With the continual progress on Prince of Wales Island and open roads, it appears to be making it easier for poachers and hunters to trap and kill the rare Archipelago wolves, placing these animals on an endangered list. The wolf population in the area is at an all-time low, probably only in the low 100s compared to the 1990s when numbers ranged up to 350 animals.
We are trying to work in support of the Defenders of Wildlife by creating this petition by asking the Federal Subsistence Board to take immediate action in closing the hunting and trapping season for Alexander Archipelago wolves in Alaska's Game Management Unit (GMU) 2. This rare wolf is only common in southeast Alaska and coastal British Columbia. They rely on their forestry habitat and their wilderness in order to survive. The new highway construction projects are causing a threat to the animals because it is make them more susceptible to hunting and trapping.
If the hunting and trapping of these rare animals continues in light of progress, the Archipelago wolves will become a thing of the past. Our effort is to encourage the Federal Subsistence Board to issue an emergency closure of the Archipelago wolf hunting season. You can help by signing and sharing this petition and save this rare species.
Federal Subsistence Board and Alaska Department of Fish & Game, Executive Director, Glenn Haight – We strongly urge you to take emergency steps and stop the hunting season, now and in forwarding years that puts the Archipelago wolves in grave danger. The numbers of these wolves is at an all-time low and if you do not step in immediately, this endangered animal will be extinct. Please ban any further hunting of this special and rare Archipelago wolf.
