PRESS RELEASE: Howling For Wolves comments on today’s Itasca County court hearing regarding illegal trapping charges
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 18, 2018
CONTACT: Dr. Maureen Hackett, Howling For Wolves, 612.250.5915
Howling For Wolves comments on today’s Itasca County court hearing regarding illegal trapping charges
(St. Paul, Minn) – Dr. Maureen Hackett, president and founder of Howling For Wolves, was present at today’s Itasca County court hearing of defendants Stephen Bemboom and Brad Dumonceaux who face 67 charges related to illegally snaring wolves and bears in northern Minnesota. The next “omnibus” court hearing will be held on September 17, 2018.
Howling For Wolves is a Minnesota-based wolf advocacy organization that supports protecting wolves for future generations and ending wolf trophy hunting and killing. Howling For Wolves has supported bills introduced at the Minnesota State Legislature that would eliminate snaring of all wildlife and require permission to trap on private lands.
Dr. Maureen Hackett, founder and president of Howling For Wolves, said in response:
“Minnesota should end all recreational snaring – which uses a cheap wire noose to trap animals – as its unselective and makes our woods unsafe for people, pets, and wildlife.
“These trappers are only the most recent in a larger pattern of illegal hunting activity in our woods, and they demonstrate willful disregard for the suffering of wild animals who were restrained to starve to death for up to 19 days. Howling For Wolves urges the court to apply animal cruelty charges and punish trappers to the full extent of the law, otherwise there won’t be any deterrence and a pattern of illegal trapping will continue.
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Howling For Wolves is a Minnesota-based wolf advocacy organization working to educate the public and policy-makers about wolves, to foster understanding and tolerance, and to ensure their long-term survival in the wild. HFW supports effective, science-based, and nonlethal wolf plans to support and promote human and gray wolf coexistence into the future.
June 18, 2018