Romeo – Photo Courtesy John Hyde
Remember Romeo, the wonderful Alexander Archipelago wolf, who played on the Mendenhall Glacier in Juno, Alaska with his dog and human friends? Romeo was a superstar wolf but sadly his fame became his downfall. He was brutally murdered by poachers, his life snuffed out by people who have no respect for animal life. And now this incredibly endangered sub-species of wolf could slip into extinction if something isn’t done.
The Center for Biological Diversity has been working hard since 1996 to save these wolves.
ACTION TIMELINE
February 7, 1996 – The Center and allies filed suit against the Fish and Wildlife Service for denying a petition to list the Alexander Archipelago wolf as an endangered species.
October 1996 – In response to our February suit, a federal court overturned the Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to deny protections.
Late 1997 – The Service completed its court-mandated review and determined that listing the wolf was not warranted. The finding acknowledged the wolf’s declining populations but predicted that numbers would stabilize at an “acceptable” level.
December 22, 2009 – The Center, as part of a diverse coalition of Alaska Native, tourism industry, and environmental organizations, filed suit to end a 2003 Bush-era policy that exempted the Tongass National Forest from the national Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
January 2010 – The Forest Service approved an ill-conceived logging operation within the Tongass National Forest, the Archipelago wolf’s home.
August 10, 2011 – The Center for Biological Diversity joined with Greenpeace to again petition the Fish and Wildlife Service for Endangered Species Act protection for the wolf.
July 10, 2012 – The Center and Greenpeace notified the Service of our intent to file suit against the agency for delaying Endangered Species Act protection for the Alexander Archipelago wolf.
November 12, 2013 – The Center and Greenpeace notified the Service that it is two years overdue in deciding whether to initiate an Endangered Species Act status review for southeast Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago wolves. A status review may lead to listing these wolves as threatened or endangered.
June 17, 2015 – An official memorandum issued by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game estimated the wolves’ population to number only 89 in fall 2014, down from 221 the prior year — although the number could be as low as 50.
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/Alexander_Archipelago_wolf/action_timeline.html
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In 1994, southeast Alaska was home to about 300 Prince of Wales wolves, a subspecies of Alexander Archipelago wolves. By 2013, there were fewer than 250. Last year the population plummeted 60 percent to 89 wolves. New numbers confirm that the rare breed may have dropped to as few as 50.
A reported 29 wolves were…
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The respect NOTHING, prior themselves, they are ruthless, hit and run bastards, bloodthirsty, jelous of the wild and noble strenght and beauty of wolves. They hate wolves becauese they can.t reach an inch their bravery and independance, they are mediocracy and that is all they understand born for the less and little as their soul and life.
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So they are basically saying they want to eradicate them. I really wonder what humanity has degraded to these days, and how low we’ll go.
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Why are guns and killing so important to this country? I am sick to death of handwringing after mass shootings, and nothing being done except empty platitudes, then back to business as usual. I’m sick to death of what in human beings is the urge to kill, let’s just call it what it is. Enshrined in the second amendment.
No other civilized nation does this, so we are not a civilized nation, and never have been. This nation was not founded as a civilized nation, and like any empire, it will eventually come crashing down as an uncivilized nation, under the weight of its own greed, violence, and emptiness.
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No other civilized nation? You need to do a fact check: http://patriotpost.us/posts/39293
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I really do think Hillary Clinton will make the best President. We have to be the only so-called civilized nation in the world that hasn’t had a female commander-in-chief either. It’s time, and she has all the experience and all the pluck necessary. I love her voice; she really does have a confidence inspiring voice, and nobody would ever call her weak. Maybe she can kickstart this country to where it should be again.
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A century ago, Aldo Leopold witnessed a chunk of planet Earth die without her wolves. America should have evolved intellectually and scientifically to comprehend, the wolf is one of the most vital, necessary species on Earth. He shares the identical ecological jobs for Earth as Africa’s lions. Americans love, love Africa’s wildlife but fail to appreciate America’s Earth-saviors, as vital to Earth as all the rest.
Leopold also cautioned, that we must think like planet Earth. Did not planet Earth select wolves for North America and much of the world? Planet Earth adores her wolves as the wolf protects her physical body, face, heart and lungs. We need to educate the brainwashed drones. The wolf is the salvation of oxygen releasing, the living soil, the climate cooling water cycle and the absorption/storage of the greenhouse gases for Earth. The wolf even saves the climate for Earth and mankind.
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In reply to the decisions by many of the fish and game commissions not to protect these beautiful animals – even tho they are well aware of the decline in there populations and probable extinction due to there unbelievable ignorance – Why? What evil has brought you people to this low in your morals and uncaring for a race of animals that can’t protect them selves from the bastards that want to kill them off.. That is why we have you there !!! At least that is what you are supposed to be doing – but obviously you don’t give a dam and are going to just let it happen… Thanx. for not caring and I hope god remembers what you did and punishes you – because you seem to be above any control by any means we have down here. —— As far as idaursine !!!! Why did you have to bring politics into this forum. Hillary is a murdering, lying, bitch – And? If you think that lowly of our country then get the hell out – and don’t let the door knob hit your ass on the way out.
