Tell Congress to Support the Endangered Species Act
- by: WildEarth Guardians
- recipient: Members of Congress
With friends like these, endangered species don't need enemies.
The Endangered Species Act (the Act) is America's bedrock wildlife conservation law. Congress passed the Act almost unanimously back when environmental protection was considered common sense, not a partisan issue. Current attacks on the Act are very real threats to our world and our children's future.
Dan Ashe, Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service said just this past summer that we "must accept a world with fewer wolves, salmon, and spotted owls." We could not disagree more.
Congressional attacks on the Act are increasing in frequency and scope, and the very Agency charged with protecting our nations wealth of wildlife is failing to be the stewards of our most imperiled wildlife and wild places. We cannot sit back and let Director Ashe and short-sighted congressional lawmakers chip away at the Act and allow extinction. The time to act is now.
Join us in telling Congress to support the Endangered Species Act and ensure a future for our most imperiled species—including wolves, salmon, spotted owls—and the ecosystems they call home. Your action today is critical.
The Endangered Species Act (the Act) is America's bedrock wildlife conservation law. Congress passed the Act almost unanimously back when environmental protection was considered common sense, not a partisan issue. Current attacks on the Act are very real threats to our world and our children's future.
Dan Ashe, Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service said just this past summer that we "must accept a world with fewer wolves, salmon, and spotted owls." We could not disagree more.
Congressional attacks on the Act are increasing in frequency and scope, and the very Agency charged with protecting our nations wealth of wildlife is failing to be the stewards of our most imperiled wildlife and wild places. We cannot sit back and let Director Ashe and short-sighted congressional lawmakers chip away at the Act and allow extinction. The time to act is now.
Join us in telling Congress to support the Endangered Species Act and ensure a future for our most imperiled species—including wolves, salmon, spotted owls—and the ecosystems they call home. Your action today is critical.
Dear [Decision maker],
The Endangered Species Act is America's bedrock wildlife conservation law. Attacks on the Act from Congress—including riders aimed at preventing species from receiving protections, stripping species of needed protections, and defunding conservation efforts—are unconscionable and unacceptable.
Imperiled species are bellwethers of deep, systemic environmental problems with consequences greater than the disappearance of a single plant or animal. Vanishing springsnails are harbingers of the imminent destruction of entire aquifers. Dying fish are a warning sign that rivers are overburdened by water withdrawal, industrial pollution, and agricultural waste. The imperilment of the mist forestfly, which depends on glacier-fed streams, is a sobering reminder that Glacier National Park will lose its glaciers by 2030 unless climate change is curbed. Sage grouse populations help us measure the health and resilience of the entire Sagebrush Sea ecosystem.
Many imperiled species are also keystones: key to the health of entire ecosystems. Prairie dogs keep grassland ecosystems healthy and provide food and shelter for scores of other species. Their disappearance signals a breakdown of an entire web of life. Wolves trigger trophic cascades, bringing balance back into ecosystems suffering in the absence of apex carnivores.
Protection of imperiled species is, by extension, protection of the ecosystems they depend on and the natural systems that benefit all species, including humans. Protecting threatened and endangered species and their habitat should not be a partisan, political issue. It is simple common sense and in all of our interest.
I urge you to be a champion for endangered species, our wild places, and the health of future generations. Oppose damaging attacks on the Endangered Species Act. Fully fund the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect listed species, and ensure that the Agency is doing its intended job, not exempting the very resource-extractive activities that most imperil wildlife and wild places. The American public, not Big Oil and Big Ag, are your constituency.
Rather than a trail of destruction: strip-mined mountains, overgrazed grasslands, fracked basins, contaminated rivers, clearcut forests, and extinction, leave a legacy of biodiversity, healthy ecosystems, and climate resilience for this and future generations.
[Your comments here]
Sincerely,
[Your name]
Sign PetitionSign PetitionThe Endangered Species Act is America's bedrock wildlife conservation law. Attacks on the Act from Congress—including riders aimed at preventing species from receiving protections, stripping species of needed protections, and defunding conservation efforts—are unconscionable and unacceptable.
Imperiled species are bellwethers of deep, systemic environmental problems with consequences greater than the disappearance of a single plant or animal. Vanishing springsnails are harbingers of the imminent destruction of entire aquifers. Dying fish are a warning sign that rivers are overburdened by water withdrawal, industrial pollution, and agricultural waste. The imperilment of the mist forestfly, which depends on glacier-fed streams, is a sobering reminder that Glacier National Park will lose its glaciers by 2030 unless climate change is curbed. Sage grouse populations help us measure the health and resilience of the entire Sagebrush Sea ecosystem.
Many imperiled species are also keystones: key to the health of entire ecosystems. Prairie dogs keep grassland ecosystems healthy and provide food and shelter for scores of other species. Their disappearance signals a breakdown of an entire web of life. Wolves trigger trophic cascades, bringing balance back into ecosystems suffering in the absence of apex carnivores.
Protection of imperiled species is, by extension, protection of the ecosystems they depend on and the natural systems that benefit all species, including humans. Protecting threatened and endangered species and their habitat should not be a partisan, political issue. It is simple common sense and in all of our interest.
I urge you to be a champion for endangered species, our wild places, and the health of future generations. Oppose damaging attacks on the Endangered Species Act. Fully fund the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect listed species, and ensure that the Agency is doing its intended job, not exempting the very resource-extractive activities that most imperil wildlife and wild places. The American public, not Big Oil and Big Ag, are your constituency.
Rather than a trail of destruction: strip-mined mountains, overgrazed grasslands, fracked basins, contaminated rivers, clearcut forests, and extinction, leave a legacy of biodiversity, healthy ecosystems, and climate resilience for this and future generations.
[Your comments here]
Sincerely,
[Your name]
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