Tell Wildlife Agency to Rescind Deplorable Kill Order!

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Dear Guardian,

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued an order to kill the alpha female of the Fox Mountain Mexican wolf pack. This matriarch and her mate have four new pups and a yearly pup.  She has been implicated in killing livestock within their territory on the Apache National Forest in New Mexico.

The value of a breeding female Mexican wolf is far greater than a few non-native cattle. The federal government cannot “recover” imperiled Mexican wolves by shooting and trapping them and removing them from the wild.

Call before it’s too late to save this wolf!

Please call the Dr. Benjamin Tuggle, Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service Southwest Regional Office  (505-248-6911) and request that he rescind the kill order for the Fox Mountain alpha female. You can also send him a polite email to  RDTuggle@fws.gov.

Also call President Obama and ask him for a stay of execution. White House number: 202-456-1111.

Following are some points to make:

• There are fewer than 60 Mexican wolves in the wild. Eliminating even one wolf, especially a breeding female, is detrimental to the species.

• Biologists believe this female has four pups born this spring. Killing her may doom her pups as well. Research also shows that wolves suffer trauma when their pack mates are killed.

• The affected rancher has been paid for his losses. Killing the alpha female now is unnecessary appeasement to the public lands livestock industry.

• The public lands livestock industry must learn to operate with wolves, and the federal government must support policies such as grazing retirement to permanently reduce wolf-livestock conflicts.

• Killing this wolf wastes thousands of taxpayer dollars.

Not since 2007 has the federal government shot a Mexican wolf in the wild. This pointless and barbaric tactic policy is best left in the past. Please call or email the Fish and Wildlife Service right away! (505-248-6911)

For the Lobo,

Wendy Keefover
Carnivore Protection Director
WildEarth Guardians
wendy@wildearthguardians.org

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