4 Days to Save Wolves

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-04-30 09:29:00 UTC
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Four days. Idaho's eager-to-kill governor and others could be heading out with their guns to start killing wolves in just 4 days. Please join Defenders of Wildlife in demanding (OK, Defenders says "urge"; I'm the one saying "demand") that Obama reverse course. Even if you don't agree with me that animals shouldn't be hunted period, the wolves as a species need the Endangered Species protections that they are set to lose. The recent decision made by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, great friend to ranchers and hunters, to delist the wolves was the wrong one, made for the wrong reasons, and it calls for the same approach that was widely criticized when the Bush administration went in that direction.

I know I've asked you to sign a couple other petitions already this week, but I'm going to ask you to read and sign this one too, right away. Some of you have signed already (this petition has been featured in the sidebar the last couple weeks), but those who haven't, please do. (Also, please remember that if you signed a pledge created by a Change.org member sometime in recent weeks, committing to take action, but did not actually follow the provided links to the Defenders of Wildlife petition and sign, you have not sent your message. So make sure to sign the petition as well.)

Related earlier posts:
Hey, Obama. Don't Be Another Bush for the Wolves
Salazar Continuing with Bush Admin Plan to Delist the Wolves

See also "Isle Royale Wolves’ Inbreeding Spells Caution for Northern Rockies Wolves" from the NRDC Switchboard.

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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