Yesterday the New York Times ran a human-interest piece titled, “As Wolves Return to French Alps, a Way of Life Is Threatened.” This is the only part of the article that acknowledges the wolves plight:

With official encouragement, herders and farmers had hunted the gray wolf to extinction in France by the 1930s. Within a half-century, though, the animal had been made a protected species throughout Europe; the first wolves re-entered French territory from Italy in 1992, a small and delicate population at the outset. Much to the thrill of conservationists and European officials, they have thrived.

After that the article descends into just another “humans are the endangered species” diatribe. What is the NYT trying to do, fuel the fire against wolves on the eve of full-scale federal delisting?