Bison baiting: A pack of wolves surround a bison. The recovery of the grey wolf has been one of the conservation movements greatest success stories.
Credit: U.S. National Park Service
But environmentalists decried the change as "potentially disastrous" and vowed they would sue to prevent it.
Rodger Schlickeisen, president of the environmental group Defenders of Wildlife said he would begin legal action to force a reinstatement of the wolf's protected status. "Today's delisting is a potentially disastrous turn for a venture that began in 1995 in such a hopeful and rewarding manner (with) the restoration of wolves to their natural landscape in the West," he said.
"We all expected more from the Obama administration, which repeatedly promised it would consult with conservationists, scientists, and other stakeholders on key issues before making decisions," Schlickeisen said.
The environmental group was especially critical of the Barack Obama administration's Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who it said "rejected our offer to work with him to find the right way to delist wolves in the region and, instead, made his surprise announcement that he was removing federal protections for vulnerable wolves with no transparency at all."
The group added: "We are moving to sue Secretary Salazar as soon as possible to overturn this misguided and unwarranted decision."
Grey wolves
The idiocy of governments never cease to amaze me. Saving a species from extinction only to hunt it once again when numbers have risen is obscene. As a species humans seem to be the most stupid.
Grey wolves!
Humans are on top of the intelligence scale for one reason only - they invented it!!!!!!
Truly misguided policy!
When Grey wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone, scientists saw a great benefit to the entire ecosystem. I thought this administration would restore science to it's proper place in managing our dwindling resources and imperiled world life support systems. Looks like I was wrong. Special interests stiill rule the day - science be damned. Ken Salazar is just another corporate crony, like Obama. Want some more blood with that "hope" and "change"? Just wait....
Sad, sad, sad!
shame on them
Grey wolfs are beautiful creatures, they are the largest wild member of the dog family and was once the world's most widely distributed land mammal.
--> why did they hav to do this?
--> and the blooming goverment does not do anything as far as im concerend
-->poor creatures,
i hope the people who hunt them get what they dont want
how dare you
to think that as soon as you take a spiecies of the endangered list you alow people to hunt it...its just sick and wrong....i am ashamed to be called a human
whats the point?
so, the government takes wolves off the list because thier percentage went back up, now they can be hunted again....which is going to make thier percentage go back down, as people always say, the government is stupid
it is sooooo mean what they
it is sooooo mean what they are doing to the wolves! they are such strong beautiful animals so leave them alone you dumb shits!
grey wolfd
grey wolfs are not endangered enymore what in the wourld there endangered now there gunna lose all there protectioun are peaple who care about them gunna do enything im not gunna stand here and let enything happen to them whos with me
GREY WOLFES!!!!!!!
wtf these things are beutiful and strong creuters pls dont do enything to harm them pls il pay 10000000$ if you dont hurt them seriously pls pls pls pls pls pls pls pls pls pls pls pls pls pls