WOLVES IN GREAT DANGER! PLEASE HELP :(

[NicoleRussell]

This was copied and pasted from a private email:

I have horrible news from Alaska.

91 wolves have been shot dead under Alaska's new aerial gunning program in the last month. Your help is urgently needed: the plan is to kill 80% of the wolves in an 8,000 square mile area of Alaska.

Please help stop this barbaric practice by supporting Defenders of Wildlife's wolf protection programs! Help now: http://www.care2.com/go/z/12158

Aerial hunters gun the wolves down from the air, or chase them to exhaustion in the deep snow, then land and shoot them point-blank. Under the pretense of boosting moose populations for hunters, aerial hunters can even kill pregnant females and wolf pups. Numerous scientific studies show that wolves are actually beneficial to the overall health of natural ecosystems, and keep Alaska's moose and caribou populations healthy and strong.

Wolves, much like our family dogs, are pack animals with close bonds and family ties. But right now, they really need YOUR help.

Donate to our partner, Defenders of Wildlife, today: http://www.care2.com/go/z/12158

Your donation will help:

Shine the media spotlight on the barbaric practice of aerial gunning to provoke national outrage to stop it.
Persuade tourism companies in Alaska to call for a ban on aerial gunning.
Mobilize Alaska's citizens to demand legislative action to halt the killing.
Demand that Interior Secretary Gale Norton stop the killing as a violation of the Federal Airborne Hunting Act.

This is a cause worth fighting for. Plans call for up to 140 wolves to be killed in two areas by April 30th. We must act fast.

Show your outrage at this barbaric practice by donating today: http://www.care2.com/go/z/12158

Thank you for caring,
Randy Paynter
President, Care2 &
The Petition Site

PS. Wolves are closely related to our own family dogs. If your beloved animal companion faced the same fate, would you fight for her?

Please help today: http://www.care2.com/go/z/12158

[telefrag]

I wonder why HSUS or PETA hasnt jumped all over this. (if they have, I havent noticed)

[NicoleRussell]

First I have heard of any of this
People just never stop amazing me.

[JuliusSqueezer]

Looks like a donation scam to me but I'm always pretty skeptical about things like this unless I know the person asking and have some insight as to what they plan to do with the money.

[Reptscue]

Looks like a donation scam to me but I'm always pretty skeptical about things like this unless I know the person asking and have some insight as to what they plan to do with the money.

I do have to say that I have recieved this email also....smells like a scam to me too.
It is sad what people do for money.

[NicoleRussell]

good point---I was posting this to see what everyone thought and there you go---"youse guys down south got a clue ha?"
How does one check on something like this?

[NicoleRussell]

here is the webpage it originated from:
http://www.defenders.org/

[eddie]

I see a scam also.. especially since the major media networks haven't tossed their banannas over it

Besides, many of the collections agencies ( legitimate ones included) send very little to the actual causes they bug people over.
If it is indeed happening, the monies donated would do much better if used to directly arm and train the wolves for combat

[AsRock]

Well more likly a scam. And for the only way to donate to them is by credit card so they can take as much as they want out off your account. Even though you probaly get it back BUT they make millions out off doing it. They did it to my mum\mom 2 years ago. silly woman would not listion to me and found out the hard way. This was for a trip to some were in america. allso they took money out when they allso claimed they would not take any out. Allso be advised to find some one who you know or help ur local pet shop out some one you can be more sure of. Never give Cradit Card details to anyone by phone or the web. in fact to no one lol....

[telefrag]

HAHA!

Get some CQB training for those pups he?

[eddie]

Oh jeez frag.. I can see the guesses on that acronym