Month: January 2017
USFWS Pledges to Prepare Updated Red Wolf Recovery Plan
In a letter, USFWS Southeast Regional Director Cynthia Dohner has pledged to prepare an updated recovery plan in 2018 for the rapidly dwindling population of wild red wolves. Only 45…
Read MoreProtect the Endangered Species Act
It appears evident that some politicians have forgotten the bipartisan values that Congress embraced four decades ago when it first passed the Endangered Species Act. This federal law has given…
Read MoreSaving Endangered Wolves Via Artificial Insemination
Mexican gray wolves F1143 (Rosa) with her daughter f1505 (Trumpet) The Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) participates in the Species Survival Plan (SSP) for two critically endangered wolf species, the Mexican…
Read MoreBC GOVERNMENT ADMITS CULLING OF WOLVES IS INHUMANE
BC GOVERNMENT ADMITS CULLING OF WOLVES IS INHUMANE, YET CONSIDERS CULL EXPANSION January 20, 2017 (Golden, BC) – A recent provincial government document that recommends expanding aerial gunning of wolves,…
Read MoreI Am She-wolf, Hear Me Howl
“Alpha male” connotes the man who at every moment demonstrates that he’s in total control in the home, and who away from home can become snarling and aggressive. Ecologist and…
Read MoreStates Argue in Court For Veto Power Over Federal Efforts to Recover Endangered Lobos
A battle over how to save endangered wolves in the Southwest moves to a federal appeals court today as judges hear arguments on whether states can block the federal government…
Read MoreSenators Launch Companion Bill to Delist Wolves in 4 States
Senators from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Wyoming today introduced their version of a bill that would once again allow trophy hunting and trapping of wolves in those states. The bill, along…
Read MoreOppose Alaska’s Unethical and Biologically Unsound Wolf Killing Plan
Earlier this month, the Alaska Board of Game passed “Proposal 155” reauthorizing its controversial plan to kill all the wolves who live in a portion of the Kenai Peninsula (Unit…
Read MorePresident Obama: Close the Wolf-Killer Loophole
President Obama has one more thing to do before he clears his desk in the Oval Office. He needs to eliminate the McKittrick Policy – a loophole that allows endangered…
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