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Animal rights group wants fine after musk oxen deaths; UAF says concerns have been addressed

FAIRBANKS - An animal rights group wants the University of Alaska Fairbanks investigated and fined following the deaths of at least a dozen musk oxen at the school's...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2011-10-12/animal-rights-group-wants-fine-after-mu
State
Opposition to selling otter pelts to non-Natives

...the sale of pelts to non-natives we would oppose that." The language would also raise the considerable ire of animal rights groups, she said.Re-introduced to Southeast Alaska in the 1960s after being hunted out of the region a century before...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-02-06/opposition-selling-otter-pelts-non-nati
State
Critics of bear baiting aim at voters

Scorned by animal rights groups and reviled by some hunters, the practice of bear baiting is under the gun in Alaska from an odd mix of conservationists and professional...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/070703/sta_bearbaiting.shtml
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Northwest Digest

...the loss of untold amounts of data on Steller sea lions after their study permits were revoked in a lawsuit by an animal rights group in early summer, the best time of year for observing the endangered animals. The decision found that the National...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/091506/sta_20060915031.shtml
News
CSI wildlife: Finding crime clues in forensics

...turned in by his friends. Police interrogated him and released him, convinced he wasn't responsible. But animal-rights groups began protesting at the student's school. Police ultimately shipped four of the mutilated cats to Swanson...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/093005/loc_20050930007.shtml
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Alaska Digest

...continues, according to trooper reports. Protests resume with 'howl-ins' ANCHORAGE - A Connecticut-based animal rights group is again taking aim at Alaska with more than two-dozen "howl-ins" planned from New York to Alaska. Friends...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/110704/sta_20041107010.shtml
News
Rejection of wolf darts leads to shooting

...put down this way when they need to. However, when the use of helicopters is mentioned in wolf suppression, animal rights groups and other people that are against predator control come unglued and very threatening. They themselves have caused...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/110903/let_letter8.shtml
Opinion
Tofu or not tofu - that is the question, for some

A Juneau woman is among the winners of a nationwide Thanksgiving Day essay contest by a well-known animal-rights group. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals awarded Jan M. Gordon of Juneau and 19 others, out of more than...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/112101/Loc_Tofu.shtml
Local
Judge halts aerial wolf-shooting plans

A Superior Court judge on Wednesday issued a court order to temporarily prevent the shooting of wolves from airplanes under a state predator control program.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/112803/sta_wolf.shtml
News
Group presents case to ground wolf shootings

...wolves from airplanes should be permanently grounded. The five-hour hearing was prompted by a Connecticut-based animal rights group, Friends of Animals, and seven Alaska plaintiffs, who are seeking a preliminary injunction to end the program...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/120303/loc_wolfcase.shtml
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