“The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has recently announced that gray wolves in the Western Great Lakes region have reecovered from near-extinction–a remarkable conservation success story! Protections provided by the Endangered Species Act allowed these wolves, once nearly stricken from the landscape, to return to healthy levels.
Unfortunately, this proposed change to the Endangered Species Act protections for wolves could also strip crucial protections from still-recovering eastern wolves.
The FWS is contending that wolves in 29 states are a distinct and different species and not protected by the Endangered Species Act. They are proposing removing protections currently in place while they undertake a post de-listing status review of what they contend is a new species of wolves. This would be part of the proposed rule that would de-list wolves in the Western Great Lakes region.
Please ask the FWS to seperate these two proposals and to leave current Endangered Species Act protections in place until the best available science shows that they have recovered.
Please visit the link below and submit your comment! Special thanks to “The Endangered Species Coalition” for providing this information.”
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6014/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=8863
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