It's happened. The Fish & Wildlife Service has made it easier to kill wolves in the Greater Yellowstone and Northern Rockies region -- even while they remain protected under the Endangered Species Act.
Take action now. Tell Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne that this rule change is unacceptable.
We signed the “Bush Admin Allows Yellowstone Area Wolf Slaughter - Act Now!” petition!
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7:44 pm PST, Mar 4,Name not displayed, California
Wolves are beautiful and killing a live creature is a sin
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7:25 pm PST, Mar 4,Kelle-Lee Connolly, New Zealand
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7:13 pm PST, Mar 4,Erin Tucker, Ohio
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7:11 pm PST, Mar 4,Name not displayed, New Mexico
It greatly troubles me that wolves may be killed if they are shown to affect elk movement. Currently elk patterns and behavior (especially standing in wide open areas) developed due to a lack of wolf predators in the vicinity. Naturally, the reappearance of wolves is going to cause the behavioral patterns of elk to return to a more natural state.
In addition, allowing the number of wolves in the population to drop will have a very negative effect on the gene pool.
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6:57 pm PST, Mar 4,Catherine Wesson, New Mexico
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6:52 pm PST, Mar 4,Sandy Liu, California
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6:04 pm PST, Mar 4,Andrea Lagos, Florida
Disgusting, Disgusting! Idea. It is sad that this does not sursprise me, BUT THE NERVE! How idiotic must you be, NO! Cruel to allow, SUPPORT! This Idea.
PLEASE. Tell me the benefits from killing animals that have been around way before us. "Well, they are hurting humans?" No. WE Are hurting them or at least people like YOU. people like you who move into territory not ment for you. Territory for NATURAL inhabinants. Not some human settler. If we move into a place where a creature has been living peacefully and healthly for YEARS, we need to take what they throw at us. Becuase GUESS WHAT? WE moved into their homes and now you decide that we should not only live in their homes and use their resourse but now we can KILL THEM!? For the HELL OF IT? Give me ONE GOOD REASON. I pretty sure you can't.
You know what's going to happen? People will start killing for the fun and prize. Oh Yeah! The "Prize" How about an adult Femle and her 13 just born pups. All lined together for their first place prize. It's so beautiful how there eyes are gloosed over and limbs so limp. This was an actual picture. It's happened before and It's going to happen again. That's what america's future children will know the wolf as. Those stiff doggy things in Daddy's study. I remember as a kid I would play pretend with my friends and we would pretend to be wolf pups and 2 would be the parents. We woud take care of eachother. Just like your family. And just like any wolf pack.
et's start mounting humans on our walls.
See if you'll agree to that.
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5:25 pm PST, Mar 4,Sonia Wong, California
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5:13 pm PST, Mar 4,Todd Copeland, Texas
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4:53 pm PST, Mar 4,Hanna G., California
Leaving an animal unprotected from extinction will completely throw off our ecosystem in the long run. It's bad enough we have global warming happening, and many species are already dying out from that. But to let extinction, that we have the power to prevent, carry on will sooner or later ensure our and the world's destruction along with allowing global warming and pollution to prolong. Without every animal, plant, etc. working according to nature, including ourselves and wolves, the world will fall apart from being imbalanced. Besides, wolves are majestic and beautiful creatures. I love them and, along with numerous of other people, do not wish for their untimely and genocidal deaths.
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4:48 pm PST, Mar 4,Melissa Donner, California
Wolves are an extremely important part of nature. Man has killed thousands of wolves before.... If we start again now we are nothing more then savages. We should really start thinking about saving our planet not destroying it.
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4:29 pm PST, Mar 4,Patricia Couillard, Wisconsin
This is outrageous, totally outrageous. Our government should be focusing its attention on providing health care for its unprotected citizens, resolving the mess it made in Iraq, and finding ways to eliminate or resolve poverty issues in America, NOT on killing defenseless animals who have as much right to this land as do any of the citizens who live here. The so-called Christians in government need to get their priorities in order. Do unto others. . . . . all of God's creatures, not just those who have money.
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4:18 pm PST, Mar 4,Rebecca Youdle, United Kingdom
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4:18 pm PST, Mar 4,Name not displayed, Florida
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1:28 pm PST, Mar 4,Nat Luna, California
You are giving thje american nam,e a disgrace most REASONABLE and INTELLIGENT political figures would OPPOSE such a threat to this beutiful ENDANGERED creatures i hope you are riidled with bullets of guilt you SELF RIGHTEOUS PUNK!!
