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 With another bloody aerial gunning season just weeks away, Alaska wolves need your help.
Help us raise $40,000 by November 2nd to stop the massacre and protect imperiled wildlife.
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Please forward this message to anyone you know who cares about protecting wolves and saving imperiled wildlife. | Dear David,
What an amazing week!
On Tuesday, Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund and Defenders of Wildlife joined our allies at Alaskans for Wildlife and the Alaska Wildlife Alliance in celebrating the completion of more than a year of hard work: the submission of nearly 57,000 signatures from across Alaska to secure a place on a future ballot for a measure to end Alaska’s brutal aerial gunning programs.
With this year’s aerial gunning season set to begin in just weeks, we’re not about to let up now.
Help support our work to end the needless and brutal killing of wolves on the Last Frontier. Please make a donation now to support our Campaign to Stop the Alaska Wolf Massacre.
Alaskans have twice voted to ban same-day airborne shooting of wolves. But the Alaska legislature, the state’s outgoing anti-wolf governor and his hand-picked Board of Game have all worked to keep the state’s aerial gunning programs alive.
This time will be different.
Current Governor Frank Murkowski lost his bid for re-election in the primary and won’t be returning to office. Some of the most anti-wolf legislators are also facing tough challenges.
Whichever way the political wind blows, we’ll be ready. Along with our allies in Alaska, we’ve launched a multi-pronged strategy that includes...
- Working to enforce and clarify federal law.
For the past three years -- in over 50,000 square miles of Alaska -- private citizens with state permits have been able to gun down wolves from the air or use aircraft to chase them to exhaustion, then land and kill them.
The Federal Airborne Hunting Act was passed to end just that type of killing, but federal officials need to enforce it. The Bush Administration hasn’t. So we’re working with conservation groups and other allies on Congressional and administrative action to close the loophole the administration has exploited to avoid its responsibility to stop Alaska’s needless wolf slaughter.
- Educating the public.
We’re making sure the public knows the truth: The state’s aerial gunning programs have no scientific basis. Aerial gunning is now allowed in areas where wolves pose no special threat to the population levels of caribou and other prey species… purely for sport and to artificially increase the game population for out-of-state hunters.
- Challenging the programs in court.
We’re supporting Defenders of Wildlife’s litigation that calls for science-based conservation and rejects the backroom decision-making that has plagued Alaska’s wolf management.
Help support our efforts to protect Alaska wolves and other imperiled wildlife. Please make a donation now.
We don’t have much time. As soon as the first heavy snow falls, the killing could begin again.
Opponents of aerial gunning won an important victory this week. But with more than 150 wolves killed last year alone and the start of a new aerial gunning season just weeks away, we still need your help to end aerial gunning.
Will you stand with us?
For the Wild Ones,
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Rodger Schlickeisen
President
Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund |
P.S. You can donate online to start making a difference immediately or donate over the phone by calling 1-800-425-4632. |
