Help Stop Aerial Hunting of Wolves

Help Stop Aerial Hunting
(please cross-post) The wolves need your help!

Wolf has been very involved, in past years, trying to raise the awareness of the general public to these horrendous practices condoned by the Alaska Board of Game. Although the citizenry of Alaska has twice voted to outlaw this type of hunting the governor and the Board of Game have continued to use loopholes in the laws to pursue their death quest. Several large animal welfare organizations have tried everything they can to stop this practice as well. Here is a message from Friends of Animals, who has been very proactive in this fight:

Alaska's Board of Game has hastily put together new predator control regulations. The Board did this in light of Friends of Animals' pressure in court which resulted in the aerial wolf-killing scheme being held invalid. In short: The wolves won, so now they want to change the rules.

Aerial-wolf killing is not a private matter to be handled by Alaska's officials alone.

Friends of Animals' position is that the aerial killing of wolves violates not only state law, but also federal law. Indeed, our position is that it violates Constitutional law itself. Here are Friends of Animals' comments on the new proposed predator control regulations.

We'll continue to use all legal and public channels to stop this wrong.

Here are Friends of Animals' Comments on Proposals 162-166, Adoption of New Predator Control Regulations by the Board of Game, Regarding Compliance with the Federal Airborne Hunting Act:
http://www.friendsofanimals.org/programs/howl-in/opposing-proposals162-166.php

Friends of Animals has also initiated a new public relations campaign to continue to raise the awareness on this vital issue. We encourage all of you to send in your photos to this campaign -- Wolf submitted the following photo.

I'd Rather Be Here Than in Alaska

Hunters in Alaska don't like competing with wolves. So the state has been issuing permits for teams of gunners and pilots to chase wolves from aircraft then shoot them. This January, the Superior Court of Alaska found the state's aerial wolf-shooting scheme invalid. But rather than stop the gunning, the state's Board of Game hastily made up new rules and the killing of wolves continues! In response, Friends of Animals is calling for all supporters to BOYCOTT ALASKA this travel season. In 1992, FoA's BOYCOTT ALASKA campaign stopped a similar aerial program after just 15 days.

Show your support by submitting photographs of boycott supporters holding signs such as "Boycott Alaska," "I'd rather be here than in Alaska," or "Stop Shooting Wolves." Send a message to the Alaskan government that you won't be spending money in Alaska until it ends its aerial wolf-control program.

Be sure and visit FoA's new website Boycott Alaska to view the photos already submitted, and to submit a photo of your own.