Published: July 31, 2007
Protect Wolves From the Livestock Industry!
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing the removal of Gray Wolves from the endangered species list and mismanagement of wolf populations to allow Wyoming, Idaho and Montana to slaughter all but 600 or fewer of 1,500 wolves using poison, aerial gunning, leghold traps and digging up wolf dens and killing pups.
We only have until August 6 to tell them NO!
Act now >>
Appropriately, the 1995 reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho has been heralded as a pivotal event for the conservation movement. Thanks to thoughtfully laid recovery plans and the protections under the Endangered Species Act, we have witnessed a wonderful success: the resurgence of a healthy wolf population in the Northern Rocky Mountains.
But the mismanagement of wolves could turn back time - once again, posing the risk of decimation to the Gray Wolf population. Don't let the Bush Administration help the livestock industry revert back to turn of the century exterminations of wolves!
Wolves contribute to the balance of nature and have specific ecosystem benefits. Many other animals -- including coyotes, bears, badgers, eagles, ravens, magpies, weasels and skunks -- will become incidental victims of poison set out for wolves.
The health of the ecosystems is dependent on the Gray Wolf. Nature can't afford to lose this integral predator >>
Three wolf populations -Yellowstone, Central Idaho and Northwestern Montana -- are largely separate from each other and with little genetic exchange. Killing more wolves would knock the population even further and stop its expansion beyond the bare minimum.
Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the Gray Wolf!
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