Please help stop the Alaska Wolf Massacre

[truebrit71]

As an active member of Defenders Of Wildlife I would like to bring to my fellow DUers the following appeal...

Another season of aerial gunning is underway in Alaska. And this year could be the bloodiest in decades, with the state seeking to eliminate as many 664 wolves through aerial gunning and other means in areas slated for aerial control.

Last year, more than 150 wolves were killed, shot down by gunners using low-flying aircraft. At least ten wolves have already been killed this year.

You can help put an end to this brutal practice. Please donate now to support our Campaign to Stop the Alaska Wolf Massacre.

Because they are such social animals, each wolf’s death can be damaging to its pack’s ability to hunt and survive. Yet gunners can indiscriminately kill any wolf, including pack leaders and pregnant mothers.

Allowing private individuals, rather than state personnel, to conduct aerial gunning also leads to increased wounding and suffering.

We need your support to end Alaska’s aerial gunning. Please make a donation online now to support our work in Alaska and on Capitol Hill to help save wolves.

Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund opposes aerial gunning, and we’re not alone.

Alaskans have twice voted to restrict the use of aircraft to shoot wolves. Not surprisingly, many wildlife supporters and hunters alike consider airborne wolf killing to be unsporting and cruel.

Scientists and conservationists worry that the programs’ goals of attempting to artificially inflate game numbers threatens not only Alaska wolves, but also the long-term health of local ecosystems wolves help balance.

Please help us end aerial gunning in Alaska. Fighting to save wolves has our time, resources and funds stretched to the breaking point. That’s why we need your help to raise $75,000 by January 31st to support these and other efforts to save wolves…

Federal lobbying. The new Congress offers a remarkable opportunity to finally spur federal action to end aerial gunning in Alaska. We’re already working to introduce and pass legislation to strengthen and clarify the Federal Airborne Hunting Act, the law passed in the 1960s to prevent programs like Alaska’s.
Grassroots mobilization. In Alaska and around the world, we’ve mobilized hundreds of thousands of dedicated activists in opposition to Alaska’s aerial gunning. Working with local conservationists and sportsmen, along with our sister organization, Defenders of Wildlife, we’ll also do everything in our power to support an upcoming state-based ballot initiative to restrict aerial gunning once again.

If you feel like helping out please do so below...

https://secure2.convio.net/dow/site/Donation?ACTION=SHOW_DONATION_OPTIONS&CAMPAIGN_ID=4261&autologin=true&s_src=4HY07WDCSAW&s_subsrc=4HY07WDCSAW_EHA07D1a&JServSessionIdr012=jfobu2dgu6.app24a

Thanks for listening..

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Alaskans have voted against the aerial wolf hunts

at least twice that I remember, but Fish & Game keeps ignoring the voters, insisting they know "best."