To: Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Department of Interior
Stop Trump Administration Plan to Allow People to Kill Last Endangered Red Wolves
The newly announced red wolf management plan would scale back available habitat by 90 percent and allow adjacent landowners to kill red wolves that wander onto their property.
This is a complete retreat from efforts to recover this species and will sentence them to extinction in the wild. As Director of the Department of Interior, it is your responsibility to follow the Endangered Species Act and work to recover endangered species–not allow them to be gunned down.
Revise this plan to prohibit the killing of highly endangered red wolves and restore their allotted habitat.
This is a complete retreat from efforts to recover this species and will sentence them to extinction in the wild. As Director of the Department of Interior, it is your responsibility to follow the Endangered Species Act and work to recover endangered species–not allow them to be gunned down.
Revise this plan to prohibit the killing of highly endangered red wolves and restore their allotted habitat.
Why is this important?
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service just released a revised management plan for highly endangered red wolves. As few as 30 of these animals exist in the wild, making them one of the world's most endangered wolves.
In spite of the urgent need to work to recover this species, Secretary Ryan Zinke and his political appointees at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) will radically scale back the already meager efforts to bring them back in the wild.
The plan calls for the reduction of protected habitat to just one county in North Carolina (Dare County, NC). This would effectively reduce their available range by a staggering 90%.
More shocking, the USFWS will allow private landowners to kill these highly endangered wolves if they leave protected refuges and enter private property.
Please sign the petition to Secretary Zinke asking him to revise this flawed and dangerous plan that could push red wolves into extinction.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/06/27/interior-plans-to-let-people-to-kill-endangered-red-wolves/
In spite of the urgent need to work to recover this species, Secretary Ryan Zinke and his political appointees at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) will radically scale back the already meager efforts to bring them back in the wild.
The plan calls for the reduction of protected habitat to just one county in North Carolina (Dare County, NC). This would effectively reduce their available range by a staggering 90%.
More shocking, the USFWS will allow private landowners to kill these highly endangered wolves if they leave protected refuges and enter private property.
Please sign the petition to Secretary Zinke asking him to revise this flawed and dangerous plan that could push red wolves into extinction.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/06/27/interior-plans-to-let-people-to-kill-endangered-red-wolves/