In the past four years, more than 600 Alaskan wolves have been brutally slaughtered by gunners in aircraft. Now the Alaska Board of Game is gearing up for another season of aerial gunning. With your help, we can stop them! 

Take action now to help save the wolves -- Sign our petition to urge the Bush Administration to put an end to aerial gunning in Alaska.

Easy targets against fallen snow, wolves are gunned down from airplanes or chased to exhaustion, then shot at point blank range. State-licensed marksmen can target entire packs -- even pregnant mothers!

Last year alone, nearly 100 wolves were slaughtered from the skies. Fortunately, the state fell way short of their goals. But this year could be worse. Anxious to make up for last year, hundreds more wolves could be targeted this season.

It's not wolf management. It's a wolf massacre.

Tell the Bush Administration to enforce the Federal Airborne Hunting Act, the federal law that could put an end to the killing.

Wolves help the overall health of natural ecosystems. They help keep Alaska's moose and caribou populations healthy and strong. Wolves are also important to Alaska's billion-dollar tourism industry.

Yet the state continues to allow aerial gunning. In fact, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and the state legislature have approved spending $400,000 in taxpayer funds to promote the slaughter from the skies -- fearing Alaskans will once again vote to restrict this barbaric practice, as they have twice before.

Please sign our petition right now and help us end aerial gunning in Alaska.

Our wolves are a crucial part of the natural heritage that we'll leave our children and grandchildren, and we have a real chance to end this terrible practice.

I hope you'll help.

Sincerely,

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Rodger Schlickeisen President, Defenders of Wildlife

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