I’m proud of Jamie and Justin 

for trying to derail the plan to delist the Florida Panther but it failed.  At 5 am she texted me to say, “The downcast of the panthers was a collaboration between Canada and the U.S.  When it came time to present their proposal the U.S. said that because of the feedback from constituents here they now reject the proposal but recused themselves from voting.  Half of the neighboring countries voted against it.  Mexico and some European and Asian countries voted for it.  It ended up passing.  The Florida Panther has now been down listed to Appendix II.  We tried.”

 

Call me cynical, but here's my read on this:

 

The USFWS was no help at all to the Florida Panther when the Florida Wildlife Commission tried to change the rules in Florida so that the panthers could be killed if they were in the way of Florida Wildlife Commissioner Priddy's planned development in the heart of Florida Panther territory.  The people of Florida were so outraged that I believe the USFWS went to Canada and said, "Hey, you guys like offering trophy hunts of endangered species, like wolves and polar bears, so how about we let you guys continue to export those into the U.S. and you help us pave Florida under by proposing to delist the Florida Panther?"  Why not?  Canada doesn't have any Florida Panthers.  No state, other than Florida has any Florida Panthers.  That's why they're called Florida Panthers.

 

But, the USFWS isn't expecting anyone from the U.S. to be there and see what's happening until they get called on the carpet by Big Cat Rescuers, Jamie and Justin Boorstein.  To save face they rally plenty of other countries who want to consume every last wild animal on the planet, to assist their virility, because goodness knows there aren't enough of them, so that the U.S. can say, "oh, we didn't know Americans cared about the Florida Panther, but since they do, we will just sit this one out"...even though it was their plan from the beginning.  And don't let them tell you they didn't know.  As soon as the ill fated plan was made known we have been all over it, along with a number of other leading non profit organizations.

 

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South Florida developers must be licking their chops now as there is far less standing in their way of building more cities and killing more wildlife in Florida.

 

Hi, I’m Carole Baskin and I’ve been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/

 

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Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.  Closing graphic with permission from https://youtu.be/F_AtgWMfwrk