Subject: SW BIODIVERSITY ALERT
#51
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SOUTHWEST BIODIVERSITY ALERT
#51
2/25/97
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1.
CLINTON DELAYS MEXICAN GRAY WOLF RELEASE-
CALLS NEEDED
URGENTLY
2. WOLF BENEFIT POSTERS AVAILABLE
3.
ELECTRONIC NEWS BULLETIN TRACK WISE-USE MOVEMENT
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1. CLINTON DELAYS MEXICAN GRAY WOLF
RELEASE-
CALLS NEEDED URGENTLY
To avoid controversy
during the congressional appropriations process,
the Clinton administration
has decided to delay the final decision on a
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
plan to reintroduce the endangered
Mexican gray wolf to the Gila Headwater's
Ecosystem, straddling the
New Mexico/Arizona border. In the U.S., all Mexican
gray wolves live
in captivity. A small population persists in
Mexico.
A politically motivated delay of a few months, could mean a delay
of a
year or more for the wolf since it is likely to push the final
decision
beyond the biological timeline necessary to reintroduce wolves
in
1997. With each passing month, the captive bred wolves are less fit
to
survive in thewild. With each passing generation, captive born
wolves
are less genetically fit to survive.
Please call Secretary
Babbitt today. Tell him to sign the Record of
Decision to reintroduce wolves
to the Southwest immediately, before it
is too late.
Bruce Babbitt ,
Secretary of Interior: 202-208-7351
WOLF BENEFIT POSTERS
AVAILABLE
The Southwest Center for Biological Diversity and Preserve
Arizona's
Wolves (PAW) have released a beautiful color poster of the
Mexican
gray wolf by Dr. Robin Silver. The poster, feauturing a howling
wolf
and message urging the Secretary of Interior to reintroduce
the
immediately, is available from the Center for
$5.00.
Wolf Poster, Southwest Center for
Biological Diversity
P.O. Box 17839, Tucson, AZ
85731
swcbd@sw-center.org
ELECTRONIC NEWS
BULLETIN TRACK WISE-USE MOVEMENT
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Advocacy and Research
(CLEAR) publishes a semi-monthly bulletin on the "wise
use"
movement. _A CLEAR View_ is the only such electronic
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environmental
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_______________________________________________________________________________
Kieran
Suckling
ksuckling@sw-center.org
Executive
Director
phone: 520-733-1391
Southwest Center for Biological
Diversity fax:
520-733-1404
POB 17839, Tucson, AZ
85731
www.envirolink.org/orgs/sw-center
_______________________________________________________________________________
Kieran
Suckling
ksuckling@sw-center.org
Executive
Director
phone: 520-733-1391
Southwest Center for Biological
Diversity fax:
520-733-1404
POB 17839, Tucson, AZ
85731
www.envirolink.org/orgs/sw-center