Alaska will receive about $35 million of some $741 million to be split among all 50 states to fund fish and wildlife conservation, boater access and the education of boaters, anglers and hunters, Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar announced this week. More than $20.2 million will go toward sport fish restoration in Alaska, with more than $14.2 million for wildlife restoration.
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This could be a great thing for Alaska's wildlife, if all this money is used wisely. The news has been carrying stories that make me worry about how much Alaskan conservation is entrenched with politics- check out the articles listed below to find out why:
Species and environmental conservation is almost always a complex issue with many stakeholders, which can make knowing the right information and taking the correct actions very difficult. We should try to fully understand "non-eco-friendly" people's points of view before vilifying them. Sometimes they have very good reasons - or what may seem like very good reasons to them - for acting the way they do toward wildlife and conservation. Such cases require mutual understanding and education to pave the road toward policies that benefit humans and animals equally, for generations to come.
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