Category: PRESS RELEASES
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PRESS RELEASE: Response to the Wisconsin Wolf Management Plan
Yesterday, the Wisconsin DNR announced the final draft of the agency’s Wolf Management Plan. We will be cautiously optimistic as the plan moves forward for approval by the NRB and hope that the plan will continue to be critically reviewed and updated as we learn more about wolves in Wisconsin.
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PRESS RELEASE: Great Lakes Wildlife Alliance hosts Wildlife Day at the Capitol
You understand the inhumanity of the horrific hunting practices in Wisconsin. As constituents, we can bring education, science and understanding to our state legislators so that these kinds of practices can be banned once and for all. Sign up TODAY to join us in solidarity at the state capitol to meet with lawmakers for Wisconsin wolves…
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Press Release: Petition Seeks Hounding Ban in Wisconsin National Forest
Wildlife conservation and animal protection groups petitioned the U.S. Forest Service today to ban hounding in Wisconsin’s Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. Hounding is the practice of training and using dogs to hunt and chase down black bears and other wildlife.
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PRESS RELEASE: WISCONSIN DNR DELAYS WOLF MANAGEMENT PLAN
Today, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said that they have no known date at this time for bringing forward the new wolf management plan, which still needs to be updated from the current 1999 antiquated plan.
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PRESS RELEASE: Ethical Hunters Offer Additional $5,000 Reward for Info on Illegal Wolf Killings
After Animal Wellness Action offered a $10,000 reward for info leading to the successful prosecution of wolf poachers in the state last week, Hunters for Wolves felt that they would like to see that pool of money increase in order to bring attention to the illegal poaching of wildlife.
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PRESS RELEASE: Wildlife Conservation Groups Ask Court to Issue Immediate Injunction Against November Wolf Hunt
Today lawyers for Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf & Wildlife, Animal Wellness Action, the Center for a Humane Economy, Project Coyote and Wisconsin resident Pat Clark filed new motions with the Dane County Circuit Court in their ongoing challenge to Wisconsin’s disastrous decision-making on wolf management.
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PRESS RELEASE: Conservation Groups Sue Wisconsin Natural Resources Board to Stop Illegal November Wolf Hunt
Today Animal Wellness Action, the Center for a Humane Economy, Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf and Wildlife, and Project Coyote sued the state of Wisconsin over its reckless and politically motivated decision to authorize a quota of 300 wolves for the November wolf hunt, on top of the 218 known killed in a February hunt.
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PRESS RELEASE: Coalition of Animal Welfare, Conservation, and a Native American Tribe Seeks Reinstatement of Federal Wolf Protections
In collaboration with other wildlife advocacy organizations and the Tribes of the Great Lakes, we have filed an amicus brief on behalf of the wolves in Wisconsin to restore the legal protections critical to their survival. We will not let another slaughter like we witnessed in February occur again without a fight.
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PRESS RELEASE: Ethical Hunters Coalition Erect Three Billboards Opposing Wolf Hunt
Hunters for Wolves, a newly formed coalition of sportsmen and women, have put up three billboards in Northern Wisconsin to raise awareness about Wisconsin’s wolf hunt and management plan. Learn more at www.huntersforwolves.org
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PRESS RELEASE: Conservative “Legal Group” Sues Wisconsin to Start Wolf Hunt Immediately
A conservative legal firm is suing Wisconsin’s DNR on behalf of an out of state based “hunting” group to force it to schedule an immediate winter wolf hunt.