"The Bailey Wildlife Foundation Proactive Carnivore Conservation Fund works to prevent conflict between humans and predators.... this is the fund DOW is drawing from most heavily in their efforts to save the wolves in Idaho.

Through the Fund, Defenders intervenes to prevent predators from being unnecessarily killed due to conflicts with humans, and they are working to increase carnivore range by increasing tolerance of carnivores through education and study, as well as abating sources of conflict such as livestock loss.

Animals cannot expand into an area where they are not wanted, and an animal that is continually running afoul of humans will not ever be wanted.

Through the Bailey Fund, DOW shares the costs of needed improvements with farmers and ranchers. They help supply parks and national forests with the tools they need to monitor and contain wild carnivores nonlethally. They study the environmental impact of predators, and educate the public about the value of these animals.

Since its inception in the late '90s, the Bailey Fund has helped Defenders purchase and train dogs to guard flocks, put human volunteers in the field to keep wolves away from vulnerable livestock, supply shepherds with needed supplies and equipment to allow them to sleep in the field with their sheep, and pioneer new innovations in nonlethal fladry line fencing to discourage wolf predation. That's just what they have done in Idaho. And it has worked. Among the Idaho ranches willing to work with Defenders last year, there were no wolf-related livestock fatalities.

Let me say that again:

No wolf-related livestock fatalities among the ranchers who have chosen to live with wolves, instead of eliminating them."