Dear Scientist,

We are writing to request your help in the form of signing onto a Letter from Scientists in support of wolf populations in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA. The letter is available here:
https://wildlifecoexistence.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Why-We-Should-Act-Now-in-Defense-of-Wolvesv2.pdf

This is an urgent request as on July 1 the State of Idaho will begin an eradication campaign to slash the state’s recovering wolf population from an estimated 1,500 wolves to 150. This intervention, approved by the state legislature and signed by the Governor, involves the use of bounties, traps, snares, night raids, hunting hounds, and even the killing of nursing pups and mothers in their dens. This kill is being authorized despite widespread evidence that wolves pose no threat to the region’s livestock industry and that non-lethal control remains the most effective means to reduce conflict. It is an act that will result in renewed persecution of a keystone species in the region’s ecosystem, and that will reverse decades of recovery efforts. The proposed actions in Idaho have spread to other states, with Montana and Wyoming having passed similar laws.

We are asking for 1,500 North American scientists to support this letter, one representing each wolf in Idaho who has no voice in its own future. It will be joined by international scientists who have witnessed a globally-renowned recovery effort in the Greater Yellowstone, and will watch how we manage wildlife populations in North America.

Please join us in asking the Biden Administration, the US Department of the Interior, and the US Fish & Wildlife Service to act now to enact an emergency re-listing for the Northern Rockies wolf populations, and to consider long-term protection measures in the form of a National Bison, Grizzly, and Wolf Protection Act.

A background document providing more information on the issue is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZplDxj9mOCXfIS1x1pCTMMfqeExj_lhQ/view?usp=sharing

Thank you for your consideration.