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Wolf Preservation recognizes and thanks “The Animal Rescue Site” for being on the front lines to help animals in desperate need.  Please visit their site and help donate to a worthy cause simply by signing petitions, send e-cards, and purchase items from their gift shop. 

“The Animal Rescue Site provides simple, effective, feel-good ways to address an urgent, specific need: providing food and vital care for some of the eight million unwanted animals given to shelters every year in the U.S., as well as animals in desperate need around the world. Over four million animals are put to death every year in the U.S. alone because they are abandoned and unwanted. Thank you for your caring online actions. Each click on the purple “Click Here to Give – it’s FREE” button at The Animal Rescue Site provides food and care for a rescued animal living in a shelter or sanctuary. Funding for food and care is paid by site sponsors and distributed to animals in need at the Fund for Animals’ renowned animal sanctuaries, pet shelters supported by the Petfinder Foundation, North Shore Animal League America, amazing International Fund for Animal Welfare programs that save animals in dire situations worldwide, Rescue Bank, and other worthy animal care facilities and programs supported by the GreaterGood.org foundation. 100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to our charitable partners.

 The Animal Rescue Site is owned and operated by Tim Kunin and Greg Hesterberg, co-owners of CharityUSA.com (parent company of GreaterGood Network). Long-time friends and activists, they met at the University of Michigan while working on the Michigan Bottle Bill ballot campaign in 1976. In the late 1990s, they recognized that broad consumer-adoption of the Internet offered a new opportunity to raise funds for good causes. As enthusiastic supporters of The Hunger Site, they realized the power of providing busy Internet users with a fast, free and easy way to make a difference and launched EcologyFund.com to give people the means to support wilderness preservation efforts worldwide. They launched The Animal Rescue Site in July 2002. Tim Kunin is a life-long lover of wilderness, who has canoed and hiked for thousands of miles in the United States, Canada and Patagonia. He started working for environmental causes at the University of Michigan, where he walked 200 miles across the state to publicize the need for recycling. He has a wife, two children and a dog, Scout. Tim has traveled extensively to visit charity partners and purchase some of the fair-trade products available on our sites.”

*Special thanks to The Animal Rescue Site for providing this information!  http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/aboutus.faces?siteId=3&link=ctg_ars_aboutus_from_home

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Legal? Montana wolf hunt law is letting wolves get shot and left to rot

Posted in Wolf Current Events on November 11, 2011| 1 Comment »


Law makes hash of the talk of superb state level wolf management?

“In the new Montana wolf hunt those who shoot a wolf can tag it and walk away, leaving the entire wolf on the ground.  Nick Gevock of the Montana Standard just blew the whistle on this amendment that was sneaked into Montana’s game laws by the legislature.  Read the details. “Disrespecting wildlife: Law allowing wolves to be wasted is a disgrace” By Nick Gevock. Montana Standard.

The stated purpose is to protect hunters from tapeworm eggs which anti-wolf activists say cover the wolves and pose a grave threat to humans.  As with wolf attacks, however, this fear of tapeworms from wolves giving people secondary tapeworm infections suffers from a lack of cases.  So far I have heard of one Idaho case.  Because the parasites are carried by foxes, coyotes, wolves and some dogs, there is no way to tell how the patient got the infestation.

There is a lot of congratulatory talk about what a great job states are doing conserving the “recovered” wolf.  Perhaps even a prominent biologist might even step forth to say so, but look at this and judge for yourself.”

*Special thanks to   On November 11, 2011 (http://www.thewildlifenews.com/2011/11/11/montana-wolves-wasted/)

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Alaska considers aerial wolf kills in tourist area

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Ridiculous!  Tell your local newspaper and let Alaska Governor Sean Purnell (http://gov.alaska.gov/parnell/contact/email-the-governor.html)  how you feel about this! 

(Reuters) – “Alaska state officials on Friday were considering a controversial plan to shoot wolves in an effort to boost moose populations in one of the state’s top tourist and recreation areas.

An estimated 90 to 135 wolves range across the Kenai Peninsula, south of Anchorage, where under the proposal hunters would shoot the animals from aircraft.

Officials have not settled on the number of wolves they might kill under the plan, which was on the agenda for discussion at a meeting on Friday of the Alaska Board of Game.

By decreasing attacks on moose from a major predator, the proposal would allow for a rebound in the moose population, which now stands at about 5,000 and is well below targets, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

Ted Spraker, an Alaska Board of Game member from the region, said on a statewide public radio program recently that the public is “disgusted” with the low number of moose.

“They want the board to start doing something,” he added.

But the practice of killing wolves to boost moose populations, especially through aerial shooting, has long been hotly debated in Alaska.

Supporters say it is necessary to give hunters opportunities to get moose meat; detractors say it is an inhumane and biologically unsound practice.

Any state-authorized aerial wolf kills will have to exclude the peninsula’s federal lands. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, has not given permission for wolf control on its property, which covers much of the peninsula.

The Alaska Board of Game is expected to make a decision on whether to pursue a moose hunt by Monday, when its meeting lasting several days will end.”

*Special thanks to  “Reuters” for providing this information (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/12/us-wolf-kills-alaska-idUSTRE7AB00Z20111112) (Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis and Greg McCune)

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