The restoration of the gray wolf to the Rocky Mountains of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming represents one of America's greatest endangered species success stories. Where once there were almost no gray wolves, today there are 1,700 wolves living in the Yellowstone ecosystem and Northern Rockies.
Yet, this success and the very future of the Endangered Species Act are under grave threat.
On August 5, 2010, in a case argued by Earthjustice on behalf of 13 conservation groups, the Montana federal district court struck down the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's 2009 delisting of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies. As a result of this litigation, wolves are now protected under the ESA in the lower 48.
But now, in response to our court victory, Congress is attempting to pass legislation that would override this decision and remove these wolves' Endangered Species Act protections. These bills would allow hunting of the gray wolf and decimate these newly restored populations.
It would also set a terrible precedent for the Endangered Species Act, opening the door for members of Congress to determine which species survive and which would become extinct, based solely on politics, not science and law.
We must send a message to Congress to protect the gray wolf and safeguard the Endangered Species Act.
Please tell your senators and representative to protect one of America's greatest wildlife success stories -- the magnificent gray wolf and to safeguard the Endangered Species Act.
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http://action.earthjustice.
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