Environmental

Groups Petition to Reclassify Gray Wolves to Threatened Status Under Endangered Species Act

Proposal Presents Reasonable Alternative to Congressional Delisting, Path to National Recovery

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015.  Animal protection and conservation organizations petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to reclassify gray wolvesunder the Endangered Species Act as threatened throughout the contiguous United States, with the exception of the Mexican gray wolf, which remains listed as endangered. If adopted the proposal would continue federal oversight and funding of wolf recovery efforts and encourage development of a…

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