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
Wildlife protection groups takes action after picking up internet chatter from wolf hunters that they will “take the law into [their] own hands” after a state court shut down wolf hunt MADISON, Wis. — Animal Wellness Action offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the successful prosecution of anyone engaged in illegal poaching of … Read more
The assault on wolves is the most obvious example of inattention to the core American value of caring for animals The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in recently announcing the opening or expansion of 910 new opportunities for hunting or fishing on national wildlife refuges, could hardly contain its pride. “This final rule,” the agency … 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
Press Release Decision could spare hundreds of wolves targeted for killing MADISON, Wis. — In the biggest news so far for wolf protection in the United States in 2021, a court in Wisconsin issued an injunction today requiring the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to set the quota at zero wolves for the upcoming … Read more
Press Release The animals were all placed for adoption by the Bureau of Land Management’s adoption programs, which put federally protected equines at risk of slaughter 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 … 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 the … Read more
Press Release 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 of 300 wolves for the November wolf hunt, on top of the 218 known … Read more
A small segment of Americans nearly wiped out wolves from the states in a scorched earth plan executed in the 19th and 20th centuries. Private actors and government agents killed countless hundreds of thousands of wolves, and just hundreds managed to hang on in the boreal forests of the northeast quadrant of Minnesota. Starting in … Read more