A ban stopping the use of dogs to chase black bears has been lifted by the White House ALAMYConservation experts and animal welfare activists have accused the Trump White House of turning national parks into game reserves for hunters. The administration has systematically expanded rights for hunters at the expense of endangered wildlife, disturbing environmentalists who warn that the approach will lead to the extinction of protected species. Last week the National Park Service announced an end to an Obama-era protection relating to Alaska’s national preserves that banned the hunting of bear cubs, the targeting of wolves and pups in their dens, the use of dogs to pursue black bears and the hunting of swimming caribou from on board motorboats. Caribou in Kobuk Valley National Park in Alaska. Hunters will now be able to shoot them from motorboats as they swim ALAMYThe move is the administration’s latest attempt to unpick President Obama’s political legacy, a process that has included withdrawing the United States from…

Source: The Times May 27, 2018 23:07 UTC