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Hi John,
Idaho is doing all it can to wipe out its wolves, and sadly, it's working. The wolf population just decreased there for the first time in years — by more than 200.
That's what happens when year-round killing is allowed and bounties are paid to trophy hunters.
We're fighting to protect wolves in the state — and throughout the northern Rockies. Please help with a gift to the Saving Life on Earth Fund today.
The wolf population in Idaho had been stable for three years. But Idaho Fish and Game reported last year's tally was down to 1,337 — a 13% drop.
The state has removed limits on how many wolves a single hunter can kill, established a year-round trapping season for them on private property, and — by extending the use of painful, indiscriminate traps and snares — increased the chances of grizzly bears, Canada lynx and pets being maimed or killed.
Idaho even pays out blood money to wolf-hunters, to the tune of $200,000 a year.
And officials there won't be satisfied until hundreds more wolves are killed.
For decades anti-wolf forces have put these intelligent, loyal creatures on the front lines of their war against wildlife. We're doing all we can to stop it.
We've filed an emergency petition to protect the wolves of the northern Rockies.
And we're pressing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to withhold federal funding from states that manage wolves, grizzlies, cougars and other animals in harmful ways that undermine their essential ecological roles.
A decline as severe as Idaho's is Exhibit A on why these family-oriented animals desperately need Endangered Species Act protection.
Wolves are more than icons of the wild — they're also a keystone species, vital to the health of the wild places they live in.
We won't let up until they're safe, and we know you won't either.
Please help with a donation now to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
For the wild,
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