In Yellowstone's summer opening, wildlife advocates urge tourists to boycott Wyoming due to its wolf-killing laws and accusations of animal cruelty.

As Yellowstone National Park opens for its summer season, wildlife advocates are urging tourists to boycott Wyoming over laws allowing people wide leeway to kill gray wolves with little oversight. The social media accounts of Wyoming's tourism agency are flooded with comments urging people to avoid visiting the state amid accusations of animal cruelty involving a man who struck a wolf with a snowmobile, taped its mouth shut and showed it at a bar before killing it. Critics argue that Wyoming has enabled such animal cruelty.

April 26, 2024
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