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Dear Friend,
Here's a quick update to let you know we launched a campaign today calling for a boycott of Wyoming and we need your help spreading the word. We decided to push for this because we believe the only pressure that will fully work to change Wyoming wildlife laws in the legislature will have to come from above (the governor) and from a huge loss of state revenue (via a dramatic reduction in tourism).
In recent days Wyoming officials have been busy spreading the word that they have enlightened wildlife management policies and that Cody Roberts, the person who tortured and killed the wolf in the now infamous case, is not representative of the people of Wyoming. But we know for a fact there are plenty more like him. For starters, the folks at the bar where he tortured and killed the wolf were cheering him on. And we've met and heard literally thousands of appalling comments from people who think like him about wildlife in our decades of advocacy work--particularly in the Northern Rocky Mountain states. These types don't care about science, don't care that native predators like wolves are beneficial and essential, and don't believe in their right to exist. They just want to kill.
It's clear that public outrage to date has helped a little, as Wyoming's tourism office has already pulled all wildlife-related ads. They are scared and vulnerable. Expanding the pressure campaign with the threat of a tourism boycott could just push Wyoming over the edge into reforming their wildlife policies.
Please share this email and our Facebook and "Twitter" posts far and wide with the hashtag #BoycottWyoming. And if you haven't already made contacted with Wyoming officials personally, we encourage you to do so. Simply tell them you won't be visiting their state until Cody Roberts is adequately punished for his animal cruelty, they reform their wolf policies, and they ban torturing and intentionally running over wildlife.
For additional information, see:
Thank you for all you do! Only together can we overcome.
For all that is wild and free,
Brooks Fahy
Executive Director
Predator Defense
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"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it."
- Michelangelo
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