Please make this one phone call to stop hunter abuse and protect our rights
Action Alerts From Animal Defenders of Westchester (ADOW)

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Please make this one phone call to stop hunter abuse and protect our rights

From: Animal Defenders of Westchester (ADOW)
February 27, 2018

PLEASE MAKE THIS ONE PHONE CALL TO STOP HUNTER ABUSE AND PROTECT OUR RIGHTS

1) Item: There is an "AssemblyMinorityHuntingandFishing Task Force" of which a member of the Environmental Conservation committee (site of the Avella bill S3327/A6519) is a member
http://nyassembly.gov/mem/Marc-W-Butler/bio/

2) Item: Charges were just dropped against a hunter who killed an innocent woman walking her dogs in upstate NY.

3) Item: There are 2 bills in this committee (A08646/A477)to both allow hunting in city-populated areas, and to lower the 'universal hunting age' to 12 yrs old.

We cite these as more reasons the hunter-controlled, hunting-promoting DEC advisory board must allow non-hunters to serve on it - and S3327/A6519 must be put to a vote in the En Con committee. We have also discovered that the members of this committee don't necessarily know about the bill!

The national movement for gun control and banning assault weapons - which hunters fight against passing - has come to a head. PLEASE CALL AT LEAST ONE MEMBER OF THE EN CON COMMITTEE AND *POLITELY* URGE THEM TO SUPPORT S3327/ A6519. We have already posted the fact that a record-number of 'non-consumptive' park users (bird watching, wildlife photography etc) visited NYS parks last year - yet they have no voice in DEC decisions.

This board must be diverse and democratic!
http://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/new-york/record-number-of-visitors-to-nys-parks-in-2017/71-520672145

http://nyassembly.gov/comm/?id=15

DON'T LET HUNTERS DENY US OUR RIGHTS; PLEASE MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD

Hunters are actually in the minority and the # is declining - yet they have far more influence than non-hunters, largely due to a biased, antiquated board that was set up almost 100 years ago; time for a change. This struggle is going on all over the country

Any questions, let us know.

Original alert:
Committee Must Vote on Bill mandating the DEC add non-hunters to advisory board - Contact Needed

Thank You!
ADOW

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