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Trump’s assault on wildlife was the worst we’ve seen from any president. Among
the animals that suffered the most: America’s wolves. Last month his
administration stripped Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves
across the entire lower 48 states. And the Fish and Wildlife Service is
defending this attack -- despite President Biden’s attempts to reverse it.

This puts wolves at risk from bait stations, snares, dynamiting of pups in their
dens, and being shot by hunters. And it’s happening despite the fact that gray
wolf populations are functionally extinct across most of the country. We need
your help to stop this attack on some of our most vulnerable wildlife!

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[[link removed]]“The essence of wilderness.” That’s what some naturalists call wolves. These
animals are iconic, majestic, intelligent, family-oriented, and extremely
social. But wolves are also critical to balancing ecosystems and even driving
natural evolution.

That’s because wolves are a keystone species -- one that other plants and
animals within an ecosystem largely depend on. If a keystone species is removed,
the ecosystem drastically changes -- or in some cases, can collapse entirely.

Wolves help keep deer and elk populations in check, as well as predators like
coyotes -- which in turn benefits many other species. For example, with less
browsing from elk, water-side vegetation returns, which brings different birds
to the ecosystem and helps mammals like beavers as well. Wolves also help
redistribute nutrients and provide food for other wildlife species, like grizzly
bears and scavengers. Year after year, scientists discover more and more ways
that wolves are positively affecting ecosystems.

Wolves are a cherished part of our natural heritage, an icon of wilderness, and
an irreplaceable player in ensuring that our ecosystems are healthy and diverse.

We need to act fast to keep wolves protected under the Endangered Species Act.
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[[link removed]]We know what happens when wolves aren’t protected -- when their lives are left
up to the whims of Big Ag interests and the trophy hunting lobby. States like
Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming have already loosened protections -- and in the last
decade, more than 3,200 wolves have been killed. That’s more than half as many
wolves as are alive in the lower 48 today.

Gray wolf recovery was on track to becoming a great American conservation
success story -- until now. Once numbering around 2 million, wolves were hunted,
trapped, and poisoned without mercy. At one point, fewer than 1,000 grey wolves
remained. Then, through monumental conservation efforts, populations began to
climb slowly.

Today, fewer than 6,000 remain in the lower 48, occupying less than 10% of their
historic range. Now, without these critical ESA protections, they’re at risk of
being slaughtered by trophy hunting, trapping, snaring, and being gunned down
from helicopters. Some states have even implemented laws requiring trophy
hunting of wolves, and passed taxpayer-funded “wolf killing budgets.”

With your help, we’re standing up to these attacks on wildlife at every turn.
From fighting back when wolves are under attack, to protecting and recovering
critical habitats, to working at every level to increase safeguards for
threatened and endangered species -- together, we are taking action.

But if we let these past four decades of hard work and painstaking, tenuous
recovery be undone, it will do irreversible damage to wolves, to ecosystems, and
to America’s wild places.

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Ariel Moger,
Legislative and political coordinator,
Friends of the Earth

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