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Hi John,
Thirteen Yellowstone wolves were killed during the last hunting season — almost all in Montana.
Wolf-hunting in Montana is out of control.
The Center for Biological Diversity is in court to secure federal protection for wolves in the northern Rockies. Please help us win by giving today to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
The loss of the 13 wolves in the Yellowstone area amounts to roughly 10% of last winter's Yellowstone wolf population.
Through these deaths, three of the park's 11 packs were broken up.
Last winter was the third deadliest for Yellowstone's wolves since they were introduced there in 1995.
This can't go on.
Yellowstone's superintendent agrees. He asked for the park's wolves to be better protected in a letter sent to the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks.
That's the agency that may let the state kill more wolves than ever before. A new state proposal would allow 334 wolves to be killed in the coming season — 24 more than last year — and continues the use of barbaric traps and snares that leave wolves suffering until their final breath.
And it's not just Montana, either.
Idaho hires private contractors to kill wolves and lets hunters chase them down with hounds and all-terrain vehicles.
Across most of Wyoming, wolves can be killed without a license in nearly any manner, anytime.
To stop it, the Center sued to secure Endangered Species Act protection for wolves in the northern Rockies.
We're also urging the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to ban cruel wolf-hunting practices on the public lands that they manage.
We won't stop doing all we can to save Yellowstone's iconic wolves — and all imperiled species hovering on the brink.
Please help us protect wildlife by giving to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
For the wild,
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