Sentences with phrase «wolf recovery»

Despite these substantial gains, the job of wolf recovery is far from over.

In recent months the Center initiated three lawsuits focused on improving the Mexican wolf recovery program by providing the adaptable canines more room to roam.

«The Mexican gray wolf recovery program has been hamstrung from the start, and this new management rule doesn't go nearly far enough to fix the problem,» said Michael Robinson, a conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona, in a press release.

We've petitioned and sued for changes in wolf management, development of a new, science - based Mexican wolf recovery plan, and listing of the Mexican wolf as an endangered subspecies or population of the gray wolf to afford it the right to such a plan.

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The Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project is dedicated to bringing back wolves to help restore ecological health in the Grand Canyon region.

«The increase in numbers is a sign that the Mexican gray wolf recovery program may finally be seeing some success,» said Robinson.

It expands the territory of the wolves fourfold from 18,679 square kilometers (the size of the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area in the 1998 regulations) to 398,477 square kilometers.

The Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC), held each year at the University of Oregon Law School in Eugene, brings together attorneys, practitioners, students, and activists from around the world to explore panel and keynote topics as interesting and diverse as global warming impacts in Africa to wolf recovery in Oregon.

The sterilizations are «not to control the coyote population size... it's purely to keep their DNA from being passed to a red wolf offspring,» says ecologist Eric Gese of Utah State University, Logan, a lead author of the new study and a member of the panel overseeing red wolf recovery efforts.

In particular, it allowed FWS to release captive wolves only into a small zone within Arizona's Blue Range of mountains; the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area covered just 16 % of the approximately 90,000 - hectare region.

«The government's stubborn refusal to follow the best science on wolf recovery is pushing the last Mexican gray wolves we have left way too close to the cliff of extinction.»

Since the original wolf recovery plans were written in the 1980s, we've learned much more about wolves» behavior, ecology and needs.

The proposal to delist wolves would strike a serious blow to wolf recovery across the country, including in California and other West Coast states where wolves are just beginning to make a comeback.

Both the inexperienced and the experienced (e.g. Yellowstone National Park's Gray Wolf Recovery Team, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

He is particularly keen on public scholarship that brings academic insights to the wider public without unnecessary jargon or impenetrable theories.Some of the topics he has addressed includes wolf recovery, outdoor cats and biodiversity, barred and northern spotted owls, the Canadian seal hunt, cosmopolitanism, the Earth Charter, precaution, rewilding, sustainability science, and urban ecology.

We called for development of a new Mexican wolf recovery plan to replace the outdated 1982 plan, as well as for a temporary cessation of removals of Mexican wolves from the wild.

The Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project is proud to partner with the Sedona International Film Festival for our 1st Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival benefit event in Sedona.

The Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to bringing back wolves to help restore ecological health in the Grand Canyon region.

-- Peggy Marshall, Boise, Idaho This past March, a coalition of 10 conservation groups finally reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Interior regarding gray wolf recovery and management in the Northern Rockies.

But to complicate things, not all of the killings might have been intentional (though we can't know for sure) because the North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission authorized coyote hunting in the Red Wolf Recovery Area — including night hunting by spotlight — and it's possible that hunters might have mistaken some red wolves for coyotes.

We hope this year's increase is the start of the Mexican wolf recovery program finally taking off.»

May 5, 2010 — A «conservation assessment» for the Mexican gray wolf, released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, pointed to the urgency in reforming the Mexican wolf reintroduction project and developing an up - to - date Mexican wolf recovery plan that includes recovery criteria, to guide establishment of additional wolf populations.

The bill would prohibit recovery of the wolves north of Interstate 40 — thereby permanently banning Mexican wolves from the Grand Canyon and southern Rocky Mountain ecosystems, which scientists say are critical to wolf recovery in the Southwest.

Many landowners were upset, and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) promptly demanded that FWS take a hard look at its wolf recovery program.

Such progress clearly demonstrates the effectiveness of the Endangered Species Act, but wolf recovery is far from complete.

Arizona Senator Flake Introduces Bill to Supplant Science in Endangered Mexican Wolf Recovery, Suppress Population

«Resuming the release of wolves into the wild is absolutely essential to overcoming inbreeding and ensuring the success of this wolf recovery program.»

States and ranchers have proven hostile to Mexican wolf recovery and have hampered the species» recovery.

introduced legislation that would give the states of Arizona and New Mexico, as well as ranchers — all proven hostile to Mexican wolf recovery — the right to dictate the terms of the species» recovery, undermining the scientific standards of the Endangered Species Act.

introduced legislation today that would give the states of Arizona and New Mexico, as well as ranchers, the right to dictate the terms of Mexican gray wolf recovery, undermining the scientific standards of the Endangered Species Act.

November 13, 2009 — In response to Center litigation, the Fish and Wildlife Service reclaimed its decision - making authority over wolf management from a multiagency group hostile to wolf recovery, as well as scrapping the wolf - killing rule SOP 13.

Thanks to a separate conservationist lawsuit, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is under court order to finalize a Mexican wolf recovery plan by Nov. 30.

The Grand Canyon region in northern Arizona and southern Utah has been identified by science as necessary for Mexican wolf recovery.

Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project (GCWRP) is dedicated to bringing back wolves to help restore ecological health in the Grand Canyon region, and works collaboratively with partner organizations to educate and motivate the regional public to support wolf restoration.

Editors» Pick: The Rocky Road to Wolf Recovery.

Making Room for Wolf Recovery: The Case for Maintaining Endangered Species Act Protections for America's Wolves This first - of - its - kind analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity identifies 359,000 square miles of additional habitat for gray wolves in 19 of the lower 48 states that could significantly boost the nation's 40 - year wolf recovery efforts.