WOLVES OF ALASKA

Posted by highlysuspect on April 10, 2007 in politics, Wildlife conservation | ∞

Alaska’s Wolves Need Your Help

Hundreds of wolves have been killed in Alaska — shot to death by gunners in low-flying aircraft or chased to exhaustion and shot at point-blank range. Please help us stop the killing — take action now to urge the Bush Administration to put an end to aerial gunning in Alaska.

Alaska’s policy allows marksmen in planes to gun down wolves from the air or chase them to exhaustion, then land and execute them at point blank range.

Dear Willard,

From November 2005 to May 2006, more than 150 Alaskan wolves were killed in the brutal practice of aerial gunning. Now the Alaska Board of Game is gearing up for another winter of aerial gunning. With your help, we can stop them!

Take action now to help save the wolves — Sign our petition to urge the Bush Administration to put an end to aerial gunning in Alaska.

Easy targets against fallen snow, wolves are gunned down from airplanes or chased to exhaustion, then shot at point blank range. State-licensed marksmen can target entire packs — even pregnant mothers!

Aerial gunners have killed more than 550 wolves over the past three winters. Worse, hundreds more wolves could be killed under “management” plans approved by the Alaska Board of Game in May 2006.

That’s not wolf management. It’s a wolf massacre.

Tell the Bush Administration to enforce the Federal Airborne Hunting Act, the federal law that could put an end to the killing.

Wolves help the overall health of natural ecosystems. They help keep Alaska’s moose and caribou populations healthy and strong. Wolves are also important to Alaska’s billion-dollar tourism industry.

Yet the state continues to allow aerial gunning. In fact, the Board of Game’s new proposals would expand the areas where aerial gunning is permitted, allow gunners on snow machines to harass and kill wolves and expand aerial gunning of bears.

Please sign our petition right now and help us end aerial gunning in Alaska.

Our wolves are a crucial part of the natural heritage that we’ll leave our children and grandchildren, and we have a real chance to end this terrible practice.

I hope you’ll help.

Sincerely,