Join WildEarth Guardians' Fight for Wolves

Guardian,

It has been a rough summer for wolves across the American West, and things could get worse—which is why we’re redoubling our fight for these critical, charismatic carnivores.

Here’s the bad news: this month we learned that the Fish and Wildlife Service is set to approve Wyoming’s awful wolf management plan, which would allow most wolves in the state to be shot on sight. Then the agency issued a death warrant, later replaced with a capture order for a Mexican wolf accused of killing livestock in New Mexico. And now wolf hunting is set to begin in Idaho and Montana within the week.

WildEarth Guardians is already preparing to defend wolves from the next round of illegal, ill-advised, and inhumane management plans.

We’ll need your support and your voice to implement our strategy. Here’s what we intend to do:

• First, when the Obama Administration approves the Wyoming wolf plan, we’re going to file a lawsuit to challenge it in federal court. This plan cannot be allowed to stand.
• Second, we’re going to continue fighting to keep Mexican wolves in the wild, pursue our lawsuit to ban trapping in Mexican wolf range, demand more wolf releases and advocate for an expanded recovery zone for this rare and charismatic animal.
• Third, we’ll continue working for grazing permit retirement, our bold solution to reduce livestock conflicts and boost Mexican wolf recovery in Gila Country.
• Finally, we’re going to publicize and protest wolf hunting in Idaho and Montana at every opportunity, building more public opposition to these acts of intolerance.

Please support WildEarth Guardians to protect wolves across the West. Your support enables Wendy Keefover, our Carnivore Protection Director, and Bryan Bird, our Wild Places Director, to challenge the worst federal actions for wolves and promote our solutions that will ensure greater co-existence with wolves and other native carnivores.

You know WildEarth Guardians. We’ve been there for wolves at every turn.

Now we need your help to continue to be a force for wolves.

We’ve done a lot for wolves, and clearly more work needs to be done. We won’t give up. We invite you to join the effort.