THE decision this month to downgrade the protection of America’s grey wolf, just eight years after its reintroduction, is flawed, say biologists. The animals have not re-established themselves as well as their increasing numbers suggest.
In 1995, the US Fish and Wildlife Service began reintroducing wolves into Yellowstone National Park, and gave wolves which had migrated from Canada into the Great Lakes region of the US the same legal protection applied to endangered species. Today there are some 4000 wolves in the US, and on 1 April the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) decreed that the population was large…
