,169,178,124],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-oU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}