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I should think it would be obvious as to why politics are brought to this forum. Politics is the reason our wildlife is being killed off, and we have Gun Out-Of-Control. Our current politics are too weak to fight, and it’s time we had a bitch in charge. Not that I’m calling Hillary that – but we need someone as bad as who’s there now and who knows how to deal with them, and not placate and negotiate with Congressional terrorists, gun lobby terrorists, and wolf hate terrorists.
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Advocates have been trying to get these rare wolves listed on the ESL for the last 10 years, but to no avail. The Alaska FWS want to kill them so loggers can keep cutting down the island’s ancient trees without having to worry about an endangered species getting in their way. The ESA is being gamed when a population of 88 wolves remains unprotected after 10 years of steady decline. Alaska is all about exploiting nature for financial gain. Nothing is sacred.
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Beautiful animals in a beautiful land. It’s just beyond my comprehension that people would want to destroy both.
Much of the killing has to do with the greed of ranchers and loggers and the hunters’ delight in killing. But when it comes to wolves, it seems as if there is more to it. Read the book “Vicious” by Jon T. Coleman and “Of Wolves and Men” by Barry Lopez, and you will see in the persecution of wolves by human beings a drive that seems nothing short of demonic or psychotic, depending on whether you see such torture and death inflicted on animals as evil or madness. And it continues.
And by the way, the “vicious” in the title of the book turns out to be a description of the people, not the wolves!
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You get the type that call wolves, coyotes, mountain lions and whatever else evil for what they do. Yet so many of those claiming sadism are guilty of knowingly committing atrocities far worse and doing it just because they can.
More bullets than braincells.
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So, why do the so-called “wildlife groups” continue to genuflect and compromise with ranchers and hunters? When these groups say “oh, but we have to work with them to help wildlife,” my response is: well, how is that working for those wild animals, since the killing is increasing, not decreasing? Hunting is a violent act, and public lands ranching is also, when we witness the killing of millions of coyotes, bobcat, mountain lion, wolves & other native animals every year–to appease the western ranchers. There simply is not excuse, and I, for one, will not join or work with, any so-called “wildlife” group that has hunters, trappers, ranchers on its staff or board–and that is compromising with these industries.
Isn’t it time to stop this, and force these groups to get off the fence, and on the side of wildlife? The wildlife are losing.
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And, by the way, this mantra of “co-existence” is just another buzz word for compromise–it isn’t working, more native animals are dying every year, and I find it sad that groups who purport to care about wildlife even use this word. The livestock boards, commissions are laughing at us–“yeah, you wolf folks just keep believing that, ha, ha, while we shoot them critters.” This is exactly what ranchers said at the last NM Game Commission to us, as their buddies on the board raised the trapping/hunting quotas on lion and bear. Wake up, wildlife people, and realize that the wildlife Do Have Enemies, and we need to stand up for them, and quit this compromising!
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Are they dumb or what?! Extinction is forever, and they don’t even care! Real intelligent people would realise how important wolves are for natural balance, plus they are magnificient creatures that deserve our respect!
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Stop this insanity of killing these creatures, they have a right to live as well as US “humans”.
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People must replace these game agencies and wildlife commissions with real, responsible biologists and ecologist who represent the 87% of the non hunting public rather than have the minority dictate the constant massacre of these magnificent animals because these game agencies are hunter dominated and they answer to no one and make all the decisions to benefit the hunting lobby.
Time to get a Bill passed to replace or at least have an equal number of decision makers on these boards and agencies represent those of us opposed to this senseless killing it’s the only way we are going to gain momentum and take away and stop the hunter dominated agenda.
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Disgusting, repugnant and infuriating attitude that humans like these have towards other species. I will continue to support and help any and all organizations that fight for the the survival of our beautiful wolf brothers and sisters.
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Such amazing, beautiful animal , why kill them ? It’s time for Ranchers to have there heards controlled buy fencing. Wolves are needed in the eco system, they keep the rodent population down . And some of the larger things they kill also helps to feed other animals and birds that struggle to fend for themselves. I really don’t know how you can look such a beautiful animal in the eye and kill it ! There is only 50 in this area so WTF are you doing killing them off … Stop the madness!!!!!
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Don’t you have any respect for our wildlife? They have just as much right to live.
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In Alaska as well as in Scandinavia predominating the same cynical hunting lobby by the government agencies and many private plunderers with shotgun in the nature. That is a maffia-cartel of psychopaths that running amok who massacring the peaceful natural inhabitants.
Not only wolves, even bears, wolverines, lynx, reindeer, moose, deer and more ..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3340732/11-571-Norwegians-apply-licence-kill-wolves-despite-30-country.html#comments http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/01/hunters-norway-wolves-bears-japan-whale-hunting http://www.dt.se/dalarna/alvdalen/lansstyrelsens-duo-peter-wallin-och-stefan-halvarsson-i-idre-foljer-vargspar
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Stop killing my beautiful wolves! They deserve to live! Everything that breathes has a right to live! They have been on this long before us, STOP KILLING MY WOLVES! If you have to kill something start with yourself!
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