WOLVES IN PERIL

We need your help for urgent action today. The historic budget deal between House and Senate Republicans and Democrats contains an outright attack on wildlife: a congressional removal of wolves from the endangered species list in Montana and Idaho -- and possibly elsewhere.

If the budget bill passes with this provision intact, it will be the first time in history that politics are allowed to trump science in removing a species from the endangered species list: Wolves would be ineligible to ever again receive federal protection within a vast region, even if their numbers plummeted toward zero. No court would have the authority to stop the ensuing slaughter.

We can't afford to let this happen. Please call and email your U.S. senators and request they sponsor an amendment to the budget to remove the wolf delisting rider -- and commit to voting against any final budget bill that retains this rider. Then, call the White House to request a veto of any budget that includes a rider allowing the extermination of wolves, and call for leadership with the Senate to nix this rider before the budget needs vetoing.

Visit http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6508 to take action now.