Via Defenders of Wildlife:

Thank Federal Officials for Protecting Western Wolves

Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied Wyoming’s request to manage wolves within their state’s boundaries. The state’s management plan is woefully inadequate, allowing widespread wolf killing that would jeopardize the future of wolves in the region.

Tell the Fish and Wildlife Service that you support their actions on Wyoming’s wolves!

From Defenders of Wildlife:

Take Action to Save Our Birds

The pesticide carbofuran is highly toxic to birds. In fact, just one granule of carbofuran is enough to kill a songbird.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to rule on the fate of this deadly pesticide this week. Your efforts could decide whether this toxic pesticide stays on the market or not.

Please fill out the form below to send your email urging EPA official James Gulliford to protect birds, fish and mammals by removing carbofuran from the market.

To learn more about this issue or see a sample letter, click here; alternately, you can call the EPA, using this list of talking points.

Via Defenders of Wildlife:

Don’t Let the Forest Service Take the Wild Out of the Wilderness!

The U.S. Forest Service wants to make it easier to kill wolves, bears, cougars and other carnivores in federally designated wilderness areas — America’s most wild and remote places. Worse, the proposal would relax restrictions on using aerial gunning, motorized vehicles and cyanide guns to kill these magnificent creatures.

Take action now. Tell the U.S. Forest Service to withdraw this invasive proposal. Submit your comments before the August 7th deadline!

Defenders of Wildlife’s July Wildlife eNews is now online. You can read the whole newsletter here – or click on the links below to learn more and take action!

Feature Story: Whaling, Whaling Over the Ocean Blue?

Action of the Month: Blemishing our Beaches

Feature Story: A Blueprint for Brown Bears

Help Defenders of Wildlife save America’s wolves!

Alaska’s majestic gray wolves are in grave danger. Marksmen use low-flying planes to chase the wolves, run them to exhaustion and shoot them to death at point-blank range. More than 150 wolves have already been killed this year!

Help us Save America’s Wolves! Sign the petition below to urge the Bush administration to end the brutal slaughter of these innocent animals, including pregnant mothers and young wolf pups by enforcing the Federal Airborne Hunting Act.

Click here to take action.

You can also send your Dad one of three Defenders of Wildlife eCards this Father’s Day!

Another action alert, this one from Defenders of Wildlife:

Protect the largest creatures on earth!

Japan is poised — yet again — to increase whaling operations and wants to overturn the international whaling ban altogether.

Take Action Now! Write to the White House urging opposition to Japan’s permanent membership on the UN Security Council until Japan complies with international laws for the protection of whales.

For more information, and to take action, click here.

Additional alerts are available here.