September 2012. US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has announced that gray wolves in Wyoming will be taken off the endangered species list - a death sentence for a majority of the animals, which will now be managed under a state plan that delineates more than 80 percent of Wyoming as a "predator zone" where wolves can be shot on sight. In the remainder of the state, excluding Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, wolves will be designated a "trophy game animal" and hunted in large numbers, with the goal of reducing the population from about 270 wolves to 100.
In response to this decision, the Center for Biological Diversity joined a coalition of environmental groups in filing a notice of intent to sue the federal government for stripping away Endangered Species Act protections from Wyoming's wolves.
Slaughter
"Taking federal protection away from Wyoming's wolves will bring the same kind of senseless slaughter that first drove them to the brink of extinction in the lower 48," said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center for Biological Diversity, which has worked to protect western wolves for nearly a quarter-century. "Blatantly ignoring science and sanctioning the extermination of these beautiful and intelligent animals is a travesty. We're going to sue to protect these wolves."
"Taking federal protection away from Wyoming's wolves will bring the same kind of senseless slaughter that first drove them to the brink of extinction in the lower 48," said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center for Biological Diversity, which has worked to protect western wolves for nearly a quarter-century. "Blatantly ignoring science and sanctioning the extermination of these beautiful and intelligent animals is a travesty. We're going to sue to protect these wolves."
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