Wolves are on on the endangered species list. Of all Wolves though
the Red Wolf is the most critically faltering. The problem is not that
they are low in number. The problem is Coyotes. The Red wolves began
mating with Coyotes and not other Red Wolves. This is why most Red
Wolves now are not pure Red wolves. Coyotes look a lot like Red
Wolves so the Wolves must be tested to see if they are true Red
Wolves or not. If we don't keep these pure Wolves in zoo or
such and mate them the Red Wolf will disappear forever.
Wolves are on on the endangered species list. Of all Wolves though
the Red Wolf is the most critically faltering. The problem is not that
they are low in number. The problem is Coyotes. The Red wolves began
mating with Coyotes and not other Red Wolves. This is why most Red
Wolves now are not pure Red wolves. Coyotes look a lot like Red
Wolves so the Wolves must be tested to see if they are true Red
Wolves or not. If we don't keep these pure Wolves in zoo or
such and mate them the Red Wolf will disappear forever.
We the undersigned, would like to express our opinion on Red Wolves.
We would wish to show that we care. We think that pure Red Wolves should
be keep in captivity and breed. These should be lead back into the wild
so that the Red Wolf can live out.
I have to sadly report that KEI has crossed the Rainbow Bridge and is now with the
Sky People and Niosha, Gabrielle, Sweet Cheyenne and all the other animals in the sky. KEI is
no longer in pain and she is free to feel the earth under her feet and howl with her friends that
she never had on this earth....
She passed on June 8, 2006 due to lack of strength from health issues. At
least that is what we were told. The way the zoo treated her, who knows?
March 5, 2005
Keep hitting the petition and sending emails. Kei's birthday is April 4,
2005. Send her a real birthday card to let the zoo know that you love Kei and will not give
up!!
Send card to:
Kei the Wolf
Kodomo no Kuni Zoo
5-7-1 Goya,
Okinawa City, Okinawa Pref.,
Japan
HELP ALL THE WOLF ACTIVISTS TO BRING KEI HOME TO AMERICA. READ THE FOLLOWING AND PLEASE
SEND EMAILS AND LETTERS ON KEI'S BEHALF BEFORE IT IS TO LATE FOR HIM TO BE IN A DECENT, CLEAN,
LOVING ENVIRONMENT!
Please
help bring Kei, the sad wolf back home to The United States to spend her last years in the luxury of
a wolf sanctuary.
Kei
has been held like a prisoner on a concrete slab of just 7 x 5 metres, at the Okinawa Kodomo no Kuni
Zoo in Okinawa, Japan for the whole 16 years of her life. She is a North American Timber Wolf that
languishes in a zoo on the far side of the Pacific.
Please
take a few minutes of your life to help this very sad and desperately bored wolf experience
happiness and excitement for the first time in her life.
Thank
you for your help.
Sam
McCreesh - 28th November 2004.
THINGS YOU
CAN DO TO HELP FREE KEI
(This is updated as
the campaign progresses)
Please
try to complete as many of the following actions as you can - thank you for your valued support.
1). Sign the petition by clicking
here. Around 10,000 signatures are needed.
2). Please email Greg Leisure, who is
running the campaign, and ask to be put onto the supporters list for email updates - click
here to email him.
3). Please send the
sample letter below (feel free to add or change things as you feel appropriate) to the director of
the zoo at:
Genwa Higa,
Zoo Director
Kodomo no Kuni
5-7-1 Goya Okinawa City Okinawa Pref.,
Japan
Dear Mr. Genwa
Higa,
I am writing
about the reports that I have read about the Okinawa Zoo and the way it is treating Kei, the North
American Timber Wolf. Kei is a very sad and lonely wolf that longs to live the rest of her life in
the peace and tranquillity of her natural habitat and deserves to be treated with this decency and
respect.
However I hear
that the Okinawa Kodomo no Kuni Zoo has kept her like a prisoner on a concrete slab of just 7 x 5
metres, for the whole of her life.
You owe Kei the
decency and respect to allow her the freedom to spend her last years in the luxury of a wolf
sanctuary in the United States. Taking this action will not only improve the reputation of the zoo
and Okinawa area but also show that you as a person have a small amount of decency and are not
totally inhuman and incapable of correctly interpreting and acting on her suffering.
I urge you to
come to terms with your conscience and give the animals in your zoo the care and respect that they
deserve and look forward to a positive reply.
Yours Sincerely,
Name:
Country:
Organization:
E-Mail address:
4). Please send the sample letter
below (feel free to add or change things as you feel appropriate) to the Okinawa Prefecture Tourism
Office at:
Okinawa
Prefecture Tourism and Culture Office
Mario Ginama, Executive Administrator
1-2-2 Izumizaki,
Naha City, Okinawa Japan
900-8570
Dear Mario
Ginama,
I am writing to
inform you of the trip to Japan I have been planning over the last two years, when I intend to tour
many different areas of Japan next year. As part of this trip I was planning to visit Okinawa
however I was recently made aware of the horrendous conditions present in Okinawa’s zoo and their
refusal to retire Kei the wolf to America, and so have decided not to include Okinawa in my trip
after all.
Therefore the
prefecture will not benefit from my tourist money as I feel my money would be better spent in other
parts of Japan where there is a healthier respect for the treatment of animals. This decision is due
to the appalling decisions made by the staff at the Kodomo no Kuni, particularly Yoshinobu
Nishikawa, executive administrator, and Genwa Higa, zoo director.
I look forward
to hearing of Kei's release, when I will be able to consider visiting Okinawa but for now I have no
such plans and promise to boycott the area.
Yours Sincerely,
Name:
Country:
Organization:
E-Mail address:
NOW THAT
YOU'VE HELPED KEI PLEASE URGE OTHERS TO HELP HER TOO:
1). Please copy the
banners at the top and middle of this page and attatch it to your emails and web pages, so that
other people too can help to free Kei.
