An opinion piece published yesterday in the #BillingsGazette explores #CodyRoberts ' #torture of a young female #wolf in Daniel, #Wyoming. By now, most of you have heard the news or seen the disturbing photos and videos. We remain disgusted by the #cruelty, as does our partner and op-ed author #JeffEwelt.
In his op-ed, Jeff Ewelt, the Executive Director of #ZooMontana and a partner of The #RelistWolves Campaign,
It has never been clearer -- or more urgent -- that wolves need their #EndangeredSpeciesAct protections restored in #Wyoming, #Idaho and #Montana. It's the single best way that we can end these unconscionable #WolfHunts.
Following a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity and allies, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission just voted to protect Southern Resident #orcas under the state's #EndangeredSpeciesAct. Now state agencies will have to develop concrete actions addressing the major threats to orcas there, including ocean #pollution.
Our work to get pygmy rabbit #EndangeredSpeciesAct protection is paying off with a positive 90-day finding! We've cleared the first hurdle but we'll keep racing against extinction for this reedonkulously cute little critter.
But the Endangered Species Act is under attack -- and if we don't stand up for it, this kind of mass killing of #wildlife could soon become the new normal.
Quite simply: As human population grows and our footprint expands, more human habitat means less habitat for endangered species. Pile on invasive species (like domestic cats) and climate change and native species don't stand a chance.
But the author almost entirely misses Section 7 in their word-fluffed up article, where critical habitat is defined as off-limit to developers. But developers rule in #hawaii
I urge you to re-list the West Indian manatee subpopulations, including the #Florida manatee, as endangered. One-fifth of Florida manatees died in the last two years alone. Their #population can’t sustain such heavy losses.
#Pollution in the water has created massive algal blooms which block the sun from reaching the sea floor, killing the #seagrass
#Manatees, their #habitat and their food sources all need better #protections. Please restore manatees’ full protections under the #EndangeredSpeciesAct and devote more resources to saving these gentle animals.
The State of Idaho has recently approved an outrageous plan to pay private contractors to kill unlimited numbers of wolves through some of the most offensive methods.
Please join me in telling US Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to protect Idaho's wolves from aerial slaughter.
The #CenterForBiologicalDiversity filed a notice of intent to sue #NOAA Fisheries for failing to grant recovery plans for bearded and ringed #seals. Thanks to the Center's work, they won #EndangeredSpeciesAct protection in 2012 — but the agency still hasn't given them a recovery plan (which the Act requires).
We've officially put the US Fish & Wildlife Service on notice of our intent to sue for violating the #EndangeredSpeciesAct.
The agency proposed listing the SF Bay-Delta population of longfin smelt as an endangered species, but has failed to meet its deadline.
“The Fish and Wildlife Service needs to do its job and stick to the legal deadlines,” said Baykeeper's managing attorney, Eric Buescher. “As the Bay’s lawyers, Baykeeper is going to hold them accountable.”
#Wyoming's wolf hunting season has been open for 12 days -- and 3 #wolves have already been shot and killed on #Yellowstone 's doorstep.
How many wolves will get caught in a hunter's crosshairs this year? Trophy hunters will be allowed to kill dozens in the hunt areas outside Yellowstone National Park.
#EnvironmentalAction supporters have sent tens of thousands of messages to the state government calling for protection for #Wyoming 's wolves.
But we can't count on Wyoming deciding to do the right thing alone. Right now, the wolves of the #NorthernRockies region -- including Wyoming's population -- are the only #GrayWolves in the U.S. that do not have #EndangeredSpeciesAct protections. That's why we're also working to convince the #Biden administration to restore federal protections.
The Gulf of Mexico is home to Rice's whales, one of the world's most endangered whale species. Fewer than 50 of these magnificent mammals remain — yet they have no federally protected critical #habitat.
In fact, in a letter sent to the #Biden administration, 100 #scientists warned #NOAAFisheries and its partners that "the United States is likely to cause the first anthropogenic extinction of a great whale species" if they're not fully protected where they live.
NOAA Fisheries protected Rice's whales under the #EndangeredSpeciesAct in 2019 but still hasn't set aside critical habitat, as the law requires.
On the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, looking back to look forward.
August 21, 2023 - by Terry Tempest Williams
As a child, I watched the men I loved in my family lift their high-powered rifles and shoot one #PrairieDog after another and another for fun, and then walk away. They called them “pop-guts.” On the way back to our camp, I stepped over their small blood-soaked,
blown-apart bodies left in the matted grasses of their prairie dog town. And then, a single prairie dog raised her head out of a burrow and stood up and faced me. I froze in place, unable to avoid her gaze. She disappeared underground.
On that day, I made a vow, short of standing in front of my father’s #rifle, that I would be their ally. I have tried to keep that vow.
I graduated from high school in 1973, the same year the #EndangeredSpeciesAct was signed into law.
The Endangered Species Act is an act of love that asks for our engagement, each in our own way with the gifts that are ours in the places we call home. Learn their names. Speak their names. Remember their names. Act.
This month the Fish and Wildlife Service finally proposed to protect their habitat. With most of their New Mexico home degraded or destroyed by cows, construction and motorized recreation, very few now survive — 23, at last count. Thankfully, after the third petition, in January the Service protected them under the #EndangeredSpeciesAct. Now it's proposing 1,637 acres of critical habitat.
The Endangered Species Act is under attack. In the last 60 days, 3 federal anti-wolf bills have gained traction in Congress with sponsors and co-sponsors across 15 different states. These are live bills which, if successful, continue a dangerous precedent of cherry-picking and legislatively delisting certain species and, in some cases, don't allow for judicial review.