For Quick Launch: February 2, 2024
Contact: Derek Goldman, [email protected]
Susan Holmes, [email protected]
Assertion of Endangered Species Coalition on At this time’s Announcement by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Deny Federal Protections to Grey Wolves within the Northern Rockies
Missoula, Mont.–In response to quite a few petitions filed greater than two years in the past, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the moment introduced that it has declined to reinstate Endangered Species Act protections for grey wolves within the Northern Rockies. The Coalition issued the next assertion:
“We’re upset that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is refusing to carry the states accountable to wolf conservation commitments they made a decade in the past,” stated Susan Holmes, Government Director for the Endangered Species Coalition. “Within the years since wolves have been delisted, Idaho and Montana have enacted more and more aggressive wolf-killing measures, together with trapping, snaring, 11-month-long seasons and extra, all of which threaten to roll again certainly one of America’s biggest wildlife restoration achievements.”
The Endangered Species Coalition helps the proposed improvement of a nationwide Wolf Restoration Plan, and we look ahead to partaking in that course of.
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