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Yellowstone's grizzlies under threat from controversial hunting proposal

Biologists argue that plan could endanger the bear population in the iconic ecosystem.
  1. Giorgia Guglielmi
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On 23 May, Wyoming officials will vote on whether to allow the hunting of up to two dozen grizzly bears around Yellowstone National Park this September. The proposed hunt has reignited controversy over whether or not this population of grizzlies has recovered from decades of hunting and habitat destruction — an issue that was central to the US government’s decision to take the bears in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem off the endangered-species list in 2017.

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Nature 557, 148-149 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05061-9

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