Sign the petition: Keep Endangered Species Act status for the gray wolf

The gray wolf is on the verge of losing Endangered Species Act protections.

Dear MoveOn member,

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to remove Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves. This is a catastrophic move for wolves, which are slowly beginning to reoccupy their historic habitat.

The Endangered Species Act, which has safeguarded the gray wolf thus far, is America's most effective law for protecting wildlife in danger of extinction. Don't remove the gray wolf's Endangered Species Act status.

Gray wolves are finally beginning to recover in the continental U.S. after humans trapped, shot, and poisoned them to the brink of extinction. But wolves still have a long way to go before they can be considered recovered, and they remain functionally extinct in the vast majority of places where they used to live. Now is not the time to remove Endangered Species Act protections from these imperiled animals.

Removing protections from gray wolves would effectively declare open season on wolves as they return to unoccupied parts of their range. In Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, where wolves have already lost federal protections, trophy hunters, trappers, and others have killed more than 3,200 wolves since 2011. That's only in three states; expand that number to the wolf's historic range and you are left with a wholesale massacre of gray wolves.¹

Add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends to sign as well.

Since the enactment of the Endangered Species Act, 99% of listed species have avoided extinction, and hundreds more have been set on a path to recovery. But the Endangered Species Act is only effective when it is allowed to do its job. When the bald eagle was clawing its way back from extinction, the Endangered Species Act protected it until it had expanded its range. Gray wolves deserve that same opportunity.²

Removing the protections that are integral to their recovery will plunge them back to the brink of extinction. Sign the petition and tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service not to declare open season on the gray wolf!

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

—Sara Samovalov, WildEarth Guardians

Sources:

1. "USFWS consider dropping gray wolf protections nationwide," Wolf Conservation Center, June 14, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/63090?t=10&akid=227084%2E10220574%2E4aIoux

2. "Endangered Species," U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, accessed February 13, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/63091?t=12&akid=227084%2E10220574%2E4aIoux

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