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Hi John,
Idaho is doing all it can to wipe out its wolves. The state has set the price for a wolf-hunting license at just $11.50 — and has expanded hunting seasons.
It's even paying bounties for killing wolves.
Please give now to the Predator Defense Fund. Your support will help us fight to save wolves' lives.
In Idaho it's one disastrous decision after the next — all aiming to make it easier to wipe out the wolf population. Here's what's happening:
- The state paid more than $20,000 to a private bounty program that gives out $1,000 for each wolf killed.
- Wolf hunting is now allowed year-round and a single hunter in Idaho can kill up to 20 wolves, including mothers and pups in their dens.
- New areas have been opened up for trapping — a cruel method of killing that can leave animals suffering for days before they die of dehydration or are finished off with a bullet.
It's sick, and if the Trump administration gets its way, wolf killing will spread to more parts of the country.
With Trump moving to end gray wolves' Endangered Species Act protection, wolves in the lower 48 are face to face with the most dangerous threat they've ever seen.
Idaho's a prime example of what we can expect from state management — wolves being hunted and trapped, their families shattered.
We went to court to save gray wolves and are fighting for a national recovery plan that would restore and protect them across the lower 48, instead of turning their management over to states that are dead set on exterminating them.
Today wolves live in less than 10 percent of their historic range. Without protection they may be hunted to extinction.
Help end the war on wolves by donating to the Center's Predator Defense Fund.
For the wild,
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