Five actions for wolves …

Please click on and sign the following wolf petitions, thank you:

1. Let the few wolves in Oregon live..if you haven’t already killed them.

2. Oppose Idaho’s Violent And Greedy Wolf Slaughter

3. The Killing Game: Politics Win, Wolves Lose (Again)

4. Wolf Emergency: Wyoming Wolves To Be Shot on Sight

5. Governor Kitzhaber: End the ODFW Wolf Witch Hunt

1. Background | From Care2 Petition Site

2. Background | From Kinship Circle

When Congress passed a federal budget rider that delisted Western gray wolves from Endangered Species Act protections, it opened the floodgates to wholesale slaughter. Idaho’s proposed 2011 Wolf Hunting Season is a statewide bloodbath, with killing permitted both “in and out of hunting season,” the Idaho Fish and Game Department promises. Now that “management” of Western gray wolves rests with state agencies, it seems that no plan is too violent or greedy.

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3. Background | From Kinship Circle

U.S. Congress has never before ousted an animal or plant from Endangered Species Act protections — until now. In August, a federal district court ruled to NOT delist Western gray wolves. The case is still open on appeal. Yet Congress ignored separation of powers (between judicial and legislative branches) by taking matters into their own hands. A rider attached to the recently passed spending bill delists wolves, thereby deleting their federal safety net.

This political maneuver is unconstitutional and leaves wolves in the crossfire of state-sponsored killing. Idaho already conducted a hunt by helicopter in which wolves are cornered and shot at point blank range. Last year, pups and mothers were gassed inside their dens.


4. Background | From Change

Last week, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and new Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe announced a reckless plan to remove protections for Gray wolves in Wyoming that could unravel the successful recovery of wolves across the region. Secretary Salazar stated that the Interior Department has agreed in principle to a management plan for the State of Wyoming that would allow wolves to be shot on sight across most of the state. No permit would be necessary, and all wolves would be fair game. No protections for pregnant or nursing females, no protections for pups. In fact, wolves could be killed in much of the state, anytime, EVEN WITHOUT A HUNTING LICENSE. Tell Secretary Salazar that this management plan is grossly unacceptable.


5. Background | From Care2 Petition Site

The Imnaha Pack is one of only two reproducing wolf packs in Oregon. Killing two surviving members, including the alpha male, will make life even harder for the two wolves in the pack who are left — and make them more likely to resort to preying on livestock.

Such heavy-handed reaction to occasional wolf depredations will squelch wolf recovery in Oregon. Far more effective would be to insist on better livestock husbandry practices to reduce the vulnerability of stock and the likelihood of conflict.

Government wolf killing has not built tolerance for wolves in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, where more than 1,000 wolves have been killed in response to depredations; yet now calls for killing wolves are growing. To build true coexistence, and perhaps a measure of tolerance, Oregon’s state government must first tolerate the wolves.