*[Enwl-eng] BREAKING: New and appalling attacks on wolves

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This latest attack on wolves is reprehensible.

Wolf-haters in Montana have introduced a bill to legalize a long list of
deplorable acts. This bill, SB 397
would:

* Allow wolves to be choked to death in neck snares, killed in traps and
hunted for 10 months of the year, including during breeding, pregnancy,
denning and pup-rearing seasons;
* Make it legal to lure wolves into traps using dead wolves - including
dead pack and family members; and
* Allow an unlimited amount of wolves to be killed in a given season.

This deplorable bill must be stopped! Please help with a donation today to
save Montana's wolves and other endangered wildlife.

http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=gLBlDp5i3khvrK9gIjOF0A

If this bill passes, it will be legal in Montana to use snares to choke a
wolf to
death and then leave its body out as bait to try to kill more wolves in its
pack.

You have to ask -- Who does that?

Only the Beginning

The Montana assault on wolves is not an isolated incident. It is only one
facet of a well-funded, highly-coordinated and unrelenting effort by
wolf-haters to significantly reduce the number of wolves and strip federal
protection from most of them in the lower 48 states.

Just last week, anti-wolf lobbyists in Washington secured 72 Congressional
signatures on a letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe
demanding that wolves in the Lower 48 be completely delisted under the
Endangered Species Act (ESA).

It was a chilling show of force by the anti-wolf lobby, and a reminder of
what we are up against. That's why we need your urgent donation today.

http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=U8Q8WEQGZ6H5NbbUcx9OhA

Montana is a textbook case of what can happen when wolf management is turned
over to a state that is politically dominated by anti-wolf interests.

Defenders is Mobilizing

Thanks to yo and thousands of other wildlife lovers, the "kill wolves lobby"
can be stopped, but make no mistake - we are in the fight of our lives for
America's wolves.

Our team is working long hours in Montana, across the Northern Rockies and
here in Washington, D.C. to:

* Organize and mobilize local activists to fight appalling state measures
like SB 397;
* Provide expert testimony at legislative hearings - these measures are not
only reprehensible, they are based on politics, not science;
* Garner support for wolves on Capitol Hill. More than 50 members of
Congress signed a letter demanding continued federal protection for wolves;
and
* Mobilize online support from hundreds of thousands of people like you.
Those letters, calls and emails do make a difference!

I won't lie. We're up against formidable foes who will stop at nothing to
open America's wolves up to unconscionable assault. But I believe we can
beat them, and with your help, I believe we will!

http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=dkFfLXh9sfIq92x1J9EQgQ

Thanks for all that you do for wolves - and America's
endangered wildlife.

Sincerely,

Jamie Rappaport Clark
President
Defenders of Wildlife

P.S. Anti-wolf lobbyists in Washington have secured 72 Congressional
signatures on a letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe
demanding that wolves in the Lower 48 be completely delisted under the ESA.
Supporters like you are critical to our efforts in protecting and restoring
America's wolves - please donate today.

http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=FzYOn4XL6YmrNTqdX6JgTQ



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From: "Jamie Rappaport Clark, Defenders of Wildlife"
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Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 8:46 PM
Subject: BREAKING: New and appalling attacks on wolves


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