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| Dear Friend, |
| Like all of us, endangered species need a safe place to live. |
| For 50 years, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has been used to save numerous species from extinction, including the bald eagle, gray wolf, Northwest salmon, humpback whale, and Florida manatee. One key to this success has been the ESA’s broad prohibition of “harm” to protected species — the common-sense concept that destroying habitat, like a forest, river, or wetland that a species relies on for survival, will harm that species. |
| In its continued attack on the law that saves species, the Trump administration is proposing to rescind the decades-old rule that defines harm to include habitat modification, as a way to undermine the ESA and defy a U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the rule. |
| Harming a species has never been limited to shooting an animal or catching a fish: cutting down a tree where a threatened bird nests will harm the bird whether or not it is in the tree when the chainsaws start. |
| Send a clear message to the Trump administration that you support habitat protections for endangered species and that you reject this proposal. |
| Animal and plant species in the U.S. are already running out of time, in large part due to habitat destruction, with over one-third of species at risk of extinction. When species disappear, ecosystems teeter on the edge of wide-range collapse. |
| The proposed rescission would invite timber, oil, mining, and other extractive industries, as well as the government and individuals, to try to destroy habitat where endangered species live, eat, and raise their young, even if the damage to that habitat clearly harms those species. |
| This misguided proposal threatens a half-century of our shared progress in protecting and restoring endangered species. We must speak out to oppose all of the Trump administration’s attacks on the Endangered Species Act. |
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Sincerely,
Kristen Boyles
Managing Attorney, Northwest Regional Office |
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