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Groups challenge Trump administration’s delisting of gray wolves
The lawsuit claims the United States Fish and Wildlife Service made a decision based on politics, not science.
A lawsuit was filed against the Trump administration after they ruled to strip protections for gray wolves in the lower-48 states under the Endangered Species Act except for a small population of Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico. Earthjustice filed the lawsuit on behalf of Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, National Parks Conservation Association, Oregon Wild, and the Humane Society of the United States.
The lawsuit claims that “despite the science that concludes wolves are still functionally extinct in the vast majority of their former range across the continental U.S.,” the United States Fish and Wildlife Service made a decision “based on politics, not science,” according to a press release.