Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Dear Mark,

Last year Idaho Governor Butch Otter set up the “Wolf Depredation Control Board,” funneling $400,000 in taxpayers’ money to finance the slaughter of the state’s wolf population.

So far the wolf board has spent an average of over $4,500 per wolf to gun down and trap these amazing animals.

Now they want to do it again.

The control board has requested another $400,000 for the coming season.

With what it’s spending to kill wolves, the state of Idaho could improve the education of thousands of schoolchildren. They need it — Idaho’s dead last in per-pupil spending, and the state’s colleges have one of the lowest graduation rates in the country.

Instead of spending up to $800,000 to gun down wolves, Idaho should spend this money improving schools for its children. That’s why we’re petitioning Gov. Otter to redirect those funds to Idaho’s kids.

Action

Tell Butch Otter to spend taxpayers’ money on school kids instead of wolf killing by signing our online petition today.

To fight for wolves we also need your support — you can help us with a donation to the Wolf Defense Fund.

Last year in Idaho alone we put an end to the state’s hired gunman in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness and kicked an obscene wolf-killing contest off public land. We’re also suing to stop Wildlife Services, the federal animal-killing program, from operating recklessly across the state. We go to bat for wolves and other wildlife every day, and we need your help.

For the wolves,

Kierán Suckling
Executive Director
Center for Biological Diversity

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