End Alaska's Brutal Aerial Wolf Killing Programs!

© Larry Allen 2009

You may or may not particularly like wolves, however, they were created for a reason and have their place in the divine scheme of things in the world. We need your help to end the brutal, unscientific and unfounded aerial wolf killing programs in Alaska that have claimed the lives of more than 1,000 of these magnificent wolves who are easy targets in the snow, and are gunned down from airplanes or chased to exhaustion, then shot at point-blank range. Can you believe state-licensed riflemen can target entire packs -- even pregnant wolves? It’s not wolf management. It’s a wolf massacre!

Save these wolves by signing our petition to urge the Obama administration to stop this out-of-control aerial wolf killing and promote sound management of wolves in Alaska. This terrible practice was stopped twice already, only to be revived after two years. But, with the Obama White House, we have renewed hope that we can end these awful programs once and for all by the enforcement of the Federal Airborne Hunting Act, the federal law that could end Alaska's brutal and unscientific wolf-killing programs.

Alaska’s politicians promote aerial gunning and other extreme measures to kill wolves. In 2008 then-Governor Sarah Palin and the state legislature approved spending $400,000 in taxpayer funds to promote the slaughter from the skies and defeat a citizen’s initiative to limit aerial gunning. To encourage the killing, Governor Palin even proposed a $150 bounty for the left foreleg of each dead wolf -- a grisly proposal that Defenders of Wildlife was successful at stopping. Even with Palin gone, the Board of Game is continuing the killing policies.

Please click here to sign our petition right now and help us end cruel and unfounded aerial gunning in Alaska before move wolves who are a crucial part of Alaska's natural heritage that we’ll leave our children and grandchildren die.

We have a real chance to end this terrible practice -- and prevent other states from following Alaska's shameful lead.

- From The Defenders of Wildlife