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Judge gives approval for wolf slaughter
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar removed the wolves from Endangered Species protections and now Montana Federal Judge Donald Molloy has given his approval for the wolf slaughter to proceed.
With this ruling, Molloy denied the petitions of animal advocacy and environmentalist groups, who had hoped to save the wolves, but he made a statement suggesting that the Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act. A bit of hope for groups trying to protect the wolves.
‘The service has distinguished a natural population of wolves based on a political line, not the best available science,” [Molloy] said. “That, by definition, seems arbitrary and capricious.”
According to the New York Times, the Judge calculates that killing 20 percent of the estimated 1,350 wolves that populate the area will not cause “long-term harm to the species.” He added that they can “sustain a hunting harvest”—essentially a culling—and “bounce back.”
What a significant day it will be when humans evolve beyond the point of wanting to eliminate—rather than adapting and learning to live with—every entity or concept they find inconvenient, troublesome, or distasteful. This imaginary day is one that we will achieve together—all species, all disparate groups—or not at all.
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