This is a press release from www.defenders.org.

Nearly 400 wolves have been killed in Alaska under the barbaric aerial gunning program that began in 2003. Wolves can be gunned down from airplanes, or run to exhaustion and then shot point blank. The Alaska Board of Game has approved the destruction of up to 1,400 wolves. This will be the greatest wolf massacre in half a century.

Thanks to an outpouring of more than 6,000 comments from Defenders of Wildlife members, the Alaska Board of Game recently decided against opening up the world-famous McNeil River Bear Sanctuary and bordering state game refuge to brown bear trophy hunting. In addition, they excluded federal park and refuge lands from an aerial wolf killing program in interior Alaska. Unfortunately, they also expanded aerial and same-day wolf killing in one area, and increased the areas where hunters can use snowmobiles to pursue and kill wolves.

Please visit www.savealaskawolves.org to help with our continued efforts to stop aerial wolf killing, and listen to our weekly audio updates on what's happening in Alaska.