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Idaho's wolf hunts!
Dear Richard,
Time is running out for the gray wolves of the northern Rockies.
Stripped of their endangered species protections, the wolves face a hunting season that begins in Idaho on Tuesday. Thousands of wolf hunting permits have already been sold. And next door in Montana, hunts will begin in a matter of weeks.
All told, the fall hunts in Idaho and Montana could result in the deaths of more than 300 wolves -- even in core wilderness regions where the wolves have virtually no conflicts with human activities.
We are heading to court on Monday to block the hunts, but we cannot succeed without your support.
Help us save the wolves. Make an emergency contribution today.
The 300 wolves that could be killed this fall are in addition to those who die in livestock conflicts, from natural mortality, or defense-of-property killing. In fact, despite setting quotas for wolf hunting, Idaho and Montana currently have no cap on other wolf killing.
Under the current rule that removed federal protections for wolves -- which Earthjustice attorneys are challenging in court -- Idaho and Montana are still free to reduce the wolf population to 150 per state ... a potential loss of roughly two-thirds of the region's wolves.
Help us stop the wolf hunts with a special gift today.
My legal team here in Bozeman, Montana -- representing several national environmental groups free of charge -- is going to court on Monday to block the hunts as part of our ongoing effort to restore federal protections for wolves in the northern Rockies.
We successfully reversed the last effort to remove the wolves in the northern Rockies from the endangered species list -- and we fully intend to reverse this one. But we are counting on your support to succeed.
Please make a special contribution to help us continue fighting to protect the wolves.
These wolves have only just begun to recover from the brink of extinction.
Independent scientists say that 2,000 to 5,000 wolves are required to ensure a sustainable, fully recovered population in the northern Rockies ... but the states' flawed management plans could reduce the population to a level that is too small to survive.
No other endangered species has ever been stripped of federal protections at such a low population level and then immediately hunted to even lower, unsustainable levels.
We want wolves to come off of the endangered species list, but only under conditions that will ensure the long-term survival of the species.
My team and I won't rest until we've secured long-term protections for the wolves, but we need your support to see this case