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Hi John,
An adult female wolf from the Lookout pack was recently found shot dead in northeast Oregon. She's the fourth wolf discovered after being illegally killed in the state this year.
Illegal poaching is devastating gray wolves.
We're doing all we can to stop it. Please support our work with a donation to the Saving Life on Earth Fund. All gifts through Dec. 31 will be doubled.
The Center for Biological Diversity is contributing to a reward for information about the killing, just as we're doing for wolves in neighboring Washington.
In western Oregon wolves have federal protection, while in the east they don't — and the state management plan allows them to be killed for livestock conflicts. But nowhere in the state is it legal to kill a wolf simply because you want to.
The killers of these animals must be brought to justice.
Just 175 wolves live in Oregon, most in the northeast part of the state. All the known poaching this year has happened there.
This year's brutality continues a heartbreaking trend. Last year eight wolves were killed by deliberate poisoning, including the entire Catherine pack.
And it's not just poachers. Fourteen wolves have been killed in the past two years by state officials or under agency kill orders for livestock conflicts.
Wolves are absent from 90% of Oregon's suitable habitat for these intelligent, highly social animals. It's unacceptable for the state to kill them — and for it to fail to bring poachers to justice.
Wolves can't recover if poisonings and shootings take place with impunity.
Each wolf killing is heartbreaking. We need you with us to help keep wolves safe.
Please make a matched gift today to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
For the wild,
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