The Arial shooting has now began in Alaska. And the Wolves are dying everyday.
There is to be up to 900 (HUNDRED) killed this winter. This is an outrage!!! They need
your help now. Please take a few minutes and go to my site above. It only cost a few dollars to show
your support.
Under the aerial wolf control program, 147 wolves have been killed in the McGrath
and Nelchina Basin areas in the 2003-2004 hunting season.
For the 2004-2005 hunting season, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game will expand its aerial war
on wolves in moose-depressed areas this winter. Not only will hunters in airplanes be zeroing in on
wolves in the Nelchina Basin and McGrath, as they did last year, but they will also be targeting
wolves west of Cook Inlet near Anchorage and in the central Kuskokwim River region near Aniak.
The state is aiming to kill upwards of 900 wolves this winter in the four regions!
Hunters will be allowed to land and shoot or shoot from airplanes. The goal is to kill all the
wolves in these areas. The program is designed to eliminate or greatly reduce wolf numbers in order
to increase moose populations for sporthunters.
Email or write a letter to the Governor to ask him to stop this slaughter!
Governor Frank Murkowski
P.O. Box 110001
Juneau, AK 99811
Phone: (907) 465-3500
Fax: (907) 465-3532
governor@gov.state.ak.us
UPDATE! December 21, 2004
Aerial wolf hunters claimed their first kills (4 wolves) of the season the week of November
27, 2004 as officials renewed wolf control efforts.
UPDATE from Defenders of Wildlife: Stop the State of Alaska From Misinforming the Public About the Aerial Slaughter of Alaska's
Wolves.
To help end the aerial killing of Alaska's wolves, Defenders asked their members and supporters to
contact Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski by calling the public opinion line at (907) 465-3500. Many
of you called and reported that the state has recorded the following message outlining its position
on wolf control:
Thank you for sharing your views on wolves and wildlife management in Alaska. We appreciate your
interest. All wolf management programs in our state are designed to sustain healthy wolf populations
forever. There are approximately 12,000 wolves in our state. Wolf control occurs in just four
relatively small areas, where the wolf populations are simply too large. This winter about 450
wolves will be taken in the wolf control program. This effort will help restore moose populations in
those areas so that families that live there can harvest that food because they depend on moose
through the winter. For more information see the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G)
website and click on the Division of Wildlife Conservation link. You are welcome to leave a message
for Governor Murkowski after the beep.
Defenders believes that this recording contains a number of false statements. Please help counteract
this dissemination of misinformation by contacting the Governor. Here are some talking points:
*Wolf populations in the approved control areas are being reduced between 80-100 percent.
*Alaska's estimated wolf populations are between 7,700 and 11,100 but these figures are based on
anecdotal information from trappers and hunters.
*Wolf control has been approved for nearly 60,000 square miles of Alaska where 900 wolves are slated
to be killed. In addition to the aerial killing programs, up to 1,700 wolves are harvested each year
through hunting and trapping.
*ADF&G's own data shows that between 60-85 percent of moose harvested in most of these areas is
done by urban or out-of-state hunters, not locals.
For more information, please read Defenders op-ed at: http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/5879875p-5792391c.html,
which was printed in Alaska's three major newspapers: The Anchorage Daily News, The Fairbanks
News-Miner and the Juneau Empire.
If you have not already signed the petition, please visit http://www.savealaskawolves.org.
Currently there are 145,000 signatures, but 200,000 signatures are wanted by December 25.
The state is misleading citizens when it claims it needs to rebuild moose and
caribou populations to provide food for Alaskans. The records show this is untrue. Governor
Murkowski only wants the money to come in. He isn’t interested in the people. I will keep asking
you to please donate as much as you can they need us. This is a very critical issue that need
attention Now. And we can help.
Imagine putting yourself in their place. Scary isn’t it. No where to hide, tired
of running, And no place to go. Then your so tired that you stop to catch your breath and then it is
over. What a horrible way to die. Having some Coward chase you till you drop from exhaustion and
then shoot you from the air. If they were men they would be face to face with them not 200 feet up
in the air. So please show your support today and lets show them that we together will fight as one.
Give them that chance to live on. If we don’t we may lose them one day forever.
Please take a moment to send an email to the major news networks urging them
to cover the planned killing of 900 wolves in Alaska. We need to generate as many emails as possible
to get their attention. Thank you.
National Network News Links: ABC News: NETAUDR@abc.com Subject: World News Tonight CBS News: Go to CBSNews.com and click on contact us to use their Feedback Form. CNN: Go to CNN.com and click on contact us to use their feedback form. FOX News Channel: comments@foxnews.com MSNBC: viewerservices@msnbc.com NBC News:Nightly@NBC.com
Another simple thing to do is to send Gov. Murkowski a post
card and let him know that you are against the Wolf Control Program. We need your Support.
Please take a moment to sign Friends of Animals' Howl-in postcard. Signing this postcard pledges to
Alaska's governor Frank Murkowski that you will boycott travel to Alaska until his administration's
wolf "control" program is canceled. Friends of Animals has setup an easy to use online
form. All you need to do is simply type in your name and address. Friends of Animals will print and
mail the postcard to Alaska's governor Frank Murkowski in your name. Your information will only be
used for this propose.
The BC government has been sterilizing wolves in the Northern Rockies’ Muskwa-Kechika Management
Area. This is part of a hunter-funded experiment to increase ungulates in the Turnagain River valley
- a move designed to generate more big-game animals for sport hunters. Controlling wolf populations
by killing or sterilizing individuals is neither an effective measure in decreasing numbers over the
long term nor a socially acceptable practice in today's world.
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