The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may remove Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves across nearly the entire lower-48 states. This would be disastrous for gray wolf recovery in the United States there is less then 7000 wolves nation wide and taking them off the list will cause them to disappear from the usa for good.
Since 2011 and 2012, when wolves lost their protection in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Minnesota and Wisconsin, over 1,705 have been killed in just those states alone.
The state of Idaho killed 50% of their wolf population just last year.
These states permit and encourage trapping, snaring, denning (burying wolf puppies alive in dens) and dog-hounding (state of Wisconsin) all of which are highly cruel and cause torture and painful death wolves
The states of Utah and South Dakota which have no wolf populations yet, are already working on wolf killing plans.
Individual hunters and government workers in these states have acknowledged or been spotted clubbing live trapped animals to death, shooting trapped animals in the stomach and leaving them to die slowly, using trapped live animals as shooting targets for fun, adopting dogs from shelters to use as wolf bait in order to receive a government payment for each dog killed by a wolf (Wisconsin).
Hunters in the Northern Rockies are known to wait on the border and even lure protected and scientifically studied wolves out of the Yellowstone National Park to shoot them.
Please help them!!!
