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"Be the change you wish to see in the world" ~Mohandas Gandhi
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter" ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Originally Posted: July 30, 2013
FROM Center for Biological Diversity
ACTION
Please tell the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission
not to expand wolf killing but instead focus on making the
2011 plan law.
Sign an online petition (copy/paste URL into your browser):
http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14015
And/or better yet, make direct contact:
Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission
phone (360) 902-2267
[email protected]
INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS
Washington's magnificent wolves are making a comeback. To help them, a
state Wolf Conservation and Management Plan was developed after an
extensive, five-year public process.
In late July the Center for Biological Diversity and our allies petitioned
Washington to make the wolf plan legally enforceable. Instead, the
Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission is considering proposals to increase
cases where wolves can be killed and when compensation is paid after wolf
predation on domestic animals.
The parts of the plan that protect wolves aren't being considered, and a
meeting has been planned for Aug. 2 to make a decision on the proposed
changes.
Please tell the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission not to expand wolf
killing but instead focus on making the 2011 plan law.
And join the Center's West Coast Wolf Organizer, Amaroq Weiss, at the
hearing in Olympia on Friday, Aug. 2 if you'd like to speak up for wolves in
person.
Please protect Washington's wolves by honoring the five-year,
comprehensive process that created the Wolf Conservation and Management
Plan. I urge you not to adopt any of the amendments or new sections being
proposed for the Washington Advisory Code that depart from the state's wolf
plan.
The plan protects wolves and also
prevents and reduces wolf-livestock related conflicts. This was done to
prevent economic harm to livestock producers who raise and sell livestock
for a living and simultaneously ensure that wolf recovery goals are not
jeopardized. The plan was developed with input from 17 stakeholder
representatives, comments from more than 65,000 members of the public, and
scientific reviews by 43 biologists and wildlife managers. On their
recommendations, the plan allows livestock owners to kill a wolf under
certain circumstances -- if it is caught attacking livestock -- and provides
compensation for livestock losses.
The proposed amendments remove the plan's requirement that the livestock be
held commercially or even that the animal in question be livestock. Instead
these changes would allow wolves to be killed for an attack on any domestic
animal of any kind. And any attack of a domestic animal also requires
compensation. These changes disregard the careful balancing that is an
important part of the wolf plan -- protecting the livelihoods of livestock
producers without placing wolves at increased risk of being killed.
It is incomprehensible that none of the wolf plan's provisions for
conserving and protecting wolves are being proposed to be made legally
enforceable -- including requiring monitoring, annual reports, education and
outreach, meeting population objectives before state delisting can occur and
nonlethal conflict-management.
The proposed amendments significantly depart from the Washington's wolf plan
while undermining the efforts of the stakeholders involved in that process
and substantially weakening protections for wolves.
Please stand up for the wolf plan and for Washington's wolves and reject
these unjustified, one-sided proposals.
Sincerely...
Thank you for everything you do for animals!
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