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By Sena BalbachThe Grey Wolf is easily one of the most politically polarizing animals in the United States. Ever since Europeans began settling North America there has been conflict between wolves and humans. Today farmers and ranchers want the wolf populations managed because of the potential risk they pose to their livestock, but environmentalists argue the importance of wolves in their ecosystems. There are many misconceptions surrounding wolves that drive human support for the wolf hunt.
By: Chelsea Zblewski Fox hunting is the act of tracking and killing foxes, typically red foxes. It is a common tradition in many countries, such as, Canada, France, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. This type of hunting is prominent in the upper-class community. The foxes are hunted as a form of pest control, population control, and as tradition.
By Emily Mosher
Have you ever eaten a potato chip? A cookie? How about washing your hair, ever use shampoo? Over 50 percent of packaged foods in grocery stores contain palm oil, a product derived originally from the jungles of West Africa. The oil is taken from the flesh of the palm oil fruit, by pressing the seeds together and gathering the chemicals collected from this process. The problem with this common ingredient, is that the plants that the oil comes from can only be found in jungles, jungles where non-human animals, specifically orangutans, live and depend on these trees to survive.
by Margaret Waters One of the green sea turtles living at the Minnesota Zoo Photo by Bryan Wilkins In the Minnesota Zoo's Discovery Bay and Tropical Reef center, three sea turtles swim lazily about next to tropical fish, white-tip reef sharks, and a green moray eel. Two are green sea turtles, while the third is a Kemps-Ridley sea turtle named Mardi. All three were once wild sea turtles, with the same story: they collided with boats while swimming.
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