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Hi John,
Gray wolves in Washington state are getting killed one by one.
The state lets it happen — and even does the dirty work itself. It guns down wolves, including juveniles.
This brutality must end, and we filed a new lawsuit to stop it.
Please strengthen our fight for wolves with a gift to the Wolf Defense Fund.
Wolves are protected as a state-endangered species across Washington. But wildlife officials there are quick to bend to industry, killing wolves despite the damage to packs.
The science is clear: Nonlethal measures are the best way to manage wolves and avoid conflicts.
Even Washington's governor wants to see these killings end. He ordered the state's wildlife commission to implement rules requiring nonlethal tactics be used to address livestock-wolf conflicts.
But the commission voted against enacting any rules at all, allowing the state wildlife agency to continue business as usual.
That’s why we went to court: to force the commission to follow science and the governor's order to protect wolves and find better ways to resolve livestock conflicts.
The state's trigger-happy approach to managing imperiled wolves has left a trail of destruction. Since 2012, the state has killed 38 state-endangered wolves.
Two years ago, we petitioned the state to enact enforceable rules to help save wolves, because its decade-old wolf-management plan doesn't protect these important predators from ongoing agency wolf-killing. Over the summer, the commission voted not to adopt any rules.
The state's wildlife agency and livestock industry view wolves as a challenge to be overcome, including by killing them.
We see wolves as essential to the ecosystems where they evolved — and deserving of protection so they can fully recover across the Washington landscape.
There’s no place for government-sponsored killing of wolves. We'll stay in the fight as long as it takes to end it once and for all.
You can help by giving to the Wolf Defense Fund.
For the wild,
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