I have great news: a federal court just ruled that gray wolves around the Great Lakes will keep their Endangered Species Act protections, meaning they can’t be trapped and hunted for sport.1 Now we need to stop Congress from not only removing these protections but blocking any further review by the courts. Together, you’ve sent more than 50,000 messages asking your representatives […]

You wouldn’t turn off the firehose during a five-alarm inferno. So why are some of our elected officials moving to eliminate lifesaving protections for some of our country’s most threatened and endangered species — even as scientists worry about mass extinctions on the horizon? 1 The threat to endangered species We’re already in the middle of the worst extinction crisis in 65 million […]

These are precarious times for America’s gray wolves. Wolves were once hunted and trapped to near extinction in the continental US, but healthy wolf populations can again be found around the Great Lakes and in the Northern Rockies. [1] Trucked from Canada, wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the mid 1990s after being nearly hunted and trapped to extinction in […]