Endangered grey wolves will soon face slaughter at the hand of hunters due to a bill that will permit the hunting of the species. Several environmental groups have condemned this bill, saying that the population of grey wolves in Wisconsin is too fragile to allow their hunting and killing.

Before the arrival of Europeans, grey wolves lived throughout most of North America. But the hunting of wolves by humans, as well as the hunting of the prey animals that the wolves depend on for food decimated the wolf population in the contiguous United States. In Wisconsin, where wolves had once thrived, wolves disappeared: there were no breeding pairs in the state between 1960 and 1975. Only once the species was put on the federal endangered species list in 1974 did the population begin to return and recover.

Although wolf populations have been expanding in Wisconsin, conservationists say it is much too early to end their protections. In an interview with NPR, Noah Greenwald, endangered species program director at the Center for Biological Diversity stated, “Wolves are still missing from more than 90 percent of their historic range in the lower 48 states, and both the Endangered Species Act and common sense tell us we can’t ignore that loss.”

Sign this petition to encourage representatives in the Wisconsin State Assembly to reject the plan to restart wolf hunts.

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