Wolves Need Our Help
The administration is trying to strip away the Endangered Species Act protections that saved wolves from extinction. When wolves lose federal protections, they die. Entire families are destroyed, never to howl together again. We must stop this political attack on a wild species that has every right to thrive in nature. [br]Your voice matters. We stopped this attack before. We can stop it again. [br]**Add your name today and help us reach our first 100,000 voices demanding that wolves remain protected.**
We've Been Here Before
Some 2 million wolves once roamed North America, with an estimated 380,000 in the Western United States and Mexico alone. in a dark era of government-sponsored killing in the United States, our wolf population plummeted to only about 1,000 wolves on the landscape of the animals alive by the time they won Endangered Species Act protection in 1974. Today wolves are slowly recovering but only occupy around one-tenth of their ancestral homelands. This has only been possible thanks to their lifesaving protections granted by the Endangered Species Act. [br]Now those protections are under direct attack as the Trump administration has threatened to take away their status as a protected species, leaving these beautiful, familial animals at the mercy of state officials. We know what comes next because we’ve been here before. Wolves will die, packs will be shattered, pups will be killed and orphaned. When wolves last lost their protected status under the Act, more than 200 wolves where brutally killed in Wisconsin in just 72 hours.
Read More BelowDear: the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Department of the Interior, and the Administration
I oppose any effort to remove Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves and Mexican gray wolves. [br]Wolves were driven to the brink of extinction by government-sponsored extermination campaigns that killed tens of thousands of animals across the United States. By the time wolves were protected under the Endangered Species Act in 1974, only about 1,000 remained in the lower 48 states.[br]The Endangered Species Act worked. Wolves have begun a slow recovery, but they still occupy only a fraction of their historical range and remain vulnerable to persecution, habitat loss, and state-sanctioned killing.[br]Stripping federal protections from wolves would be a reckless abandonment of science and one of America's greatest conservation success stories. We know the consequences. When wolves lose federal protections, they are persecuted by aggressive hunting and trapping programs that can devastate entire packs, orphan pups, and reverse decades of recovery.[br]Wolves are intelligent, social animals that play an essential role in maintaining healthy ecosystems. They belong in the wild and deserve the full protections of the Endangered Species Act until they have truly recovered throughout a meaningful portion of their historic range.[br]**Keep wolves protected. Defend the Endangered Species Act. Let wolves continue their recovery.**
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We can beat this attack back. The last time the Trump administration cruelly stripped away wolves’ protection, the Center and allies generated 1.8 million comments and signatures opposing the plan. We delivered a clear demand from the American people to the steps of the Department of the Interior in Washington D.C. [br]And we won. The courts have agreed again and again that science is on our side. We’ll fight this cruel policy with everything we’ve got so wolves can have a future in the wild.
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