Dear John,
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Tell Congress that cruelty towards animals is not acceptable!
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Last month, the Fish and Wildlife Service greenlighted killing bear and wolf pups in their dens in Alaska. What’s worse, this will be allowed in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and other nature preserves -- the very places wildlife should be most protected.
Hibernating bears, wolf and bear cubs, swimming caribou, and more are now open season for trophy hunters.
This widely controversial move has shown the FWS is not a steward of the Earth and has reached a low regarding cruelty to wildlife. Now, Congress is pushing back with a letter opposing the agency’s action. We need you to push your Representative to support wildlife!
Use your voice: Demand Congress take action to protect Alaska’s wildlife.
Under the new rollbacks of wildlife protections, hunters are now allowed to use the following tactics on nature preserves in Alaska:
- Use bacon grease and doughnuts to bait bears
- Shoot hibernating mother bears and cubs in their dens
- Use motorboats to shoot swimming caribou
- Kill wolf pups in their dens
- Target animals from airplanes, helicopters, and snowmobiles
The extreme cruelty involved in these methods is clearly geared towards barbaric trophy hunters.
These hunting practices are so egregious that there is bipartisan opposition to them. 79 members of Congress previously urged the National Park Service to retain wildlife protections in Alaska -- but the FWS caved to extremist hunting interests instead.
John, we need you to use your voice and demand they try once more to help protect bear and wolf pups!
Tell Congress: Baiting bears and killing cubs in their sleep is cruel. Federal hunting rules must be reinstated immediately!
FWS’s decision means there are no protections on gray wolves in Alaska, which have seen their population dwindle since the 1970s. Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming have already loosened protections -- and in the last decade, more than 3,200 wolves have been killed. This rule change could put wolves at increased risk of extinction.
Gray wolf recovery efforts under the Endangered Species Act have been called “one of our nation’s great conservation successes.” Now, all of that is at risk.
This inhumane treatment of animals in Alaska cannot be tolerated. John, demand hunting rules be reinstated immediately.
Stop extremist hunters from killing bear cubs and wolf pups in their dens: Take action now!
Standing with you,
Ariel Moger,
Legislative and political coordinator,
Friends of the Earth
