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Hi John,
A single person can now kill 30 wolves in one hunting and trapping season in Montana.
Long the epicenter of wolf-killing in the lower 48, Montana has now increased the number of wolves it wants to eliminate in the coming months by more than one-third. This carnage must come to an end.
Please help the Center for Biological Diversity fight back with a gift now the Future for the Wild Fund.
Montana's Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission raised the number of wolves that can be hunted and trapped in a single season from 334 wolves to 458.
This includes six wolves in areas just outside Yellowstone National Park.
This brutality is intentional. State officials have made no secret of their desire to see a significant decline in wolves.
That's why they let hunters use night vision equipment to track down wolves and trappers use painful snares that cause intense suffering.
Wolf-killing in the northern Rocky Mountains has a long legacy. But there is hope.
A federal judge recently ruled in our favor in a case against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for not protecting wolves in the region.
The judge agreed the agency broke the law last year when it denied a petition to protect gray wolves in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and parts of other states under the Endangered Species Act.
Federal protection is exactly what gray wolves need. Otherwise, states like Montana will continue to up the ante and do all they can to greenlight rampant wolf-killing.
We won't ever stop fighting for wolves and other species put in harm's way.
Because threats 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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