On
Thursday, August 5, US District Judge Donald Molloy reinstated
protected status for the once nearly-extinct grey wolf to allow its
populations to continue recovering. Following initial success in
government efforts several years ago to rebuild vanished populations,
their protected status in states like Montana and Idaho was removed.
This led to some groups initiating plans to resume hunting in the fall.
Louisa Willcox – US National Resources Defense Council Spokesperson:
The
wolf was brought back here to Yellowstone in 1995 and again in 1996,
reintroduced because they’ve been exterminated. They’ve been shot,
poisoned, killed, trapped, and they were gone from a region they had
once flourished in.
The wolf has been restored here. And why
reverse that success? Why turn the clock back and put into place the
same killing mechanisms and the same gun-power that got the wolf under
the endangered species act in the first place?
However, Judge
Molloy ruled that the wolves’ protection must continue, stating that the
Endangered Species Act governing their status applied to all the
animals, not to just selective regions.Our appreciation, Honorable
Justice Molloy, for your actions to protect the wolves.
May we
seek to live in harmony with the majestic grey wolf and all precious
animal co-inhabitants so that they ever grace our world with their
unique contributions and presence.
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