The A Team
04-30-2013, 01:07 PM
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to remove all Endangered Species Act protections for most of the gray wolves across the United States.
This proposal reflects an unacceptable and short-sighted vision of our nation's conservation goals, and would give up on wolf recovery well before the job is done; a true conservation tragedy!
Delisting would prematurely turn wolf management over to the states, and we've already seen what can happen when rabid anti-wolf politics is allowed to trump science and core wildlife management principals.
Montana, Wyoming and Idaho — all states where wolves have been delisted — are not treating wolves like other wildlife such as elk and bears. Instead they're driving the wolves' population numbers back down to the bottom. More than 1,100 wolves have already been killed in the Northern Rockies since Congress took ESA protections away from them in 2011.
Please sign the petition to stop this:
<cite>https://www.defenders.org/</cite> (https://www.defenders.org/)
This proposal reflects an unacceptable and short-sighted vision of our nation's conservation goals, and would give up on wolf recovery well before the job is done; a true conservation tragedy!
Delisting would prematurely turn wolf management over to the states, and we've already seen what can happen when rabid anti-wolf politics is allowed to trump science and core wildlife management principals.
Montana, Wyoming and Idaho — all states where wolves have been delisted — are not treating wolves like other wildlife such as elk and bears. Instead they're driving the wolves' population numbers back down to the bottom. More than 1,100 wolves have already been killed in the Northern Rockies since Congress took ESA protections away from them in 2011.
Please sign the petition to stop this:
<cite>https://www.defenders.org/</cite> (https://www.defenders.org/)