In most states, wild wolves continue to be treated as gang members of the wilderness — as a scourge of the landscape, marauders of livestock, and menaces of the cash cows (elk and deer) of the modern hunting and trapping establishment. Idaho allows wolves to be shot from helicopters and ATVs; Montana hunters and trappers … Read more
Saving Wolves
San Francisco, CA. — Animal Wellness Action (AWA), and the Center for a Humane Economy (CHE), and affiliates applauded a U.S. District Court for doing away with a last-minute Trump administration rule removing wolves from the Endangered Species Act and restoring protections for the species across most of the lower 48 states. AWA, CHE, the … Read more
Press Release For Immediate Release: Contact: Wayne Pacelle • 202-420-0446wpacelle@centerforahumaneeconomy.org BOISE – A set of conservation and animal protection groups, including Animal Wellness Action, the ZooMontana, and the Western Watershed Project, today called on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to close down wolf hunting and trapping in the Caribou-Targhee, Bridger-Teton, Custer Gallatin, and Shoshone national forests … Read more
Cam Sholly, the Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, had the right sales pitch but knocked on the wrong door. On December 16th, he wrote to Montana Governor Greg Gianforte and asked him to stop allowing private hunters and trappers to bait the borders of Yellowstone and to kill wolves who wander from the safe confines … Read more
BOISE, IDAHO – A set of wildlife and animal welfare groups, including Animal Wellness Action, the Idaho Conservation League, and ZooMontana, called on National Park Service Director Charles Sams to work with Interior Secretary Haaland to issue an emergency listing of wolves under the Endangered Species Act in response to the immense toll taken on … Read more
Legal Challenge That Stayed Hunt Now to Continue Beyond the February End-Date for Wolf Hunting MADISON, WISCONSIN – Judge Jacob B. Frost and plaintiffs and defendants have agreed to a briefing schedule over the next few months to allow for a final order in a case brought to oppose the fall 2021 wolf hunting season. … Read more
If Any Appeals Are Denied, Decision Could Spare Hundreds of Wolves There hasn’t been much good news for wolves in 2021 – until now. On Friday night, October 22nd, a Wisconsin judge issued, according to a description from a state assistant attorney general, a “dramatic decision” that blocks the state’s plan to turn hunters loose on … Read more
Madison, WI. — Today lawyers for Animal Wellness Action, the Center for a Humane Economy, Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf and Wildlife, Project Coyote and Wisconsin resident Pat Clark filed new motions with the Dane County Circuit Court in their ongoing challenge to Wisconsin’s disastrous decision-making on wolf management. In August, the groups filed a … Read more
The Biden Administration is fiddling while wolves die. Yesterday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced a “status review” would proceed in response to two petitions for emergency listing of wolves in the West – including one joined by Animal Wellness Actioin and the Center for a Humane Economy. The petitions were spurred by … Read more
Press Release For Immediate Release: Contact: Paul Collins, 608.566.9850, paul@animalwellnessaction.orgMelissa Smith, 608.234.8860, msmith@wiwolvesandwildlife.orgMichelle Lute, 406.848.4910, mlute@projectcoyote.org Madison, WI. — Today Animal Wellness Action, the Center for a Humane Economy, Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf and Wildlife, and Project Coyote sued the state of Wisconsin over its reckless and politically motivated decision to authorize a quota … Read more