- Signatures: 30,398
- Goal: 100,000
- Deadline: 11-16-2005
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| 1957 and NOW! This alpha female had nine pups inside of her ready to be born but she got no sympathy from Alaska's aerial hunters. Already shot at least twice, she was finished off by a third gunman as she struggled to stand in the snow. |
Governor Murkowski’s reinstatement of aerial wolf hunting in Alaska means heightened slaughter in a state that is already a hell hole for wolves. Hunting and trapping have already annihilated more than 7,000 wolves between 1996 and 2002 - and possibly even twice that number if unreported harvests are accounted for. Nearly 7,500 wolves have been killed in just the past five years!
Land and shoot hunting, when hunters in airplanes chase wolves to the point of exhaustion and then shoot them when they are too tired to escape, threatens wolves even more. It is unconscionable that Alaska’s government has assured the senseless and easy murder of perhaps thousands more wolves.
Land and shoot laws are an obvious move to mollify disgruntled hunting interests which claim wolves are reducing moose and caribou herds. Never mind the facts, that larger prey species elude wolves up to 97 per cent of the time and that wolves, by removing the sick, weak, inferior and old members of their prey species, actually strengthen those gene pools.
This new, heightened slaughter of wolves via aerial methods is a sickening return to the senseless, barbaric practices begun in Alaska prior to statehood and continued thereafter, this time with Governor Murkowski’s blessing. It is time for the governor to do the right thing - stop the slaughter.
UPDATE BELOW
| Number | Date | Prefix | Name | City | State | Country | Why I am signing this petition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30,445 | 4:32 pm PDT, Jun 30 | Mrs. | Lori Hamaker | Snow Hill | Maryland | United States | Because the wild animals of these United States were here long before we were. We are the ones invading their space. |
| 30,444 | 4:21 am PDT, Jun 30 | Betty Gibson | Mims | Florida | United States | ||
| 30,443 | 12:40 pm PDT, Jun 28 | Ms. | Renata Samusiewicz | Tarnobrzeg | Poland | ||
| 30,442 | 3:41 pm PDT, Jun 25 | Ms. | Bernadette Galante | Selden | New York | United States | |
| 30,441 | 9:55 am PDT, Jun 24 | Mrs. | melissa flores | missouri city | Texas | United States | PLEASE STOP THIS NOW!!!! HOW CAN THIS GO ON? STOP!!! PLEASE!! |
| 30,440 | 9:06 am PDT, Jun 20 | Anonymous | okley | California | United States | stop!!!dont kill the wolvesthay have rights to leav thom alone | |
| 30,439 | 2:39 am PDT, Jun 19 | Todd Hauser | Ocean Park | Washington | United States | There are not too many wolves! Reducing their numbers will have dire consequences for the indigenous environment that are complex to understand but very real. | |
| 30,438 | 12:47 pm PDT, Jun 13 | Mrs. | Plazotta Edith | Seeboden | Austria | the wolves are social type ...more than the people! | |
| 30,437 | 1:23 pm PDT, Jun 11 | Jose A Camacho Jr. | Lantana | Florida | United States | they have rights! stop the killing! nonsence! | |
| 30,436 | 11:31 pm PDT, Jun 4 | Mrs. | Junko SAITO | OOSAKA | Japan | ||
| 30,435 | 9:51 pm PDT, Jun 3 | Anonymous | Atsugi-shi | Japan | Please stop killing wild animals.We have no right to do it. | ||
| 30,434 | 2:38 am PDT, Jun 3 | Mrs. | Bel Walsh | Runcorn | United Kingdom | Wolves are one of nature's beautiful creatures. We would not have many of our domestic dogs if it wasn't for wolves. That healthy wolves harm humans is a fairy tale and should be kept within the realms of fiction. | |
| 30,433 | 1:38 am PDT, May 31 | Giovanni Perrone | Bitritto | Italy | perchè noi siamo qui "in affitto" come tutti gli animali, non con la proprietà esclusiva | ||
| 30,432 | 4:13 am PDT, May 30 | Gili Kahana | Tel Aviv | Israel | |||
| 30,431 | 3:17 am PDT, May 27 | Ms. | Samantha Jess | 86473 TZiemetshausen | Germany | ||
| 30,430 | 4:31 pm PDT, May 18 | Ms. | cathy pelletier | Juneau | Alaska | United States | CLEARLY WE HAVE A MONSTER AS A GOVERNOR. AS AN ALASKAN CITIZEN, I AM BOTH EMBARRESSED AND HORRIFIED. IMPEACH SARAH PALIN NOW. |
| 30,429 | 3:46 am PDT, May 18 | Ms. | Anonymous | Milano | Italy | ||
| 30,428 | 10:50 am PDT, May 16 | Francesca Montagna | Turate (CO) | Italy | |||
| 30,427 | 11:34 pm PDT, May 14 | Ms. | marianna de rossi | rome | Italy | ||
| 30,426 | 9:39 pm PDT, May 9 | Ms. | Elizabeth Hudema | Werribee | Australia | stop this cruelty, its vicious and unnecessary. let the wolves live their lives. | |
| 30,425 | 3:10 pm PDT, May 4 | Janet White | Clearwater | Florida | United States | To stop the horrific slaughtering of the wolf. People in Alaska need to know they have monster for a Governor. | |
| 30,424 | 4:37 pm PDT, May 1 | Mrs. | Anonymous | vereona | Italy | ||
| 30,423 | 11:17 am PDT, Apr 28 | Mrs. | letizia cuscela | parma | Italy | ||
