The critically endangered American red wolf might have been saved from extinction.
In a scathing court decision Monday, a federal judge in North Carolina ripped the Interior Department’s management of the last red wolf population
in the wild, saying that an agency sworn to uphold a congressional
mandate to preserve the animals violated it over and over, and even gave
private landowners the right to shoot them.
Chief
Judge Terrence W. Boyle reminded the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
which gave the authorization, of its own statement in 1999. “Wildlife
are not the property of landowners but belong to the public and are
managed by state and federal governments for the public good,” he wrote.
Boyle
ruled that a temporary injunction issued against Fish and Wildlife’s
shoot-to-kill authorization in 2016 during the Obama administration is
permanent. The agency must prove that a wolf is a threat to humans or
livestock before it can make a decision to take its life.
Complete article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/11/05/federal-judge-blasts-fish-wildlife-service-says-endangered-wolves-cannot-be-shot/?utm_term=.3e929213a3bd
