What is The HSUS doing to protect wolves?
We are working through local activism and litigation to ensure that wolves are not delisted as DPSs before a more robust recovery has been made. We are also working to ensure that these protected wolves are not unnecessarily persecuted as FWS attempts to adapt the tenants of the ESA to appease those who would kill wolves in large numbers. In the summer of 2006, The HSUS won a court battle to prevent the broad-scale killing of wolves in Wisconsin under the auspices of enhancement permits. Currently, depredating wolves may be killed in all states in which they are present. Yet such lethal controls require individual permits for each action in addition to evidence that preventative measures were taken but failed to halt depredations.
