Wolfwatcher 4 mins · From our friends at Earth Justice TAKE ACTION! Wolves under attack in Congress Federal legislation is underway to remove essential protections for wolves! Take action to protect wolves from congressional attacks! Right now, members of Congress are working on legislation to remove existing Endangered Species Act protections for wolves across some—and possibly almost all—of the lower 48 states. These anti-wolf legislators could succeed, unless we fight back now. Wolves have just begun to recover in some areas of the United States after being nearly wiped out by centuries of ruthless hunting, trapping, and poisoning. Despite fragile successes that have brought wolves back to the northern Rockies and the Midwest, they are still missing from a vast majority of their former range and are subject to mounting persecution even where they have been restored. Urge your senators and congressional representative to stand up for wolves! Federal protections for wolves in the lower 48 states are critical to securing the recovery of existing populations and allowing wolves to expand into other suitable habitat in places like northern California, the Pacific Northwest, the southern Rocky Mountains, and the Northeast. Now, the House and Senate are poised to take up legislation to strip wolves of their federal protections in states including Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. If anti-wolf legislators get their way, the result will be more state-led killing of wolves and a blow to the Endangered Species Act, our nation’s safety net for imperiled species. Encourage your senators to oppose any anti-wolf legislation put forth in this Congress. For more than two decades, Earthjustice has fought to protect wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains and across the lower 48 states. Just this past September, our legal challenge to Wyoming’s flawed state management plan resulted in the return of Wyoming’s wolves to the federal endangered species list. We can’t let anti-wolf groups and their friends in Congress destroy the progress we’ve made to date in bringing wolves back from the very brink of extinction. Tell your U.S. senators and congressional representative to stand up for existing federal wolf protections and defeat these latest attacks. P.S. Anti-wolf legislation is being considered right now. Please weigh in before it’s too late!
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 00:25:07 +0000
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