  Help us stop Idaho's new war on wolves. |
Idaho Governor Butch Otter just signed a death warrant for 500 more wolves.
And he's going to divert $400,000 of taxpayer money to kill them.
If Otter gets his way, there will be so few gray wolves left that the species will be threatened with extinction again.
But the Center for Biological Diversity won't let that happen. We can't allow Idaho to slaughter hundreds more wolves. We've assembled a team of lawyers, biologists and activists to stop the state's war against these beautiful animals, and we need your help. Please help us stop the killing with a donation to our Predator Defense Fund today.
Idaho knows its killing spree has caused a national backlash and can't go on. It knows the federal government's own scientific peer review process recently denounced the plan to strip federal protection away from wolves across the United States. So Otter is speeding up the killing to wipe out as many wolves as possible before the species is inevitably protected again:
- He lengthened the regular hunting season in much of the state and made killing a year-round sport in the northern half.
- He took wolf management away from the state wildlife agency and turned it over to a handpicked "wolf depredation control board" entirely made up of anti-wolf hunters and ranchers.
Idaho has already killed more than 970 wolves since federal protections were stripped away by rightwing congressmen in 2011. The state's population has plummeted by 42 percent since then. Otter's goal is to wipe out most wolves, until the entire state has only 10 packs left.
And if those few remaining packs successfully raise families and grow? Otter's "wolf depredation control board" will spend taxpayer money on helicopters, guns, traps and sharpshooters to kill them and keep the population on the edge of extinction.
The Center for Biological Diversity has stopped wolf-killing many times before. We did it in Oregon, New Mexico, Arizona, Minnesota and Montana. With your help we'll do it in Idaho next. Please donate as generously as you can to our Predator Defense Fund today.
It took three decades of hard work to increase Idaho's wolf population from zero in the early 1980s to a large self-sustaining population by 2011. But it took only three years without federal protection for Idaho's war on wolves to annihilate 971 of them. If Otter gets his way, the killing will soon escalate even more. Bounty hunters, helicopter sharpshooters, and trappers will be lined up along the edge of Yellowstone National Park waiting for wolves to leave their protected zone. Even the most remote, protected wilderness areas will become wolf-killing zones.
This is an emergency situation: Please help us stop the killing by donating today to our Predator Defense Fund. Then pass this email on to your friends and family.
For the wolves,
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P.S. The
Center and its allies just delivered 500,000 citizen letters to the
federal government opposing the stripping away of wolves' few remaining
protections. The momentum and the people are on our side. They'll be
with us as we launch an aggressive campaign to stop Idaho's wolf
slaughter. Please help us stop the killing with a donation today to our Predator Defense Fund.
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