"Hunting" is not hunting

Aerial killing of wolves in Alaska is a kind of warfare. The word used to describe it is an affront. "Hunting" by sophisticated aircraft using assault weapons is not "hunting" -- it is massacre and mass murder. It bears no resemblance to a lone human who may kill an animal on the ground for food.

In some instances the consciousness of humanity has evolved beyond random mass killing and destruction of the "other" life on the earth. We need more realization that such destruction cannot occur without consequences for humanity and for all of life.

Is this kind of massacre what America really wants to give as an example to other nations, particularly in the "third" world where enlightened leaders and thinkers work to persuade "native" peoples to nurture wildlife as part of a program of economic development through eco-tourism?

At this point the "government" of Alaska encourages and rewards the massacre of wolves in any fashion. When will the citizens there realize that they do not have to blindly obey the government when it says "kill?" The wildlife of all the lands of America and the earth are our co-inhabitants of the globe. They are part of the sacred richness of the world along with all peoples and their descendants. Humankind is the apex predator species of the planet - yes. Yet it is not given to us to conduct large scale massacre of other species. No religious texts promote it. The principles of life and the web of life speak softly to say: No.

The vast organism which is earth itself has been illustrating the consequences of human destruction. Wolf murderers and those who support and encourage them are as out of step as would be Neanderthals who might appear among us.