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Wolves are in danger, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service is denying them the protections they need. Help ensure gray wolves have a future. Please make an emergency $10 contribution now to Friends of the Earth.
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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“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. Donate $10 to Friends of the Earth today.
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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.
Protect grey wolves and endangered species from extinction. Donate $10 to Friends of the Earth today.
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Thank you,
Ariel Moger,
Legislative and political coordinator,
Friends of the Earth
