We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition:

Stop the Aerial Slaughter of Alaska's Wolves!

Target: Frank Murkowski, Governor, Murkowski is the governor of Alaska
Sponsor: Vivian Singer-Ferris
  • Signatures: 29,927
  • Goal: 100,000
  • Deadline: 11-16-2005
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.

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Number Date Name City State Country Why I am signing this petition
29,972 12:54 am PDT, May 15 Anonymous Forssa   Finland We must stop that!
29,971 9:18 am PDT, May 14 Edie Sears Randallstown Maryland United States Wolves are highly intelligent with a sophisticated social structure. They are a beautiful symbol of North America. How could any sane political figure sanction their slaughter? What's next for your state? Bald Eagle BBQ?
29,970 9:44 pm PDT, May 13 Elizabeth Gill Berkeley California United States I ALREADY SENT AN E-MAIL TO YOUR OFFICE DIRECTLY LAST YEAR ABOUT THIS--IT WAS PROBABLY IGNORED.I KNOW YOU ARE A REPUBLICAN.YOU ARE A DISGRACE BECAUSE YOU ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN.WHY DON'T YOU RESIGN?
29,969 12:14 pm PDT, May 12 Anonymous Louisville Kentucky United States Because I have loved wolves since I was very little and I don't want to see my favorite animal die!
29,968 4:57 am PDT, May 12 Anonymous Espoo   Finland  
29,967 3:36 am PDT, May 11 Katerina Pappa Thessaloniki   Greece  
29,966 5:37 pm PDT, May 10 Rebecca Burns Princeton New Jersey United States  
29,965 1:40 pm PDT, May 9 Michela Rebuli London   Canada  
29,964 6:44 pm PDT, May 7 Anonymous St Andrews   United Kingdom  
29,963 8:18 am PDT, May 6 Anonymous Ristiina   Finland  
29,962 11:06 pm PDT, May 5 Kirsi Varis xxxx   Finland For the love of animalsa and because slaughtering an animal from its natural environment has a disasterous impact on the surronding ecosystem.
29,961 7:02 pm PDT, May 5 ilse moskda tijuana   Mexico stoi en contra en mexico tambien estamos en contra de este tipo de matanza al igual k la matanza d focas en canada las corridas de toros i todas esas askerosidades k se dicen arte o solo es una diversion para el enfermo ser humano dtengamos esto
29,960 3:50 am PDT, May 2 Amanda Parviainen Siilinjärvi   Finland Removing a wild animal from its naturally distribution area is wrong. And this world is a common place to all species.
29,959 8:52 am PDT, May 1 Johanna Habley Stickney Illinois United States  
29,958 10:55 am PDT, Apr 29 Jenny L Tampere   Finland Go WOLVES!!
29,957 8:29 am PDT, Apr 29 Dave Zimmerman massillon Ohio United States It is ridiculous to destroy our beautiful animals like those who roam free in Alaska. Each are valuable to our ecosystem and ordained by our Creator to be so. Killing of our beautiful wildlife is being done one animal group at a time and eventually will wipe out thousands of species. And as Bill Clinton did, by signing over our national parks rights of ownership to the United Nations, WE TOO as a Country will cease to exist in the next 100 years. We will be dominated and infested by China, Mexico, Muslims/middle easterners, Russians, and European Union One World Order leaders. The GENOCIDE of our wildlife is just the tip of a larger destructive iceburg.
29,956 5:38 am PDT, Apr 29 Klaus Eiserbeck Maxhütte-Haidhof   Germany  
29,955 6:50 am PDT, Apr 28 Anonymous kuohu Maryland Venezuela Tappaminen on väärin ja sudet eivät ole mitään leluja!
29,954 5:31 am PDT, Apr 28 Tekla Drakfrende Rättvik   Sweden  
29,953 7:47 am PDT, Apr 26 debra long Weaverville North Carolina United States  
29,952 5:17 am PDT, Apr 25 Margy Nash Davenport Iowa United States It is barbaric to kill from the air. Wolves could soon be extinct.
29,951 11:57 am PDT, Apr 24 Anonymous Lisbon New York United States Stop killing the world, you'll killing the ground you standon and the chain there too.
29,950 3:51 pm PDT, Apr 21 amber hardisty ashton u lyne   United Kingdom  
29,949 12:05 pm PDT, Apr 21 Alyssa Finnegan port saint lucie Florida United States Save the wolves!
29,948 9:46 am PDT, Apr 20 Laurie Brewer Barberton Ohio United States  
29,947 2:57 pm PDT, Apr 19 Marni Linton Ottawa   Canada  
29,946 11:34 pm PDT, Apr 17 Laurel Watson Maricopa Arizona United States  
29,945 9:33 am PDT, Apr 16 Manuela Tivontchik Zweibruecken   Germany  
29,944 4:02 pm PDT, Apr 12 robert sullivan port st. lucie Florida United States  
29,943 10:12 am PDT, Apr 12 Sofie Darovskikh Auburn New York United States I am signing this petition because I love wolves and I dont want to see wolves slaughterd just for the heck of it. It makes me feel so sad to see their lives perish not for survivel, but for trophies!
29,942 3:37 pm PDT, Apr 10 Casey Teeter Burdett New York United States  
29,941 10:05 am PDT, Apr 10 Donna-Jeanne Stanwood North Vancouver   Canada Such a beautiful animal. Leave them alone!!!
29,940 3:53 am PDT, Apr 10 Elisa Solla Inari   Finland When last river is poisoned When last animal is killed When last tree is cut down People realised that they can not eat money!
29,939 5:56 pm PDT, Apr 9 Lucia E Parker Aurora Colorado United States Anton Chekov~ Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. [Uncle Vanya, 1897]
29,938 6:25 am PDT, Apr 8 Anonymous Denver Colorado United States  
