Protecting Grey Wolves Is Becoming Increasingly Important - And Difficult

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The fight to get Grey Wolves back on the Endangered Species List is heating up as two U.S. States have authorized the mass slaughter of grey wolves within their borders. Keep in mind, grey wolves were only removed from the Endangered Species Act in January and are already facing insurmountable perils to their survival. If they are not put back on the ESA, they will undoubtedly plunge towards extinction once again after 45 years of resources to bring them back from near extinction.

Both Idaho & Montana have approved the eradication of grey wolves within their states and by any means necessary. Trapping, snaring, night hunts, and sickeningly, even running them down with ATVs are all seemingly permitted. It's clear that grey wolves are in dire need of being protected once again under the Endangered Species Act. Without these protections, we will see thousands of grey wolves slaughtered despite the efforts and resources used to protect them for so long. It's incredibly counter productive and works to undo the tireless efforts of conservationists.

Organizations like the Center for Biological Diversity, Humane Society United States, Humane Society Legislative Fund, and Sierra Club are petitioning the US Fish & Wildlife Services to relist grey wolves in order to prevent their inevitable extinction. 

"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service cannot stand by while Idaho and Montana order the extermination of wolves to appease the livestock industry and trophy hunters,” stated Nicholas Arrivo, managing attorney for wildlife at the Humane Society of the United States. “The agency must follow its obligation to reinstate federal protections, or risk wolves disappearing from the West again.”

In addition to petitioning for grey wolves to be relisted, the Center for Biological Diversity is also requesting that Idaho be disqualified from receiving federal wildlife-management funds and suggested Montana refrain from implementing their wolf-eradication plans or be subjected to losing their funding as well. 

All of this boils down to the livestock industry and just how heavily protected that industry is. To think that these states would happily eradicate wolves after 45 years of efforts to rehabilitate them only to protect the livestock industry is despicable and shameful. At this rate, the only animals left on our planet will be the ones in shackles waiting to be slaughtered for consumption. Our relationship with the animal kingdom is so dysfunctional and it seems we are always working against ourselves when it comes to protecting wildlife. We shouldn't have to constantly sue and threaten to redact funds in order to protect animals. It's so disheartening.

The only solution is to relist grey wolves. Without these protections, they will be nearly eradicated in these two states, effectively undoing tireless efforts. Learn more through the original story through the link at the top of this post.

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