Change.org Petition: 700 wolves killed - Save the Wolves of Greater Yellowstone

Over 700 wolves have been killed in recent hunting seasons in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, including pups as young as eight months. The Center for Biological Diversity is fighting in court to save the northern Rocky Mountain wolves by having them protected under the Endangered Species Act. You can help in this critical moment by signing the petition to tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the wolves under the Endangered Species Act. Save the Wolves of Greater Yellowstone 2,727 have signed Center for Biological Diversity’s petition. Let’s get to 5,000!

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Wolves are being massacred in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.  In the most recent hunting and trapping season alone, these three states slaughtered more than 700 wolves by brutal means like strangulation snares.  At least 25 of them were killed simply for stepping outside the borders of Yellowstone National Park, where they’re safe. Pups as young as eight months old were executed. It’s taken decades for Yellowstone’s wolves to regain a foothold in the wildlands surrounding this cherished landscape. But a wave of cruel policies enacted by states in the northern Rockies have unleashed the worst massacre of the region’s wolves in 100 years. The Center for Biological Diversity fought tooth and nail to restore protection to wolves across the lower 48 states, but that restored protection excluded wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains. So we’re doing all we can to save them, too. Without federal protection, more wolf packs in the state will be decimated, more packs will be torn apart and more pups will be killed sleeping in their dens.  But there’s hope: The Biden administration can save the wolves who remain.  The Center filed an emergency petition to protect northern Rocky Mountains wolves under the Endangered Species Act, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service missed its deadline to respond. So now we’re in court to save these intelligent, social animals, who are crucial to helping their ecosystems thrive.  Entrusting wolf management to states has resulted in a bloody war on wolves.  Idaho and Montana both passed laws aimed at liquidating their wolf populations. In Idaho hunters, trappers, and private contractors can kill up to 90% of the state’s estimated 1,337 wolves, using cruel hunting methods that used to be illegal — and should be again — including chasing wolves down with hounds and snowmobiles.  In Montana new rules may open the door to killing about 85% of its 1,100 to 1,200 wolves.  We haven’t come all this way to save wolves just to see rogue states wipe them out. The best way to save these wolves is to protect them under the Endangered Species Act and we are calling on Biden’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to make that happen.  Will you join us?   Tell the Service to immediately restore protection to wolves in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

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