This is an urgent request. As you know, on July 1, the State of Idaho will begin an eradication campaign to slash the state’s recovering wolf population from an estimated 1,500 wolves to 150. This intervention, approved by the state legislature and signed by the Governor, involves the use of bounties, traps, snares, night raids, hunting hounds, and even the killing of nursing pups and mothers in their dens. This kill is being authorized despite widespread evidence that wolves pose no threat to the region’s livestock industry and that non-lethal control remains the most effective means to reduce conflict. It is an act that will result in renewed persecution of a keystone species in the region’s ecosystem, and that will reverse decades of recovery efforts. The proposed actions in Idaho have spread to other states, with Montana and Wyoming having passed similar laws.
We are asking for 1,500 North American scientists to support this letter, one representing each wolf in Idaho who has no voice in its own future. It will be joined by international scientists who have witnessed a globally-renowned recovery effort in the Greater Yellowstone, and who will watch how we manage wildlife populations in North America.
Please join us in asking the Biden Administration, the US Department of the Interior, and the US Fish & Wildlife Service to act now to enact an emergency re-listing of the Northern Rockies wolf population to the Endangered Species Act, and to consider long-term protection measures in the form of a National Bison, Grizzly, and Wolf Protection Act.
To sign onto this letter, please complete this short form.
More background information on the issue is also attached. We also encourage you to share this petition with other scientists in your networks who are concerned about the future of wolves. thanks!
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