PROTECT WOLVES FROM TORTURE 🐺🌿
An opinion piece published yesterday in the #BillingsGazette explores #CodyRoberts ' #torture of a young female #wolf in Daniel, #Wyoming. By now, most of you have heard the news or seen the disturbing photos and videos. We remain disgusted by the #cruelty, as does our partner and op-ed author #JeffEwelt.
In his op-ed, Jeff Ewelt, the Executive Director of #ZooMontana and a partner of The #RelistWolves Campaign,
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highlights the larger systemic issue of #AnimalCruelty and concludes #Montana 's policies make the state vulnerable to similar tragedies.
Ewelt argues that this incident could have easily taken place in #Montana, where savage and brutal practices are allowed with minimal #penalties. Where Roberts was fined only $250 for his crime in Wyoming, the same crime committed in Montana would have resulted in an even smaller #fine.
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Ewelt points to the urgent need for stricter #AnimalCrueltyLaws and a shift in #WildlifeManagement practices to prevent further such incidents and protect wildlife.
We support Jeff Ewelt's call for increased oversight and #LegalReforms to prevent horrific events like this from happening again. We appreciate all those who have taken action and shared the news amongst your network. If you have not done so yet, there's still time to raise your voice for #wolves. Thank YOU!
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• Send a letter urging the State of #Wyoming to ban the use of snowmobiles and other motorized vehicles to chase down and kill #wolves and other animals.
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https://engage.nywolf.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=197
• Sign this petition calling on #SubletteCounty officials to bring more severe charges against #CodyRoberts in effort to hold him accountable and deter others from attempting similar acts of #cruelty.
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#AnimalCruelty #Wyoming #ProtectOurWildlife 🐺 🌿
https://www.change.org/p/demand-felony-charges-against-cody-roberts-for-animal-cruelty
Contact #Wyoming State officials including Governor #MarkGordon, at 307-777-7434, and #WyomingGameAndFishDepartment Director, #BrianNesvick, at 307-777-4600. Please be polite and respectful in your comment, but emphasize that the world is watching. Here are three talking points for your call:
- The recent incident where a #wolf was chased, injured, and killed, is #AnimalCruelty and tarnishes the reputation of the state.
- A $250 penalty is not enough.
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#CodyRoberts must be charged for animal cruelty not only for #justice to be served, but for the precedent that this incident will set.
- Urge the Director to support legislative action to ban "wolf/coyote whacking," which is the practice of using #snowmobiles and other motorized vehicles to chase down and kill #wolves and #coyotes.
- The #RelistWolves Campaign
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#ThePackPress #ProtectOurWildlife #SeeAnimalsAsIndividuals #BanWolfWhacking #BanCoyoteWhacking #RaiseYourVoiceForWolves 🐺 🌿
A #wolf was hunted, tortured and killed -- and almost all of it was #legal
This might be the most horrifying story I've read since #WolfHunting became legal again.
A #Wyoming #hunter recently ran down and crippled a wolf with his #snowmobile.
Then the hunter #taped the wolf's mouth shut, and forced her to limp around the local bar while he posed for #photos with the suffering animal.
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On Feb. 29, a Sublette County man reportedly captured and tormented a wolf in Daniel, Wyoming. He allegedly taped its mouth shut and showed it off in a bar before taking it out back and shooting it. The man has been charged with possession of a live wolf.
Eventually, he brought the #wolf out back and shot her in the head, killing her.
This is beyond #cruel.
Do you know what the most horrifying part might be?
Under #Wyoming 's laws, it appears that the only illegal part of this entire tragedy was that the #hunter briefly had a live wolf in his possession.
Because in 85% of Wyoming, #wolves can be killed for any reason, at any time -- no #permits, no #quotas, virtually no #rules.
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It has never been clearer -- or more urgent -- that wolves need their #EndangeredSpeciesAct protections restored in #Wyoming, #Idaho and #Montana. It's the single best way that we can end these unconscionable #WolfHunts.
Thank you for standing with wolves,
Pat from the #EnvironmentalAction team
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https://e360.yale.edu/features/americas-new-war-on-wolves-and-why-it-must-be-stopped
#RestoreESA #RelistWolves #RaiseYourVoiceForWolves #ProtectOurWildlife #SeeAnimalsAsIndividuals 🐺 🌿
Hunting of wolves is again legal in the Northern Rockies, where running them over with snowmobiles or incinerating them in their dens is now permitted. The Biden administration must stop the slaughter of these wolves and protect their recovery from the brink of extinction.
On Feb. 29, a Sublette County man reportedly captured and tormented a wolf in Daniel, Wyoming. He allegedly taped its mouth shut and showed it off in a bar before taking it out back and shooting it. The man has been charged with possession of a live wolf.
#CowboyStateDaily has obtained a photo of a #wolf that was captured and had its mouth taped shut while it was reportedly taken to a local man’s house and a bar in rural #Daniel, #Wyoming, before it was killed.
The photo shows the wolf with red tape wound tightly around its muzzle sitting and looking down while #CodyRoberts of Daniel poses with the animal in his house. They are on a tile floor with coats and other clothing hanging behind them.
For one #wolf, getting hit by a #snowmobile was just the first of many horrors that awaited her on her last day of life.
That's right. A #Wyoming wolf was hit by a #hunter, disabled, duct taped, dragged around town, and paraded around a bar before meeting a cruel death: Getting shot out back.
And the punishment for this cruel capture and killing? Just a $250 fine for possessing live wildlife.
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Imagine, hearing the noise of an engine far away. You and your #pack are on edge as the engine revs closer. You begin to run, but you can't outrun a #hunter who hits you with his snowmobile.
What happened next, I can't even ask you to imagine. This poor #GrayWolf was captured, red duct tape wrapped tightly around her snout. She was thrown into a strange car, driven to her soon-to-be killer's home.
But there's another stop: She was taken to a #bar in #Wyoming,
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where she was paraded around like a prize despite her grave #injuries. Finally, the hunter took her out back and shot her.
This poor wolf was captured in what's called a "#PredatorZone," where there are basically no rules for how and when wolves can be killed. But #wolves in #Wyoming can't tell the difference between safe places for them -- places like #Yellowstone -- and places where they're subject 24/7 to #slaughter.
They deserve to spend time with their beloved pack members,
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to grow up safe from the fear of being hunted as #pups, to be free from the carte blanche killings of Wyoming's free-for-all "predator zones."
But no gray wolf deserves to meet an end as cruel as this poor Wyoming wolf's death.
That's why, with people like you to stand with us, we're working to put an end to wolf hunts in states like #Wyoming.
- Environmental Action
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#EndTheWolfHunts 🐺 🌿
PROTECT WOLVES 🐺🌿
A dangerous bill is up for vote tomorrow in the U.S. House of Representatives that is misleadingly titled the "Trust the Science Act" (H.R. 764). This bill endangers gray wolves by prematurely stripping their Endangered Species Act protection and blocking any legal recourse.
Here's why it matters:
• Gray wolves are NOT fully recovered.
• They currently occupy only a tiny portion of their historic range and need ongoing protection to thrive.
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• Previous delisting led to unsustainable hunting quotas and brutal practices, like the Wisconsin hunt in 2021 where over 200 wolves were killed in three days.
• Anti-wolf legislation is spreading in several states, jeopardizing wolf populations across the country.
This isn't about trusting science; it's about political attacks on wildlife fueled by misinformation.
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If this legislation passes, it will further hinder gray wolf recovery efforts and threaten wolves with extinction.
Sincerely,
Wolf Conservation Center
https://engage.nywolf.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=199
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