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Hi John,
In the forests of northern Wisconsin, bears, wolves and other wildlife are being chased and hunted by hound dogs.
As the dogs are tracked by GPS, wildlife fight for their lives over many miles and hours — and sometimes days.
The Center for Biological Diversity just took legal action to stop this brutal practice.
Please help with a gift today to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
In 2021, when wolves were without federal protection, more than 1,000 people in Wisconsin used trained hound dogs to hunt wolves — and more than 200 wolves were killed in two days.
While wolves are now protected in the state, the dogs don't know that. Hounds used to chase bears and other wildlife can still harm and threaten endangered wolves.
Hound hunting takes place in other states, too, and it's not just wildlife threatened by this unethical practice.
In Vermont hound dogs attacked a woman and a puppy on a leash. It took 30 minutes before hunters called off the dogs, and the woman was later hospitalized. Arizona allows the use of hounding as well, and we're trying stop it.
Wisconsin allows hunters to deploy hound dogs in Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest to hunt bears for about a month. But chasing unprotected wildlife like coyotes is permitted nearly year-round.
The U.S. Forest Service should step in and ban this unethical practice. That's why we took legal action — and to help keep Wisconsin's forests safe for wildlife.
Our planet's biodiversity is facing threats on all sides. National forests should be havens for the native creatures who live there instead of venues for bloody fights between dogs and wild bears or wolves.
The Center works day in, day out to save species great and small, wherever they're at risk.
Please help with a gift today to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
For the wild,
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