HELP Endangered Wolves! by Liora Leah

Bush Administration to strip wolves of federal protection, leaving them vulnerable to mass killings. Sign online petition today, asking your Representative to oppose wolf-killing plans!

For the second time in a month, the Bush Administration has
taken aim at endangered wolves in Greater Yellowstone and the
Northern Rockies.

Yesterday the administration announced plans to strip the
region's 1,500 wolves of protection under the Endangered Species
Act. Just last month, the administration handed down a new
License to Kill rule that would allow Wyoming and Idaho to
slaughter hundreds of wolves by hunting, trapping and aerial
gunning.

Our partner organization, the Natural Resources Defense Council,
has already filed suit in federal court to block the License to
Kill rule. And NRDC responded immediately to this news by
announcing a second lawsuit that will challenge the plan to drop
wolves from the endangered species list.

Meanwhile, the NRDC Action Fund is responding by stepping up our
mobilization campaign by sounding the media alarm and building
unstoppable public pressure on Congress to take action in
defense of America's wolves.

You can tell your own Representative to oppose the Bush Administration's wolf-killing
plans here: Click here to take action:
http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/Act_Now_To_Protect_Gray_Wolves_012008

And your donation will enable us to keep running our wolf-saving
ad in national newspapers:
https://secure.nrdconline.org/08/wolves_printad_nytimes

The Bush Administration has launched this newest attack on
wolves despite the opposition of hundreds of thousands of
Americans . . . despite the objection of leading wildlife
biologists . . . and despite the fact that wolves have NOT fully
recovered in the Northern Rockies.

Stripping wolves of their federal protection will leave them at
the mercy of states that are ready to launch wolf extermination
campaigns at the behest of special interests, including
livestock ranchers and elk hunting outfitters.

By unleashing this wolf-killing machine, the Bush Administration
threatens to destroy one of the greatest success stories of the
Endangered Species Act: the return of the gray wolf to
Yellowstone and its surrounding wildlands.

We must not let that happen! I know you'll continue standing
with us in the critical weeks ahead as we go all-out to ensure a
future for America's wolves.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President
NRDC Action Fund

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