The presence of apex predators improves habitat quality and species viability down the food chain. This reintroduction could be a model for repairing ecosystems.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials announced Friday that it has rejected petitions from environmental groups to add wolves in the northern Rockies and parts of the western U.S. to the Endangered Species List.
Federal wildlife officials have decided not to restore protections for gray wolves across portions of six states, allowing hunting to continue in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
The Biden administration declined to list the gray wolf as endangered throughout much of the West, a move that would have granted the species sweeping federal protections in the region and which environmental activists have long advocated for. In an announcement Friday, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) issued a "not warranted" finding for two petitions
FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans on the Natural Resources Committee are probing the Biden administration over its efforts to protect the gray wolf species.