Keeping Native Carnivores
Out of the Crosshairs
Dear
Guardian,
Somewhere this fall, a
trapper’s steel wire snare will slap closed on an unsuspecting creature.
It may be a cougar or
lynx whose head or paw will be caught; it might be your dog, but the more the
trapped animal panics and struggles to break free, the tighter the noose will become.
Whether it’s by strangulation, starvation, freezing to death, or being killed
in cold blood, when the trapper returns, death is almost certain.
Support
WildEarth Guardians’ Love and Outrage
campaign for native carnivores today to end these acts of barbarity and
violence. In the last few
months alone, we won two major lawsuits that rein in trapping and that put the
federal animal damage control program on notice that its days of freewheeling
slaughter are numbered.
Sadly, an Iron Triangle is perpetuating the
obscene bloodshed and it is deep-rooted in corrupt, political muck at the
local, state, and federal levels.
Its three-prongs
include state game commissions, federal executioners from the animal damage
control agency, and hunters eager to trap and shoot for profit and sport.
Join me in being a
voice to bring an end to the suffering that occurs at the hands of the Iron
Triangle by investing $5, $25, $100, $250 or join our Wild Bunch monthly
giving club to make a sustaining commitment to wildlife.
States like New Mexico and Oregon are two of the worst.
Just this summer, over the overwhelming objections of the
public, the New Mexico Game Commission opened over nine million acres of state trust lands to cougar trapping, eliminated
permitting requirements for cougar trapping on private lands, and increased bear
hunting quotas by over twenty-five percent!
In Oregon, the Department of Fish and Wildlife is preparing
to strip wolves of state Endangered
Species Act protections, which would open the door to allow them to be hunted,
poisoned, and killed.
At the federal
level the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s heinous wildlife killing program,
Wildlife Services, continues its destructive,
taxpayer-funded use of traps, aerial gunning, and poisons to kill native carnivores
in the name of resolving conflicts between wildlife and humans.
Likewise, contest and sports hunters are gluttonous for wildlife killing, thirsting
for bragging rights and prizes given to the person who brings back the most
bloodied bodies.
We’re working to end all of this. But it takes courage,
tenacity, and the vision and energy to ensure that our hope for these beautiful
animals becomes a reality.
Your
support of our Love and Outrage
campaign with a generous recurring monthly gift or your support of $5, $25,
$100, or $250 can ensure wildlife stay out of the political crosshairs. Thank you.
For the wild,
John Horning
Executive Director
WildEarth Guardians
jhorning@wildearthguardians.org
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