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You probably did it! Colorado has “paws on the bottom!” After a really lengthy and at occasions difficult journey Colorado Parks and Wildlife launched 5 stunning wolves from Oregon into the mountains of western Colorado on Monday, December 18th. Whereas the journey to Colorado is over for these wolves, we’re simply getting began in our work to make sure that wolves thrive in Colorado.
Hold these and different wolves secure from hurt along with your year-end present at the moment.
Colorado voters permitted the reintroduction of grey wolves in 2020–starting the method of righting the improper of almost driving them into extinction in Colorado and elsewhere. The state’s wildlife company is bringing wolves from Oregon to Colorado to be launched in areas that they’ve recognized as almost certainly to permit them to thrive.
That’s the excellent news. However there are already threats to this success. This month, regardless of years of labor to handle ranchers, two unhealthy religion lawsuits have been filed by ranchers and trapping and searching teams in search of to dam the discharge of extra wolves in Colorado. We’ve additionally seen an uptick within the unfold of lies and dangerous myths about wolves within the information and on social media. There have additionally already been threats to kill our wolves by means of poaching.
Sadly, Colorado wolves that made their strategy to Colorado on their very own have already been killed by hunters and trappers after being lured throughout the invisible Colorado border into Wyoming. A latest WyoFile information investigation1 discovered that hunters used digital calls to lure wolves from Colorado and slaughtered them once they crossed the border.
A wolf from the primary breeding pack in Colorado was killed this 12 months after wandering into Wyoming.2 Wolves don’t know boundaries. We noticed that tragically round Yellowstone when wolves have been lured to their dying in Montana. And now we’re seeing it on the Colorado border with Wyoming the place wolves lack Endangered Species Act protections.
Whereas we have fun “paws on the bottom,” we completely should be vigilant and able to safeguard this new inhabitants of wolves in Colorado. Your year-end present at the moment will help this work and when you give earlier than midnight on the thirty first, a beneficiant donor will match it greenback for greenback.
Thanks on your dedication to wildlife and wild locations.
Sincerely,
Susan Holmes
Government Director
Endangered Species Coalition
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1. https://wyofile.com/border-killings-how-shooters-lured-historic-colorado-wolves-to-their-deaths-in-wyoming/
2. https://www.cpr.org/2023/09/14/colorado-wolves-wyoming-killing/
Images credit score Colorado Parks & Wildlife
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