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Hi John,
Three wolf pups and their parents, now known as the Copper Creek pack, are the first homegrown wolf family in Colorado since reintroduction less than a year ago.
Now the state is uprooting the pack and wants to relocate them, just to appease a few livestock operations.
It's the wrong thing to do for wolves, which is why we're fighting it. Please help today with a gift to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
Footage of the playful pups was just recently shared with the public, sparking joy and delivering hope for their future.
But last week state wildlife officials announced a backward plan to round up the wolves and move them into captivity or elsewhere in the state.
Colorado rightly offers funding and tools for livestock producers to prevent conflicts.
But a pit of smelly carcasses likely drew the carnivores to the livestock operation that didn't have adequate nonlethal measures in place — and now the Copper Creek pack is going to pay for it.
Trapping and relocating wolves puts the animals' lives at risk. It also rewards livestock producers who fail to take the kind of precautions known to be best at minimizing conflicts.
Wolves deserve to be wild and free — to roam where their instincts take them.
We see callousness about wolves' lives across the border in Wyoming, where these precious predators can be killed just for walking across that invisible political line.
We see it in Arizona, where officials want to relocate Mexican gray wolves south of an arbitrary boundary the animals crossed through no fault of their own.
Agencies tasked with keeping wildlife safe need to stop bending to the wishes of meat producers who put profit over the survival of wildlife.
We're pushing to keep the Copper Creek pack, and wolves everywhere, safe. Imperiled species can't recover unless we make room for them.
Help us save wolves and other species with a gift today to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
For the wild,
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