Wolves Need Your Help

Give wolves hope in the West. Help save them today.   Dear Center Supporter, Wolves are under constant assault -- aerial gunning, hunting, trapping -- but with your help we're fighting back and winning protections for these incredible animals. Now we need your help to recover wolves in California. When news came out late last year that a wolf had arrived in California, the Cattlemen's Association immediately called for a "big shield" to keep wolves out of the state, with an official warning that without regulations he'd "shoot them on sight." Now the livestock industry is gearing up its lobbying machine to keep wolves out of the state. This is just the vanguard of the coming attacks. Please help us secure lifesaving protections for wolves in the West's most populous state by making a donation today to our California Wolf Fund. Wolves are not protected under California's Endangered Species Act, which means there are no state endangered species safeguards in place for them: Wolves won't be safe unless we step in. Protection under the state's Endangered Species Act would lead to the first-ever recovery plan to help wolves not only survive but thrive in California. The Center for Biological Diversity is preparing to take this to the courts, and we need your help. Please make a gift right now to help wolves return to California. Wolves were killed off or driven out of the state 80 years ago by livestock producers. Then they were forgotten by state wildlife officials. With the exception of conservation groups like the Center, no one wanted or planned for wolves to come back. Now that they are coming back, we need to make sure they're not exterminated again. The Center has been winning protections for wolves for more than two decades with our unique brand of legal, political, media and organizing work. With your support now, we'll do it again for wolves in California -- just as we helped stop the killing of wolves in Oregon and kept wolves on the federal endangered species list in the northern Rockies and Great Lakes long enough to build the population to several thousand. Please help us pay for this critical work by donating today to our California Wolf Fund. With your help, we will bring wolves back to the Golden State. The first step is getting them state protection. Thanks for your support, Kierán Suckling Executive Director Center for Biological Diversity P.S. Studies following the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park have shown that wolves are a keystone species that shape their prey populations and the landscape itself, with benefits for many other species. For instance, they were found to reduce elk browsing on streamside vegetation and aspen, helping both songbirds and beavers. Please make a generous gift today and share this appeal with your friends. P.P.S. If you have trouble with the links above, please copy and paste this Web address into your browser: https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=8345&track=E1201B1 This message was sent to ignoble.experiment@arconati.us. Gray wolf photo courtesy Flickr Creative Commons/USFWS Pacific. When donating online to the Center for Biological Diversity, always confirm that the donation page is located at DemocracyinAction.org or BiologicalDiversity.org. Let us know if you'd like to change your email list preferences or stop receiving action alerts and newsletters from us. Center for Biological Diversity P.O. Box 710 Tucson, AZ 85702 1-866-357-3349 www.BiologicalDiversity.org