Wild animal protection – defending wolves, coyotes, bears, and other native carnivores
Defend Native Carnivores
A grizzly bear foraging with her cubs in a lush meadow outside Yellowstone. The howling of gray wolves carrying across a darkened valley. A Canada lynx padding silently through deep powder in search of a snowshoe hare. Native carnivores are icons of our Western landscape, and they drive the health and stability of Western ecosystems.
Nevertheless, native carnivores continue to face misguided persecution at the hands (and guns) of humans. Many state wildlife agencies hold little regard for the best available science and ignore most people’s values, which strongly favor native carnivore conservation.
We watchdog federal and Western state agencies to ensure their policies and practices allow healthy populations of native carnivores to thrive. We believe there are ways to share our Western home with carnivores that do not include trapping or shooting them, and we aim to cultivate coexistence with these incredible creatures.
Western Native Carnivores in Peril
Find out more about the West’s native carnivores, the threats they face, and how we work to defend them.

Black Bear

Grizzly Bear

Gray Wolf

Mexican Gray Wolf

Canada Lynx

Wolverine

Mountain Lion

Coyote
How You Can Help
Help protect the incredible, vulnerable wildlife of the West! Be a guardian for the wild by joining the conversation, learning about current issues, and making your voice heard. Together, we're a powerful force for nature.
Recent Stories From Wildlife

Webinar: Wolves in the West – The Fight Continues
Come learn about our efforts to ensure wolves roam free from the Greater Gila to Greater Glacier

Judge allows wolf trapping and hunting in Montana to resume
Montana’s effort to kill 40% of the state’s wolf population this winter moves forward, including near Yellowstone and Glacier national parks

Webinar: Wolves in the West – The Fight Continues
Come learn about our efforts to ensure wolves roam free from the Greater Gila to Greater Glacier

Webinar: Wolves in the West – The Fight Continues
Come learn about our efforts to ensure wolves roam free from the Greater Gila to Greater Glacier
Wildlife Press
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to consider removing Endangered Species Act protections for Montana and Wyoming grizzlies
Agency makes preliminary findings on petitions to delist Yellowstone and Northern Continental Divide Grizzly Bears while rejecting Idaho’s attempt at wholesale delisting
Read more >Wolf hunting, trapping regs are unlawful
The general rifle hunting season opened recently across Montana. Thousands of hunters began pursuing elk and deer with the intention of putting meat in their freezer, hunting with a reverence for the wildlife they are pursuing. But there is another hunt going on, void of respect and with no purpose but to kill. So we sued.
Read more >U.S. Considers Lifting Protections for Grizzly Bears Near Two National Parks
The Biden administration is taking a step toward lifting federal protections for grizzly bears in the northern Rocky Mountains, which could open the door to hunting in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho in the future, wildlife officials said.
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