'As a wildlife advocate, I’ve seen my share of disgusting and unethical treatment of animals... But the massacre of Yellowstone bison, which this year claimed more than 1,100 from an already endangered herd, represents a new low...' -Maximilian Werner
In this April 20, 2014, file photo, bison graze along a state highway near West Yellowstone, Montana.-based nonprofit organization Yellowstone Voices released a video documenting the slaughter of bison that migrate out of Yellowstone National Park each winter to find forage. As a wildlife advocate, I’ve seen my share of disgusting and unethical treatment of animals .
According to ecologist and wildlife biologist George Wuerthner, the slaughter has serious evolutionary and ecological impacts on the herd. The long-term viability of any species depends on the genetic variability created by breeding between geographically distinct populations, but the slaughter “selects against those individuals who tend to migrate by eliminating them from the population.” As is true with other herd animals, older bison possess valuable knowledge about where to find forage.
So why do Wuerthner and others think conservation groups, including some with “wildlife” in their names, refuse to condemn this butchery? “Because the folks slaughtering bison are Native Americans,” he explained. Leftist ideology’s prominence in and effects on higher education, corporate America, and medicine is well-established, but its appearance in the conservation community has caught many people, including longtime activists such as Wuerthner, off guard, particularly in terms of how it has shifted the focus from wildlands and wildlife to social justice and people, which some would argue has little to do with advocating nonhuman nature.
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