The “rarest wolf” in the Western Hemisphere. First clearly-documented instance of the US border wall preventing wolf travel. And Anubis, one of the first wolves in a century to inhabit the Grand Canyon region, is killed.
4 January 2022: Albinson Linares. “An endangered wolf spent days searching for a mate. The border wall blocked him.” CBS News. Originally published at Noticias Telemundo.
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7 January 2022: Lindsey Botts. “Anubis, the wandering Mexican gray wolf, is shot and killed near Flagstaff.” AZ Central. Originally published at Arizona Republic.
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The “rarest wolf” in the
Western Hemisphere is the Mexican gray wolf, a unique subspecies which
was nearly extinct after the US government purposely poisoned, trapped,
and killed the subspecies between 1915 and 1972. By the 1970s, only some
wolves remained in northern Mexico. In 1998, the wolf was reintroduced
to the American Southwest. By 2021, there are about 114 wolves in New
Mexico, 72 in Arizona, and 35 in Mexico. In 2020, US government agents
killed the last of the Prieto pack in Gila National Forest. Average
survival rate of wild pups is about 50%.
In December 2021, it was reported that the US’s border wall prevented Mr. Goodbar, a Mexican gray wolf, from crossing between habitat in the US and within
Mexico, making this the first time that telemetry/tracking studies have clearly
documented how the wall directly prevents wolf movement. Mr. Goobar spent 4 days pacing back and forth along 23 miles of the wall. As the Center for Biological Diversity pointed out in their December 2021 press release on the matter, there were two events in 2017 when wolves from Mexico crossed the border and traveled into the US. One of these wolves crossed into Arizona, and livestock industry advocates convinced the US government to capture the wolf; this wolf is still in captivity, and she was the mother of Mr. Goodbar.
Then, it was announced that Anubis, a locally famous Mexican
gray wolf named, had been (”illegally”) shot and killed by an unknown person in Kaibab National Forest in northern
Arizona in the first week of January 2022. Anubis had been famous for his long-distance travel from
eastern New Mexico to the Kaibab area north of Flagstaff, which is
outside of the “designated” wolf recovery zone. So, Anubis was also
famous/important because he was one of the wolves in over a century to
return to and live in habitat near the Grand Canyon, demonstrating that
the area could still host wolves.
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From the Center for Biological Diversity, a map of Mr. Goodbar’s travels:
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Historical distribution range of the Mexican gray wolf.
Left: Distribution before 1915. Right: Distribution in the 1940s.
Left: Distribution in 1976. Right: Distribution in 2009.
The recovery area of Mexican gray wolf in New Mexico and Arizona:
America really is irredeemably evil. This article in the new york times ADMITS that prisons are an industry in America, yet tries to convince its readers to empathize with the people enforcing US law in these prisons, with NO empathy for the people incarcerated there
Oh no another shitty -ville town in California might go away oh no.
Anyway get real jobs you pigs lol
All these white american towns sustained by mass incarceration or the military industrial complex are populated by worse welfare queens than the racial minorities on unemployment they’ve been brainwashed to hate if the government stopped subsidizing their pathetic middle class daydream employing them in running the machinery of cruelty and murder they would all be a starving entitled angry mob ready to install open fascism to rescue their dumb asses from destitution in a snap I’m sorry to tell you kid but your daddy isn’t actually contributing to society he’s a criminal guilty of participating in atrocities for an illegal rogue state and if we lived in a just world his victims would be released and he’d be thrown inside one of the cages he formerly guarded in their place and your mommy too for being an accomplice to such evil
like I’m sorry but this is so funny it is causing me to lose my life. “we are all living through a global pandemic, nobody has any money, our democracies are horrifically morally bankrupt and our world is dying. here’s how to break down spiritually in a palatable and socially-approved way!”
… I consider myself a pretty emotionally constipated person but jesus christ
“Sorry, I’m afraid I can’t have a meeting at 4 today because it conflicts with my crying session”
The CDC Director is really out here straight up promoting eugenics.
“Good news everyone! Only the disabled and chronically ill are dying so that’s REALLY ENCOURAGING. No need to change a thing. Let ‘er rip!”
CDC Diretor be like
[ID: Headline that reads “Would Anyone Notice If We Started Endorsing Eugenics?”]
For all y’all going ?!? I need you to know this is not an exaggeration.
The CDC director says fuck disabled and chronically ill lives. I’m also going to point out that you’re significantly more likely to be disabled if you are Native American or Black so this is also racist. The CDC out here officially cheering our deaths is just the perfect way to start 2022.
[ID: A series of four screen grabs of Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC Director, speaking on TV. The subtitles read “The overwhelming number of deaths, over 75%, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities. So really these are people who were unwell to begin with and yes, really encouraging news in the context of Omicrom.”]
What makes this worse is that something like half the people living in this country have some kind of comorbid or pre-existing condition. And the CDC knows that perfectly well.
So while it IS good news that Omicron is apparently less deadly than previous mutations, it is NOT in any way acceptable for the CDC or the press to throw literal millions of people under the COVID bus and just shrug it off like, “Welp, they were sick anyway.”
Your not friendly reminder that cops stole more monetary value then all burglaries in 2020, and that is only dwarfed by time theft by American businesses.
ACAB
If you live under the rule of a government where it’s appointed officers entrusted with enforcing the law are not only legally permitted but also openly encouraged to rob you of your personal property at gunpoint but you have no complementing equal right to defend yourself from being robbed without facing brutal retaliation in both armed force and legal prosecution then you do not in fact live in a free country to the contrary it’s an extremely tyrannical one.
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