The indigenous communities rising up to protect the gray wolf
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
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🗓️ 26 January 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The federal government removed the gray wolf from the endangered species list last year. Now, hundreds of gray wolves have been killed. We hear how tribes are leading efforts to stop the hunts. Tom Rodgers and Adrian Wydeven join Meghna Chakrabarti.
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| 0:30.4 | This is on point. I'm Meg Nechakrabardi. |
| 0:33.7 | Last February, a Wisconsin court made a major ruling. |
| 0:38.5 | A Wisconsin judge has ordered the state DNR to start a Wolf Hunt this month. |
| 0:42.9 | The Trump administration removed wolves from the federal endangered species |
| 0:46.3 | list in January, returned men in state. |
| 0:50.0 | On January 4, 2021, the United States Department of Fish and |
| 0:54.0 | Wildlife under the Trump administration officially removed the grey wolf |
| 0:58.4 | from the endangered species list. Wolf management shifted entirely to state |
| 1:03.0 | and tribal governments. In Wisconsin, the state's wolf population had risen |
| 1:08.0 | from a low of just 25 animals in the early 1980s to more than 1,000 by 2020. |
| 1:14.0 | And so, after the removal from the endangered species list, the state |
| 1:19.4 | authorized the first wolf hunt in Wisconsin in seven years. |
| 1:24.8 | The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources initially set the hunt date for |
| 1:28.5 | November 2021. Hunter Nation, an advocacy group, sued. |
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