Conservationists and animal lovers have won the legal battle to save wolves from slaughter! The Regime has reversed course on its plan to strip grey wolves in the northern Rockies of their protected status under the Endangered Species Act. You may recall my earlier post {5/8/08} about the temporary injunction issue by a federal district court in Billings, Montana prohibiting states from declaring an open season on wolves. That win convinced an otherwise stubborn administration that it would not prevail in court against environmental groups seeking to continue legal protection for recovering wolf populations. U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials ignored the best available science showing that wolf populations have not fully recovered. This means Wyoming, Montana and Idaho will not be allowed to begin the extermination of hundreds of wolves this fall as part of a massive public hunt-- the first in more than three decades. Over one hundred wolves around the Yellowstone basin were killed while their human friends labored in court to help them. If you helped to achieve this important victory through donations or activism, give yourself a pat on the back and be ready to help again.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Non-Negative News from Nature
Conservationists and animal lovers have won the legal battle to save wolves from slaughter! The Regime has reversed course on its plan to strip grey wolves in the northern Rockies of their protected status under the Endangered Species Act. You may recall my earlier post {5/8/08} about the temporary injunction issue by a federal district court in Billings, Montana prohibiting states from declaring an open season on wolves. That win convinced an otherwise stubborn administration that it would not prevail in court against environmental groups seeking to continue legal protection for recovering wolf populations. U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials ignored the best available science showing that wolf populations have not fully recovered. This means Wyoming, Montana and Idaho will not be allowed to begin the extermination of hundreds of wolves this fall as part of a massive public hunt-- the first in more than three decades. Over one hundred wolves around the Yellowstone basin were killed while their human friends labored in court to help them. If you helped to achieve this important victory through donations or activism, give yourself a pat on the back and be ready to help again.