Second post today! New alert on the Take Action! page.
The wolf kills in Yellowstone are underway, according to Defenders of Wildlife. They need your help to continue fighting to return wolves to their protected status, before it’s too late and we lose them all. This post is particularly sad, because a well-known Yellowstone wolf was brutally and senselessly killed.
The killing in the Greater Yellowstone region has already begun.
One of the first victims: Wolf 253M — a celebrity wolf, affectionately known as “Limpy.”
Limpy was many things to many people — to wolf-watchers, he was the hobbling member of Yellowstone’s famous Druid Peak Pack. To Utahans, he was the first wolf to be seen in the state for more than 70 years.
But wolf 253M’s celebrity didn’t save him in the end. Limpy and two other wolves were shot dead in an elk feeding ground, part of Wyoming’s brutal shoot-on-sight policy that covers virtually the entire state.
Limpy’s death was just the beginning. It’s been 26 days since wolves were stripped of federal protections in the Greater Yellowstone area — and at least 17 wolves have already been killed in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. And there are surely more to come.
Officials in Idaho changed their state law on the day wolves were delisted, making it far easier for anyone to kill wolves near livestock or domestic animals.
In Wyoming, state officials stripped all protection from wolves in 88% of the state. Locals have organized weekend eradication “wolf hunts” to kill any wolf that they find. One group tracked a wolf for 35 miles on snowmobiles before shooting it dead.[1]
You contribution will help us …
- Fight for our wolves in court;
- Confront flawed state wolf policies with science and common sense;
- Help ranchers reduce conflicts with wolves using non-lethal methods;
- Debunk the myths and misinformation about wolves through on-the-ground education and outreach; and
Much, much more…
Will you make a tax-deductible emergency donation right now to help?
We can win the battle to save our wolves. But we can’t do it without your help.
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Wolf hunting has not begun in Yellowstone, nor is it likely to ever occur in that park. Please be more responsible and less infalmmatory and define the difference between “Yellowstone” and “Greater Yellowstone” area/ecosystem/region. You are doing people on your side a disservice by continuing to insist they are hunted in Yellowstone… anyone following the issue is aware by now they can’t be hunted in Teton and Yellowstone, which are national parks. Thank you.
Did you read only the headline or the rest of the post? I think this is an important sentence: “The wolf kills in Yellowstone are underway, according to Defenders of Wildlife.”
The entire issue of delisting wolves from the endangered species list and allowing them to be killed for merely stepping outside of a park boundary is “inflammatory,” don’t you think?
The rest of the post in blockquote is directly from Defenders of Wildlife, including identifying the area as “greater Yellowstone.” Defenders of Wildlife is an organization I trust far more than a state that allows wolves to be killed merely for the crime of _existing._
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