Paws Up! To the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for upholding protections for grizzly bears in the Endangered Species Act.
July 14th, 2020
In 2017, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) delisted the grizzly bear of the Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks region after 45 years on the Endangered Species List. This decision put roughly 700 bears in danger. Trophy hunters wasted no time–not long after FWS announced their decision to remove the bears from the Endangered Species List, Wyoming and Idaho allowed dozens of bears to be hunted and killed.
Several animal welfare organizations, as well as the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, fought against this decision and won when the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Montana’s District Court opinion that the Yellowstone region’s grizzly bears be protected under the Endangered Species Act.
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I can’t tell you how upset I get when I read that hunting, especially trophy hunting is allowed anywhere. Those people should be fined thousands of dollars and then be put in jail or placed out in the wilderness alone without cell phones to see what it’s like to survive like the wild animals.
to be a real trophy hunter—
shoot them with cameras now your talking about seeing a bear up close instead gun scope distance be the big brave look at me now