| 30,422 | 3:31 am PDT, Apr 28 | Ms. | Anonymous | torino | Italy | stop assassini | |
| 30,421 | 1:25 pm PDT, Apr 27 | sara loi | london | United Kingdom | "The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." - Gandhi | ||
| 30,420 | 11:31 am PDT, Apr 27 | LIDIA LEMME | Pomezia (Roma) | Italy | BASTARDI!!! | ||
| 30,419 | 10:40 am PDT, Apr 27 | Paolo Gulmanelli | Merano (BZ) | Italy | |||
| 30,418 | 9:28 am PDT, Apr 27 | Ms. | barbara bertelli | massa | Italy | ||
| 30,417 | 5:53 am PDT, Apr 27 | Dr. | Mariella Micarelli | Caldonazzo TN | Italy | ||
| 30,416 | 4:15 am PDT, Apr 27 | Ms. | castagna ilaria | firenze | Italy | ||
| 30,415 | 4:14 am PDT, Apr 27 | benedetta sainaghi | prato sesia - novara | Italy | i do not understand why any kind of cruelty against animals cannot be stopped | ||
| 30,414 | 3:54 am PDT, Apr 27 | patrizia zaccone | prata di p.u. | Italy | |||
| 30,413 | 2:40 am PDT, Apr 27 | elisabetta bombelli | gazzada schianno | Italy | human race is simply horrible...!!! | ||
| 30,412 | 2:34 am PDT, Apr 27 | Francesca Caprini | trento | Italy | |||
| 30,411 | 2:34 pm PDT, Apr 26 | Juliana Marques | Petropolis | Brazil | |||
| 30,410 | 2:33 am PDT, Apr 26 | Massimo Lo Scavo | Pordenone | Italy | |||
| 30,409 | 2:47 pm PDT, Apr 25 | Ms. | silvia gabbatore | trezzo sull' adda | Italy | ||
| 30,408 | 1:32 pm PDT, Apr 25 | Mrs. | Anonymous | GENOA | Armed Forces Europe | Italy | |
| 30,407 | 9:35 am PDT, Apr 25 | Mr. | Anonymous | bibiana | Italy | ||
| 30,406 | 9:21 am PDT, Apr 25 | bruna agani | bibiana | Italy | |||
| 30,405 | 8:40 am PDT, Apr 25 | Ms. | valentina paolillo | Castellabate | Italy | ||
| 30,404 | 7:28 am PDT, Apr 25 | Ms. | Amelia Palermo | roma | Italy | ||
| 30,403 | 3:47 am PDT, Apr 25 | Anonymous | TRIESTE | Italy | Basta!!!!!Lasciamoli in pace questi poveri animali!!!! | ||
| 30,402 | 3:42 am PDT, Apr 25 | Davide Brunello | VICENZA | Italy | BASTA VIOLENZE SUGLI ANIMALI | ||
| 30,401 | 3:21 am PDT, Apr 25 | annalisa ferretti | ancona | Italy | basta con la violenza sugli animali!!!! |
Stop the Aerial Slaughter of Alaska's Wolves!
Your recent reinstatement of aerial wolf hunting in Alaska is shocking, given the already horrific situation of wolves in your state. Between 1996 and 2002 alone, more than 7,000 wolves were killed, possibly even twice that number according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s "harvest" summary. Excessive hunting and trapping in your state have resulted in the deaths of nearly 7,500 wolves in just the past five years. With wolf killing already rampant in Alaska, with Endangered Species Act protections being lessened or obliterated throughout the lower 48 states, and with wolves being highly endangered throughout much of the world, it is unconscionable that Alaska, home to the largest remaining population of Gray Wolves in the United States, would condone and even encourage such activity.
Land and shoot, or just shoot, are transparent laws, an obvious move to mollify disgruntled hunting interests which claim wolves are reducing "their" moose and caribou herds. Never mind the facts, that larger prey species elude wolves up to 97 per cent of the time. Never mind that wolves actually help control the delicate balance of nature via the "sanitation effect," removing the sick, weak, inferior and old members of their prey species, thus strengthening those gene pools. Even if the hunters, trappers and others who make their living from the deaths of innocent creatures are correct in stating that wolves have reduced ungulate herds to dangerously low levels, nature will right itself, as it has before, time and time again, without the intervention of man.
Wolves, predators with a purpose, put human hunters, predators without just cause, to shame. Moose and caribou, an intricate part of the food chain and nature’s natural order, at least die with dignity via the fangs of the wolf. Wolves, nature’s most maligned and misunderstood animals, do not die with the same dignity and respect via the airplanes and guns of blood-thirsty sporting "enthusiasts." This new, heightened slaughter of wolves via aerial methods is a sickening return to the senseless, barbaric practices begun in Alaska prior to statehood and continued thereafter, this time, with your blessing.
Last season 147 wolves were brutally gunned down. The Alaska Board of Game's expansion of land and shoot this season targets 400 wolves in two new hunting areas. In total, Alaska's six aerial wolf killing programs assure the death of nearly 900 wolves this season. These massacres, together with fully legal hunting and trapping, will result in the anihilation of about 2,500 wolves -- one third of Alaska's estimated wolf population.
Governor Murkowski, we will not be travelling to Alaska until your aerial wolf "control" program is cancelled.
Governor Murkowski, we are asking you to do the right thing - to stop the slaughter.
The Undersigned,
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