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A plan has been announced by federal officials to remove wolves from the Endangered Species Act in Wyoming, which would move wolf management to the state and allow for a shoot-on-sight policy for wolves in roughly 90 percent of the state.
This week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released it’s Final Wyoming Gray Wolf Management Peer Review Summary Report of the state’s management plan that calls for Wyoming to keep a minimum of 10 breeding pairs and 100 wolves outside of Yellowstone National Park. Wolves will be considered trophy animals in the Northwest part of the state and predators that could be killed everywhere else …at any time, by anyone.
Wyoming was excluded from the states where protection has already been lifted because its previous plan wasn’t considered viable.
The report has left scientists split over whether or not the plan is consistent with recovery efforts.
According to a scientific review, “[T]he Plan, as written, does not do an adequate job of explaining how wolf populations will be maintained, and how recovery will be maintained. It is clear that more than one panelist believes that there is a need for explicit buffering, and better explanations of the adaptive processes that will be used in managing down the wolf populations.”
The FWS’ plan is also being opposed by conservation groups. According to WildEarth Gaurdians, the plan would reduce the current population, which is now at an estimated 343, by half, isolate packs, allow hunting in migration routes and threaten wolves that leave national parks. Unfortunately, they’ll miss the big sign that says “Now Leaving Yellowstone: You are Totally Screwed.”
The plan still has to be approved the Wyoming Legislature. If passed, it could be open season on wolves next fall.
TAKE ACTION!
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is accepting public comments until January 13, please submit one at regulations.gov opposing the delisting of wolves in Wyoming and asking for a science-based plan that will allow wolves to fully recover and sign Defender’s of Wildlife’s petition.
If you would like talking points, Friends of Animals has a sample letter on its website.
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There are very few wolves left--there may not even be enough for breeding stock. What's next to be wiped out by the killers? Human? Humans kill livestock, pass diseases, growl at people and are definitely a threat to this world that exceeds any other.
to you 4% who voted that wolves should be removed from ESA... what a pathetic, greedy bunch of immoral losers.
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Wolves have only just come back from near extinction and are still endangered - bloody Americans, all they care about is killing, they go on Safari to kill, kill, kill, when most other nations go with a camera! It is about time that both the Americans and the Canadians learned that we share this planet with other species and we are supposed to care for them, not destroy them!
“Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because the government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.”
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Signed Thet must not be removed from the ESA, we all know what will happen
Very sad :-(
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stop the killings of wolves, don't removed them from the endangered species act, stop the huntings and the killings, stop denonizing them,we have to make a peticion to the USA goverment and canadian goverments to stop the killings.
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