In Idaho, Even Pups Are Fair Game for Hunters. Twelve Were Killed Just This Spring. We Demand a Policy Change.

Twelve small wolf pups were killed by hunters in Idaho this spring. What's even worse is that the hunters who ripped these babies away from their families were paid for this bloody work. In total, hunters received $24,000 from the state for killing wolf pups.

Sign the petition to demand Idaho change its wolf management policy to be humane and nonlethal!

These pups had just been born. They should have had the chance to play with their littermates, be guided through the woods by their mother and father, to learn to roam, hunt, and howl. Instead, their lives were cruelly cut short, and their murderers were compensated for it.

Idaho's policy is cruel and ridiculous – they have no limit on the amount of wolves people can kill. Why? Because the state wants to slash the wolf population from just over 1,000 to 500 wolves, which would mean killing nearly 60% of the population.

They claim that this is to manage livestock conflicts for ranchers. But we know from extensive research and experience that lethal management methods simply do not work. They do little to reduce ranchers' losses while risking the very survival of the wolf species, which was hunted nearly to total extinction in the 20th century.

We nearly lost wolves forever, and now Idaho is killing the next generation with no restrictions

Idaho's policy is brutally anti-wolf and an attempt to push these animals past the point of no return, thinly veiled as protections for the livestock industry. If that blood money was spent on provenly effective, humane nonlethal wolf management solutions, we know that livestock conflicts would go down and wolves would be able to live in peace.

Instead, Idaho wants to take us backwards into a world where future generations are potentially robbed of North America's most iconic animals forever.

Idaho's statewide policy has such an impact because wolves are no longer protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), stripped of their safeguarding by the Trump administration in 2021. If these protections were reinstated, anti-wolf state legislators would have no power to cruelly attack the species.

That's why we're asking Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to reinstate wolves' ESA status without delay. The lives of countless wolf pups in Idaho, and wolves across the entire lower 48, depend on this.

Sign the petition to protect wolf pups, and the future of the wolf species!