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 Western Environmental Law Center News Release

Today, after more than 20 years of advocacy by wildlife conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the Service) found that wolverines warrant federal protections as a threatened species. Numbering only about 300 in the contiguous U.S., snow-dependent wolverine populations have suffered from climate change, habitat loss, trapping, and other anthropogenic pressures.

Read more at  Wolverines listed as “threatened” under Endangered Species Act after 20-year conservation effort – Western Environmental Law Center