From Green Matters:
One of the most consistent ways people have tried to protect our planet is by conserving endangered animals. The Endangered Species Act was created in 1973 to expedite protections for threatened or endangered species; but sometimes, legislation like this isn’t enough.
From KJCT News 8:
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) – Colorado Parks and Wildlife is approaching a hard deadline to reintroduce gray wolves into the state.
While Colorado has been searching where they’ll acquire wolves from, three other states rejected Colorado’s request for wolves.
Over the summer CPW officials reached out to the Nez Perce tribe to see if they could help in the effort to reintroduce the animals to the state. The chairman of the tribe said he spoke to Governor Jared Polis once, and he wants to finalize a deal, but they aren’t quite there yet.
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From CBS Colorado:
For a while now, Colorado has been searching for an organization that would be willing to help the state re-introduce 30-50 wolves into the north-western part of the state before the Dec. 31 deadline comes this year.
After striking out with four different states (Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington, who said “maybe check back later”) the Centennial State is now looking to the Nez Perce tribe as a possible solution.
From Idaho Mountain Express:
Sheepherders have most likely faced danger from predators since sheep were first domesticated in Mesopotamia 10,000 years ago. Such prey-predator relations are part and parcel of ecosystems.
Idaho sheep ranchers have had to worry about wolves again after they were reintroduced to the region under a federal mandate in 1996, against the wishes of the state Legislature, and with help from the Nez Perce Tribe.
From Center for Biological Diversity:
RALEIGH, N.C.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to classify the world’s last wild population of red wolves as ‘nonessential.’
The red wolf is listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act and is among the most imperiled species in the world. Just 13 known wild red wolves survive in eastern North Carolina.
From Sierra:
Ten years ago, high in the Alps, two gray wolves crossed the Italian border into Switzerland. Within a year they had pups, settling in the southern canton, or province, of Grisons, and the Calanda wolf pack was born. It was the first since the mid-19th century, when wolves were hunted to extinction in the tiny European country better known for cheese, chocolate, and flowery Alpine meadows. Since 2012, the pack has had 47 pups, with young wolves spreading out through the mountains.
The Daily Cardinal:
Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is set to present their newly revised wolf population management plan to the Natural Resources Board during their October meeting — a plan that still faces opposition from the Republican-backed Senate Committee of Financial Institutions and Sporting Heritage.
The DNR’s updated plan continues to advise an adaptive approach toward wolf population management rather than setting a firm numerical quota. The plan “turns its attention from wolf recovery to long-term stewardship and sustainable management of wolves in the state,” the DNR said in an August press release.
From The Western News:
Two conservation groups have asked a federal judge in Missoula to halt the upcoming wolf trapping season in parts of Montana over concerns that grizzly bears could be injured or killed by the traps in violation of the Endangered Species Act.
From PetaPixel:
The footage was captured in Minnesota by a camera set up by the Voyageurs Wolf Project on September 17. Taking to YouTube, the wildlife researchers called it “the absolute trail camera jackpot.”
The only other video of a wolf killing a beaver was recorded by a person who witnessed it on a logging road in Quebec in 2015.
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