Trophy hunters are wiping out wolves in the Northern Rockies

Dear Friend, Remaining 89 Yellowstone wolves are in grave danger. Take a stand for wolves and make your $27 contribution today! If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $5/month immediately]( [Donate $27 immediately]( A record 25 Yellowstone wolves have been killed. Some gunned down from helicopters. Others dynamited in their homes. It’s open season on wolves and they are being slaughtered without mercy. [Stop hunters and poachers from wiping out wolves and donate $27 today!]( Wolves in the Northern Rockies are still in great peril as those states refuse to reinstate ESA protections. Montana and Idaho have passed laws legalizing brutal “hunting” methods like snares and helicopter chases. Last year, Idaho called for the killing of 90% of its wolf population -- only 150 wolves would remain. It’s appalling, it’s barbaric, and it’s wrong. This shouldn’t be happening to any animal, period -- let alone a species that is already functionally extinct across most of the country. We need your help to stop these attacks on wildlife and restore ESA protections for these wolves! Together we can protect wolves from barbaric hunting practices in the Northern Rockies and protect our planet. Add your support today with a $27 donation. If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $5/month immediately]( [Donate $27 immediately]( Wolves were one of America’s greatest conservation stories. After centuries of being harassed, vilified, and hunted indiscriminately, wolves had begun to make a slow but promising recovery over the past six decades. But now, this recovery is under threat as states like Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming gutted Endangered Species Act protections wolves depend on. Wolves still occupy less than 10% of their historic range. Without the complete reinstatement of ESA protections, we could lose 60 years of conservation efforts -- and some of America’s most iconic wildlife -- in just the next few years. Trophy hunters in the Northern Rockies are getting more aggressive, slaughtering 25 Yellowstone gray wolves last season -- the most killings on record in over TWO DECADES. Now, there are only 89 gray wolves left roaming around the protected lands of Yellowstone. But waiting just outside the borders, trophy hunters are ready to VICIOUSLY ATTACK these innocent canines. If we don’t demand an END to brutal hunting practices, this iconic species will vanish forever. Nothing else matters if our ecosystems, like those in Yellowstone, are thrown off-kilter by the disappearance of wolves. We cannot keep up the fight to protect the only Earth we'll ever have without your membership gift, Friend. Friends of the Earth is working to protect wolves, the ecosystems that depend on them, and our planet -- but we need your help. Make your $27 donation today. If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $5/month immediately]( [Donate $27 immediately]( Wolves need us, yes, but we also need them. As a keystone species, wolves balance ecosystems and even drive natural evolution. If a keystone species is removed, the ecosystem drastically changes -- or, in some cases, collapses entirely. Wolves help keep deer and elk populations in check, as well as predators like coyotes. This, in turn, benefits many other species. For example, with less browsing from elk, water-side vegetation returns, bringing different birds to the ecosystem and helping mammals like beavers. Wolves also help redistribute nutrients and provide food for other wildlife species, including grizzly bears and scavengers. Year after year, scientists discover more ways that wolves are positively affecting ecosystems. Wolves are a cherished part of our natural heritage, an icon of wilderness, and an irreplaceable player in ensuring our ecosystems are healthy and diverse. Bad things happen when wolves aren’t protected -- when their lives are left up to the whims of Big Ag interests and the trophy hunting lobby. In the last decade, more than 3,200 wolves have been killed. That’s more than half as many wolves as are alive in the lower 48 states today. Only around 6,000 wolves remain. If we don’t fight back before it’s too late, fragile species will be driven to extinction, and America’s wild places will never be the same. Help keep these last remaining gray wolves and their ecosystems safe: Donate $27 or more today! 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