A judge declared Yellowstone Grizzly as a threatened species..

US Justice has again declared the grizzly bear of Yellowstone as an endangered species, after the government withdrew it from the list last year on the grounds that it had reached a self-sufficient population opening the door to its hunt.
The US Government then argued that the conservation efforts of the bears in Yellowstone National Park, which covers part of Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, in the west of the country, had paid off and that the population of these animals had multiplied by four in the last four decades, from 136 to 700.
However, federal judge Dana Christensen, with a court in Montana, ruled Monday that removing the yellowstone grizzly from the list of endangered species without taking into account the other populations of the country was an “illogical” decision.
Despite their undeniable growth, the Yellowstone bears are still isolated from the other large population of this animal in the US, south of the Canadian border, in the Glacier National Park (Montana), making them still vulnerable.
The Fish and Wildlife Service explained, in a statement, that it is studying the court ruling, which will now allow the management of Yellowstone bears to return to federal hands after they relapsed last year into the states.
However, the agency said its decision to remove it from the list of threatened species was based “on a rigorous interpretation of the law and was based on the best available science.”

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