13 years ago, Maharani (which means "Queen") was rescued
from a village in Uttar Pradesh. She was weak and fragile and needed immediate
medical attention.
She's come so far since then, and she stays true to her name at the Agra Bear Rescue
Facility, where she takes great pleasure in the royal treatment and respect
given to her by her keeper and other bears.
Learn more about this regal
girl on our website... you can even buy honey logs to help us
continue to treat her like a queen.
Grizzlies need room to roam, and
in the Northern Rockies they’ve got it.
Our national forests in Montana are some of the last, great habitat of the grizzly bear, but the Forest Service is planning to decrease protections and lower population targets.
You can turn back this threat to grizzlies and their home in the Northern Rockies.
Five national forests are
proposing to weaken grizzly protections. Each is proposing management plan
revisions that would significantly reduce safeguards for grizzly bears and give
logging and road building priority for decades to come.
Tell the Forest Service that grizzly bears should be safeguarded and protected in our national forests.
Specifically, the Flathead, Kootenai, Lolo, Helena, and Lewis & Clark National Forests in Montana are proposing to:
P.S. Read the Forest Service's Proposed Amendment here.
Our national forests in Montana are some of the last, great habitat of the grizzly bear, but the Forest Service is planning to decrease protections and lower population targets.
You can turn back this threat to grizzlies and their home in the Northern Rockies.
Five national forests are
proposing to weaken grizzly protections. Each is proposing management plan
revisions that would significantly reduce safeguards for grizzly bears and give
logging and road building priority for decades to come. Tell the Forest Service that grizzly bears should be safeguarded and protected in our national forests.
Specifically, the Flathead, Kootenai, Lolo, Helena, and Lewis & Clark National Forests in Montana are proposing to:
- Unilaterally declare grizzlies in this area “recovered” under the Endangered Species Act—not because the science says so—but because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says so.
- Remove the only bear-based road density standards in the region.
- Allow forests to “temporarily” increase road density during logging projects that can last years.
- Declare a long-term recovery goal of 800 bears—20% less than the current population.
- Allow female grizzly mortalities to be excessive for 6-12 years before taking any corrective action.
- Give the cover that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service needs to propose removing these grizzlies from Endangered Species Act protection, thereby returning them to state management, and hunting.
P.S. Read the Forest Service's Proposed Amendment here.
P.P.S.
If you haven't yet seen the video "Why Bears?" watch
it here and learn more.
