Dear Friend,

Gunned down from helicopters. Dynamited in their dens. It’s open season on wolves, and they are being slaughtered without mercy. Stop hunters, poachers, and Big Oil from wiping out wolves and destroying our planet: Donate $27 and your tax-deductible gift will be matched up to $800,000 – but only until midnight on December 31st!

Wisconsin’s wolves are being hunted down and slaughtered, with tactics including dynamiting wolf pups in their own dens. Meanwhile, Montana and Idaho have passed laws legalizing brutal “hunting” methods like snares and helicopter chases. Last year, Idaho called for the killing of 90% of its wolf population — only 150 wolves would remain.   

It’s appalling, it’s barbaric, and it’s wrong. This shouldn’t be happening to any animal, period — let alone a species already functionally extinct across most of the country. We need your help to stop these attacks on wildlife and restore Endangered Species Act protections for wolves!

Together we can protect wolves from barbaric hunting practices and fight for our planet. Add your support today with a $27 tax-deductible donation that will have double the impact.  

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Wolves were one of America’s greatest conservation stories. After centuries of being harassed, vilified, and hunted indiscriminately, wolves had begun to make a slow but promising recovery over the past six decades. But now, this recovery is under threat after Trump gutted Endangered Species Act protections they depend on.

Wolves currently occupy less than 10% of their historic range. Without their Endangered Species Protections, we could lose 60 years of conservation efforts — and some of America’s most iconic wildlife — in just the next few years.

The Endangered Species Act is one of the most successful environmental laws ever passed. It has saved treasured species like sea otters, bald eagles, and grizzly bears from the brink of extinction. It has also benefited local economies that depend on these very species to thrive.

But the Trump administration dismantled the Endangered Species Act at every turn, and it led to horrific outcomes for animals like wolf pups and bear cubs on wildlife preserves — who hunters can now legally kill. 

Now, lobbyists and bad actors are working to uphold Trump-era rules and gut other animal protection laws to benefit corporate interests and wealthy developers. The Interior Department isn’t doing enough to stop it, so it’s up to us to pressure the Biden administration to do the right thing. We need you. Endangered animals need you.

We only have a matter of days to hit our $800,000 goal, so every dollar is being matched to get us there in time. There has never been a more impactful — or more urgent — time to give. Nothing else matters if our ecosystems are thrown off-kilter by the disappearance of wolves. We cannot keep up the fight to protect the only Earth we’ll ever have without your membership gift, Friend.

Friends of the Earth is working to protect wolves, the ecosystems that depend on them, and our planet. But we need your help. Make a $27 tax-deductible donation and it will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $800,000.

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Wolves need us, yes, but we also need them. As a keystone species, wolves balance ecosystems and even drive natural evolution. If a keystone species is removed, the ecosystem drastically changes — or in some cases, collapses entirely.  

Wolves help keep deer and elk populations in check, as well as predators like coyotes. This, in turn, benefits many other species. For example, with less browsing from elk, water-side vegetation returns, bringing different birds to the ecosystem and helping mammals like beavers. Wolves also help redistribute nutrients and provide food for other wildlife species, including grizzly bears and scavengers. Year after year, scientists discover more ways wolves positively affect ecosystems.

Wolves are a cherished part of our natural heritage, an icon of wilderness, and an irreplaceable player in ensuring that our ecosystems are healthy and diverse.

Bad things happen when wolves aren’t protected — when their lives are left up to the whims of Big Ag interests and the trophy hunting lobby. In the last decade, more than 3,200 wolves have been killed. Only around 6,000 remain.  

If we don’t fight back before it’s too late, this fragile species will be driven to extinction, and America’s wild places will never be the same.

Your support makes twice the difference today. Help keep these last remaining wolves, their ecosystems, and our planet safe: Donate $27 or more before midnight and your tax-deductible gift will be matched!

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Standing with you,
Raena Garcia,
Fossil fuels and lands campaigner,
Friends of the Earth