From WildBeimWild:
On 8 May 2020, the Federal Council opened the consultation on the revised hunting ordinance.
After an initial review, the Swiss Animal Protection STS concludes: what applies to the law applies equally to the draft ordinance. The regulatory framework is a bow to hunters and wolf opponents.
From TheWildlifeSociety:
Wolves are making headlines again after a recent Executive Order calls for their delisting from ESA. Here’s what to expect as we look ahead.
From WyoFile.com;
EVANSTON—Yellowstone National Park’s last original wolf pack, Mollie’s Pack, emerged unscathed from a hunting season that opened last week and has already closed, Wyoming wildlife officials announced Monday.
From AZCapitolTimes.com:
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s executive order reviewing the status of Mexican gray wolves on the Endangered Species List comes despite the species’ population count falling short of the minimum requirement.
It’s a move conservationists argue ignores science and threatens to remove protection of Mexican wolves in order to appease the ranching industry, which has advocated against the species for decades.
From ShastaScout.org:
There’s a subject that’s been brought up consistently throughout Shasta County Supervisor Corkey Harmon’s tenure that he said isn’t going away any time soon: wolves.
As gray wolves have reemerged in Northern California over the last several years, livestock kills are becoming more frequent. It’s a cause of concern for several of Harmon’s constituents, he said, who are ranchers that rely on their livestock.
From MassLive.com:
A Massachusetts wolf education center — Wolf Hollow — is urging policymakers to rely on science and nonlethal conflict management as the Trump administration moves toward reconsidering federal protections for gray wolves.
From Atmos.earth:
When wolves hear another pack’s chorus howl rise in the distance, they stop. They listen.
And according to naturalist Rick McIntyre, who has logged more than 100,000 wolf sightings and filled more than 12,000 pages of field notes near his home in Montana, they calculate: “Do those guys have more members than we do? Or do we have more members than they do?”
From The Daily Mining Gazette:
LANSING – Pending legislation would allow gray wolf hunting and trapping if the federal government takes the animals off the Endangered Species List.
The possibility raises concerns among environmentalists that removing wolves from federal protection could set the species back and destabilize the ecosystem in Michigan.
From SpectrumNews1.com:
WASHINGTON — Ending endangered species protections for gray wolves has been a defining issue for Congressman Tom Tiffany, the Republican candidate for Governor in Wisconsin. For years, he’s pushed legislation to remove the wolves from the protected list. Now, he may finally get his way.
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From Chilkat Valley News:
A weekend mountain goat hunting trip ended with two Haines residents packing out a dead grey wolf from a pack they encountered at the top of a mountain near Chilkat Lake.
Both Nate Motes and Jenn Walsh described heading up a mountain on Saturday Sept. 5 and encountering a pack of wolves that approached them as they were hiking along a ridgeline. Both have seen wolves before, but never behaving like they did that afternoon.
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