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The Acting Secretary of the Interior says the gray wolf’s recovery is a “great conservation success.” But conservation groups say that without protections, wolf numbers will plummet.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will seek to end federal protections for the gray wolf throughout the lower 48 states, Acting Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced Wednesday.
In a statement, the USFWS said it will propose a rule to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list and “return management of the species to the states and tribes.” That means states would be able to make their own rules about hunting and culling of gray wolf populations.
“Recovery of the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is one of our nation’s great conservation successes, with the wolf joining other cherished species, such as the bald eagle, that have been brought back from the brink with the help of the ESA,” a USFWS spokesperson said in a statement.
The proposed rule will be published in the Federal Register in the coming days. A public comment period will follow.
In 1978, the USFWS classified the gray wolf as an endangered species throughout the contiguous U.S., except in Minnesota, where the wolf population was classified as threatened. The gray wolf was dropped from the endangered list in Idaho and Montana in 2011. There are now more than 5,000 gray wolves in the Lower 48, up from about 1,000 in 1975
Source: Trump Administration Seeks To Take Gray Wolf Off Endangered Species List : NPR
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Save our wolves, please don’t concrete our world! We need to protect our wolves and other animals. They are vital to our ecosystem and they take the sick or weak with chronic wasting disease.
We need wolves in the ecosystem.
Wolves need to continue to be protected. They have made a remarkable recovery, but their numbers will plummet if taken off the endangered species list!