Following legislation to protect endangered animals and 35 years of hard work, the gray wolves were removed from the list of endangered animals
The gray wolves of North America entered the list of animals in danger of extinction in 1974. If nothing had been done about it, they would have disappeared completely. Today their population includes more than 5,500 wolves, with 1,600 living in the Rocky Mountain region and 3,900 living in the Great Lakes region. In addition, 8,000 - 11,000 gray wolves live in Alaska.
The success of preserving the species in the territories of the continental US can be attributed not only to the Endangered Species Protection Act, but also to all the entities that have participated over the years and contributed their part to the preservation of wolves, including 48 countries where wolves live, Indian tribes, landowners, academic researchers, and organizations many more.
Federal legislation to protect endangered species saved the species from total extinction. The legislation stated that the failed treatment of the various states required federal intervention. The federal authorities set goals and prepared plans for the conservation of the gray wolf, which included, among other things, the treatment of sensitive issues such as seasonal hunting, monitoring of packs and the establishment of scientific databases for long-term management of the population.
The population of gray wolves in the USA is spread over the territory of 48 states. Each country is allowed to maintain records about the wolves and handles their rehabilitation processes according to the local geographical characteristics and according to the needs of the different packs. The nationwide data is collected by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, a federal authority. Federal supervision enables nationwide monitoring of the various rehabilitation programs and verifies compliance with long-term goals. Also, federal intervention makes it possible to overcome local obstacles such as bureaucracy, conflict of interest and foreign considerations in decision-making.
The factors that were involved in the restoration of the gray wolves in the USA state that the restoration operations were successful, the various items are in excellent health and their genetic diversity is extremely diverse. But despite the removal from the list of endangered animals, the monitoring of the wolves will continue for another 5 years to make sure that the population is out of danger.
The authority's spokesman announced that the gray wolves were removed from the list of animals in danger of extinction in all the countries where they lived. All states except Wyoming where the wolf population includes only 300 animals - an amount that is not sufficient for removal from the list - so there they will continue to be under federal supervision.
The sad part of the story is that in states where federal supervision has been removed, it is now possible to buy a license to hunt wolves. The hunter will be under close supervision, it will be possible to hunt only during the hunting season and it will be limited according to the size of the wolf population in the different areas. And if the states don't do a good job of managing the population, the wolves will return to the endangered species list under federal supervision.
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One of the most majestic and impressive animals there is.
How did the gray wolf enter the list of endangered animals, were they hunted?
To the questioner - the "trend" of conservation is part of the understanding that the human race did not develop in a vacuum and does not live in a vacuum. We are affected by our environment and we will continue to be affected by it. When we exterminate a species, or even "just" reduce it so that its impact becomes negligible, we change our environment. Sometimes the impact of extinction is clear and understandable, such as whether the animal eats or pays your salary, but more often the environmental impact is unknown.
What is certain is that every organism affects its environment and other organisms directly or indirectly, including humans.
Beyond that, humans did not create any organism and have no right to exterminate it. Nature has a right to exist on its own.
Technical note - a dog belongs to the species Canis lupus subspecies Canis lupus familiaris.
It is clear to the writer of the note what the difference is between the domestic dog and the gray wolf, even if both belong to the same species or not. Biodiversity also refers to genetic diversity within the same species and not only to different species (which is essentially a human definition from the start).
I think there is a mistake in the article mixing two different species.
The gray wolf is only found in a few places in the USA (the Great Lakes region, the Rocky Mountains and Arizona). The gray wolf was indeed removed from the list of animals in danger of extinction, a step that will mainly affect the wolves in the Great Lakes region because in the Rocky Mountains the majority of the population is limited to nature reserves.
The part that deals with 48 countries talks about the gray fox whose distribution is in all 48 states of the United States, Central America and Venezuela. The gray fox is currently defined as not in danger of extinction
(least concern)
Erez, what you mentioned is true.
But even if it doesn't appear in the title, it can still be understood by reading the body of the news.
If such a simple and trivial thing leads you astray then I don't know how you manage to survive in the outside world.
Gray wolf has never been endangered. It is found almost all over the northern hemisphere including Israel as a wild animal, and its domesticated variety is the house dog. That is, the exact same species. The article deals with the rehabilitation of the gray wolf population in the United States itself, so the strange title is very misleading. I expect Rami not to mislead me again.
Polar bears and gray wolves are cute.
Askers call it balance. There is no animal that is not part of a network.
Take it off and the chain will collapse.
With us, for example, bees that we rely on are starting to cause problems.
Can you imagine it collapsing?
A liquidation team is on its way to the questioner who doesn't pay me a salary.
I don't quite understand what this whole conservation trend is about
I don't mind if there are no gray wolves, or alternatively polar bears or giant frogs from the rain forests
I don't eat them and they don't pay my salary
Right now you can continue hunting wolves. Thanks.
The very publication puts it under the endangered rule. So what is the truth?