Sublette County Sheriff K.C. Lehr has received more than 7,000 emails about a Wyoming man who reportedly captured and tormented a wolf before killing it, he told Cowboy State Daily on Wednesday.
Some of those are threats.
Lehr said people in his office, as well as Sublette County and Wyoming Game and Fish Department personnel, have been receiving threats — including death threats — stemming from Daniel, Wyoming, man Cody Roberts’ reported capture, torment and killing of a wild wolf in late February.
At some point there is a line drawn in the sand that "xyz" means they are no longer in danger of going extinct. It may just be a text book definition but thats what the person is showing you. You can disagree and say "it suggests the opposite" or it doesn't provide proof, but that take can be applied to anything.
We can say humans are going to be going extinct because of the climate crisis. While a valid concern it may not meet the text book definition of going extinct so we are not on the list.
Dis this man they can't be added back later? No of course not. But at this point in time whoever makes up the rules think they meet the criteria for being labeled a recovering population.