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Last week, the Department of the Interior announced plans to delist gray wolves from the Endangered Species Act (ESA), putting their fragile populations at the mercy of hunters.
This proposal has now been published in the Federal Register, and the public has until May 14, 2019, to comment.
Gray wolves are currently found in nine states and only present in around five percent of their historic range. With an estimated 5,000 left, wolf advocates say populations are still recovering.
Hunting groups and farmers disagree, claiming the numbers have grown so much that human/wolf conflict is becoming a serious issue. They say these animals need to be culled.
This is not the first time efforts have been made to strip protections from wolves; up until now, every attempt has been halted by federal courts and wolf advocates.
In 2012, wolves were delisted, and hunters went on to slaughter nearly 1500 in the Great Lakes Region alone. Two years later, a federal judge deemed it had been a mistake to delist the species, and they were granted protection again.
The Department of the Interior is calling the population growth of gray wolves “one of the greatest comebacks for an animal in U.S. conservation history.” They propose handing management of the species over to individual states. But this move would be devastating for wolves!
While some regions, such as the Great Lakes, are seeing thriving populations of gray wolves, smaller populations are only just beginning to move into other areas.
Environmental and animal advocacy groups strongly oppose the plan and are determined to sue, if required.
“We’ll go to court to stop the Trump administration from prematurely stripping wolves of the lifesaving protections that rescued them from the brink of extinction,” said Michael Robinson, senior conservation advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity. “The livestock industry and trophy hunters want wolves dead, but we’ll make sure the feds fulfill their obligation to restore wolves across the country.”
We need to take action to protect this iconic species and ensure they are safe in their remaining habitat.
Please leave a comment to oppose on the plan to delist! Click here to comment now.
And please add your voice to the tens of thousands of people who have signed our petition to save the wolves.
What is it with you and SLAUGHTERING America’s wildlife?? This continent continues bro be exploited since the day the white man stepped foot, wait a minute, who takes and makes these atrocious decisions over this land?? Leave it alone. Wolves roam since years before you even came!! There are voices now against cold-hearted killings and hunting. Stop!! where are our Native Americans, they should be in office.
People are obligated to help wolves and any other animal species as important part of nature. Every living creature makes our nature and Earth alive!
President Donald Trump
the Galarneau family requests youto putwolves and keep them on the endangered species. and since TB is back ramped in deer in mi. priorities arent logical.
Also these mammals werepn earth
what is wrong with people. cant they just leave others alone why do they feel compelled to go out and harm another being?? I will never understand this part of human nature
Stop killing these wolves ! Please ! No animal should be killed !
Yes maybe it is time to cull out some of these Wolves.I don’t believe so. But not in any Abusive way. or to the point of extinction again. This has happened before. I say just leave them alone
No animal what so ever deserves to be slaughtered. For the life of me why would anyone in there right mind want to harm animals. I am a PETA supporter and am completely against animal abuse and cruelty. God is watching you!!!!!!!!!!
STOP THE SENSELESS SLAUGHTER OF THESE PRECIOUS ANIMALS.
These animals are part of what America is! The Ecosystem needs them also! Please don’t let America do what other countries do and destroy our wildlife.
by Didn’t the US do this once before then had some much trouble with overpopulation of other animals because they had no enemies? Didn’t they import a wolf pack from Canada? Seems to me they did. If they run into trouble again I HOPE NO ONE WILL HELP THEM RESTOCK WOLVES FOR THEM TO JUST KILL AGAIN AND AGAIN. LEAVE NATURE ALONE IT WILL CARE FOR IT’S OWN.
Society should take seriously the cruel treatment of animals, because the animal abusers are a danger to everybody…
There is no such thing as hunters anymore. Everything is handed to them on a silver platter. The only thing they are is COWARDS AND MURDERERS. Please stop the unbalance of nature. We must live on this planet together. Every plant, animal and human species is here for a reason.
Please protect animals!
slaughter redneck ranchers and limp wristed trophy hunters, not wolves…
they are a much lower life form than wolves and no one will really give a shit…
This is wrong! Do not do this!!! Wolves are beautiful creatures and should not be slaughtered!
wolves are not game. Protect wild species.
Wolves are not game. Wolves are not game. Wolves are not game.
No no no please help stop all the animal abuse! This makes me sick and so sad! We need all our animals wild and domestic . Please help protect them all and keep them all safe!!
God made Wolves to help the environment. leave them alone. stop building homes on the Wolves land.
Save the wolves !
Why cant they be neutered?????
WOLVES MUST STAY PROTECTED…THEY MUST BE ON THE ESA LIST. PLEASE!
Please Google and read the article Too many dogs a simple solution by Melinda Beck about the use of calcium chloride to neuter male dogs and which costs about a buck
I please beg you to continue to protect our beautiful wolves.
I please beg you to continue to protect wolves
Conflict between people and wolves often occurs after their competing needs/wants collide.
” Hunters” are in a peculiar category of their own and enjoy protection from powerful lobby-groups, a protection which is not afforded to the wolves themselves. Regrettably, the unarmed wolves lose.
Pastoralists fail to recognise that they wolves are not ” on their land”… humans have encroached upon pack-ranges and then seek to assert dominance over those who initially resided there. Regrettably, the unarmed wolves lose.
All sections of an ecosystem are required for the balance to be maintained.If you remove one element, there is a flow-on effect: often with long-term consequences that cannot be rapidly reversed.
These social, intelligent creatures are reliant upon another species to speak and act on their behalf. Don’t delist …or once again, the unarmed and unprotected will lose. And so will we.
do not delist wolves from the ESA. they are a natural part of our environment. Allow wolves freedom to roam in protected areas.
These wolves do not need to be delisted any more than any animal that is on this list. Please have compassion for these wolves.
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The wolves should be protected. They have just started to grow after hunters came close to making them extinct. What really upsets me is the way they make their kill by throwing bombs into the wolves den killing pups as well. The people who did this are cowards and don’t deserve being called Hunters, but closer to killers and Cowards.
What an Excuse for the trophy hunters.there talking about culling the wild Prairie horses and deer because they are over run with them yet they want to cull the main predators the Wolves that help keep them down would it not be more sensible to increase the population of Wolves and let nature work as it should .Of course not otherwise what are the idiots with guns going to shoot .
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Please save the Wolves. They are an important part of the Foodchain.
Wolves continue to need our protection as the briefest glance at the statistics reveals.
THIS HORRIFIC MURDER MUST BE STOPPED NOW!
We need wolves more than we need hunters. Take the hunters guns and knives away and set the wolves on to them
This is an unthinkable act that must be stopped. The wolf population must be saved from the rapacious appetite of hunters.