Dear Friends of the Wolf,
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With a new anti-wolf governor in New Mexico, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is under pressure to resume trapping and shooting Mexican gray wolves -- even though only about 50 wolves survive in the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico.
In
2008, the Fish and Wildlife Service wisely, but belatedly, suspended
trapping and shooting of wolves. Before that, many wolves had been
killed or lost limbs to agonizing traps. The wolves have barely
recovered since, and now they're counting on you to help defend them
against a return to inhumane persecution.
Please
write your congresspeople and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today and
urge them not to revert to trapping and shooting Mexican wolves.
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Sample letter to Secretary Salazar and your U.S. senators and representative:
Letter subject: Please, Don't Go Back to Trapping and Killing Mexican Wolves
I’m writing in support of
endangered Mexican gray wolves. Please ensure that the Fish and Wildlife
Service continues to exercise forbearance and work toward coexistence
in the Southwest rather than reverting to the cruel and senseless
wolf-removal practices of the past.
Recovery of endangered Mexican
gray wolves in the Southwest was severely undermined prior to the
suspension of wolf removals for depredation in 2008, by a program of
federal trapping and shooting that suppressed the population and
worsened its already-difficult genetic plight.
Depredations against livestock
have consistently gone down since federal wolf removals ceased. That is
the right policy and should not be reversed. Keep our lobos in the
wild!
Thank you for your consideration.
Please take action by August 26, 2011. This action is restricted to U.S. residents.
Mexican gray wolf photo (c) Robin Silver.
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