{"id":33704,"date":"2024-02-02T13:46:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T18:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endangered.org\/?p=33704"},"modified":"2024-04-25T12:46:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T16:46:44","slug":"statement-of-endangered-species-coalition-on-todays-announcement-by-the-u-s-fish-and-wildlife-service-to-deny-federal-protections-to-gray-wolves-in-the-northern-rockies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.endangered.org\/statement-of-endangered-species-coalition-on-todays-announcement-by-the-u-s-fish-and-wildlife-service-to-deny-federal-protections-to-gray-wolves-in-the-northern-rockies\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of Endangered Species Coalition on Today&#8217;s Announcement by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Deny Federal Protections to Gray Wolves in the Northern Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For Immediate Release: February 2, 2024<br>Contact: Derek Goldman, <a href=\"mailto:dgoldman@endangered.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dgoldman@endangered.org<\/a><br>Susan Holmes, <a href=\"mailto:sholmes@endangered.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sholmes@endangered.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Statement of Endangered Species Coalition on Today&#8217;s Announcement by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Deny Federal Protections to Gray Wolves in the Northern Rockies<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Missoula, Mont.&#8211;In response to numerous petitions filed more than two years ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/press-release\/2024-02\/service-announces-gray-wolf-finding-and-national-recovery-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong> that it has declined to reinstate Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies. The Coalition issued the following statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are disappointed that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is refusing to hold the states accountable to wolf conservation commitments they made a decade ago,\u201d said Susan Holmes, Executive Director for the Endangered Species Coalition. \u201cIn the years since wolves were delisted, Idaho and Montana have enacted increasingly aggressive wolf-killing measures, including trapping, snaring, 11-month-long seasons and more, all of which threaten to roll back one of America\u2019s greatest wildlife restoration achievements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Endangered Species Coalition supports the proposed development of a national Wolf Recovery Plan, and we look forward to engaging in that process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nFor Immediate Release: February 2, 2024Contact: Derek Goldman, dgoldman@endangered.orgSusan Holmes, sholmes@endangered.org Statement of Endangered Species Coalition on Today&#8217;s Announcement by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Deny Federal Protections to Gray Wolves in the Northern Rockies Missoula, Mont.&#8211;In response&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.endangered.org\/statement-of-endangered-species-coalition-on-todays-announcement-by-the-u-s-fish-and-wildlife-service-to-deny-federal-protections-to-gray-wolves-in-the-northern-rockies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Statement of Endangered Species Coalition on Today&#8217;s Announcement by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Deny Federal Protections to Gray Wolves in the Northern Rockies&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,837],"tags":[424,48,187,428,429,272],"class_list":["post-33704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wolves","category-press-release","tag-wolves","tag-gray-wolf","tag-endangered-species-act-2","tag-montana","tag-idaho","tag-wyoming","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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