When asked about tourists and by tourists, i really mean colonists getting too close to wildlife or possible attacks on people from wildlife I.S.R Officer Debbie Boone had this to say:
As someone who has lived and volunteered at Yellowstone Park I can say firsthand how this impacts our land and animals. There are so many visitors in one year’s time 4 million in fact that visit so called national parks. It’s truly an encroachment on both our land and wildlife. The emissions alone from the vehicles is terrible. You can literally see it in the air especially on hot days. Can you imagine how those effects the animals and a natural environment. That’s like smokers coming into your house and contaminating your home and your space. Impacts on the environment and delicate plants really takes its toll. The ecosystem there is just beautiful but can’t handle this level of intrusion. It can’t take the ramifications, the damage that it causes is extreme. I get the people are amazed and they’ve never seen anything like that before, but they also have to understand they need to respect the animals and the environment. During rutting season, The bison are everywhere because that’s mating season. But tourist’s lack of common Sense leaves them. They’re out of their cars trying to get selfies which is terribly dangerous, and many have faced the music by injury and even death. These are wild animals not pets or fuzzy dogs. Around Mammoth Park area the elk are allowed to roam free but still people fail to understand the concept of wild. I’ve seen many elk run after folks for being in their area and they’re also in mating season in the summer. I actually call a lack of respect wildlife a downright stupidity. I know for a fact that when people check into the hotels the rules are clearly stated in 10 languages. It clearly states not to approach wildlife. It literally just blows my mind. I’ve watched people get so close to bears I have to shake my head in disbelief of their incredible ego. If a mama bear would decide to turn on them it could mean death because they couldn’t get away fast enough. For real. So what can be done to protect everyone and everything. well Yellowstone has actually talked about using the coaches that they have and making everybody keep their vehicles parked and take their tours on these new coach buses but yet that hasn’t been put into play. Protection of natural resources is at the utmost importance. Tourism (colonial galivanting) generates land degradation, air and noise pollution, littering, trampling and the alteration of very delicate ecosystems. It needs to stop. there’s got to be a better way and that would be to leave wildlife alone. Colonialism has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, reptiles and fish since 1970. So much to the point that experts warn that annihilation of wildlife is now an emergency that threatens civilization. In the so called “u.s” the illegitimate agency fish and wildlife service’s themselves kills more than 2 million animals every year on lands that belong to the indigenous of the western hemisphere. such a figure of indiscriminate killing cost us a broad ecological destruction and biodiversity and not to mention the cost to the taxpayers for whatever that’s worth. Yes, your tax dollars contribute to this atrocity. So again, I ask you how fair is that because we need them so much? I find that colonists have such a blatant disrespect for all that’s sacred on our home it’s beyond me. Support I.S.R pan indigenous government. Remove power from illegitimate colonial agencies. Assist it the restoration of Turtle Island by putting wildlife and natural resources under the control of the rightful stewards. #LandBack
Written by Debbie Boone descendant of the great Iroquois nation. Edited by The Invisible Warrior War Chief Mko of the Potowatomi, Dakota and Blackfeet.
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