Animal Rights Video Analysis

Wolves were an endangered species in 1973, there was only known to be six left. In 2007, there were over 500 wolves reported in the upper-peninsula. Farmers were becoming upset due to the wolves harming there stock and other animals. Therefore, from my understanding they started hunting again. Some people were not happy about this because they were on the endangered list. So the Michigan Legislature passed a bill called the Public Act 520 and was signed by Gov. Snyder designating wolves’ game animals. In the video, Mary Wardell states “The DNR is setting the limit at 43 wolves at the minimal estimate of 658 wolves total with hunting limited to 3 distinct units of the U.P” (Wardell,2013) The 3 distinct units is based off of where the livestock …show more content…
Therefore, hunters can’t go out and hunt these beautiful animals without consequences. The law protects these animals by putting them into game reserves which will allow protection scarce resources like wolves from hunting.
People can balance benefits of the local residents/hunters with the animal rights activists by making the Act more secure than it is. The Act should provide measures that if a person intentionally kills a wolf or any other animal, additional measures should be taken such as being sued or prison time. Public Act 21 addressed this problem in the video because this law was trying to grant the Natural Resources Commission the authority to nominate animals as game species without legislative approval.
The economic concepts that can help save the problem is by using the hunting to control wolfs population in the game reserves. If the bill was not passed, I believe that there would be consequences because then they wolves would not be protected and they would become endangered. Some people might be relieved to this because that would be one less animal to destroy their