Dear Guardian, 

Our country’s most imperiled wildlife and the laws that protect these species are under attack by members of Congress beholden to greedy, destructive industries.

The federal budget is headed for a vote, and hidden among the bill’s hundreds of pages are anti-wildlife riders stripping wolves of protections in Wyoming and the Great Lakes, blocking protections for the imperiled lesser prairie chicken and greater sage grouse, and gutting protections for bald and golden eagles and many other migratory birds.

It’s not too late to stop these bad provisions: please tell your Members of Congress to block anti-wildlife riders today.

The proposed riders would remove all federal protections for wolves in Wyoming and the Great Lakes; prevent long-overdue protection for the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act and deny funding for federal agencies to apply protections in the new land-use plans designed to help the birds.

For the already-protected lesser prairie chicken, the riders would deny the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service any funding to enforce the Endangered Species Act, essentially tying the agency’s hand while projects move forward that could devastate the last remaining prairie chicken populations.

Riders could also deny funding for enforcement of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

Tell Congress these riders have no place in a budget bill. Make sure your elected leaders know that you support wildlife protections.

For the wild,

 

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

 

photo credits: wolf: Sam Parks Photography; lesser prairie chicken: Jess Alford.