Please look closely at this furry little puppy
Her name is promise. And she was one of the first wolf pups to be bore in Yellowstone National Park in more than half a century.
I wish I could tell you that Promise and her family are safe and secure. But, little Promise is no safe-and neither are the other wolves that Defenders helped restore to Yellowstone and Idaho.
In Idaho, two of these wolves were recently poisoned to death! These killers used a lethal poison known as Compound 1080. These wolves died a slow and cruel death-suffering seizure, convulsions, hallucinations, and cardiac and respiratory failure! It probably look these beautiful creatures as long as twelve crueling hours to dis….
These beautiful wolves did not deserve to dis. Their deaths were senseless and savage. We must protect wolves in the wild. But to do so we need your help.
That’s why I hope you’ll “adopt” a wolf like Promise. Your small $15 adoption donation will help Defenders keep wolves alive and bring wolf killers to justice…and urge Congress to allocate more resources to enforcing the laws that protect imperiled wildlife, like the wolf pup on your note cards.
You can also help protect wolves, by using your Defenders of wildlife special edition wolf Note Cards, by acclaimed wildlife photographer Jim Brandenburg.
When you send these lovely note cards to your friends and family, you’ll be saying “I’m doing my part to protect little wolf pups like Promise.”
Now, let me tell about these wonderful wolves…
Like humans, wolves live in close – knit social units, where they share food and the care of pups. They are surprisingly warm and affectionate – and contrary to myth, wolves avoid humans whenever possible.
But to justify centuries of slaughter, the wolf was demonized as a “beast”
Our own governments paid as much as $200 a hide for hunters to systematically…and exterminate America’s majestic wolves.
At one point, our government even paid hunters to pull baby wolves from their dens and club them to death!
To correct the shameful chapter in our history, Defenders of Wild life was at the forefront of the battle to reintroduce gray wolves are at long last beginning to thrive-raising newborn pups in their home in the wild.
But Defenders needs your help to bring to justice the cowardly wolf killers, who poisoned two wolves in Idaho. And we must urge Congress to allocate more resources to enforcing the laws that protect imperiled wildlife, like wolves.
Without your help. I fear furry wolf pups like Promise will be gunned down…or poisoned. And it would be awful if another wolf had to suffer such a cruel death!
So you can see why we urgently need concerned people like you to “adopt” wolves like Promise, with a sponsorship gift of $15 or more.
When you help Defenders of Wildlife protect our wolf families, you will also receive these important benefits of sponsorship.
A beautiful color photograph of a wolf;
A free copy of our publication, Wolves of America;
Four free issues of our award – winning quarterly wildlife magazine, Defenders;
Free e-mail wildlife updates through the Defenders Electronic Network (DEN)
But most important, you’ll know that you are making a critical difference in the lives of wolves in the wild.
Please help protect precious pups like Promise. Please “adopt” a wolf today!