29,937 11:35 am PDT, Apr 6 Anonymous North Olmsted Ohio United States I'm signing this petition, because it's horrible to shoot and kill wolves and show them as some sort of trophy.
29,936 2:18 pm PDT, Apr 5 Anonymous Helsinki   Finland  
29,935 5:58 pm PDT, Apr 4 moni anonym Wolfsburg   Germany  
29,934 6:38 am PDT, Apr 4 Michelle Edmonson Cleveland Tennessee United States  
29,933 8:02 pm PDT, Apr 3 Desiree Lavigne Leander Texas United States  
29,932 9:46 am PDT, Apr 1 Dasha Gud Sammamish Washington United States  
29,931 7:44 am PDT, Apr 1 Monika Anonym Hildseheim Maine Germany  
29,930 7:43 am PDT, Apr 1 Monika Anonym Hildseheim   Germany  
29,929 5:17 pm PDT, Mar 31 Melissa Wolf Richmond Hill New York United States  
29,928 4:48 pm PDT, Mar 30 Christopher Wolf State College Pennsylvania United States  
29,927 8:57 am PDT, Mar 30 Melissa A Granada Pelican Lake Wisconsin United States These ought to be protected. I do not believe in shooting any animal.
29,926 8:01 pm PDT, Mar 29 S Simmons baton rouge Louisiana United States Stop murdering one of the most magnificent animals ever created. The Native Americans believed these animals were holy for a reason. If you hunt these wolves, we will hunt you.
29,925 2:50 pm PDT, Mar 29 Deborah Yokley Knoxville Tennessee United States I want wolf hunting to stop. And I will do everything in my power to see to it until the day I take my last breath.
29,924 2:35 pm PDT, Mar 29 sarah tiessen new westminster   Canada because the belief of humanity in it's superiority over other species and it's suppossed right to control them disgusts me...because murder is wrong...
29,923 9:46 am PDT, Mar 29 Mia Foley Phoenix Arizona United States This practise is BARBARIC!!
29,922 4:01 am PDT, Mar 27 Hannah Goodill Blackburn   United Kingdom I want to see that hunted wild wolves is stopped!!! Now!
29,921 3:55 am PDT, Mar 27 Matthew Stevens Blackburn   United Kingdom The way these beautiful animals are being treated and hunted is disgusting. Brutal killing of wolves should be stopped now!
29,920 12:16 am PDT, Mar 27 Anonymous -   New Zealand  
29,919 5:50 pm PDT, Mar 25 Jerry C Bellamy Pickens South Carolina United States  
29,918 8:49 am PDT, Mar 25 william schmidt scottsbluff Nebraska United States >fair chase only---allow nature to be the guide in game herd managment --not man's desire for more trophy animals
29,917 1:01 pm PDT, Mar 23 Warren Van Staden Margate,KZN   South Africa I care deeply for animals and their welfare,you do not have to love them to know killing is wrong,to add to this is the in humane way in which it is being done,and the fact that it has been outlawed. Do something positive with your time,think of ways to combat some of the real problems we are facing in the 21st century. PLEASE JUST STOP!
29,916 12:02 pm PDT, Mar 23 Bodette Smit London,Surrey   United Kingdom With all problems happening on a global scale,i find it hard to believe people would not let nature take care of its self,the way it has been since before the human race. Are you forgetting,war, famine,murder,and global warming etc that is happening daily? Put your focus on restoring instead of destroying! Just because you have the power to kill,does not mean you have the right to!!!!!
29,915 6:48 pm PDT, Mar 22 Abbygail Schwind goffstown New Hampshire United States The slaughtering of innocent animals is terrible. God put these wolves on this planet for a reason and we should treat them with respect.
29,914 4:49 pm PDT, Mar 22 Larissa Albalustro Florianopolis   Brazil I love Wolves
29,913 3:34 pm PDT, Mar 22 Ryan Leeder Vancouver   Canada Protect the call of the wild.
29,912 12:20 pm PDT, Mar 22 Patricia Benedict Kissenbrück   Germany  
29,911 7:52 am PDT, Mar 22 Ingrid Eiserbeck Maxhütte-Haidhof   Germany Every animal wants to live .It is creation.
29,910 9:13 pm PDT, Mar 19 Eric Cothran Anchorage Alaska United States I want to see a stop to this.
29,909 9:18 am PDT, Mar 19 laura j helsinki   Finland  
29,908 3:50 pm PDT, Mar 18 Duilio Panosetti Chatillon   Italy  
29,907 7:42 am PDT, Mar 18 Marissa Semon Bay View Ohio United States  
29,906 6:24 am PDT, Mar 18 Dylan Holmes Albuquerque New Mexico United States These ignorant people make me sick.
29,905 12:59 am PDT, Mar 18 esteban rocha Bogota   Colombia  
29,904 5:26 am PDT, Mar 17 Alexander Simon Juneau Alaska United States Wolves play a vital role in the eco-system. They are very social, intelligent animals and many people, including myself, enjoy having them around.
29,903 3:29 pm PDT, Mar 16 Ilona Gruenenwald Pirmasens   Germany It is murder!!
29,902 5:21 am PDT, Mar 14 Deborah Mauldin Harpersville Alabama United States This is a blot on the state of Alaska, and an outrage that people would do such acts. Humans do not belong to play God in their disastrous attemps at species control. The one species needing control is humans! But what power do these petitions really have? Do the voices of regular people really matter?
29,901 5:37 pm PDT, Mar 12 petra dunn Richmond Virginia United States Killing any animal in this manner is criminal and cruel.

Stop the Aerial Slaughter of Alaska's Wolves!

Dear Governor Murkowski,



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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