Protect Our Wolves

 

 Our worst fears have been confirmed.

Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) formally proposed to strip nearly all gray wolves across the United States of protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Please donate today and help support our all-out effort to protect gray wolves!

If this ill-advised plan goes forward, decades of hard-won wolf conservation progress will be severely undermined, and the future of gray wolf conservation will be forever changed.

Defenders of Wildlife will do whatever it takes to keep this from happening, but we urgently need your help.

Please donate today — support our work to protect wolves and other imperiled wildlife.

What a tragedy. Wolf recovery still has a long way to go. What should be one of America’s greatest endangered species comeback stories could become a heartbreaking setback.

We have seen what happens when premature delisting leaves wolves to the mercy of anti-wolf politics and politicians that are unwilling to protect them. In Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, more than 1,100 wolves have been shot or trapped since losing ESA protection in 2011. And we have seen some of Yellowstone National Park’s most iconic and beloved wolves shot and killed just across the park border. 

Your urgent donation today will help support our all-out effort to keep gray wolves protected under the ESA.

It’s not too late to stop this irresponsible proposal. The FWS’s federal delisting proposal is open for public comment for the next 90 days. We will use the comment period to wage an unprecedented initiative to try to convince the Obama administration to do the right thing.

• We are mobilizing wolf-lovers like you to express outrage over this proposal. We’ve already collected more than 230,000 signatures demanding that wolves continue to receive protection under the ESA. 

• We are providing the expert ESA policy and legal analysis that makes it clear that delisting is premature (and sets a dangerous precedent for other imperiled animals); and 

• We’ll be prepared to go to court if necessary to challenge any premature delisting of gray wolves.

We are going to do whatever it takes to retain needed protections for wolves and other iconic species.

Please make an emergency donation today.

Thank you for all you do for wildlife.

*Article courtesy of Defenders of Wildlife - www.defenders.org

Dhara Fights For Her Life

I'd like to introduce you to Dhara. She is an elephant calf from India. Dhara came to us on June 28th, said IFAW's Wildlife Rescue Center Veteranarian. Dhara is one of thousands of wild animals stricken by the deadly monsoon season we’re experiencing in the northeast Indian state of Assam. I may have already seen hundreds of baby elephants, but seeing our International Fund for Animal Welfare and Wildlife Trust of India veterinarians taking an x-ray image of an elephant calf was truly a rare sight.

Dhara is now being cared for at IFAW’s Wildlife Rescue Center in the outskirts of Kaziranga National Park. The x-ray showed that Dhara is suffering from a knee dislocation on her left front leg. She is about eight months old, and was found alone. We believe she was displaced from her herd during the floods in the park. An iron-reinforced cast was fixed on her leg to immobilize the joint for the next 21 days. The vets at the Center will review the wound after the stipulated time to see the progress.In the meantime the calf is being looked after by the vets, animal keepers and two volunteers from the UK. They provide the calf with milk nine times a day and a healthy dose of food supplements. Dhara is very active despite the pain in her leg. She always keeps on exploring the enclosure and tries to climb up to the window to peep through and see if there is someone out there with food. And when the food comes she starts shouting out impatiently. She looks awfully cute throwing baby tantrums to her keepers. Even though she’s just a little calf, I felt that it was an elephantine task to tranquilize it, transport it to the center’s clinic, X ray her and fit an iron cast on her leg. Now we’re all waiting for the 21st day of treatment when the vets will remove the cast to see the progress. I hope she regains her strength and is able to walk freely soon. Stay tuned for more updates on Dhara coming soon. Many have asked how they can help support our efforts, and you can do so by clicking the "Donations for Dhara" button on the right side of this blog. This article comes courtesy of IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare).