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Save the
-Dhole
-Iberian Lynx
-Channel Islands Fox
-Loggerhead Sea Turtle
-California Condor
Or, hell, anything that's actually fucking endangered (I just thought of those off the top of my head) before you start whinging about "SAVE THE WOLVES SAVE THE WOLVES!!!".
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Although the Grey Wolf still faces some threats, its relatively widespread range and stable population trend mean that the species does not meet, or nearly meet, any of the criteria for the threatened categories. Therefore, it is assessed as Least Concern.
The IUCN Red List lists grey wolves as Least Concern.
And do you know how many vulnerable, endangered, and critical amphibians there are?
Oh wait, they're not cute/"badass" enough. Sorry.
Wolves are not fucking endangered. Unless you can show me solid, unbiased evidence, you are full of shit.
Save the California Condors. You know, something that's actually critically endangered?
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There are currently 150,000 gray wolves in the US/Canada.
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WELLL... NOW BECAUSE PPL CANT KILL THEM ANYMORE
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I have nothing to say that, because there is no way for me to believe that you're not a troll, because no human being could be that unbelievably stupid. Have a nice day.
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LOL its like how elephants are NOT ENDANGERED as well, well at least african ones arnt, they are pests there.
This is cool cause well... they arnt!
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how about the red wolves, or mexican wolf?
But I do admit Save all animals!
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What about the Leatherback Sea Turtle, Black Rhinocerous, Addax, and...
I could go on. I still don't understand why people flip their shit when it comes to saving the wolves. The three animals I listed were Critically Endangered, meaning, these animals (and countless others) are actually threatening to go extinct. So why are people still complaining about the wolves?
I just remembered, there is a wolf species that does need our help, and soon. The Ethiopian Wolf's population is estimated to be around a mere 450 adults. Still, there are conservation programs being continued to help them.
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Yes they are not endangered. BUT WHEN YOU HUNT THEM FOR NO FREAKING REASON BUT GAME THEY WILL BE!
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Controlled hunting and population curbing is a reason, honey.
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Im a wolf fanatic but that is true! we need to save other animals more than wolves!
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Sub species are, but not as a "whole" species lol Save da other animals that do necessarily matter.
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I KNOW!!!!
people act like just because I like wolves, that means I hate other animals.
REALLY PEOPLE REALLY?!
You made an awesome point.
IM GLAD wolves are not endangered.
Or at least the gray wolf.
I feel like helping the coral reefs.
There are idiots that go around with dynamite blowing up coral reefs in the pacific for money!!!!(no joke)
SAVE OUR REEFS!!!!
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There are more than one breed/type of wolf.. so.. you're not entirely correct unless you're just specifying Grey Wolves.
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It's funny how the people overly obsessed with wolves are the ones that want to believe they're in trouble the most.
They should be happy that the /only/ animal they care about is recovering.
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Mexican Wolves, Ethiopian Wolves, etc, are endangered. but not Gray Wolves :/ so I agree. lets save tigers ^_^ or other endangered things. Wolves may be one of my fav animals, they do not need help. SO TIGERS FTW
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grey wolves are
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I know they used to be endangered. And they still are in certain parts of America, especially in the South. But theres tons of gray wolves in Canada, Alaska, and lots of the northern states. Thats why theres population control. Theres too many of them in some areas.
But they do need to be protected in the southern states. They are already extinct in Texas :/
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SAVE THE
As of feb2010 there is only about 120 left.
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SAVE THE !!!! D:!
My life would not be complete without their cute little feeties and pink external gills ;-;
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Oh my god! That thing is so adorible!!
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I know right!??! They're endangered because people like to eat them in Mexico.... I think they should just stick with their nachos and tacos..
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There are three Distinct Population Segments (DPS) in the US as of 2003, segregating the Mackenzie Valley by itself when distinguishing the "Gray Wolf" from being on the endangered species list. The other two are the Mexican wolf (southern DPS) and Great Plains wolf (northern DPS). These are the only three subspecies of Gray wolf that live in the lower 48 states. In the early 1900s there was a fourth, the Eastern Timber wolf (Canis lupus lycaon) but Nowak's work suggests that this canid is something other than a gray, which they now refer to as Canis lycaon (it could either be a relative to the Red wolf or simply a species all its own).
Case in point: The Mackenzie Valley subspecies is the subspecies in question, the Great Plains wolf and the Mexican wolf are not being hunted nor do their populations have to be controlled. Studies have shown that the Mackenzie Valley wolf could survive annual harvests of 30-40% without even affecting their population in Alaska (as of right now, Alaska does a 15-20% harvest, showing that they will increase their hunting quota).
The Mackenzie Valley wolf is the only subspecies that was not persecuted -- until now -- because its natural range and habitat was not in the lower 48 states. They roam all throughout Canada and Alaska until in 1995-96 when they were "reintroduced" (technically they were introduced because they are not the natural wolves from that area) to the Greater Yellowstone Area. Now that their population has grown in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, reports have shown the wolves dispersing even into the Dakotas. The Mackenzie Valley is an extremely strong and sturdy subspecies of wolf - about 30% larger than the Great Plains wolf which was the original native wolf to the Rocky Mountains. They are listed as a game species in Canada and Alaska which means it is normal to hunt them there. Their population is at around 60,000 in Canada, 11,000 in Alaska and around 2,000 in the lower 48 states, ALL populations rising.
TL;DR?
The Mackenzie Valley wolf is the only one NOT endangered because of its HIGH abundance throughout Canada, Alaska and the Northern Rockies.
The Great Plains wolf is listed as "threatened" (stable/increasing pop. of 3,000)
The Mexican wolf is CRITICALLY endangered (42 in the wild, decreasing pop.)
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Wolves are amazeing animals to me. But yeah I bet they're about more then 100 animals that need more help then grey wolves. XD but sadly people are too interested into the grey wolves and forget about the other animals such as the snow leopard. I would never want to see wolves disappear but they're proubly animals that are disappearing at the second and people don't even look their way but try to defend their wolves.
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Iberian wolve? Engangered.
Ethiopain wolve? Engangered.
Siberian wolve? Engangered.
Tibetan wolve? Engangered.
North European wolve? Engangered.
Italian wolve? Engangered.
Mexican Wolve? Engangered.
Indian wolve? Engangered.
Arabian wolve? Engangered.
Let's continue?
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The siberian wolf is not endangered, nor are many other mentined ones for that matter, and they are all subspecies of the grey wolf, ence the species not being endangered at all
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check these sites then post again and see whos right
good job Ameban ^_^
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In case you haven't noticed, the first link does show that american wolf populations are stable (as opposed to middle eastern ones, for instance, but you wolfaboos only care about american wolves).
The later is outdated.
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And European wolf? Italian Wolf? Iberian wolf? Escandinave Wolf? Don't look at American wolves, only.
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The European wolf isn't endangered at all. Not as a whole, at least. ALL European wolf populations continue to rise.
Scandinavian wolves aren't a species or subspecies of their own. They're migrated Russian wolves. And Russia has the largest healthy wolf population in the world, they're far from endangered.
Italian wolf populations also continue to rise. The populations in Switserland, Austria, France and the north of Spain are also migrated Italian wolves. The Italian wolf population is somewhere around 900-1000 animals if you count the ones in France, Spain and Italy together. Their population increases with 7% a year.
Spain has the largest wolf population of western Europe. The Iberian wolf population consists of about 3000 animals. It can't be hunted either, except in a few regions of Spain.
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The european wolf as a whole is not endangered; at most only some local populations.
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Ah? Really? Just for your information: all those local populations you talk about are species or sub-species of European grey wolf. Iberian wolves are endangered, as much Italian wolves.
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But currently they are spareading and aside from some zones in Spain they aren't killed
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Spanish politics allow to kill wolves, even if they're endangered because politic reasons... Human stupidity. The population in Portugal is very small to be even notorious.
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But again, they are spreading. Locally there is an apropriate number of individuals for a top predator like them
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Heh! Don't thrust on those oficial info. The fact is politics said they're spreading because they want to kill them because politic reasons...It's just a lie.
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Around here it is totally illegal to hunt wolves, and in Spain it got regionalised.
Politics wouldn't bother to lie so much if it ends up appearing in official scientific texts
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Politics always do what they want to do in order to gain some points of popularity.
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But it specifically comes in scientific essays about wolf populations that Iberian wolves aren't as much endangered as other wolf populations in non-russian Eurasian, and currently their population is around 6000 in Spain (not counting the ones in Portugal), which means its relatively stable when compared to the much more endangered Indian wolves for example.
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6000? HAH! That's a big liar! It's around 3000 only, and their populations are concentrated at the north river of Ebro's river. Italian population is even lower.
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That information came from a british website on the matter, which may I remind you its not affected by spanish bias. And judging by the range wolves have in the Iberian Peninsula, it fits perfectly the model
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You're wrong. Two years ago, the politics used those information for supporting their new hunting laws because rich landlords and others wanted to hunt "forbbiden" species... Of course, the furtive hunt always was there, but they wanted some legal proof to allow hunting wolves without problem. As a result, Spanish ecologist everoments, tried to show their own studies... or rather: they said there weren't any REAL study about Iberian wolves since ten years. Politics just made up new stadistics to prove their point, raising the real number of wolves into those big amounts.
The only real study is from 10 years ago more or less, and the population was around 3000. It's just impossible they can be 6000 in just 10 years.
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No, there has been other studies. And, anyway, ten years is enough for a species to multiply a lot.
Anyway, I can just link you to a vertebrate biologist you can ask question about and get this over with:
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If they're rats or rabbits, yes. But now wolves that cannot hunt or just living ouside the national parks and they cannot breed that much.. Don't forget the furtive hunt, illegal hunt, poisons and everything.
In Spain, there was a strong politic debatase about this particular issue because it was obviously faked by politic reasons.
BTW, the Portugese population is around 400 wolves, only. And just in the north region.
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I know, but at least the last time time was a, illegal kill it wasn't left unnoticed, which implies our atitudes towards wolves are better than Spain's
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Common Spanish people is protective with wildnature, but rich landlords, country men and nasty hunters just want to kill protected animals. Because of this, several Spanish species has been extinted in recent years.
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The singular form of "wolves" is "wolf".
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I'm not English native.
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