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A federal appeals court ruling stripped wolves of their protections in Wyoming on Friday, which could allow them to be shot on sight.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided in favor of Wyoming’s wolf management plan, which treats the animals as vermin. The court’s decision overturned a lower-court ruling that sided with conservationists who fought a state law that allowed the unlimited slaughter of wolves in a “predator zone that extended through most of the state,” the environmental groups said.
The court stayed its decision pending an appeal.
“Wyoming’s plan to shoot wolves on sight throughout most of the state was a bad idea when it was proposed, and it’s a bad idea now,” said Rebecca Riley, a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the groups that fought the plan. “The court’s decision to lift federal protections for wolves in Wyoming will be a step backward for wolf recovery in the West.”
Wolves were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states. Following a slight recovery after federal protections were granted in 1978, they exist on only 10 percent of their historic range. Many of the wolves that could lose their protection live outside the borders of Yellowstone National Park, where hunting is prohibited and where the wolves have been reintroduced.
Environmental groups earlier convinced a lower court that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Obama administration should not have moved to remove endangered-species protection for wolves based on promises from Wyoming that it would not harm them in certain areas.
The appeals court essentially ruled that the federal agency had reason to trust Wyoming’s word.
Wyoming’s “promises to protect wolves don’t amount to much” in a state that allows aggressive hunting, said Noah Greenwald of the Center for Biological Diversity. Wolves trying to make it to the southern Rocky Mountains to mate or establish territory “have to make it through the shoot-on-sight zone,” a deadly journey that could once again lower their population, he said.
Source: After court ruling, wolves could soon be shot on sight in Wyoming – The Washington Post
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All evil has to do to win is for good people to do nothing.
The Human Disease: We are the ONLY self destructive species on this entire planet. We self destruct via killing. We kill each other, we kill ourselves, we kill the air, waters, lands, vegetation, everything that flies, swims, walks. We kill everything that sustains life. Whether the “Sport of Kings” (war), hate, list, greed, boredom, coveting, sport, competition/trophy….WE KILL. The Human Disease.
Leave the Wolves alone!!! They are all important & they deserve to live & run free!!!
The wolf is not vermin, they are vital to the the eco-system of Wyoming. They are all so Sacred Animal to a number of Native American tribes. Wolves are not mindless killers that some people have may have thought they were. Wolves only hunt ungulates that are old, sick and weak. Wolves improve the health ungulates herds. Wolves all so could bring in a lot of money for the state and in turn for the country.
Wyoming, wolves are a huge tourism draw. Your parks and wildlife are what makes your state so special! People come from all over to get the chance to see a wolf. Wolves have a hard enough time surviving without being shot on sight. If shoot on sight goes into effect wolves that go outside the border of Yellowstone will most certainly be killed. Wild populations will decrease substantially. Wyoming, you are shooting yourself in the foot with this bill. Wolves are an invaluable resource for you and bring in tourism monies. Please reconsider this bill. The floodgates will be opened for killing.
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Please dont kill our wildlife