The last 6,000 in the lower 48 need your help

Dear Friend, Stand with wolves, public lands, and our planet. Donate $27 today. If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: [Donate $5/month immediately]( [Donate $27 immediately]( Gunned down from helicopters. Dynamited in their homes. It’s open season for wolves in the northern Rockies. They are being slaughtered without mercy as the public lands they call home are being sold off. [Stop hunters, poachers, and Big Oil and Gas from wiping out wolves and protect the lands they roam: Donate $27 to Friends of the Earth today!]( Ever since wolves were stripped of their Endangered Species Act protections, it’s been open season across states in the greater Yellowstone area. Wisconsin’s wolves are being hunted down and slaughtered indiscriminately, with tactics including dynamiting wolf pups in their own dens. Meanwhile, 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 already functionally extinct across most of the country. We need your help to stop these attacks on wildlife and restore ESA protections for wolves! Together we can protect wolves from trophy hunters and protect the lands they call home. 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 this recovery is under threat as states in the northern Rockies refuse to grant them ESA protections, and others are selling off the public lands they live in, shrinking the areas where they can be safe. Wolves still occupy less than 10% of their historic range. Without their ESA protections in these states, we could lose 60 years of conservation efforts -- and some of America’s most iconic wildlife. The Endangered Species Act is one of the most successful environmental laws ever passed. It has saved treasured species like sea otters, bald eagles, and grizzly bears from the brink of extinction. It has also benefited local economies that depend on these very species to thrive. Now, lobbyists and bad actors are dismantling animal protection laws, all to benefit corporate interests and wealthy developers by opening up public lands for sale to Big Oil and Gas and pushing wolves into smaller, unprotected areas where they can be killed by trophy hunters. The Interior Department isn't doing enough to stop it, so it’s up to us to pressure the Biden administration to do the right thing. We need you. Endangered animals need you. Now is the time to give. Nothing else matters if our ecosystems are thrown off-kilter by the disappearance of wolves. We cannot keep up the fight to protect wolves, public lands, and the only Earth we'll ever have without your membership gift, Friend. Friends of the Earth is working to protect wolves and the ecosystems that depend on them. But we need your help. Make a $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 are a cherished part of our natural heritage, an icon of wilderness, and an irreplaceable player in ensuring that 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 Polluters 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 public lands and wild places will never be the same. Help keep these last remaining wolves and their ecosystems safe and donate $27 or more! 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