In Wisconsin, more wolves have been killed in 16 days than during the entire 2012 hunting and trapping season.
Yes, you read that correctly.
In just over two weeks, hunters and trappers in Wisconsin have killed off more than 181 wolves. This represents a horrible and disturbing trend of accelerated anti-wolf attitudes and killing.
How did this happen?
Reports suggest that the state Wolf Advisory Committee is now overrun by livestock and hunting and trapping interests – and the deck is now completely stacked against wolves.
We have to stop this before it’s too late. Please take action today and demand that balance be restored to the Wisconsin Wolf Advisory Committee!
This committee makes recommendations on quotas, policies and even population goals. But several scientific experts have been removed from the committee, and livestock and hunting and trapping interests have been added on in their place!
No outside scientists are on the committee, and only one pro-wolf group is represented. There are, however, seven livestock, hunting and trapping groups represented!
Demand that the Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources stop this blatant anti-wolf bias!
We’ve come so far in our efforts to restore wolves to their historic range in the Great Lakes region. But with anti-wolf forces more aggressive than ever, we’re at a crossroads…
Exposing the Big Game 
Stop the insanity of killing all wolves and put others in charge instead of all hunters!
WHO WAS HERE FIRST????????????????????????????? TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH THE ERADICATING OF THIS BEAUTIFUL SPECIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wolves-holocaust!
Truly a holocaust for these beautiful beings .. It is a travesty.. My heart breaks we have betrayed these beautiful beings and caretakers of the earth.
When the officials are giving out coordinates of course they will all be killed where’s the media .. What of the American people knew the people supposedly protecting them are actually aiding in their slaughter ?
Pres Obama protect our precious wolf and don’t allow your administration to be responsible for their extinction
Ignorance is not an excuse for the killing fields .. Rise up people of Wisconsin and demand this be stopped!
In No way should the science be taken
out of this issue an fall into the hands of the Ranchers!!!!!! An I come from ranching & farming so I know the concerns on both sides. The wolves deserve a fair an equal representation!!!! An Wissconsin are not above the law when in numbers unfavorable.
disgusting
Shared…Wisconsin like all the wolf hunting states have refused to accept that wolves are highly social,and that the killing of a few leads to the ultimate loss of many.As packs break up and make fatal mistakes while trying to survive,such as the popular Lamar canyon pack in Yellowstone park.While many have stated,affectionately,how they will miss this pack,they were more than tourest attractions.They were being studied…but as they gave up their territory after losing many key members,the final lesson they tought still goes ignored.
How sick. These people are sickk
Pleàse stop this madness! Don’t kill these beautiful animals.
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evil pieces of scum leave the wolves to live in peace
It breaks my heart, wolves are so misunderstood and they were put on this earth to balance the Eco system. They have nothing but their strength in numbers to survive. They rely on each other to survive. Killing the alpha members of a pack are devastating for the wolf families. The wolves do not stand a chance against the wolf haters.:(
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We may not be able to completely stop the wolf slaughter (it’s not a harvest and I call it for what it is), but we do need to demand that ecologists, wolf biologists, wildlife biologists, and other scientists are involved in this ‘discussion’.
As an ecologist I can tell you that slaughtering top predators adversely effects the ecosystems. The ungulates overpopulate and will destroy seedlings along stream banks. Those seedlings are needed to stabilize streambanks. It actually changes the hydrology of the stream system. That’s just one example of how killing off the top predators has a domino effect on the entire system.
As a scientist, I’m glad you are willing to point out the ecological ill-effects of wholesale wolf slaughter. But far more fundamental than that, any normal person with a working moral conscience, no matter how humble or uncredentialed they may be, should oppose this form of animal abuse on strictly ethical grounds.
And the ethical ill-effects may ultimately be even more damaging to human society.
They should just stop this senseless killing. Don’t they have something better to do with their time????
Re logged on my site. Here out West, the human gene pool is equally as depraved. A travesty.
Yep. Thanks for reblogging.
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When will this end? This is a massacre and these hunters are cruel. I seriously don’t understand why this is happening and why it’s being allowed to continue. I’m ashamed to be human.
You don’t understand “why it’s being allowed to continue.” Really?
As Edmund Burke put it: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men (people) to do nothing.” And not enough good people, up to and including our pathetically inept President whose urban-community-organizer background apparently leaves him bereft of any concern for nature or nature’s wildlife, are willing to stand up, eyeball-to-eyeball, and face down the wolf-hating thugs. Like Dick Cheney when called upon to ante-up and serve in the Vietnam War, they have “other priorities.” Like all the tourists gawking at the dead wolf on display in Jackson Hole who should have been spitting on the killer seated, proudly, next to it. Only when a few good people work-up the nerve to stand up to these thugs, and I’m talking literally, physically here, not metaphorically, can one expect any media attention to be drawn to this matter.
Right, the people in Jackson Hole wasted a perfect opportunity to make some kind of a statement for the wolves. (Tying him to the top of their car comes to mind).
Well I don’t know what’s going on in terms of the good people who are actually physically in that area, but there are good people trying to get their voices heard in whatever way they know how to or are able to. The problem isn’t completely that there aren’t enough good people taking action, it’s just that it takes a while sometimes for something like this to sink in, for people to realize exactly what’s going on, because the voices need to be heard in order for people to pay attention. Especially when there are too many people who turn their heads away. I’ve found that a lot when I first went vegan, no one wants to hear how the dairy cows are treated, they want to keep the childhood image of dairy cows grazing in vast fields and of the family farmers. I think in terms of activism of any kind, we are just beginning to recognizing the powerful tool that social media is, how people can be reached globally. And incidentally, your implication that I asked a stupid question didn’t answer my question at all.
Too many people turning their heads away is a major part of the problem. They egg each other on and add to the impression that their way is “Normal. Why should they change?”
It is definitely a huge part of the problem because they just don’t want to know. They get an idea and the details are too hard to handle, so they turn away. That’s very true.
I seems the only animals for which man has need will be cows, chickens , pigs and fish.
Sad! We eradicate species because we can’t figure out how to live with the natural world!
Just disgusting, typical ugly human. I had no idea of this, and am glad you’ve put it out there. I signed the petition but while I gave my address, I had to make up a US State & zip code in order to do it.
Thanks for signing.
This is cruel and shameful
That it is.
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No matter what state or country you live in, please take action and sign the petition.
im so sick to my stomach that these people call themselves human but have no problems putting a bullet in these beautiful creatures. i agree with some of the other posts that i read that they were here long before us. the senseless killings need to stop!!!
Maybe one day we will realize that we are all connected on this planet,but that will take a heightened awareness that not enough of us have yet..we must strive to be more aware of how all living beings are interconnected…then this insane murder of innocent animals (wolves etc..) will end