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Hi John,
Montana is doubling down on wolf-killing.
A new state proposal would allow 334 wolves to be killed in the upcoming season — 24 more than last year — and continues the use of barbaric traps that leave wolves suffering until their final breath.
The Center for Biological Diversity is fighting to save wolves in Montana. Please help today with a gift to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
Montana is already a danger zone for wolves. The state allows wolves to be killed using strangulation snares, which can agonize wolves for days before they die.
Bounty hunters even get their costs reimbursed for wiping out wolves.
Now the state's wildlife agency has issued proposed rules for its upcoming hunting season — and it's a disaster for gray wolves.
Hunters and trappers can kill 20 wolves each and will be able to bait wolves and track them with night-vision equipment.
This greenlighting of wolf torture is only the latest cruelty against wolves in the northern Rockies.
The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service admits that wolf-killing in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming could wipe out 75% of wolves there. But the agency refuses to protect them.
That's why the Center is in court to secure Endangered Species Act protection for wolves in Montana and throughout the northern Rockies.
We're also urging the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management to ban the use of snowmobiles and other vehicles to run down, injure or kill wolves and other wildlife on all federal lands they manage.
Hunting and trapping shatters wolf families. These icons of the wild deserve better.
Wolves can fully recover if just given a chance. Our promise is that we'll never stop doing all we can to provide that chance.
Please help us protect wolves and other imperiled species with a gift now to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
For the wild,
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