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 Toughen Displays Momentum
(St. Paul, Minn.) – These days an modification to the Senate omnibus Atmosphere Coverage Invoice, Senate Record 3631 (Hawj), used to be introduced by means of Senator Mary Kunesh (D-New Brighton) that might have banned a wolf looking and trapping season in Minnesota. After a long debate, the modification didn’t cross by means of a vote of 30-35, with bipartisan enhance for its adoption.
Dr. Maureen Hackett, founder and president of Howling For Wolves, a Minnesota-based wolf advocacy group stated in reaction:
“We’re grateful for the vote – and bipartisan enhance – of defending wolves for long run generations in Minnesota. Whilst we expect leisure wolf looking must be taken out of regulation now, it is a just right step ahead. This continues force for legislators to apply public and clinical enhance for banning leisure wolf looking and trapping killing seasons – and in addition presentations the Division of Herbal Sources how a lot opposition they’ll face in the event that they suggest a wolf hunt.
We gained’t let our sadness get in the best way of advocating to verify the survival of our state’s wolf inhabitants. We will be able to proceed preventing to be sure that the wild wolf survives for long run generations.”
A wolf hunt used to be recklessly began in 2012 in Minnesota – the similar yr wolves misplaced protections – with none knowledge or try by means of the MN DNR to give protection to wolves. It used to be simplest the judicial courts that stored wolves from extinction as a result of no longer simplest have been wolves baited and trapped in leisure hunts, however they have been additionally killed in two-thirds of the state when any person asked it.
Hackett persevered, “A wolf hunt will occur once more if we don’t forestall it. We’re seeking to sluggish wolf killing in Minnesota.”
Remaining yr, a prohibition on wolf looking handed the Minnesota Space of Consultant with an enormous margin of 69-57 with bipartisan enhance.
Along with an modification to prohibit wolf looking, as of late an modification used to be additionally introduced 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 in regards to the wild wolf to foster tolerance and to verify the wolf’s long-term survival. Howling For Wolves opposes wolf looking and trapping and all flora and fauna snaring. We recommend for nonlethal prevention strategies that cut back wolf-livestock conflicts and enhance present federal protections for the wolf. www.HowlingForWolves.org.