In the past five years, more than 800 wolves have been brutally slaughtered by Alaska’s aerial killing program. Now another season of aerial gunning is underway. But -- with your help -- we can stop this awful practice!
Take action now to help save these wolves -- sign our petition to urge the Obama 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 riflemen can target entire packs -- even pregnant mothers!
It’s not wolf management. It’s a wolf massacre. Please take action now to save these wolves.
Defenders of Wildlife has long led the fight to stop this horrific practice and promote sound management of wolves in Alaska. And with the anti-wolf Bush/Cheney Administration now gone from the White House, we have even more hope to end this awful practice once and for all.
Urge the Obama Administration to enforce the Federal Airborne Hunting Act, the federal law that could put an end to the killing.
Alaska’s politicians continue to promote aerial gunning and other extreme measures to kill wolves.
In fact, in 2008 Governor Sarah Palin and the state legislature approved spending $400,000 in taxpayer funds to promote the slaughter from the skies and defeat a citizen’s initiative to limit aerial gunning. To encourage the killing, Governor Palin even proposed a $150 bounty for the left foreleg of each dead wolf and other measures -- a grisly proposal that Defenders of Wildlife stopped.
Now Palin and her allies are once again working to expand the killing and we need your help to stop them. 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,
Rodger Schlickeisen
President, Defenders of Wildlife
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