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Help Save Red Wolves!
Only about 100 wild red wolves survive in the United States!
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Dear Virginia,
No animal should have to endure this fate.
Red
wolves are on the brink of extinction with fewer than 100 animals
surviving in a small part of eastern North Carolina. Despite this, the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the agency in charge of ensuring
this wolf’s survival, appears to be quietly walking away from their red
wolf recovery program, dooming these wolves to extinction in the wild.
After
being hunted to the brink of extinction, FWS was entrusted to help save
these shy wolves. Yet last year, 10 percent of the red wolf population
was killed, and another five percent lay dead so far this year.
What’s
worse, key staff vacancies are going unfilled at the FWS Red Wolf
Recovery Program, critical field work is being skipped, and most telling
of all – there has not been a single red wolf released into the wild in years.
Under
pressure from North Carolina special interests, FWS appears to be
walking away from this recovery program and all red wolf recovery
efforts. You may recall Defenders went to court last
year to successfully stop night hunting of coyotes in red wolf habitat.
The two animals are strikingly similar in appearance which has led to
dozens of “accidental” red wolf shootings.
Defenders will take whatever action is necessary to stop this tragedy.
We’ve simply come too far to give up on these magnificent creatures - there is no excuse for walking away now.
Thanks for all you do.
Sincerely,
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Jamie Rappaport Clark
President, Defenders of Wildlife
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