Comment from Nunez , Adriana
Adriana NunezSupportAdvocacy
Summary: The Buffalo Field Campaign and Western Watersheds Project, with legal support from Friends of Animals, are advocating for the listing of Yellowstone bison as an endangered species. They argue that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service should base its decision solely on the best available scientific and commercial data to recognize the risk of extinction.
Please support endangered species act protection for Yellowstone Bison!
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announced the scientific review on June 5, 2022, after years of advocacy and two court decisions compelling the agency to recognize evidence in our Endangered Species Act petition that the migratory bison herds in Yellowstone may be at risk of extinction.
Buffalo Field Campaign and Western Watersheds Project filed our petition in 2014. Our attorneys from Friends of Animals successfully defended our petition in court.
The endangered species status review is a rule making process – open to public comment for a period of 12 months – to determine if our petitioned action is not warranted, warranted but precluded, or warranted.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s decision for Yellowstone bison must be based “solely upon the best scientific and commercial data available.”