130 wolves up for slaughter

Dear Friend, Help protect wolves from yet another brutal slaughter. Donate $27 to Friends of the Earth. If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $27 immediately]( [Donate $5/month immediately]( The numbers are dire. Wisconsin has allowed the trophy hunting lobby to pressure the Department of Natural Resources to set a winter wolf hunt quota of 130. This could disrupt the already vulnerable wolf population in the state. [Help us stop the wolf hunt and reinstate Endangered Species Act protections for wolves: Donate $27 to Friends of the Earth today]( Last spring, pro-hunting groups sued the state to reinstate wolf hunts, blowing past the quota and resulting in 218 wolves killed in 72 hours -- subjecting families of wolves to bloody massacres. This hunt took place during breeding season, leaving orphaned wolf pups abandoned with little to no chance of survival. As wolves struggle to recover from losing one-third of their population during this spring hunt, an additional winter hunt could do irreversible damage to the Wisconsin wolf population. If it is anything like the spring hunt, wolves would be subjected to cruel hunting practices like leg hold traps and snares. We must stand up to the trophy hunting lobby and protect the vulnerable wolves in the state before they are gone forever. Stand up to trophy hunting lobbies looking to hunt wolves to extinction. Donate to Friends of the Earth today. If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $27 immediately]( [Donate $5/month immediately]( Wolf packs are tight-knit family units. Any loss is devastating to the pack, and it becomes difficult to recover as more of the pack is decimated. This is what made the earlier wolf hunt in Wisconsin so damaging to the wolf population, and what would push wolves to the brink with this additional winter hunt. Communities are desperately attempting to protect wolves before it is too late. Tribal communities like the Ojibwe People have treaty rights to half the wolf hunt quota, and as such, use this as leverage to protect those wolves, but the spring hunt nearly annihilated their treaty-protected share. In response, last month nearly 200 tribes demanded the reinstatement of protections for wolves under the Endangered Species Act. As the trophy hunting lobby continues to push for increased hunting quotas and barbaric hunting practices, we must push back with everything we’ve got. This fragile species only has 6,000 left in the lower 48 states after more than 3,200 were killed in the last decade. Their extinction would have dire ripple effects on the surrounding ecosystems. Wolves are a keystone species. They regulate deer and elk populations, balance other predators like coyotes, and as a result, allow certain plant species to thrive which brings birds and mammals into the area. This rich biodiversity is what balances surrounding ecosystems and allows the cycle to continue. As the wolf hunts continue, this delicate balance is on the line. The health of our environment lies in part in our ability to restore protections for wolves and other endangered species, but we don’t have much time as the winter Wisonsin wolf hunt begins in a few weeks. Will you stand with us? The wolf hunt is only weeks away. We must reinstate ESA protections for wolves before it is too late. Donate $27 to Friends of the Earth today. If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $27 immediately]( [Donate $5/month immediately]( An outright slaughter is underway, and we need to put a stop to it. Since the premature delisting of wolves from the ESA by the Trump Administration, wolves have been on the chopping block. Kill orders are being called in states across the country as they are given free rein on the fate of wolves -- and wolves are being pushed towards extinction. Wolves are already functionally extinct in 85% of their former range across the continental U.S. The removal of protections is driving them further down the path to the point of no return. As wolves are being considered for relisting, bad actors are working to uphold the Trump-era rulings and remove the few protections currently left to save remaining wolf populations. Before long, Wisconsin may meet the same fate as northwestern Colorado: with only one wolf left in the region, struggling to survive. We are only weeks away from the start of the Wisconsin wolf hunting season, so the time to act is now, Friend. The forests will be painted red with the blood of wolves unless we stand up to bad actors. 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