Overview of petition:
At the end of August, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources sent a letter to wildlife rehabilitation facilities and individual rehabilitators that it would no longer be issuing permits for foxes, skunks, bats, coyotes, opossums, raccoons or wild pigs.
The department is instructing anyone who finds an injured or orphaned animal to either leave them where they are or bring them somewhere to be immediately euthanized. Rehabbers have been instructed to turn people away or take in animals and euthanize them.
By the department's logic, there's no reason to save individual animals of species who aren't considered threatened or endangered.
There may not be a biological reason to save these creatures, but there's certainly a moral one. Especially for those who end up needing help because of human activities, like a mother being accidentally hit by a car, or intentionally killed, or an infant being injured by a domestic pet.
Compassionate actions shouldn't be criminalized. Please stand with wildlife lovers who are opposing this decision and ask the department to overturn this rule.
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