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1:20 pm PST, Mar 4,Nadia Lasso, California
We as Humans have a bad enough reputation at being greedy selfish creatures if we start killing the beuty and ENDANGERED animals now that is not only incredibily sad but only a fourth rate idiot would allow such a low and disgusting law
-N.N.L
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12:52 pm PST, Mar 4,Donna Nuhn, Texas
The reintroduction of the wolf into Yellowstone has been a huge success. Are we really now to take that success and wipe it out? I am each day disgusted with the ideas coming out of Washington. Each and every one of us would do well to remember that the wolf was there 1st and ranchers and farmers who moved into that area and others in the Northern Rockies darn well knew that. We will one day reap what we sow. Please stop this senseless slaughter of a majestic animal that deserves to remain in it's current regions
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11:53 am PST, Mar 4,Mary Orbison, New York
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6:01 am PST, Mar 4,Ben Nation, Indiana
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3:07 am PST, Mar 4,Dipti Banerjee, India
IF THE WOLVES ARE NOT BEING PROTECTED BY THE PRESIDENT, THEN GOOD HE IS GOING
# 6,867:
2:51 am PST, Mar 4,Eric Calbeck, Canada
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11:49 pm PST, Mar 3,Name not displayed, Washington
If the Wolf populations keep decreasing- eventually they will be gone! And all of the food chain, all of nature will be unbalanced and disrupted forever! Humans are more of a distruption and a nuisance than wolves!
You can't let this happen! They deserve to live!
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6:49 pm PST, Mar 3,Danielle K., Texas
Because wolves are beautiful, amazing creatures and deserve better than this! HELP SAVE THESE WOLVES!
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5:04 pm PST, Mar 3,Nichole Goheen, Ohio
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8:42 am PST, Mar 3,Name not displayed, Massachusetts
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6:16 am PST, Mar 3,Eik Knorr, Germany
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12:42 am PST, Mar 3,Garreyn Dominique, France
le role a tous est de proteger ce que DIEU nous a donné , la nature et surtout les animaux !!!! vous etes sont representant !!
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2:01 pm PST, Mar 2,Name not displayed, New York
Talk about chasing your tail, or shooting yourself in the foot...when will we get the government we're paying for?!! Does anyone in Washington have two neurons that synapse properly? Where's the objectivity?? Is there any regard or insight for the cause/effect relationship of man's continued interference with nature? What does the scientific community offer as an alternative to the perceived threat these animals putatively pose? There are always options. This simply is not the best, nor most comprehensive solution to a purported dilemma. When will the elected officials examine the whole of an issue before authorizing actions of irreversible consequences? Or does that mean someone would have to stop pandering to special interests and actually do what's simply globally correct? Your seat could be in jeopardy, sir. I earnestly urge you to reconsider.
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1:51 pm PST, Mar 2,Margaret Galbraith, Missouri
The slaughter of wolves has already had a serious negative impact on the ecological system, creating an imbalance with other wildlife. There isn't a recorded incident of a wolf attacking a human, despite all the negative publicity they have received. They generally cull the weak and sick prey in the area and will not attack livestock unless their natural prey has been deleted from the area. It's about time the wolf stopped getting blamed for existing.
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11:46 am PST, Mar 2,Pam DeLitta, Texas
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11:08 am PST, Mar 2,Name not displayed, Illinois
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10:51 am PST, Mar 2,Barbara Higginson, Virginia
Please stop the killing!!! Who do we think we are to take the life of another creature???
# 6,855:
9:13 am PST, Mar 2,Mel Marx, Oregon
a protected class (in this case species) is a protected class.
allowing this to happen should lead to prosecution. the administration first in line. this is wrong. we urge you to change this practice now.
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8:29 am PST, Mar 2,Pao-Lan Ladouceur, Canada
We should protect animal species that risk to be hunt down. Because if we open hunting now, we may be in the obligation of returning the wolve into the endangered species someday. Or the specie may disapear before we have the chance to.
So I beg to stop this. For the sake of nature's beauty.
# 6,853:
12:43 am PST, Mar 2,Iga Drobisz, Poland
it's so cruel and unfair!
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8:07 pm PST, Mar 1,Tara Cole, Texas
that's just cruel, it's barbaric! why make it easier to kill an animal on the endangered species list? if they're endangered it means they're close to extinct. extinct is gone forever. what kind of a person would do that to our wolves?!
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7:38 pm PST, Mar 1,Felix Hernandez, Florida
Wolves are beautiful animals that have been part of American wildlife for a long time. Hunting of these animals and any other is just immoral. Therefore protection for wolves should be preserved.
