It's Time to Protect Wolverines

With as few as 300 wolverines remaining in the contiguous United States, these ferocious members of the weasel family are facing a threat their powerful jaws and claws can't combat - extinction.

Despite wolverines' precarious situation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - the very agency tasked with protecting them - refused to grant them life-saving protections under the Endangered Species Act in 2014. But a federal judge found that the agency's decision was illegal, and now the Service has to reconsider.

Wolverines require high-elevation areas with persistent snow cover to raise their young, but climate change is making good denning areas hard to come by and pushing these feisty mountain predators closer to extinction.

There is still time to save wolverines, but we have to act now.

Take action today - urge Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Fish and Wildlife director Dan Ashe to save wolverines from extinction by protecting them today.