The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it is suspending further reintroductions of red wolves and effectively suspending any future progress in bringing red wolves back from near extinction. This politically motivated decision is a betrayal of the agency’s mission under the Endangered Species Act and jeopardizes the existing, tenuous recovery. When asked, the FWS would not even commit to preventing red wolves from going extinct. The FWS needs to get serious about red wolf recovery before it’s too late. Its revised estimates have found that as few as 50 to 75 red wolves exist in the wild, down from more than 100 just months ago. This announcement comes only a week after FWS staff confirmed that a lactating red wolf was shot by a landowner under a FWS-issued permit. Please tell FWS Director Dan Ashe to stop delaying and commit to real, effective efforts to recover red wolves.
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