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The NJ DEP has announced that a state Appellate Division Court today dismissed a legal challenge to the Comprehensive Black Bear Management Policy (CBBMP), clearing the way for a week-long bear hunt that will take place in Northwest New Jersey starting on Monday.

A two-judge panel rejected a request for an injunction made by the New Jersey Animal Protection League and the Bear Education and Resource Group to prevent the State’s first black bear hunt since 2005.

“The facts and science are clear,” said DEP Commissioner Bob Martin. “There are a growing number of black bears in New Jersey and a resultant increase in public complaints about bear and human encounters. This is clearly a public safety issue that requires responsible action by DEP and the Fish and Game Council.”
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PETA recently gave an award to the massive Korean company Samsung for a web based video that bashes hunting while promoting Samsung’s Bluetooth devices.

In an August 26 press release, PETA states that it was bestowing a “GOODY” award to Samsung for a recent online viral video created for Samsung by the ad agency promoting its Bluetooth technology. The ad, titled “Deer Rudolph and Eagle Eye team up to escape Redneck Hunter,” negatively stereotypes a hunter in the field. During the ensuing hunt, a bald eagle flying overhead “phones” a deer on the ground using a Bluetooth device and warns it to avoid the hunter.
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PETA’s latest campaign is aimed at a former American Idol contestant over her new hunting reality show.

Kristy Lee Cook, a contestant during the hit television show’s seventh season, is the host of “Goin’ Country” now airing on the Versus network. During its eight episode run, she, along with family and friends, go on a series of hunting excursions. Needless to say, this has PETA’s ire.

In a recent blog, PETA unloads on Cook while suggesting she act more like other well known American Idol personalities including the vegetarian winner of Season 4, Carrie Underwood (who also raised money for the Humane Society of the United States) and Season 5 contestant Kellie Pickler who regularly speaks out against wearing fur.
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One of the nation’s largest anti-hunting groups, Defenders of Wildlife, have taken aim at Cabela’s Inc. with a misguided and misleading public relations campaign designed to raise money to fund its efforts against outdoor sports.

According to an action alert posted by Defenders, the group accused Cabela’s of sponsoring three so-called “wolf-killing competitions” in Idaho. The group also attacked Cabela’s for the decision by the local paper in Sidney, Nebraska to not run an inflammatory ad against Cabela’s that Defenders had produced. It then went on to solicit funds to run the ad in other papers throughout the state.
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