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Tiny paws wander across the snowy forest floor. These innocent wolf pups don’t notice the steel traps lurking beneath. They don’t know they just crossed state lines, into an area where they can be legally killed. They don’t have time to react as the metal rips into their paws, splattering the snow red. Their lives have barely begun, and now they’re in a struggle to survive. No innocent creature should endure this: Donate $27 immediately and help us reach our $180,000 goal by midnight on Earth Day to help protect vulnerable wolves and the planet, and it will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to this goal.
This scene is common in Northern Rockies states that border Yellowstone. There are no safeguards to keep gray wolves safe from vicious trophy hunters who are killing off innocent and vulnerable wolves in droves -- and using the most inhumane of hunting practices.
The situation is dire, Friend, but there’s still hope for vulnerable wolves. Thanks to members like you, we can still make real change happen and protect wolves before it’s too late. But trophy hunters are doubling down against protections for these precious animals, so we need to act now and give them a fighting chance.
These vicious hunting practices can’t continue. Help protect wolves and our planet this Earth Day: Rush your $27 donation now and have double the impact!
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Wolves had begun to make a slow but promising recovery over the past six decades. Last year, three baby wolf pups were born to the only wolf pack left in Colorado. The pups were suspected to be the first wolves born in Colorado in 80 years.
Protected by the state, they were a symbol of hope for repopulation efforts. But wolves aren’t bound by state lines -- the second they set their tiny paws onto Wyoming soil, they become vulnerable to the most brutal hunting practices we’ve seen.
Sure enough, three mangled, bloody young wolf carcasses were found across Wyoming state lines.
Not even wolves in Yellowstone are safe from the pattern. The park recently lost a record high of 25 wolves, leaving only 89 behind. Yet the states that border Yellowstone still have no safeguards to keep gray wolves safe from vicious trophy hunters and their inhumane practices!
In states like Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, wolves are dynamited in their dens while nursing their pups. Baby wolves are left bleeding out in steel traps and slowly choking to death on snares in a futile attempt to escape. Trophy hunters unleash bloodhounds on them, which tear their flesh apart while they whimper and yelp for help that won’t come. Will you join us and help answer their cries for aid?
Help protect vulnerable wolves from brutal hunters before it’s too late. Donate $27 immediately and help us reach our $180,000 goal!
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Wolves are intelligent creatures that are vital to their ecosystems. They help keep elk and deer populations in check, allowing other plant and animal species to flourish. The remains of their kill redistribute nutrients and feed scavengers. They truly are a keystone species!
Yet, trophy hunters and Big Oil lobbies are pushing against protections for these precious creatures, hoping to kill them for sport and develop their habitats for the sake of corporate greed. Their actions have contributed to the gutting of the Endangered Species Act and protections for wolves, bears, and other vulnerable species -- and now, only 6,000 wolves remain in the lower 48 states.
For trophy hunters, it’s not enough to just take the lives of innocent wolves -- they resort to helicopter chases and torturous snares that fill a wolf’s last hours with panic, dread, and insurmountable pain. To make matters worse, wolf pups are left orphaned after their mothers are gunned down in the woods. They can suffer from hypothermia, starvation, and predation without the protection of their mothers.
Friend, your membership gift today can help push the Biden administration to put federal protections in place to save wolves from these vicious attacks and at the same time, we’ll work to protect the public lands and planet that wolves and their web of life rely on.
But we are facing pushback from private trophy-hunting interests and Big Polluters, and we need to step up our efforts before it’s too late. The Endangered Species Act is one of the few protections that stands in the way of the fossil fuel and agriculture industries polluting communities, driving climate chaos, and harming biodiversity across the country. If the GOP attacks on the ESA succeed, these harmful industries will have an even easier time drilling, fracking, mining and operating massive factory farms. If just 1 of every 10 people reading this contributes, we can reach our $180,000 Earth Day goal -- will you rush your $27 donation now?
Protect the remaining wolves from greedy private interests. Donate $27 before the clock strikes midnight and help us reach our $180,000 Earth Day goal for the planet.
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Standing with you,
Nicole Ghio
Senior program manager fossil fuels,
Friends of the Earth
