BREAKING: Helicopter gunmen slaughter 23 Idaho wolves
Jamie Rappaport Clark, Defenders of Wildlife
More heartbreaking news from Idaho.
We just learned that federal gunmen aerially shot and killed 23 wolves last month in the Lolo zone, a remote area in north-central Idaho.
The slaughter was carried out by the Wildlife Services agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture – a federally funded hit squad responsible for exterminating millions of animals every year.
Defenders is the only national organization with boots on the ground, organizing and building public support for wolves in Idaho.
Defenders has raised many concerns about Wildlife Services abuses in the past. Thanks to you, and other activists raising the alarm, an official investigation into this rogue agency was launched late last year by the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Agriculture.
But the heartless killing continues.
Defenders is calling upon President Obama to order a complete moratorium on all Wildlife Services killings of wolves and other top predators – until that investigation has been completed.
This latest round of aerial slaughter came at the request of Idaho state officials, who have pushed through a brutal agenda of wolf extermination in an attempt to increase elk numbers for hunting. Idaho continues it’s bad faith management of the state’s wolf population that was stripped of federal protection only three years ago.
This marks a new chapter in the bloody war on wolves being waged in the Northern Rockies.
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Sincerely,
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Jamie Rappaport Clark |