Center (for Biological Diversity) Goes to Court for Mexican Gray Wolf

Quoting the article from the Center for Biological Diversity news letter:

"Last week the Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for its failure to act on our petition to grant the Mexican gray wolf its own place on the endangered species list. The Mexican wolf is distinct from other gray wolves and should be recognized as such with its own Endangered Species Act protections as an endangered subspecies or "distinct population segment." But the Mexican wolf is currently lumped together under the Act with gray wolves elsewhere in the country. And the Service has missed its November deadline to respond to the Center's petition from last summer to fix that.

Earning its own place on the endangered species list would require the development of a new Mexican wolf recovery plan -- which is crucial, since the current one is almost three decades old and contains no numeric population, distribution, or genetic diversity targets. It would also give better guidance for managing the sole existing wolf population -- which hovered at just 52 animals and two breeding pairs at the end of 2008."

KSWT News, January 27, 2010

Please read more here:

Feds sued again over Mexican gray wolf petitionBy The Associated Press

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/center/articles/2010/kswt-news-01-27-2010.html

Find out more about the Mexican Gray Wolf from the Center for Biological Diversity:

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/Mexican_gray_wolf/index.html

(many interesting links to facts, petitions, statistics, and more regarding the Mexican Gray Wolf)

Also please read this article:

http://howlingforjustice.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/bad-moon-rising-on-mexican-gray-wolves/

Learn about the Mexican Gray Wolf:

http://www.mexicanwolfeis.org/ (excellent educational source)

How You can Help - Take Action:

The Mexican Gray Wolves need a strong fight, based on law, paperwork and other acts. All this requires a fair amount of finances. One of the very cool ways to help is to

ADOPT A MEXICAN GRAY WOLF

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Wolf Communication

Step aside from the buzz of your day. Listen to the cries, howls and growls of the wolves. If you listen carefully enough, you´ll learn to recognaise the lone howls, and the mutual howls of the pack, the puppy sounds, and more.

Wolf communication is one of the most fascinating matters. I´ve selected a few excellent sources of information on wolf communication, and audio records of their fascinating sounds.

About Wolf Howling:

"Wolves howl for more reasons than we will ever know: to bring the pack together, to respond to far-off sounds, or to see who’s out there. Howling increases during the breeding season, which usually starts in February. Usually the alpha wolf initiates the howl. It begins with a long, mournful sound from deep within him. Everything else in the forest seems to fall silent. As if on cue, other members of the pack join in, and the chorus swells to a soulful frenzy."

- excerpt from the website Living with Wolves

Make sure to not miss the

Wolf Howling and Growling Sound Clips:

http://www.searchingwolf.com/howls.htm

Also, take a look at beautiful howling wolf pictures, and read some educational information about the wolf communication here.

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Live from Kolmarden Animal Park - Meet and Watch the Wolves

Meet and watch the wolves of Kolmarden Animal Park, and learn how beautiful, intelligent, social and gentle these animals are.

Park´s director, zoologist Mats Hoggren explains their social habbits, clarifies some myths, talks about their nature. He also pointed out that wolves are an endangered species, threatened by extinction.

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Finnish wolves are delisted, despite their criticaly low population

Please spare a thought for wolves in Finland. In Lapland, there are currently only around 35 or possibly even fewer wolves remaining in the wild, and within Finland there are only around 200. Hunters are shooting wolves in order to prevent them from attacking reindeer, who are herded and slaughtered for their meat and skins. While Finland promotes itself as a destination for lovers of the great outdoors, wolves are ruthlessly hunted on its snows. Tell the Finnish government to end the killing.

The Finnish government has authorised the killing of wolves in Lapland. With Finland's tiny wolf population already threatened by illegal hunting, the country must protect these charismatic animals. Hunting exposes these animals to injury and causes them a lingering, painful death. It is as inhumane as it is unnecessary. Finland should celebrate the presence of these remarkable and beautiful predators and encourage responsible ecotourism in the areas where they live. In doing so, the country would benefit both the wolves and the human population.

How you can help to End the Wolf Slaughter in Lapland:

Contact and consider joining the Nature League's Wolf Action Group:

http://luontoliitto.fi/susiryhma/index.htm

Luonto-Liitto / Susiryhmä (Nature League´s Wolf Action Group)

Annankatu 26

A00100 Helsinki, FINLAND

tel. +358-9-684-4420

susiryhma@luontoliitto.fi

Join the Facebook group "Susiryhmä":
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=194653301289#/group.php?gid=33455963977&ref=mf

Sign the following petition:
http://action.peta.org.uk/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.campaign.id=5215

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Wolf - Endangered Species in Sweden and World

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Statistics of dogs killed annually in Sweden

One of the strongest arguments of the lobbyists for licenced wolf hunting in Sweden, is the amount of dogs, killed by wolves annually.

Here are statistics from Agria - Sweden´s largest insurance company, which insures around 70% of Swedish dogs:

Injured or dead dogs between years 2000-2005:

TRAFIC: 7252
STRAY BULLET: 135
PREDATORS: 78
OTHER WILD ANIMALS: 43

TOTAL: 7508

Note, that it doesn´t even specify how many dogs were killed by wolves, from all the predators.

In Swedish:

Källa Agria försäkringsbolag:
Skadade eller dödade hundar under 2000-2005
Orsak Antal trafik 7252
vådaskott 135
rovdjur 78
Annat vilt 43

Totalt 7508

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100-200% more dogs killed by hunters annually, than by wolves

One of the biggest arguments against wolves in Sweden, is that they kill many dogs each year, and are dangerous.

But statistics from Agria, Sweden´s largest insurance company, which insures about 70% of Swedish dogs, show different information.

Read the following excerpt (google translated):

Hunters shot 135 dogs January 3, 2010

135 dogs killed by hunters annually. One or two people shot to death each year by hunters.
That is 100-200% more than what the woves are said to have killed.each year.

The fact is that wolves are not attacking people in Sweden for two hundred years.

Consequently, people are afraid to go out into the woods because of wolves.

According to Agria, about 30 dogs were killed by wolves during 2008. About 135 dogs were injured or killed by stray bullet according to figures from 2006 from Agria Animal Insurance. A total of 7508 dogs were killed between 2000-2005).

This is a clear proof that wolves are being blamed, to justify the legalization of wolf hunting.

Read full article here (in Swedish):
http://badlandshyena.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/jagare-skot-135-hundar/

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Why Should We Save Wolves?

For most of human history, we haven’t needed to concern ourselves about sustaining the web of life. But today, for the first time since the extinction of the dinosaurs sixty-five million years ago, we’re losing species faster than nature can create new ones. And that’s because of our relentless population
growth and development of modern technologies ever more capable of altering the natural world.

Given current trends, it is estimated that by the time a child born today reaches his or her 30th birthday, one of every five current species on Earth will be either doomed or already extinct. After that, if present trends continue, the prospect will worsen.

Because the wolf has endured such a long history of persecution, the campaign to reverse the government’s policies toward wolves makes that cause into a symbol of the larger struggle to upgrade our society’s overall wildlife conservation values. If our society can alter its attitudes and policies toward the wolf, then widespread adoption of a more beneficial conservation ethic shouldn’t be far behind.

We should save wolves because it’s good for the wolf, it helps establish a conservation ethic that can save other imperiled species–and it’s good for the environment our children will inherit.

Text reposted from Defenders of Wildlife - www.defenders.org

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