Legal Opinion
Wildearth Guardians v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided September 5, 2024No. Civil Action No. 2021-2864Published
1Opinion of the Court
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WILDEARTH GUARDIANS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, et al., Civil Action No. 21-2864 (RDM) Defendants, v. STATE OF WYOMING, Defendant Intervenor. MEMORANDUM OPINION This case is about the black-footed ferret, a species that was thought to be extinct until the remarkable discovery in 1981 of a surviving group of 130 ferrets near Meeteetse, Wyoming. Disease, however, soon killed most of the surviving ferrets, leaving only 18 ferrets, which were removed from the wild and used to establish a captive-breeding program…
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