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Hi John,
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants wolves hunted down and killed across the lower 48.
We can't let it happen.
Please give today to the Saving Life on Earth Fund to support our defense of wolves.
The Service tried to take away wolves' Endangered Species Act protection in 2020. The Center for Biological Diversity took the agency to court and won.
That put an end — temporarily — to wolf hunts like the one in Wisconsin when more than 200 wolves, 20% of all those living in the state, were killed in just 72 hours.
But now the Service is siding with bounty hunters, beef producers, and other anti-wolf special interests in court to reverse our legal victory.
The very agency whose mission is supposed to be protecting wildlife is instead defending the profits of livestock owners and the bloodlust of wolf-haters.
It's wrong, it's dangerous, and it's cruel.
Here's what will happen if the Service gets its way: We'll go back to the days when wolves were shot on sight, crushed in steel traps, and strangled in snares — and when whole families were killed in their dens.
We only have to look at the northern Rocky Mountains to see what happens when wolves aren't protected.
They get killed by hunters using bait and strangulation snares in Montana.
Idaho hires private contractors to kill wolves.
And across most of Wyoming, wolves can be killed without a license in nearly any way, anytime.
Taking away wolves' federal protection would guarantee a bloodbath in more places.
Wolves in the lower 48 were once nearly eradicated. And even today these fierce, loyal animals are far from recovered.
The Fish and Wildlife Service should be protecting wolves, not helping to put them back into the crosshairs.
The Center is on guard for wolves wherever they're at risk, and we need you.
Please help today with a gift to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
For the wild,
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