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

A federal judge is 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/ [washingtonpost.com]

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