Sublette County Sheriff K.C. Lehr has received more than 7,000 emails about a Wyoming man who reportedly captured and tormented a wolf before killing it, he told Cowboy State Daily on Wednesday.
Some of those are threats.
Lehr said people in his office, as well as Sublette County and Wyoming Game and Fish Department personnel, have been receiving threats — including death threats — stemming from Daniel, Wyoming, man Cody Roberts’ reported capture, torment and killing of a wild wolf in late February.
Interesting article but it doesn’t provide any proof that wolves are not in danger of going extinct again. In fact it suggests the opposite where several states have had to list them again. From what I see, it was lobbying from those who stand to gain from not protecting them that got them delisted in a number of circumstances. I can’t prove that but the fact that in areas where they relaxed protections the numbers got low enough to list them again goes in the face of your argument.
At some point there is a line drawn in the sand that “xyz” means they are no longer in danger of going extinct. It may just be a text book definition but thats what the person is showing you. You can disagree and say “it suggests the opposite” or it doesn’t provide proof, but that take can be applied to anything.
We can say humans are going to be going extinct because of the climate crisis. While a valid concern it may not meet the text book definition of going extinct so we are not on the list.
Dis this man they can’t be added back later? No of course not. But at this point in time whoever makes up the rules think they meet the criteria for being labeled a recovering population.
Yellowstone is a federal park that has federal rules protecting them.
States can bitch and moan all they want but there is a massive reserve dedicated to keeping them alive and their population in that reserve is not at any risk of going extinct.
By your logic (IE they could be killed off) - everything is always in danger of going extinct because not immortal and omnipotent creatures outside of the realm of human influence.