Tell Congress: Keep Your Hands Off Our Wolves
The Endangered Species Act requires science-based standards for adding or removing protections from a particular species, but recently Congress has used must-pass bills to dodge this process. These bills include unconnected provisions called riders that get forced through because the main legislation needs to be passed -- and now Congress has set its sights on gray wolves.
Lawmakers are attempting to strip wolves of their protections via this underhanded, anti-democratic process. We need your help to stop it.
Judges have repeatedly overturned rules stripping wolves of their federal protection -- with only 5 percent of suitable wolf habitat currently occupied and almost constant threats to their safety, these apex predators still desperately need the Act's protection to survive.
In places where wolves don't have protection, like Idaho and Montana, ruthless killing is decimating their populations. And these wolves lost protection in 2011 because of a rider attached to a budget bill -- we can't let that happen to the rest of America's wolves.
Act now: Use the form below to tell Congress not to strip Endangered Species Act protection from wolves.
Dear [Senator]:
Please speak out against and vote no on any congressional initiative to remove Endangered Species Act protection from wolves. This species is endangered in most of the nation and needs continued protection to survive and recover.
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Wolves in Idaho, Montana and parts of Oregon, Washington and Utah lost their endangered status as part of a shameful rider passed by Congress in 2011 -- despite courts having held that they still were an endangered species deserving of protection. The result was more than 1,800 wolves killed and the benefits they provide to their ecosystems undone. I don't want to see wolves elsewhere slaughtered the same way.
Please stand up for America's great predators and don't strip federal protections necessary for wolf survival and recovery.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
