Amazing news: Grizzly bears will keep their federal protections! 🎉🐻🎉 Yesterday, the USFWS denied petitions to remove Endangered Species Act protections from #grizzlybears, finding that the imperiled animals still need federal protection. Today grizzly bears occupy just 6% of their historical range in the lower 48 states, surviving in four isolated locations in the northern Rockies, where the current population is just over 2,000 bears. Retaining federal protections is absolutely essential to the species' long-term recovery. *Please excuse our typo on the graphic. “ha” should have been, “has” in the first line. #grizzlybear #endangeredspecies #wildlifeconservation #endangeredspeciesact