HOWLING FOR WOLVES
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 11, 2024
CONTACT: Dr. Maureen Hackett, Howling For Wolves, 612.250.5915 or Leslie Rosedahl, [email protected], 651.353.1818
Vote on MN Wolf Hunt Ban Narrowly Defeated in Senate, Bipartisan Assist Exhibits Momentum
(St. Paul, Minn.) – In the present day an modification to the Senate omnibus Atmosphere Coverage Invoice, Senate File 3631 (Hawj), was supplied by Senator Mary Kunesh (D-New Brighton) that might have banned a wolf looking and trapping season in Minnesota. After a prolonged debate, the modification didn’t go by a vote of 30-35, with bipartisan assist for its adoption.
Dr. Maureen Hackett, founder and president of Howling For Wolves, a Minnesota-based wolf advocacy group stated in response:
“We’re grateful for the vote – and bipartisan assist – of defending wolves for future generations in Minnesota. Whereas we expect leisure wolf looking must be taken out of legislation now, it is a good step ahead. This continues strain for legislators to comply with public and scientific assist for banning leisure wolf looking and trapping killing seasons – and in addition reveals the Division of Pure Assets how a lot opposition they’ll face in the event that they suggest a wolf hunt.
We received’t let our disappointment get in the way in which of advocating to make sure the survival of our state’s wolf inhabitants. We are going to proceed preventing to make sure that the wild wolf survives for future generations.”
A wolf hunt was recklessly began in 2012 in Minnesota – the identical 12 months wolves misplaced protections – with none data or try by the MN DNR to guard wolves. It was solely the judicial courts that saved wolves from extinction as a result of not solely had been wolves baited and trapped in leisure hunts, however they had been additionally killed in two-thirds of the state when anybody requested it.
Hackett continued, “A wolf hunt will occur once more if we don’t cease it. We are attempting to gradual wolf killing in Minnesota.”
Final 12 months, a prohibition on wolf looking handed the Minnesota Home of Consultant with an enormous margin of 69-57 with bipartisan assist.
Along with an modification to ban wolf looking, as we speak an modification was additionally supplied to mandate a wolf looking and trapping season. That modification failed with bipartisan opposition.
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Howling For Wolves educates the general public concerning the wild wolf to foster tolerance and to make sure the wolf’s long-term survival. Howling For Wolves opposes wolf looking and trapping and all wildlife snaring. We advocate for nonlethal prevention strategies that scale back wolf-livestock conflicts and assist present federal protections for the wolf. www.HowlingForWolves.org.
