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Federal Judge Issues Injunction to Protect Red Wolves in North Carolina

posted by janrinok on Sunday October 02 2016, @04:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the howling dept.

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http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/298589-judges-pauses-changes-to-federal-red-wolf-protections

A federal judge is [to] order the government to hold off on its plan to roll back measures to protect the red wolf in North Carolina. District Judge Terrence Boyle ordered Thursday that the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) hold off on its plan to remove wild red wolf populations from private land, unless they can show certain harms being caused by the wolves, in a major win for conservationists.

Boyle agreed with conservationists that the red wolf is in peril, and said they are likely to win on the merits in their challenge to the FWS's decision to stop the managed reintroduction plan for wild red wolves, and limit their population to a small swath of federal land. [...] "In November 2013, there were an estimated 100 red wolves in the wild with an estimated eight breeding pairs," Boyle said. "In March 2016, defendants estimated there to be only 45-60 red wolves in the wild. Such rapid population decline has been described as a catastrophic indicator that the wild red wolf population is in extreme danger of extinction."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/09/29/u-s-government-you-can-kill-red-wolves-if-they-bother-you-u-s-court-no-you-cant/

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  • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @06:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @06:52AM (#409003)

    You city dwellers keep thinking wolves are cute doggies, but we killed them for a damn good reason. They cause harm, both directly to humans and indirectly by killing our livestock.

    We even burned all the forest off of Mount Monadnock just to wipe out a wolf pack. The mountain is still bald 2 centuries later.

    At this point, reintroducing the wolf is like introducing an invasive species. One might as well release lions and tigers and hippos and tse-tse flies and bot flies and the guinea worm. Heck, go for smallpox too!

    People who support wolves are a special kind of traitor. It's not really against a country. It's against humanity itself. We tamed the wilderness so we could live safely, and some people want to undo that.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @07:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @07:32AM (#409011)

    Livestock is the invasive species. Death to them all.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @10:13AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @10:13AM (#409025)

      Yes, death to them all. Then we can use barbecue sauce on them.