A federal judge has refused anti-hunters’ demands to halt a black bear hunt at a Virginia National Wildlife Refuge (NWR).
On Nov. 30, U.S. District Judge Henry Morgan denied an emergency injunction filed by In Defense of Animals, Animal Welfare Institute, and other anti-hunting groups to call off the newly-established black bear hunt at Great Dismal Swamp NWR. The judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service followed appropriate procedures while establishing the hunt and that the hunt would not cause “irreparable damage” to the refuge’s bear population.
Fifty-eight hunters were selected to participate in the two-day hunt, which began Dec. 1.
The anti-hunting movement has made the elimination of hunting on refuges a priority.
The Animal Protection Institute recently called on its supporters to demand that officials ban hunting, fishing and trapping for 39 North Dakota refuges, and ban hunting and trapping on an Illinois refuge.
The U.S. Sportsmen’s Legal Defense Fund (U.S. SLDF), the litigation arm of the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation (USSAF), is taking on the anti’s in an ongoing lawsuit to ban hunting on 37 units of the 100 million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System. Click here to read more about this issue.
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