Let Wandering Wolves
Roam Free
 

Dear Guardian, 

Great news: it looks like the beautiful animal roaming the Kaibab plateau on the north rim of the Grand Canyon is a gray wolf.

The bad news is that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service does not plan to let him roam undisturbed and wants to strip him of Endangered Species Act Protections (ESA). Help us ensure wandering wolves have the freedom to roam!

If the animal is indeed a gray wolf, it likely traveled all the way from the Northern Rockies and is the first wolf to be making a home in the Grand Canyon ecoregion since the 1940s.

The Service is telling the media it plans to capture the wolf to test his genetics. Non-invasive hair or scat samples can prove where the wolf came from without risking his injury or death. Government agencies have killed nineteen critically endangered Mexican wolves in botched live-capture operations. Tell the Service: hands off the Grand Canyon wolf and back off stripping all wandering wolves of ESA protections.

The return of a wild wolf to the Grand Canyon is reason to celebrate; a healthy population of these magnificent animals in their historic home will restore balance to wounded landscapes. But wolves cannot return for good if we lose pioneering wanderers like this one.

This wolf is currently protected by the Endangered Species Act, but if the Service has its way, he and his brethren, including the intrepid OR-7, the wandering wolf who traveled over 1,000 miles through Oregon and northern California before finding a mate and establishing the first wolf pack in southern Oregon in ninety years, will be stripped of federal protections and be at the mercy of guns and traps once more.

Tell the Fish and Wildlife Service: hands off the Grand Canyon wolf and back off stripping all wandering wolves of ESA protections.


For the wild,

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Bethany Cotton
Wildlife Program Director
WildEarth Guardians
bcotton@wildearthguardians.org




Photo credits: Grand Canyon wolf—Arizona Department Game and Fish. Howing mad wolf—Retron, public domain.

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The Fish and Wildlife Service is planning to capture the Grand Canyon wandering wolf. Tell them hands off!


 Howlsnow wikimedia public Domain pic by Retron
Let wolves naturally disperse to their native habitats and keep them protected under the Endangered Species Act.

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