Dear Guardian, 

If anti-environmental forces in the U.S. Senate have their way, the Endangered Species Act, our nation’s premier wildlife protection law, will be gutted.

Please act today to defend the Endangered Species Act!

Members of Congress in the pocket of destructive industries sneakily attached riders to defense and budget legislation. These riders would prohibit protections for the imperiled greater sage grouse, gut safeguards for the lesser prairie chicken, limit recovery of the northern long-eared bat and strip away protections for wolves in Wyoming and the Great Lakes.

Tell your Senators and President Obama that science, not politics and greed, should guide the fate of our nation’s most imperiled species.

For over 40 years, the Endangered Species Act has successfully protected our most imperiled wildlife by implementing safeguards based on science not politics for wolves, grizzlies, bald eagles and other native species.

The attacks on the law would be laughable if they weren’t so serious. Claiming that somehow protecting the lesser prairie chicken undermines our national security is not only absurd; it is an abuse of power.

These backhanded assaults on the bedrock of our nation’s most important wildlife protection law are dangerous and a recipe for extinction for countless unique, beautiful and rare animals and plants. They must be stopped.

Congress needs to hear from you and the large majority of Americans who support protecting endangered species.

Write your Senators and the White House today. Take two extra minutes and call them too. Join us in telling our elected leaders to keep their hands off the Endangered Species Act.

For the Wild,

 

Bethany Cotton
Wildlife Program Director
WildEarth Guardians
bcotton@wildearthguardians.org

 

photo credits: grouse: WildEarth Guardians; wolf puppies: Oregon Dept Fish and Wildlife