Texas hates endangered species

We tend to be understanding to everything and everyone, not seeing the world as black and white, but if you narrow it down, there is only one outcome from all these news - Oil Companies = the bad guys. The article is interesting, but soo unsurprising.... Keep us posted on the progress.

To make it easier for them, they should hire an "expert" like this one, who would decide, if those species are really "necessary" :

Fox: Endangered Species - Who Cares? - YouTube

It would be good as a joke, as a reality, not so funny...
 
If I am not mistaken, Texas is the only puma range state in the USA where the cats have no legal protection (not even as game animals) and can be shot on sight for any reason. Needless to say, they are effectively extinct statewide except for those that have federal protection inside Big Bend National Park.

I once heard a cat researcher at a wild cat conference talk about working in Texas to save the ocelot, and he said working in Texas is a whole different experience (in reference to the lack of public lands and the need to try to negotiate with ranchers).

Even the Fort Worth Zoo, which is supposed to be a conservation organization, has some ridiculous anti-conservation messages in their Texas Wild exhibit (which they try to twist around with clever double speak to make it sound like it is pro-conservation).
 
Arizona Docent said:
If I am not mistaken, Texas is the only puma range state in the USA where the cats have no legal protection (not even as game animals) and can be shot on sight for any reason. Needless to say, they are effectively extinct statewide except for those that have federal protection inside Big Bend National Park.

I once heard a cat researcher at a wild cat conference talk about working in Texas to save the ocelot, and he said working in Texas is a whole different experience (in reference to the lack of public lands and the need to try to negotiate with ranchers).

Even the Fort Worth Zoo, which is supposed to be a conservation organization, has some ridiculous anti-conservation messages in their Texas Wild exhibit (which they try to twist around with clever double speak to make it sound like it is pro-conservation).
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Yes, you are correct about pumas having no protections in Texas whatsoever. And when it comes to livestock, cattle are the dominant livestock in the state, and cougars generally avoid cattle if that tells you anything.
 
Pantheraman said:
Yes, you are correct about pumas having no protections in Texas whatsoever. And when it comes to livestock, cattle are the dominant livestock in the state, and cougars generally avoid cattle if that tells you anything.
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And Texas ocelot and southern North American jaguars.
 
Generally, Texas, at least part of it, lies within the american prairies with most of land being converted to agriculture. Grassland animals all over the world are rarely protected to favour agricultural activities. For example, bisons remained in prairies are captive with few free ranging herds.
 
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