Wolves score a win in the fight over their protections in the US
From HumaneSociety.org:
In a victory for wolves, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently denied two petitions filed by trophy hunting organizations aimed at removing federal Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in the Western Great Lakes region and reducing or removing protections for wolves in other areas of the lower 48 states.
Wolves (outside of the Northern Rocky Mountain region) remain safely protected—at least for now. But the attempt to remove their protections continues, and it is multipronged: We are still in court fighting the Fish and Wildlife Service’s most recent attempt to delist wolves nationwide, a policy the agency is trying to reinstate through a meritless appeal. And we’ve brought a separate lawsuit seeking to restore desperately needed protections to wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains, where they face extreme levels of state-sponsored killing.
