|
Hi John,
Minutes ago we launched a new lawsuit to save wolves in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
Wolves across the lower 48 are protected by the Endangered Species Act — except in the northern Rockies.
As a result nearly 500 wolves in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming have been killed in the latest hunting and trapping season alone.
So we'll be going to court to save the wolves who remain. You can help by making a matched gift to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
A political compromise made years ago is responsible for the wolves in the Rockies being taken out at horrendous rates.
This includes 25 wolves killed simply because they stepped over the invisible border of Yellowstone National Park.
When anti-wildlife forces pushed to annihilate wolves in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, the Center for Biological Diversity filed an emergency legal petition to stop them.
But the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service missed its deadline to respond, so we let it know we'll be suing.
The cruel, unsportsmanlike killing of these wolves — who get mowed down from snowmobiles or painfully asphyxiated in strangulation snares — must end.
For decades anti-wolf forces have put these loyal creatures on the front lines of their war against wildlife.
Today's legal action is just one way we're fighting back. We're also pressing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to withhold federal funding from states that manage wolves, grizzlies, cougars and other animals in ways that threaten their survival as species.
Wolves are not fully recovered — we still need to defend them from forces bent on their eradication.
That starts with restoring their protection under the Act.
Please give now and double your gift to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
For the wild,
|
