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Hi John,
The final death toll of wolves from Montana's last hunting season is in, and it's heartbreaking.
Last year 286 were killed — 28 more than the year before. And the state wants that number even higher for the next season. We can't let it happen.
The Center for Biological Diversity is in court fighting to save wolves in the northern Rockies. Please help by giving to the Saving Life on Earth Fund today.
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks released a report on the state's wolf population. It shows an increase of more than two dozen killings by hunters and trappers over the previous year.
Scientists say this level of killing will begin a cascading decline in the wolf population by next year.
Yet the agency is pushing to allow 334 wolves to be killed in the 2024-25 hunting season. The fact that it wants even more wolves to be killed is a mark of contempt for these loyal, family-oriented animals: to Montana's wildlife officials, they're pests to be eradicated.
The cruel hunting methods allowed reek of that same contempt. Snares can cause excruciating pain and suffering for days on end.
Hunters and trappers can kill 20 of these animals each and will be able to bait wolves and track them with night-vision equipment.
Montana and other states have shown they won't stop going after wolves. 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 wild creatures on all federal lands they manage.
Hunting and trapping shatters wolf families. These icons of the wild deserve better.
Across most of Wyoming, wolves can be killed without a license in nearly any manner, anytime.
We'll never stop doing all we can to protect them.
Please help today with a donation to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
For the wild,
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