Right now is the time to speak up for America’s wolves!
The U.S. Department of Interior’s shameful plan to remove
federal protections for wolves everywhere in the U.S. is being
reconsidered. Your pressure, and
recent media exposure, has led the agency to re-evaluate its scorched earth
wolf plan.
But we think the Interior Department may be stalling, hoping
the pressure and scrutiny will just go away.
Help us make sure that doesn’t happen. Please call upon the
new Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, today and demand that she protect
America’s wolves.
Wolves have already lost their protections in the Great
Lakes region and in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming because of pressure from the
livestock industry, hunting groups, and the National Rifle Association.
We’ve seen what’s happened as a result. In the Northern Rockies it’s been a
blood bath with more than 1,000 wolves already killed. And now Montana is considering increasing
the number of wolves that can be taken.
If the Interior Department gets their way, they would remove
protections for wolves everywhere else in the lower 48: on the West Coast, the Southern
Rocky Mountains (Colorado and Utah), and in the East—places where they don’t
even currently reside.
Wolves have been restored to less than 8% of their historic
range in the U.S. —that is simply not enough.
Tell Interior Secretary Jewell to forever mothball
this horrible plan for wolves.
Even highly-endangered Mexican wolves will wither under the
Interior’s plan – they would never be allowed to recover outside of a small
core area in southern New Mexico and Arizona.
The Interior Department is likely to soon move rapidly
forward with its rotten plan, so speak now!
Wolves are necessary for vibrant ecosystems and biological
diversity. These beautiful animals need Americans to stand by them and demand that
they be conserved, not handed off to states that want to completely destroy
them. Call on Secretary Jewell today!
