It's sickening. Thanks to communications over time with
Jamie Rappaport Clark at Defenders of Wildlife and my friend Mary Lundeberg at
Nature Connections, I feel a kinship with wolves and other wildlife, and it's
nearly as painful to learn of a massacre of wolves as it is to read of the
latest ISIS beheadings of members of my own species.
Dear Virginia,
We’ve just learned that federal gunmen have aerially shot 19 wolves in remote Northern Idaho at the request of the state.
The killings took place on U.S. national forest land in order to artificially boost elk numbers to benefit sport hunters and outfitters.
This is a travesty pure and simple.
Please help us stop the killing with an urgent donation to Defenders of Wildlife.
Defenders will take whatever action is necessary to stop this tragedy.
Defenders is the only national organization with staff on the ground in Idaho who not only worked to help restore wolves, but who are actively working at the statehouse and state wildlife commission to testify against actions threatening wolves.
Are you as angry as I am that the federal government is hiring out its employees to Idaho to kill wolves from the air?
Please help with a generous donation to protect wolves and other vulnerable wildlife!
The federal wildlife kill-for-hire agency, ironically called “Wildlife Services”, has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Idaho to carry out the state’s relentless wolf killing agenda. That this latest killing took place on federal public lands only compounds the outrage.
And while the federal government spent millions of dollars helping to restore and recover wolves in the Northern Rockies, it is now helping Idaho slaughter wolves to boost elk populations, causing the situation for wolves to grow more dire.
The number of breeding pairs of wolves surviving in the Idaho wild has been plummeting ever since the state was given back control over wolves. In 2011, there were 40 breeding pairs in the state, but by the end of 2014, estimates projected that number as having declined by 45% to 62%. Based on these plummeting numbers of breeding pairs, the future of Idaho’s wolves is increasingly grim.
If you love wolves as much as I do, you’ll want to do everything possible to protect them from these appalling attacks by federal gunmen.
Your support matters more than ever. Can I count on you to help?
Thanks for standing with us to protect wolves and other imperiled wildlife.
The killings took place on U.S. national forest land in order to artificially boost elk numbers to benefit sport hunters and outfitters.
This is a travesty pure and simple.
Please help us stop the killing with an urgent donation to Defenders of Wildlife.
Defenders will take whatever action is necessary to stop this tragedy.
Defenders is the only national organization with staff on the ground in Idaho who not only worked to help restore wolves, but who are actively working at the statehouse and state wildlife commission to testify against actions threatening wolves.
Are you as angry as I am that the federal government is hiring out its employees to Idaho to kill wolves from the air?
Please help with a generous donation to protect wolves and other vulnerable wildlife!
The federal wildlife kill-for-hire agency, ironically called “Wildlife Services”, has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Idaho to carry out the state’s relentless wolf killing agenda. That this latest killing took place on federal public lands only compounds the outrage.
And while the federal government spent millions of dollars helping to restore and recover wolves in the Northern Rockies, it is now helping Idaho slaughter wolves to boost elk populations, causing the situation for wolves to grow more dire.
The number of breeding pairs of wolves surviving in the Idaho wild has been plummeting ever since the state was given back control over wolves. In 2011, there were 40 breeding pairs in the state, but by the end of 2014, estimates projected that number as having declined by 45% to 62%. Based on these plummeting numbers of breeding pairs, the future of Idaho’s wolves is increasingly grim.
If you love wolves as much as I do, you’ll want to do everything possible to protect them from these appalling attacks by federal gunmen.
Your support matters more than ever. Can I count on you to help?
Thanks for standing with us to protect wolves and other imperiled wildlife.
Sincerely,
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Jamie Rappaport Clark
President Defenders of Wildli |
