Tribal leaders today testified before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife in support of the Tribal Heritage and Grizzly Bear Protection Act. As noted by Lynnette Grey Bull, Senior Vice President of Global Indigenous Council and spokesperson for the Northern Arapaho Elders Society of the Wind River Indian Reservation, the Act is based on The Grizzly: A treaty of Cooperation, Cultural Revitalization and Restoration. It is the most signed treaty in history.
BOZEMAN, Mont.– Conservation groups today called on the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee’s Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee to update a decade-old report on grizzly bear conflict prevention after a record number of bears died last year.
Missoula, MT-- Moments ago, a judge ruled that safeguards for Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears are restored, deciding that Sec. Zinke’s Department of the Interior decision to strip Endangered Species Act protections from the population was illegal.
In response, scientists, wildlife biologists and photographers released the following statements:
MISSOULA, Mont.— A federal judge today granted a temporary restraining order stopping Wyoming and Idaho’s planned grizzly hunt that was set to start Sept. 1. The order grants the bears a reprieve while the judge decides whether the federal government should reinstate federal protections for the bears.
Piikani Nation * Global Indigenous Council * Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council * Sierra Club
MISSOULA, Mont.— A hearing will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, in U.S. District Court on a challenge to the Trump administration’s decision to strip Endangered Species Act protection from Yellowstone’s famed grizzly bears.
Jackson, WY— Today, 107 wildlife photographers released a letter calling on Wyoming Governor Matt Mead to halt his state’s proposed grizzly bear trophy hunt. The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission votes on the proposal in just four days. The signers emphasized the importance of saving iconic wildlife like the globally-loved Mother 399 who is at-risk if a hunt happens.
Idaho moves to hunt grizzlies this fall.
Idaho moves to hunt grizzlies this fall.
73 scientists say #NoGrizHunt.