🚨🐺 Last month, the Trump administration published a finding that protecting the gray wolf under the ESA is “no longer appropriate” and that the agency would not be preparing an updated recovery plan.
So we just filed a notice of our intent to sue the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service for refusing to develop a national gray wolf recovery plan under the ESA.
The notice comes two years after we won a similar lawsuit.
“We’re challenging the Trump administration’s unlawful decision to once again abandon wolf recovery, and we’ll win,” said Collette Adkins, a senior attorney and the carnivore conservation director at the Center. “The Fish and Wildlife Service must live up to the reality of what science and the law demand. That means a comprehensive plan that addresses gray wolf recovery across the country.”
Under the first Trump administration, the Service stripped gray wolves of their federal protections. Before a federal court restored those protections, hundreds of wolves were hunted and...
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