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Hi John,
Montana's war on wolves is so extreme, up to 85% of the wolves there could be wiped out.
Trappers can now snare multiple wolves, and the state's trapping season has been expanded by four weeks. That puts endangered lynx at risk too, so we took legal action to save both wolves and lynx.
Please give to the Endangered Species Act Protection Fund to support our ongoing defense of wildlife.
Montana allows wolf pelts to be sold and exported.
To get the pelts of slaughtered wolves, trappers use strangulation snares that constrict the necks of their victims. The deaths they cause are gruesome and painful.
Yet Montana approved the use of snares to kill more wolves — and in doing so, may cause the suffering and death of other animals, like lynx.
Lynx get caught in traps easily, so more snares will be a disaster for them.
We won't allow threatened and endangered species to be collateral damage in the state's war on wolves. So we told the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service we intend to sue if it doesn't take action.
An attack on apex predators is also an attack on the species around them. States like Montana can't be allowed to "manage wildlife" so irresponsibly that they cause a cascade of harm to whole ecosystems and regions.
That's why we're in court to restore federal protection to wolves in the northern Rockies. And it's why we've taken legal action to withhold federal funding from states that abuse their wildlife.
Canada lynx are endangered and deserve full protection. They shouldn't be collateral damage in any state's war on wolves.
The extinction crisis is upon us — and the Center needs your help to save species being pushed to the brink..
Please give to the Endangered Species Act Protection Fund today.
For the wild,
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