ESA and Wolves Under Attack
From Defenders’ new fact sheet:
The Road to Recovery
Over the past year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has taken steps to put the Mexican wolf back on the road to recovery. It has reasserted leadership of the program, assembled a team of scientists and stakeholders to help draw up a new recovery plan, established a fund to help livestock owners avoid conflicts with wolves and compensate for losses, and eliminated inflexible rules leading to too many wolf removals. But without the protection of the ESA, these improvements would end, and Mexican wolves would slip toward extinction. “¦
Read the rest of the fact sheet and take action to stop the bills that will take away wolves’ ESA protections.
http://www.mexicanwolves.org/uploads/Mexican%20wolves%20and%20ESA%20Factsheet%20Final.pdf