07
Aug, 2014
Two
separate efforts you can take for the most endangered subspecies of
wolf – the Mexican and the Red wolf – both a petition to sign and network and
comments to the U.S Fish & Wildlife service (USFWS) urgently
needed. Please take this opportunity to help them.
Here
is a petition in support of the red wolves with more
information. Please sign and post to social networking sites and email
lists:
https://takeaction.takepart.com/actions/stand-up-for-critically-endangered-red-wolves?cmpid=tpanimals-eml-2014-08-02-elephant
View
document up for comment by the U.S. Fish& Wildlife “service” which
seems to pay little attention to the public or science so have to be
overwhelmed with support for wolves:
and there is more information at this link with comments from the public here:
Sample Comments:
1. I
support expanding the area in which direct releases of Mexican wolves
can occur, the one critical change included in the proposed rule.
This
change has been recommended by experts for over 10 years and needs to
be implemented immediately. Currently, new releases are hindered because
they can only happen in part of Arizona.
2.
The USFWS should eliminate boundaries to the wolves movement. The draft
proposed rule prevents wolves returning to northern New Mexico and
southern Colorado or to the Grand Canyon region, including northern
Arizona and southern Utah.
Preventing
movement into northern New Mexico and southern Colorado and the Grand
Canyon region, including northern Arizona and southern Utah, contradicts
the best available science, which confirms that those areas are
essential for Mexican wolf recovery.
Additional
populations of Mexican wolves are necessary to their recovery and
genetic health, as is the ability for wolves to move between
populations.
Not
allowing wolves outside of the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area
will result in more captures that can result in death or trauma to the
wolves. We cant afford to lose rare Mexican wolves just because they
crossed an arbitrary, scientifically unsupported boundary. There should
be no restrictions on the movements of Mexican wolves.
3. The USFWS should designate Mexican gray wolves as essential.
The
current labeling all of the wild wolves as nonessential ignores science
and the reality of 15 years of experience with reintroducing wolves.
The
USFWS claims that even if all of the 83 wolves in the wild are wiped out
this is not likely to appreciably reduce the likelihood of recovery of
Mexican wolves in the wild is unsupported by science or common sense.
The
83 wolves in the wild have up to four generations of experience in
establishing packs and raising pups and are over 22% of all of the
Mexican wolves in the world.
After
multiple generations of captive breeding with few releases, scientists
warn that there may be serious genetic problems making captive wolves
less able to thrive in the wild.
The fourth generation wild lobos are not expendable and are essential to recovering this unique subspecies of wolf.
4. The USFWS needs to quit stalling and complete a comprehensive recovery plan.
USFWS
admits that their present, typewritten, 1982 recovery plan is not
scientifically sound and does not meet current legal requirements yet in
its proposed rule USFWS continues to emphasize a woefully inadequate
population of only 100 wolves in the wild. Instead of following the best
available science on recovery, the Service is chasing after what a
31-year-old inadequate plan suggested as a good first step.
Current proposals should contain no provisions that would preclude future recovery options.
5.
The proposed expanded provisions for take (killing, trapping, and
removals) of these critically endangered wolves are unacceptable and
will not contribute to the wolves recovery.
Science-based
program reviews have shown, and the USFWS has acknowledged, that the
killing and permanent removal of wolves by agency managers to resolve
conflicts has been a major cause of failing to meet the reintroduction
objective.
The
proposed rule changes offer additional excuses for removing wolves.
USFWS needs to tighten restrictions for take of Mexican wolves, not
loosen them.
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