In most states, wild wolves continue to be treated as gang members of the wilderness — as a scourge of the landscape, marauders of livestock, and menaces of the cash cows (elk and deer) of the modern hunting and trapping establishment. Idaho allows wolves to be shot from helicopters and ATVs; Montana hunters and trappers … Read more
We secured the most important reforms ever against animal testing, while ending legal animal fighting and commercial cub-petting throughout U.S. The year 2022 turned out to be a remarkable one for the Center for a Humane Economy, Animal Wellness Action, and the Animal Wellness Foundation. We secured many tangible gains. We put a punctuation mark … Read more
San Francisco, CA. — Animal Wellness Action (AWA), and the Center for a Humane Economy (CHE), and affiliates applauded a U.S. District Court for doing away with a last-minute Trump administration rule removing wolves from the Endangered Species Act and restoring protections for the species across most of the lower 48 states. AWA, CHE, the … Read more
Cam Sholly, the Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, had the right sales pitch but knocked on the wrong door. On December 16th, he wrote to Montana Governor Greg Gianforte and asked him to stop allowing private hunters and trappers to bait the borders of Yellowstone and to kill wolves who wander from the safe confines … Read more
Boise – A set of conservation and animal protection groups, including Animal Wellness Action, the ZooMontana, and the Western Watershed Project, today called on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to close down wolf hunting and trapping in the Caribou-Targhee, Bridger-Teton, Custer Gallatin, and Shoshone national forests surrounding Yellowstone National Park in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming to … Read more
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