VICTORY WOLF PRESERVATIONISTS!!
“The Cynthia Lummis Wolf Rider is out of the spending bill! This is a real victory for wolves and wolf advocates!!
Congress passed a similar rider last Spring which removed ESA protections from wolves in the Northern Rockies, blocking legal challenges. Now the rider is being litigated as unconstitutional in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Because of that rider we have two brutal wolf hunts in Idaho and Montana, with wolves dying daily and an escalation of the brutality, the likes of which most of us have ever witnessed directed at an animal. The Endangered Species Act has been weakened. Maybe Congress didn’t have the stomach for a repeat of that with the 2012 elections looming.
F0r today, wolves in Wyoming, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan are safe. It’s not often we can bring good news, lets savor it and live to fight another day!
What made the cut?
Wolves”
Special thanks to “Wolf Warriors” for providing this information! (http://howlingforjustice.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/its-final-lummis-wolf-delisting-rider-out/)
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