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Hi John,
Summer in Alaska should be a time of rebirth, lush vegetation and long days of exploration in the wild.
Instead, like clockwork, Alaska officials show up each summer to kill bears and wolves from helicopters, including new bear cubs. It's a gruesome practice that must be stopped.
The Center for Biological Diversity is fighting to end the carnage. Please help today by giving to the Alaska and Arctic Defense Fund. Thanks to a generous champion of the wild, your gift will be matched.
Alaska wildlife officials have killed almost 200 bears over the past three years — and want to get back into their helicopters and kill more. Wolves have also been targeted.
Low-flying helicopters buzzing around western Alaska's treasured landscapes also disrupts habitats and can hurt nontarget wildlife.
The state says this kind of "predator control" is needed to protect the Mulchatna caribou herd. But bears and wolves aren't threatening caribou. It's disease and lack of food, both made worse by a changing climate.
It's long past time for officials in Alaska to acknowledge that their killing of wildlife is only making things worse. Research and science show that shooting bears doesn't help declining caribou populations.
It's a waste of money, robs locals and tourists of chances to see wildlife, and fosters a culture that treats wolves and bears as disposable.
The old ways of managing wildlife — especially ones driven by trigger-happy officials anxious to chase down and kill wild animals from the air — must be stopped.
And we'll do all we can to make that happen.
Because threats to public lands and wildlife are ongoing, we need you for the long haul. Please start a monthly donation to sustain our defense.
For the wild,
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